Inspiring things

I´ve had a lot to do lately, therefore I didn´t manage to post anything. Or didn´t find interesting enough topics to post. Or was just lazy.
Anyways, thought I´d post some pictures of things that inspire me- cabinets of curiosities, circuses, things in a jar, darker ephemera and of course, my old love anatomy.

/A cabinet of curiosities: an encyclopedic collection of objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be discovered. In short- weird objects that were unknown at the time of their discovery. Also zoological, botanical, ethnographical, archaelogical etc things, that were often faked too. Also called: Wunderkammer, Kunstkammer. The Kunstkammer portrayed the world symbolically, revealing its offerings in a theatrical way./

I don´t know why I have this affection towards darker things. Don´t get me wrong, I also love candy-colored lollipoplands and girly imagery, but these dark and complex pieces of art intrigue me more. There is more to them than just pretty girls or clothes or colors (now that I think of it, time to dig into those kinds of pictures!).

Pictures found from the internetz.

The Teeny-Tiny Kitchen

 There was a renovation at my home for 7 months or so and everything was renewed. Walls were pulled down, new were built up and everything was installed brand new. At least in the kitchen and bathroom area, most of the living room furniture is mid century Scandinavian. I have lived in that apartement for all my life- years ago my family moved away and now I´m living here with my Andre.

I browsed through enormous amounts of old pictures for inspiration and I realized I wanted this retrofuturistic kitchen with strong 50s colours and checkered floor. There´s a lot of red, but it is atually much milder in real life and when the lights are off. Most of the kitchen furniture is custom made by an Estonian kitchen company, but the blue doors are in fact from IKEA, like the door knobs and the retro-looking oven, which I love.
  The polka dot toaster wasn´t like that when I got it, some spray colours and tape make miracles. The kitchen towels and oven mitts are from the nearby supermarket, I fancied the colourful matrjoškas and they make the kitchen more vivid.

 The polka dot containers were the most common ones during soviet times, because there weren´t any other to get. They are in really good shape and I like the typography and the fact that there is a whole tin box just for cinnamon or bay leaves

The saltcellar next to the stove is another of soviet time´s common things- everyone had one of those. It belonged to my mum, but we painted it blue and white to match our kitchen. It used to be this awful greasy wood. But now it´s just cute.

 Oh, and I love my fridge also, it´s almost like Smeg, but much cheaper-Bompani. As I am still a student, these things matter. Maybe someday I will upgrade.There is still much to do, but all-in-all I´m really pleased how the kitchen turned out. It´s modern with an old timey twist. Fave.

What I´ve been up to

I´ve  been quite busy lately- I applied to one of Berlins art schools to get to study my text term there and combined a portfolio for the school council.
 Here are some pictures from my puppet animation "Lorius Glorius", which is unfortunately unfinished, but it´s still  in progress. At least in my mind. I got my inspiration from burlesque dancers and geishas and dark underground cabaret bars(which exist in some dark dystopian movies) and combined all three. I´m really happy with the puppet and the lighting of the set, it delivers really well on pictures.

I love puppet animation and creating something like that out of wire, stockings, thread, foam, cardboard, fabric and whatnot is just utterly amazing. I will show some more in the future, when it´s ready.