This is my dream | Yohji Yamamoto

"Beautiful things are disappearing every day. I want to keep it back. I want to say don't go too much, too far, too easy...' - Yohji Yamamoto

I have spent about half an hour talking about Yohji Yamamoto with a friend today. Trying to pin point why I admire him so much... as a man, as a dressmaker. There are a lot of reasons, but if I had to put it all in one short sentence? Because I prefer meaning to triviality and dignity to vulgarism.

Yohji Yamamoto's new documentary is coming out Spring this year. Watch the trailer here.

Street Art... Whatever. | Short documentary.

So, this is one of the reasons why I haven't been posting much recently. I've been busy working on this street art documentary piece. Enjoy.

Produced and directed by: Tess Savina, Beatriz Cebas, Alica Paskova, Yuting Zhu

Artists: Pure Evil, Stik, Nathan Bowen, Macay

I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me... | ノルウェイの森

On Tuesday 1st of March I went to a talk organised by Asia House with Norwegian Wood's director Tran Anh Hung (The Scent of Green Papaya, Cyclo) and the lead actress Rinko Kikuchi (Babel). It was a last minute decision to go there and what can I tell you - it was probably the best decision i've made in a while, since the talk was extremely interesting and educational.

Tran Anh Hung... well I've been a fan of his work for a while and now after meeting him, he made me realise some things that I probably wouldn't come to realising myself. So, after exchange of smiles and few words I had to thank him for my fast 'brain crash' course and also thank him for making Norwegian Wood happen. I know that some people out there thought sceptical about letting the legendary Japanese Novel to be put on screen by a non-Japanese guy. However, in my opinion, I cannot see anyone else who would fit that project better than him.

Norwegian Wood opens Pan-Asia Film Festival at BAFTA today and then takes off country wide on March 11th. おめでとう!

Based on Haruki Murakami's novel.

Director: Tran Anh Hung

Main Leads: Rinko Kikuchi, Kenichi Matsuyama, Kiko Mizuhara

Music Composer: Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead)

'I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.' - Dali | Anton Tantsev

I've just realized a funny thing. I have never, not once, had a fine art entry on this blog (as in paintings, sculpture and anything along those lines). What is even more funny is the fact that I actually come from a fine art background - pure classic art: drawings, oil paintings etc etc... that's how I started. I guess doing design for the past five years or so, I have pushed myself away from the fine art as far as I possibly could. Oh well. Life takes turns. So I would like to take this opportunity and fill in some gaps here.

This post is dedicated to Anton Tantsev, an extremely talented young Russian artist and a very close friend of mine, who is now working his way up the ladder. Unfortunately I couldn't make it to his first solo exhibition, which opened couple of weeks ago, but I am hoping to make it for the second one this summer. Anton and I pretty much started at the same spot, and even though he had his own good share in graphic design, he has made a decision to push it all aside and just do what he believes in the most. Admirable much - I have to say. So, on my behalf, I wish him future luck in what he's doing, because he really is very good at it.

Few words I can describe his work with are (he may disagree with some of them, but that's my understanding of it after all) - inventive, unorthodox, brave, sexual, at times violent, Dali inspired, visionary... That should do it.

Check out his tumblr for more paintings and some really interesting sculpture pieces.