Let's Begin!

Happiest 2014! We're back babes! Dry your eyes and dance!

It's a bit late for a new year's hello but since the Parisian party we celebrated New Year's Eve at didn't even do a countdown, I feel a bit out of touch.

Homies did not give a hot damn about that countdown business.

This out of touch feeling was compounded by the fact that while everyone was returning to work (askies) and getting on the cursed resolutions bandwagon, Tommy and I were eating and drinking our way through the French capital with much glee, fuckery and remorse after excessive consumption. It was a three week long bacchanal that caused me to return a bit plump-y and useless but I loved it! We also managed to visit a whole bunch of museums so my brain is also plump-y with inspiration and wonder.

Paris is a wonderful place for people like me who become evangelical about tasty food. 

I can still remember with vivid, almost pornographic detail a grape that I ate three years ago... 

I am going to try to recreate some of the yummies that I had the pleasure of inhaling so that the good times can roll on throughout 2014. Hopefully I will not be rolling around too.

Anyhoo, we're glad to be back home, there's truly no place as great as this.

Everything is going to be amazing and there's gonna be a whole lotta posts coming up this week so come back and love us. 

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Some of the things that I saw yesterday. 

Hello November!

It's my month. Universe act accordingly. 

Here's my week in photos, just in case you needed some voyeurism. 

The last photo is from my photo project titled I Love You The Most Johannesburg (click here).

The question is, who do you love the most? This participant, Andile kinda cheated in that you're only supposed to put one name (no boring compromises) but since his girlfriend was with him he felt obliged (I think) to be honest and practical, so he wrote his mom's name and his girlfriend's. Wise man, I guess.

I'm slowly but surely collecting the kaleidoscope of lovers in Johannesburg and one day I will have indubitable proof that Johannesburg is really just the city of love. 

P.S. I always look pie-eyed when I am completely sober. I had only had a coke in a Styrofoam cup for goodness' sake. 

Gordon Parks!

Gordon Parks. 

He directed Shaft, the original Shaft, and he's also quite possibly one of the best photographers that I've ever come across. 

Just look at American Gothic, Washington D.C. I always get the shivers. 

Plus he had some serious style. Gordon Parks err'body!

Sartorialist, South Africa!

Rejoice! South Africans Rejoice! Well that's if you care about the Sartorialist aka Scott Schumann aka Midget Photographer aka Garance Dore Weight Watching Fuhrer, being in South Africa. 

Well he's there (since we're here in Ireland) for the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week thingy and there probably wouldn't be a fabricoftheheart or any fashion blog/tumblr without the short photographer so he counts for something, I suppose. 

Neil Krug

Amazing. 

Lagos!

Jacob Holdt.

No words are required. 

Yellow & Blue!

"What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty."

Alain de Botton. The Architecture of Happiness.

Monday Wisdom!

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." 

Abraham Lincoln. 

Baby, We're Better Together!

I believe in memories because they look so,
So pretty when I sleep

And when I wake up you look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time

And there is no, no song I could sing
And there is no combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing

We're better together
We so much better when we're together
We so much better when we're together

Pablo Neruda

 Chris Steel Perkins

'But I love your feet 
only because they walked 
upon the earth and upon 
the wind and upon the waters, 
until they found me.'

Pablo Neruda

Zoe Saldana

Zoe is my guuurl.

Star Trek, Avatar and Center Stage cemented my love for her.

Yes, I unashamedly admit my deep love for Centre Stage a.k.a Black Swan For Beginners.

Plus, she looks so beautiful in this snap.

Tom Ford & a Bit of Ass

GQ Russia does not waste time.

What we need, what we all really need, is Tom Ford and ass. That is all.

Bright and Shiny!

"I have always wanted my colours to sing." Paul Delvaux 

Why Can't We Be Friends?!

"My friends are my estate." Emily Dickinson