Danny Roberts

How much do you love Danny Roberts? T h i s much?

Me too. I could stay at his blog for days and days and years and eons.

This reminds me of Franz Marc.

Igor + Andre, The Process, May 10 2008

Franz Marc, Cat on a Yellow Pillow (1911) & Yellow Cow (1911)

Bear

Drawing by Danny Roberts, Igor + Andre

Edward Hopper 'Morning Sun' (1952)

Scan, Catherine McNeil in Russh Issue 15

'Duck, Death and the Tulip' by Wolf Erlbruch

(click the drawing to buy the book)

 

Duck, Death and the Tulip is by German author/illustrator Wolf Erlbruch, winner of the 2006 Hans Christian Anderson Medal for Illustration. This painfully beautiful book is to be released presently, sometime in August, and is the translated version of Erlbruch's German original. 

The publisher, Gecko Press (NZ), specialises in producing English versions of foreign-language childrens books in which they have apparently found a niche. Thanks to Gecko, European authors and illustrators are potentially afforded an audience that they would not otherwise have. And we, the readers, are given the chance to be totally haunted by such stories as this.

I read an advance copy at work a few weeks ago and it's been repeating in my mind ever since. 

Poor Duck. 

Its maybe like what Tim Burton would do if he made a picturebook, except quieter. 

I will for absolute sure be buying a copy of this book for myself and suggest if you can find it nearby that you do the same.

scan by Daisy in lala Land

♫ Who cares that Lula makes rainbows? ♫

Come on summer, hurry up alrightalready. Vitamin D - do your bidding.

Bring me Stella Mccartney, Etro, Kenzo and Lacroix for my birthday.

You can call me Blankety Blank from now on. My brain no work good and feels very blank. So much so that I can't even think of a synonym for the word 'blank'. Its like when Lisa Simpson thought she was losing her smarts when she couldn't think of synonyms. Its also like Flowers for Algernon. Sort of.

Gee thats a sad book.

Its like when Gwyneth Paltrow got writer's block at the beach house in Sylvia and so just baked lots of cakes instead. I'm not being dramatic, I just can't find my glasses.

Leith Clarke styles many, if not most, of the Lula photostories herself but Heidi Bivens was the stylist for this one. And it turns out I love her work almost as much as I love saying her name. Say it. Bivens. Heidi. Heidi Bivens.

According to the internet, Bivens has worked with the likes of Michel Gondry on music videos such as The White Stripes' 'The Hardest Button to Button' and also on films such as The Baxter which was directed by Michael Showalter (Coop!) and contains people such as Michael Showalter (still Coop!), Elizabeth Banks ("its just barbeque sauce"), Michelle Williams (♥), Justin Theroux (gorgeous), Michael Ian Black (yes!), and Paul Rudd (I've always wished he was taller...but, dreamboat).

Speaking of which, David Sedaris is here right now, at the Melbourne writer's festival and its sold out. How did this happen? Its like if someone made you a chocolate cake but never told you and so it just sat there in the kitchen unnoticed by you but eaten by everyone else until someone brought it up one day and you're like 'there was cake?' and you die.

Lula Issue Number Six 2008, scans from glósóli at tFS

Closer

Louise Van De Vorst, in Yen issue 30, 2007 + 'A Black Hot Summer' + The Sartorialist Monday July 14, 2008 'That Moment Milano'