Tuvan Throat Singing.

Cute!

Ten Photo Exercises to Challenge Your Perspective.

1. Everything has a nemesis. Take 10 photo's of 10 different objects. Then photograph their nemesis.
2. Take 15 photo's of different barricades - they may be physical or may represent mental barriers. Then ask yourself, do these barriers protect or inhibit?
3. Make an alphabet of letter formations found in architecture.
4. Take 10 photographs of things in your world that need to be changed... from underwear to your career.
5. Capture photographs of 10 things in flight.
6. Take a photograph of 5 of your favourite houses in your area / city and write about it.
7. Try altering the scale of 10 things in your environment so they appear bigger or smaller than they really are.
8. Look Up! Take 10 photo's of ceilings that have interesting patterns.
9. Take a photo of 20 things that cause bad breath.
10. Take photo's of 20 things in your environment that are coloured orange.

With thanks to Caffeine For The Creative Mind

when there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.

Out with the old and in with the new. This fire might be burning for a couple days while I update things. Keep warm.

Trouser Flares Up Again!

It is true. Trouser returns. This time in a different guise. Some may want to take a pair of scissors and hack it to bits. Others, needle and thread. We're just in R&D right now and will be launching this seasons apparel shortly.  

unzipped

Due to a shift in priorities and the need to focus on a more authentic life, I have decided to take off the pants and run naked for a while. Trouser will no longer be here. Thanks for watching ;)

just one last thing...

goodbye 07

I'm going to be offline until 2008 so for now, I just want to say thanks everybody for reading the blog and for your great words. Trouser will be back in 2008 sporting some new pants and a $2 haircut. Merry Christmas and all that too.

favourite klimt

The Kiss | 1907
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less of me

I've decided that come the new year, I'll probably be writing less about me and changing the way this blog is being slapped together. I've decided to take 'trouser' to another level.

Once I can complete all of the posts I'm intending to, my plan is to start blogging more on the lifestyle I'd love to be living, rather than the one I've got. So it'll probably be less of the personal stuff and more about these things:

» Handcraftiness of all persuasions
» Art, Architecture and Design with 'Soul'
» Eco Friendliness / Eco Inspiredness
» Cultural Preservation
» Science, Spirituality and how this informs our means of living

I have some sense of how this'll piece together so it feels more cohesive and so the sites intention is clear. I think it'll be exciting and hope it helps not only me, but others, find inspiration in the Big AND and the little things.

the aalto house

credit : hoping for happy accidents

This is such a cosy little house. I'm going to buy it. The 'Aalto House' was designed by architects Aino and Alvar Aalto and completed in 1936. Built among almost untouched surroundings at Riihitie in Helsinki's Munkkiniemi, the house was designed as both a family home and an office for the architects and is an intimate building for living and working using simple uncluttered materials.