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Anisa reporting from Portland about Carson Ellis

And, here's a little article on Anisa's favorite portland artist Carson Ellis...The artist who is my very favorite in Portland is Carson Ellis.  Her work has a mystical quirkeyness of days gone by.  For me no other artist screams Portland, Oregon as much as Carson Ellis.  Here, it's rumored if you sleep with your windows open, the blackberries will grown right into your house, Carson's work is seeped in iconic Pacific Northwest themes, there's knoodling with big foot, pioneers, and explorers ships, all done in the muted color pallette that feels like a gray rainey Portland day. As the wife of Colin Meloy, singer for The Decemberists.  Carson began by making flyers in college for Colin's band.  She has went on to illustrate beautiful cover, after cover for the Decemberists.   These days Carson still creates flyers for many local bands and events, it's always a treat for me to discover one of her posters around town. {thank you Anisa for introducing us to Carson's beautiful work}

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* * * Anisa's blog

Irene reporting from Langkawi

...as promised...a small report from myself about the beautiful island of Langkawi here in Malaysia ... while writing this report I was continuously annoyed by the fact that the images I had taken myself during our weekend with our small point and shoot camera were of such poor quality..that i seriously considering buying a SLR camera real soon...it will also give me the opportunity to show you more often images from the beautiful country, Malaysia, were I love living at the moment..does anybody have any suggestion about what an amateur like me should buy in the SLR camera range...??? Thanks and I hope you find the small report, click here, a bit interesting ... wish you a fun weekend and hope to see you back on Monday with many beautiful posts planned for next week ...

::I just received an email from Pia...she has written an amazing report about Langkawi as well for a magazine...so much more eye-candy from Langkawi right here::

Maditi and her favorite photographers

..it's already Tuesday morning for me...and the reason why I didn't post anything yesterday (sorry for that) is because we have spent some days on the beautiful island of Langkawi here in Malaysia...and it was absolutely great...this coming Friday I will write a little bit more about this tropical paradise ... today I would like to start with a post  the lovely Maditi has written for Bloesem about her favorite photographers...enjoy!

:: Maditi's favorite photographers ::
"I´m very influenced by known and unknown photographers I discover browsing flickr, personal and photography blogs. My blog features photography deliberately without words, showing only the beauty of the image itself. I`m drawn to a wide range of imagery - minimalistic, quiet, dreamlike and colorful. One thing all the photographers I admire have in common though is a very personal style and a passion for using film cameras and/ or polaroid film. Achieving a special quality which seems to be difficult to get when shooting digital. I´d like to introduce four photographers with a very distinct photographic style I´m very much appreciating. Please note that this is only a small selection of some of my favorites, find more inspiring talent in the photography category of my blog...

on the left: Marie Ek is best known for her amazing polaroid self-portraits in swedish landscape settings.
Mainly working with polaroid cameras her work will soon be published in this upcoming book
on the right: Beautifully composed and in pastel-colors Yuki`s photos convey a very dreamlike and calm mood.

on the left: A gorgeous blue-toned portrait by Sasha Nikitin from Russia - paired with one of Akihisa Nakamura luminous and always amazing medium-format photos.

* * *Maditi's blog
* * *Maditi Photography

{...more posts will follow later today, I received some great submissions during the weekend, which I just have to share with you}

Minä Perhonen in Kyoto

 

{Minä Perhonen store in Kyoto}
If you ever consider going to Kyoto ... then visiting Minä Perhonen is an absoluut MUST! Minä Perhonen is a Japanese fashion house founded by Akira Minagawa...who is often characterised by his feminine, romantic style...and for his detailed tailoring, embroidery, patterns and quilting...Akira wants to create garments that goes beyond the limits of fashion and can last, rather than following the existing trends...please look at his stunning textiles right here...

A collaboration between Danish furniture manufactuer Fritz Hansen and minä perhonen resulted in these stunning chairs...The Egg, The Swan and Seven Chair designed by Arne Jacobsen were all dressed in minä perhonen fabrics...

...above you see an image of the minä perhonen store in Shirokanedai (a district of Minato Ward, in Tokyo)...i could sit forever on that cough and just dream away...last year minä perhonen launched a line for children, in the same style of patterns and details...by the way...'Minä' means 'I' and 'Perhonen' stands for butterfly...i have really have fallen in love ...

:: click here to see a map of where the store is located in Kyoto::

Amy reporting from Kyoto

...yes the World Tour continues...twice a month on Friday a report will be brought to you by a a special guest...I'm extremely happy with this new feature, because traveling is such a great part of my life and I strongly believe that you learn so much from seeing other places, being introduced to new cultures and meet people from all over the world...and  because it's not possible to physically visit all the places in the world, I hope with this Tour we can make the world a little smaller and get some impressions of what is happening at the other side of the world...

Amy from Kuala Lumpur, Yes she also lives here...  but unlike me Amy really is from Malaysia and has been living here for a very long time..then you probably think why not a report from Kuala Lumpur...well Amy is currently staying with a friend in Kyoto an she really wanted to share some images of that, according to her, great city...most of you probably know Amy from her blog re:makeables, but she became really famous in blogland from her new blog Pikkaland, a super place were mainly illustrators get a chance to show their work...but now back to Kyoto, click here to view Amy's photo's and read her information...the full Report

* * *Amy from Re-makables
* * *Pikkaland

Pia reporting from Amsterdam

May 30...another month has gone by...but a very special one for me here on Bloesem and I hope you had fun too visiting all these international places through Bloesem...the World Tour started in my beloved  city of Amsterdam...and I'm really happy that we're going to end** the Tour here as well...with a special report from an Australian women who lives in Amsterdam and whom I got to know a little bit more this year when she started her own gorgeous blog, packed with amazing images by herself and from other people..it's Pia Jane Bijkerk ...

"I’m a wanderer.  I love to wander wherever I am and try to make the time to do so as often as I can. My new home is Amsterdam, and I am head over heels for it’s quaint bridges, canals, and wonky old buildings. I love putting on my strolling shoes and wandering in Amsterdam, and this is one of my favourite wanders in this gorgeous city:

I start at utrechtstraat which is a strip of fabulous restaurants, cafes, homeware stores...CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL REPORT>>>

* * *Pia Jane Bijkerk blog
* * *My Heart Wanders project by Pia

**Did I say 'end'...well yes the May Tour is ending, but Bloesem is going to continue the World Tour every Friday when somebody from around the globe is going to give us a new report from a special place were he or she lives...so next week we're going to continue with a report from Kyoto in Japan by the sweet Amy from Pikkaland...