One must say that the fundamental defect of the female character is a lack of a sense of justice. This originates first and foremost in their want of rationality and capacity for reflection but it is strengthened by the fact that, as the weaker sex, they are driven to rely not on force but on cunning: hence their instinctive subtlety and their ineradicable tendency to tell lies. -Schopenhauer

Is that an order, sir? May I have it entered in the log?

I can't actually remember what I was originally going to write about in my next blog, being this blog. In postponing it so many times the number of topics grew and grew and now it has grown so large and hungry it's consumed itself. Really I just don't remember. From memory the first time I sat down with the intention of writing something was December. There are 7 'Untitled Folders' on my desktop. 1 contains first year design studies work, in particular a holiday retreat design which I accidentally gave a 10m high sheer cliff of glass facade. 2 is empty apart from a photo of a camera manual I have now bought. 2 and 3 contain odd photos of me and events. A few months ago when cleaning up my computer I deleted every single photo album I had without realising. 4 and 5 are a mixture of university work from last year with some odd pdf and images of things I like stirred through. 6 has all of the photos from previous blogs both on here and on myspace. 7 is a folder that has been added to regularly since December and is filled with photos I wanted to use in this monstrosity of a blog. I haven't yet opened it but I'm sure that what I'll find in there will take some time to organise.

So after having a good look through it all and deleting most of what I saw, I can tell you that some of the topics I wanted to cover were: my opinion on the death of the emo and the rise of the new scourge - the indie (and my hatred for them); also, mens workwear; fixies; and a bunch of other crap I no longer feel so passionately about.
It's difficult to tell where this blog might go, we'll see how much of that I manage to cover.

First of all, I get asked often, and so it must be speculated, that I am gay. People who know me I hope are as confident as I am when I say I'm not. This isn't my point though. Someone asked me whether I would ever consider kissing a guy, my truthful answer was no at that particular time. However, upon further reflection I realise my answer was not entirely correct. I would consider laying one on this fella

**Do yourself a favour and skip to 3:50


Those of you with keen eyes might notice the title of the movie a 23 year old Marlon was auditioning for; "Rebel Without Cause", a movie that never got off the ground. A few years later the story was reworked and the role of course went to a young James Dean. Marlon made his big splash a few years later in "On the Waterfront", one of the top 50 movies I've ever seen and contains this gem of a scene.



You can see him accepting his oscar here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_VJtDZBttY&NR=1, you'll probably also notice that oscar speeches havent changed all too much in 50 years.

I also really like him in 'Mutiny on The Bounty' which is the 3rd of 5 films about the infamous mutiny which occurred in 1789 and is a fantastic story worth investigating on wikipedia or something. The 1962 version starred Marlon as Fletcher Christian, the leader and instigator of the mutiny. This is my favourite scene from the film which shows captain Bligh trying to explain why Christian must go and bang the daughter of the chief hiti-hiti, while Christian plays dumb about it. Starts around 4:15



The first two movies made about the 1789 mutiny were Australian, the second starring Errol Flynn in the same role Marlon would play nearly three decades later. The 1935 version saw the one and only Clark Gable take the role. An Australian played the role of mutineer again in 1984 but it was only Mel Gibson.

I would love to get into the story of the mutiny on here but I instead implore you to look it up and to also look into Marlon Brando's actions after the film was made. Including marrying the native Captain Bligh ordered him to bang and buying an Atoll near Tahiti where a large part of the movie was set. Look I even did the work for you:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty.

I don't understand the attraction of modern day heart throbs. Like Robert Pattinson etc, I just don't see any stand out qualities. A young Marlon Brando in modern times would shame any other male star and he wouldn't even have to try. Just don't consider the older Marlon Brando who went more than half mad, grew fat and old, did roles such as Superman's father and hung around with Michael Jackson who featured him in one of his videos. He also pulled shit like sending a native American representative up to accept his oscar. I suspect I'd go mad in my old age too if i looked that good at 23.

Here is red cloud sparrowhawk white tail light feather apache redskin taking Marlon's Oscar for his role as Vito Corleone in 'The Godfather'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QUacU0I4yU at least she has nice hair.

I just realised why it's taken me so long to post a new blog. Between my last and now I was working full time in the holidays, in excess of 70 hours per week for very little money. So little in fact, I don't care to say how much. Then I dislocated my shoulder in a bike crash, following which uni began and I had changed my course unbeknownst to my parents until very recently. Altogether I've been plain preoccupied.

It's taken me a little while to make one point - that Marlon Brando was a fine piece of ass. I'll post again soon to cover what I planned to. Time is on my side for the meanwhile.

I'll leave you with this. If you don't like Marlon as a British officer you might like him as a bikie. I warn you though, a little different to today's hells angels.

Shutup. I need complete fucking silence whilst I consider my next sartorial move...

Do male designers create grander fashion for females than females do and vice versa?
I suppose it's half and half.
If you look at menswear for example, lets take Arthur Galan. Creates some of the most exciting fashion for men in Australia though his womens lines are comparatively extremely disappointing. I don't know why he bothered doing womens honestly. Why distract from his magnificent menswear? To his defense he's been doing mens since 98 and womens only since 06, maybe it'll catch up. but seriously BOOM:

I love you Arthur please read the messages I sent you on facebook. I know I've threatened violence but I don't want it to come to that, just please bring a menswear store to Adelaide. Ya eastern seaboard jackass

Anyway, the thing I really wanted to suggest is that, I believe that women, by and large, design better clothes for men than men can/do. I think men are too clouded by our own vision of ourselves to appraise men as a whole honestly. Women on the other hand who generally hate us, I think, have a truer vision and idea about what men should look like. I'm not going to go as far as saying that men evaluate women better than they do because women are of course unstable cyclonic enigmas that refuse to allow themselves to be understood by the boorish male sex.

Furthermore, I think that women either by default or design, create menswear they know females will be attracted to. So why wouldn't a straight guy want to wear their designs? Like a wife or girlfriend that might fix your hair and straighten your collar, female designers look after menswear for the entire gender.

Oh yeah, another thing. Women love their accessories. Their jewellery. And they have many more options than men do to enhance their outfits. Sure guys can wear bracelets and necklaces and rings and brooches but they are usually worn for the sake of wearing them. Female designers struggle with this lack of i suppose smaller items and details to make the outfit. So they put more effort into promoting what we do have. The cut of the collar, the way a jacket fits to give a body form, the buttons, cufflinks, socks, gloves, hats etc etc. They put alot of thought and effort into these pieces because of their struggle and desire for the details they as females are more used to.

This girl's collection is a little old but i remember seeing it earlier this year and thinking it was really cool. Her name is Siri Johansen and i think its rad that she's decided to design menswear. This collection was inspired by everyday garments and by knit/fabric structures such as herringbone and grey marl sweaters.

I know not really the sort of thing anyone wants to look at given the weather. Pretty cool all the same







And here's an example of female designers making the most of menswear details, Siri Johansen has designed these little norwegian clasps to hold fabric together.

But this, this, is probably the coolest thing i've seen in a while. I remember stumbling across it ages ago and bookmarking it. I since deleted said bookmark and lost it altogether until I came across it again, thank god, thanks to Imelda the despotic queen of shoes. Which in itself is a miracle because she hardly even has any interest in mens shoes because lets face it most pieces out there would more than pale in comparison to the womens shoes that grace that blog. More on that later.

Now if this doesn't prove my argument that women design better clothes for men than men do - then fuck you - you don't know what you're talking about you tacky, uncultured, greaseball gutter trash.

Weronika Lesniak. She's a she and she designs for hes' predominantly footwear. Personally I love shoes and the thought of more dedicated mens footwear designers excites me to lengths that stretch beyond family friendly ratings.

So basically her collection, titled "War of the Banks" was inspired/motivated by the GFC. After researching a whole bunch of shit including but not limited to the Feudal System she decided that banks and bankers as part of modern financial institutions were direct inheritors of the Feudal system. Thats to say they were part of the modern manifestation of it. By controlling the land through mortgages, 'fighting wars' between banks and conquering each other through bankruptcy and mergers. Effectively making bankers modern day knights. Her collection is designed to clothe these bankers for "battle".
The links to medieval nobility can be seen quite clearly in this particular footwear idol. Which is now my footwear golden fleece, pelt of the Nemean Lion and holy grail rolled into one.

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oh yeah, i was going to say something else.

heaps of girls are loving doc martens right now. well raf simons who creates little stingers like these




well he's collaborated with the doctor to create some interesting footwear.







oh yeah and my point before about Imelda the despotic queen of shoes rarely showing mens shoes. Well I was just surprised to see some on there because usually its like a womens shoe porno mag - case in point--> click image to appreciate