EIKO ISHIOKA

Sadly the great and extremely talented Japanese Designer & Art director Eiko Ishioka died last week. Her spectacular production and costume designs were truly innovative and inspirational.  It's impossible to ignore the lavish costumes on the films that she worked on, most notably with director, Tarsem Singh.  She was 73 years old - which means that a lot of her best work was done in her Sixties.

1985 ~ MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (Directed by Paul Schrader)

1992 - BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (Directed by Francis Ford Coppola)

2000 - THE CELL (Directed by Tarsem Singh)

2006 - THE FALL (Directed by Tarsem Singh)

2007 - TERESA THE BODY OF CHRIST (Directed by Ray Loriga)

2011 - IMMORTALS (Directed by Tarsem Singh) 

2011 - GRACE JONES HURRICANE TOUR

2012 - MIRROR MIRROR: THE UNTOLD ADVENTURES OF SNOW WHITE
(Directed by Tarsem Singh)

CLOSING GAPS

I've been lazy about keeping the blog updated but weekend work is still going on:  Back in the August we started the laborious task of ripping out the door & frames and rebuilding them so they would all be the same height throughout (the size of a standard door).   Three of the original doors had transom windows - my Bedroom, the Kitchen & the Bathroom while the Living Room, Second Bedroom  & Office were without.  For the sake of consistency I've decided that apart from the Bathroom to convert them into wall.

Transom windows were originally designed for purposes of cross ventilation and light, but if you've ever had a transom window above your bedroom door you'll understand the annoyance of being woken at night everytime somebody switches the hall light on.

A Big Hole

Framing out

Behind the plasterboard face - sound insulation board...

then polystyrene and another sheet of sound insulation

Finished with plasterboard & mesh

Next job is to plaster the edges and seal the cavities around the door frame in prepartion for the final plastering.

JANUARY'S SOUNDTRACK

 

Eagerly waiting for the much anticipated album from Lana Del Rey which is released on January 31st.

2012

 

Music has a way of marking certain period of your life and much of November was spent listening to Lana Del Rey (aka Lizzie Grant) pre-makeover album that was released in 2009, while painting doors.  The doors turned out great, all pristine, satin sheen, much like Lana.

2009