Inventive Spirits Have No Boundaries as Lady Ga Ga Makes A Design Statement for Teen Girls!

Glitzy Teen Party Theme – We’re Ga Ga for a Good Party!

This weekend, my friend threw a birthday party for her 16 year-old daughter. The theme was Lady Ga Ga and she pulled out all the gaudy elements that would put it over the top! An enormous party tent, DJ, virgin cocktail bar, white draped yard furniture, bouquets of roses, candelabra, glitz and bling! Today’s Albuquerque Journal addresses encouraging your teen to participate in the design/décor of their room. Go to Pottery Barn and you will find an entire section devoted to this market niche. Those teen consumers are proving to be a very significant segment in today’s economic demographic. They discriminate, set trends, follow trends, and buy trends. You gotta know what’s hot.
So they’re all of sudden Ga Ga for Ga Ga!! From her live concerts to creating chandeliered dance tents and disco dance floors for the party scene – she’s hot and they buy into it!
We study trends and try to determine which will stick and which will fade away…which will stand out as bon a fide contributions to the stream of design movements and/or individuals that/who make historical impact versus those that/whom are passing fancies. Rock stars and movie legends make their mark. Some provide a greater design statement – influence design trends more than others. Lady Ga Ga is out there making statements to get the critics’ attention in a powerfully demonstrative, creative and artful manner. To emulate her would be foolish. Yet she herself has had a springboard to her design style from Madonna’s earlier influence marking the outrageous in her singular fashion – now furthered with Ga Ga’s ooh la la ga ga creativity.
Imagination – from hard science to art and design – imagination fuels the unique, the original, and the newest discoveries. Inventive spirits have no boundaries. Art cannot be described by limited frameworks. It is ever-evolving, ever stimulating and evoking – it is imagination, experimentation and expression set free. Yet even the tightest realism is an intense form of imaginative expression as the artist delves into their interpretation of the finest, accurate detail that they can perceive and project. It’s all about being aware of, and open to so many possibilities. Just imagine.

Enter a Dream by Design

Design A Dream

“When I go into the glass houses and I see the strange plants of exotic lands, it seems to me that I enter into a dream,” said Henri Julien Félix Rousseau the (May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910) the self-taught artist of jungle paintings who never saw a jungle.
Imagination once was more of an art. Today little is left to the imagination as the multi-media of all subjects is transported on demand and images can be gathered, reviewed, and distilled on a moment’s notice. The ease of accessing information is instantaneous.
To dream about things far away and to create environments that suggest those faraway places is still an art – like theatrical set designs or venues for evoking moods in the hospitality industry. It’s just that back in Rousseau’s day, the information gathered for such inspiration was not instantaneous and had to be gathered over time and from many sources, verbal descriptions, sketches, and perhaps early photographs.
The botanical gardens described in his quote were magical places where exotic things had been carefully brought from afar to thrive and blossom in artificial environments for the pleasures of the rich and fortunate few who had access.
By incredible contrast, today we buy palm trees, and other tropical plants at Home Depot and many other less exotic places. We can bring the jungle growth into our homes and offices for a sense of escape, verdant luxury, and merely what we now consider to be common decorative accessories.
Give a gift of a bromeliad – a remarkable plant that Rousseau would no doubt have cherished to have live in his studio. To design an interior or paint a painting that transports the participant into a lush tropical setting is to create a dream. So, what’s my point? I just had this stream of thoughts rush through my mind as I visited the MOMA and these magnificent paintings a few weeks ago. We take so much for granted and have so much information at our fingertips. The size, detail, exotic scenes and striking if not bizarre subjects of these magnificent paintings take the viewers into the dream and transport them into a magical world where large beasts are not threats and all seems to be one of trust and peace.
If you live in the tropics – about where do you dream?

Veil of Smoke Casts Surreal Scene for Photographers

Photographers are capturing surreal, beautiful, intense subject matter with dreadful atmospheric conditions of AZ fire – beauty found where devastation continues. The irony of the profoundly stunning scenes that we have seen of the sun, when the shroud of smoke blows in from the west and obscures our Sandias, erases the mesa and powerful western horizon while coating everything with a fine soot and making it difficult to breathe, is bizarre. Similar to an eclipse we look up at the white to crimson hot orb radiating through the smoke – so veiled that you can see it with the naked eye – probably shouldn’t do that – but we do because it is so fascinatingly ethereal and unbelievable.