A Midsummer Night's Dream

You're a midsummer's dream 

Under a star soaked sky.

-- Lonestar "You're Like Comin' Home"

NOTES

   It's that time of the year again, when one can dress as whimsically or as impudently as one wishes. To be honest, this year I really was pulling it off at the 11th hour -- by the time I even decided to do a Halloween post, there was literally no time to shop for props. Eyeing my little niece's butterfly wings stashed in a corner -- it really was a stroke of luck there -- and recalling my yellow-green dress by Mercuryduo and my band of floral crowns, voila! Everything is at hand for Titania from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (pic inspiration here).

    As usual, these photos were taken using a self-timer and a tripod so please bear with me if there were issues with focus and details resolution. 

    又到了一年中唯一可以任由自己穿的誇張奇幻的一天。今年根本是臨時抱佛腳啊，在決定要來篇萬聖節穿搭並且有空拍的時候卻已經沒剩什麼時間逛道具了。然後一不小心瞥見姐姐女兒丟在一邊的玩具蝴蝶翅膀，然後又熊熊想起這件黃綠色 Mercuryduo 長洋裝跟我那一堆花圈頭飾 -- 鏘鏘鏘～馬上可以組成一套陽春版仲夏夜之夢的妖精女王泰坦尼亞（靈感參考圖片→ 這裡）。

    這次的照片一樣在老家後院用腳架跟倒數計時自拍，所以有些對焦問題跟細節解析度不好的問題就請多多見諒啦 >_<

Dress :  Mercuryduo

Sandals :  from Taobao.com

Earrings :  Cor-date x Ayako

Floral crown :  AmoreBride (via Etsy)

Bises! ♥♥

Draught of Living Death

The lady in black said, "Your lifeline is damned",
The tarot of death card she held in her hand.

-- Fates Warning "Kyrie Eleison"

NOTES

 

Death arrives among all that sound
like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it,
comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it,
comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue, with no throat.
Nevertheless its steps can be heard
and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree.

 

-- excerpt from "Nothing but Death" by Pablo Neruda

(translated by Robert Bly)

 

 

 

死亡在那喧囂中悄然而至，有如無足之履，又如無軀之裳，

前至叩門，然戒上無石，戒中亦無指，

前至叫門，卻無口、無舌亦無嗓。

然其跫音依然清晰可聞，其衣裳窸窸窣窣之聲，如風吹樹響。

 

-- 節錄自巴勃罗 ‧ 聂鲁达詩作  "僅有一死"

（中文自己匆匆翻譯的，不好請見諒啦）

 

p/S 最近收到不少詢問攝影師fb或價位的信，

說明一下照片都是自己架腳架拍的，

真的沒有攝影師啦謝謝　: )

 

 

Top :  here

Skirt :  Chicwish

Necklace :  Cor-date
Crown :  Elemental Child

 

Bises et joyeux Halloween! ♥♥

 

 

Blood and Roses

I close my eyes and I see
Blood and roses, blood and roses.

-- The Smithereens "Blood and Roses"

NOTES

    Happy Halloween, mes amis! These days I really haven't the time to do a Halloween outfit shoot, so I've decided to post an old look from my previous blog on wretch.cc (which has closed down last year). Apologies if some of the photos are not so well-focussed, that's a main problem with shooting with a self-timer. Well, it's illegal to toast with a cup of blood, so let's settle on the next best thing instead -- rich red wine!

    萬聖節快樂啊～大家！！因為最近實在是沒有時間拍萬聖節裝扮，於是決定偷懶把之前無名網誌的萬聖節穿搭搬過來 :P （然後抱歉，因為是自拍常常會沒對到焦 orz） 欸～因為喝鮮血是犯法的，我們還是將就以下～喝紅酒就好 XDD

Dress :  NET

Ring :  thrifted

Vernis :  UNT Color

Bises! ♥♥