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A lot of stuff all at once!

Jo — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:07:04 +0000

Hot glasses action from Q-Tip (♥!!) and MNDR in the new Mark Ronson & The Business INTL video for Bang Bang Bang. I love MNDR’s style.

“WHERE’D YOU GET THEM GLASSES, GURL? Phoenix Optical in Oakland, California. The owner is a 40-year couture-eyewear designer. I became his buddy; he has 20,000 pairs of dead-stock and one-off eyewear.” – Read more about her glasses.

My friend Amber recently picked up her first ever pair of glasses. She chose a beautiful pair of Chloé frames from my favourite eyewear store in New Zealand, Occhiali.

They suit her so much. She looks gorgeous!

An interview with Jordan of Silver Lining Opticians:

Above The Clouds At Silver Lining Opticians from Jake Davis on Vimeo.

Chloe Sevigny X Open Ceremony X Barton Perreira. Patty Perreira tells me the glasses were inspired by Warhol Superstar Candy Darling. It sounds like you’ll have to wait until January to get your hands on them. So much awesomeness in one collaboration:

Darcel

Jo — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:59:30 +0000

I adore this little bemonacled character, Darcel, the invention of New York-based Australian artist Craig Redman.

From his Twitter: “Sneak peek from next weeks show @coletteparis, made by the nicest gents in the world @toykyo”

At Paris-based boutique Colette:

Wearing Tom Ford glasses:

Fuseproject’s ‘See better to learn better’

Jo — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:05:00 +0000

“See Better to Learn Better” is a free glasses programme for kids that is run by Yves Béhar/fuseproject in partnership with the Mexican government.

Fuseproject are famous for designing the One Laptop Per Child XO, which is introducing computers to kids in developing countries. Now they’ve taken a similar approach to distributing eyewear.

This is so clever!

“Similar to the OLPC philosophy, we wanted to design products that are suited to the children’s specific needs, life and environment. The children receiving these glasses need frames that are durable, ergonomic and have key customization elements like shape and color that make wearing the glasses fun and personal.

Currently, the percentage of children in need of lenses at or above .75 correction, and can be as high as 60-70% in some schools in states like Morellos, Sonora and Chiappas. The average classroom need percentage is 11%. Additionally, the wearing of glasses is looked at as a handicap, this social stigma adds to the resistance to correct the problem.

To solve all of these challenges, we designed two part frames that are fully customizable with top and bottom colors that can be mixed and matched to fit all children’s personal choices. The innovative interchangeable nose pads let children with more petite noses wear the glasses comfortably. Through the use of the two part construction, 7 colors, 5 shapes and 3 sizes, these glasses can be swapped and adjusted in the field in order to update prescriptions.

At every school, we encourage students to create their very own pair of glasses with their favorite styles, size and color combinations. All this can be done through the special options catalogue, a fun and interactive way for kids to first encounter and chose their glasses.

The glasses are designed to be worn beyond the classrooms utilizing materials, advanced Gilamid plastic, with its hyper-flexible property, making them practically indestructible. Some fun in the soccer field? no problem.” From fuseproject’s site

The colourful modular nature of these glasses must make it so much more fun for the kids. I love it!

(via PSFK)

Oh, you silly eyewear giants!

Jo — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:21:13 +0000

Wow, watching this ad makes me think that Specsavers are completely ignorant of the types of frames currently in favour. People love (and obsessively collect!) the Cazal-style glasses that the “dork” puts on in the end of this video. It’s hardly surprising that I walked into a Specsavers for the first time and found a rows-upon-rows of unimaginative little-rectangle-frames.

This is kind of related – eyewear giant Luxottica own retail chain OPSM in NZ and Australia and they recently conducted a survey. Here’s the press release with the results:

Glasses now more chic than geek

It seems that geek has truly become ‘chic’ with a new survey revealing some surprising statistics about New Zealanders attitude to glasses.

The online survey [The OPSM Style Review, Online Survey, February 2010], commissioned by OPSM and conducted by an independent research company, confirms that glasses are sexy and can even help when you’re applying for a job.

Six out of ten of those surveyed believe wearing glasses help improve your chances of getting a new job, and just over half of those surveyed believe colleagues take those who wear glasses more seriously.

Overall, glasses have class according to New Zealanders. Considering the appearance attributes of glasses, a solid 70 per cent or more of respondents think they make people look knowledgeable, likeable, professional, stylish, successful and trustworthy.

OPSM spokesperson Jason Dhana says the survey results speak for themselves.

“The survey clearly indicates the stigma attached to glasses is well and truly gone. A staggering 74% believe that glasses can make people look sexy – you would never have got a result like that ten years ago.”

On the fashion front, a massive 94 per cent of respondents agreed glasses are now more fashionable than ever.

“New Zealanders love their glasses and believe they can not only enhance their appearance, but job prospects too,” Jason says. “It’s exciting to see that people are now viewing glasses in a really positive light – they’re more stylish and popular than ever before.”

Results
The online survey was conducted by independent research company Stellar Market Research Pty Ltd in February 2010 among 482 respondents in New Zealand aged between 18 and 60+

60.6% believe wearing glasses helps improve employment chances

56.2% believe wearing glasses helps to make a better impression at a job interview

55.8% believe wearing glasses makes a positive first impression in the workplace

53.9% believe colleagues wearing glasses are taken more seriously

74.1% believe that glasses can make people look sexy

92.7% believe glasses are more stylish than they used to be

More than 1 in 4 would consider wearing glasses as a fashion accessory, even if they didn’t need them to see

76.6% have noticed someone wearing glasses and thought how great they looked

Glasses can make people look attractive (75.9%), authoritative (73.2%), confident (74.1%), creative (73.4%), credible (77%), hard-working (71.2), intelligent (78%), knowledgeable (77.2%), professional (78.2%), stylish (77.6%), trustworthy (73%) and successful (76.3%)

We don’t need your stinky statistics to know we’re smart and hot. So there!

Wait, did I forget my sunglasses?

Jo — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:20:48 +0000

Sleigh Bells

As well as ♥ing glasses, I adore music. Let me introduce you to atmos, a music blog, where you can find posts by me and Thomas.

Today, Thomas posted Beach Girls by Sleigh Bells, in which you can hear the line, “Wait, did I forget my sunglasses?”, so obviously it’s about time to mention atmos over here!

Keep ya head up

Jo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:27:38 +0000

Norman Jayden in Heavy Rain

SXSW is on at the moment and one of the panels was What If Your Phone Had Five Senses? Phil from Nokia attended and reported on Nokia’s official blog:

“If augmented reality is the future, wouldn’t mobile technology in glasses make sense? One of the SXSW panelists said, “Eyewear is the next mobile form factor”. Instead of keeping your head down to look at a device, it will always be up. Instead of a small screen, you’ll have the highest resolution possible. Instead of a photograph of your environment, you’ll see an overlay of metadata. And no more worries about the sun glare on your screen.”

I can’t wait until I can get a Head-up display (HUD) in my glasses lenses.

On the same topic, my partner recently played Heavy Rain and I watched with interest, because one of the characters has a pair of augmented reality glasses. These are referred to in the game as an ARI (Added Reality Interface) and the character uses it to help with his investigations and analyse evidence. Check out this video:

Heavy Rain ARI (Added Reality Interface)
Uploaded by Experienced-Gamers. – Discover more gaming videos.

…and there’s a bunny in it!

Jo — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:32:11 +0000

Gorgeous illustration from Buenos Aires artist Puppe (Valeria Montero)

via Mel Stringer

Even more bits and pieces

Jo — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:56:58 +0000

More love for Jarvis
A 20/20 Magazine article about one of my favourites, Silver Lining Opticians
Straight out of NZ, Cassius Eyewear’s new collection
Ksubi’s new collection is all over almost every single style and fashion blog and understandably so. I’m obsessed with these stained glass window inspired sunglasses:

Fascinating video about the history of Moscot

One year!

Jo — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:15:01 +0000

Eye Heart Glasses turned one year old, yesterday, the 17th of October!

Here’s the very first post.

There’s a lot of blog catching up to do! For example, I have a new pair of glasses that I bought from Glasses Direct and they need a proper photographing.

In the meantime, you can follow my little updates on Twitter or Facebook.

Cupcake photo: Some rights reserved, by Theresa Thompson

There is life in your old glasses

Jo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:19:47 +0000

For those of us in Australia or New Zealand:

“Global eye care charity OneSight Foundation is dedicated to improving vision in disadvantaged communities around the world and needs many more pairs of pre-loved glasses to continue with the great work they have been doing for the past 20 years. All OPSM stores collect glasses for OneSight Foundation, which are recycled and sent overseas to give the give of site to those in need” – opsm.com.au/onesight

Here is some more information about the good stuff that OneSight does.

Campaign Brief has more on the campaign itself.

Even Zambesi’s Neville Findlay has donated his old glasses: