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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Everything's coming up roses today

Barnaby Barford,
  • Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses
  • 2009

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  • porcelain, earthenware, enamel paint
  • Resources: It's Nice That Q&A
  •  The rain just stopped and we're heading out to shoot skeet and sip champagne. 
    clink and bang bang.

    danish peacock

    I like several things about this Helen Amy Murray chair except for the fact it's not sitting in my living room right now.

    Friday, May 29, 2009

    weekday link wrap up

    Yays! We made it!Prof Dr Kong Sr
    Felieke van der Leest

    clean sheets

    daily aphorism

    "I have to get out of bed everyday to make something happen."

    Mike Leigh
    Believer Magazine

    I had been feeling slightly anxious and spiraling out of control-ish lately. It's not only effected my work performance but I've noticed I decline creatively and on the blog. I'm not one to air out my dirty laundry and I tend to be a bit private. For the past couple days all I've wanted to do was lie in bed with the dog and close myself off. I am very pleased to be normalizing and more centered today. I'm sure the wine soaked pow-wow with my parents last night has a lot to do with it. Aphorisms paired with a slight kick in the pants can be very inspiring. Thankfully it's Friday and I can shake off this shitter week.

    lunch

    A-Z FLEISCH by the very talented Sara Hillenberger

    happy friday

    Thursday, May 28, 2009

    It's been a long day

    and I'm dreaming about filling up this:Carafe with Oak Stopper by Sagaform Design Group $29.95
    with my favorite Malbec.

    Wednesday, May 27, 2009

    mini obsession: new eyeware


    These Giuliano Fujiwara pairs are gorge.

    bon appetit

    Clare Mallison archived commission
    I love her style.
    Spotted through the always great form fifty five.

    wah..wah...

    This team macho print totally reflects how I feel right now. I really need to get over this pity party. Sometimes life can be a real stinker but I have to quit lamenting and start acting. I love their work and could have happily posted a number of pieces. On the bright side, I really dig their art trade incentives. I plan on thrifting this weekend to find some stuff to swap.

    Tuesday, May 26, 2009

    What I'd rather be doing right now:

    Check out Scott Pommier's work.

    inspiration: mondongo

    The Argentine art collective Mondongo inspires me. Their highly tactile pieces don't inspire me to actually create anything by hand, but looking at this work encourages me to get off my lazy ass and start focusing on my real job so that I can one day afford to buy a piece.
    I've seen a few pieces IRL and they're awe inspiring and slight folkish. They create these large scale fantasies by collaging feathers, cotton thread, plasticine, hair, freeze-dried slabs of meat and biscuits. As unsettling as it sounds, their work still manages to be reminiscent and beautiful.

    checking out

    bang bags; alps etsy shop
    Wanna travel somewhere far away with me?

    back to the dance



    The first day after a long weekend is rough.

    Monday, May 25, 2009

    economics

    I want:
    Natalia Brilli delicious leather wrapped watches aprox $349

    I can afford:
    laser etched leather REALFAKEWATCH $42

    Friday, May 22, 2009

    weekday link time

    LSD rubix cube!

    (I'm getting out early so you folks are getting the link post earlier than norm. Have a lovely long weekend my behbehs!)

    My phone won't stop ringing!!!

    I'm going f#@&! nuts.

    happy friday


    musubi-musubi
    I'm happy to say goodbye to this M-F circus.

    Thursday, May 21, 2009

    Hey Work Week,

    Carolyn Alexander- haughty bitches
    death of the ponytail
    brooch 2007; silver acrylic steel

    Octavia Cook

    McQ:Breakout


    The McQ
    2009 Spring/Summer Collection reminds me of my favorite 80's song/video
    Swing Out Sister - Breakout
    I'd love to own the whole collection and hear this song everyday of my life.

    Wednesday, May 20, 2009

    Colette Calascione


    Bird with Egg
    Oil on Wood; 4.5" x 7", (1995)
    Colette Calascione

    soigne baby

    I think you're either a scrapbook person or not. I fall into the so NOT a scrapbooker column. This beautifully designed elegant baby book by GABRÍEL MÁNI is way closer to my aesthetic. Such an artistic and tasteful way to remember baby.

    "I created this book as a gift to my son. He doesn't understand it and won't for a long time, but when he will I think he'll appreciate it...It stands for how I see life after his birth."-artist

    hump day

    image
    Jennie Ottinger's sketch book
    check out her sprayblog interview
    *UPDATE: how could i have forgotten this guy?!

    Tuesday, May 19, 2009

    inspiration: cool parents


    This is a shot of one of my dearest friend's parents taken at a Rolling Stones concert in 1975.
    This picture kills me; they both look so sexy and carefree. Fortunately D&V are happily together to this day. I am so inspired by this shot, I hope to grow old with my man and always stay young at heart.

    thanks for sharing Low

    happy hour on the brain

    Sachiko Kanaizumi illustration

    (and the temptation of having this scene tattooed)

    no, im not freaking out

    about visiting Cape Town just to stay in the Airstream Penthouses at the Grand Daddy Hotel.
    I'm just perfectly fine and my head isn't spinning.
    There's not one cell in my body that is dying to wake up in a polka dots wonderland. I never fantasized about being Alice in Wonderland so why would I begin sweating at the sight of these?Pshh. What's so special about staying in one of seven trailers customized by some incredibly creative Capetonian soul exploring playful, eccentric and dazzling décor interpretations of how life in an Airstream can be? Come on!who needs to sleep on Nelson Mandela's face? I know someone who doesnt find that to be the coolest fucking thing.
    This airstream is called The Ballad of John & Yoko and the room is 3/4 bed? Really??? Did my left side just go numb and am I going into cardiac arrest?
    Goddamn you Grand Daddy and your amazingness. This hideaway is so awesome I can't even continue being sarcastic. I blame those little bastard polka dots.
    found via hello tiger!