kick off

This whole week I'm featuring the work and achievements of my very talented associates. To kick off crony week, here is an open letter to my best friend, the internets:

Dear Internet,

Thanks for hosting my little Art & Vanity blog. If it weren't for you, I'd have never made such an amazing webstie. Through your magic, 1,981 miles away feels like nothing. Fortunately I was able to meet up with her and solidify a long lasting bond carved in brass.

Thanks for again for being so awesome, internet.

Warmest Regards,
Melody

they finally meet:

If you felt a slight shock under your feet on Sunday, don't fret, that was just the earth having a little orgasm when Grace and I came together.

discipline

After a whirlwind week filled with camping, then flying 2k miles to Arizona, enduring corporate consumption & mental exhaustion at a 5 day business trip and hanging out with great friends, the last thing I want to do is prep for the real world tomorrow.
I'd like to call in sick and tell Life it can pass me bye on Monday. I've done a bit too much in the past couple days and I'd like time to pause for a moment.

source

EZ in AZ

Gianni Pareschi Armadillo (1969)

italian furniture makers Businelli

241.4016 km

We've got a big bike weekend planned, full of cheering, camping and schlepping around stuff. I'll be rooting for my boyfriend and his team's 150 mile charity ride for the National MS Society. Ben's ridding down to the Florida keys in 2 days, in honor of his Aunt Katie. If you'd like to support and donate to the cause visit here.

happy friday

Adam Ekberg

• Thomas Mailaender: No pain no gain
• barnacle feet
• Alice Anderson's work gives me trichotillomania
• I'm going to start handing these out to puppies
  

dandy critters

Mr. Meerkat is eye-rapping me.
I kinda like it.

VICE: DANDY CRITTERS

PHOTOS BY WILLIAM SELDEN
STYLIST: SAM VOULTERS
Art direction: Kim Jones
Coordination: Kylie Griffiths
All clothes and accessories: Dunhill SS10

Dear Life,

It's always a pleasure to visit Michael Bojkowski's world

Have you had a date with Life lately?

I may, or may not be moving into Henry Ford's 1934 island home.

art of the hunt

Jan Weenix II
Falconer's Bag, 1695; Dead Hare and Partridges,1690, The White Peacock
Oil on canvas

We finally found a beautiful apartment, life was grand, then got screwed, now we're back on the prowl.

glazed

Canvas > Donut

Luke Barber-Smith drip frame

My breakfast choices are making me fat.

Photographs like this give me the tingles*.

campaign for oyuna cashmere
by annabelle elston

*when cleverness mingles with style my special spot gets happy

sometimes...

I'm golden.
Other times, I'm shit.

Lizzi Bougatsos, Success!!!, 2005
Plaster, newspaper, gold leaf 13" x 6" x 6"
at James Fuentes: via tinyvices

A stuffed inbox, overdue replies, mismanaged time and occasional cunty remark score me a Zero in congeniality this week.

wise fortune cookie once said...

Both are very true!
I'll be heading to Phoenix Arizona in a couple weeks, and indulging on some Gracie!
Phx AZ & W&M Cake

if you're out there

Designing with Type: Open Forum: Essays and Quotations

via touching harms thart

• would u eat a human shaped sandwich?
• sooo thirsty
  
• Jane Benson's Dead Swan Wall Paper
• Shawn Huckins paint chip series
• solid thankyous
• waynestead
• Slawson for SPACES gallery: I want to play too
  
• dan funderburgh's Chinatown Ball
• video: sorry I'm late
  
  
  

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❝Guilt is regret for what we’ve done.
Regret is guilt for what we didn’t do.❞

Kyle Ranson
"Lorelei Lee"
Multicolored original ink drawing on card