Everything's coming up roses today

Barnaby Barford,

Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses

2009

 

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.

weekday link wrap up

Yays! We made it!Prof Dr Kong Sr

Felieke van der Leest

• hunting trophy decor
• cherry blossom viewing in Tokyo
• The coolest shirt on earth
• Andrew Bush business cards & envelopes
• DONUTS.
  
• Don't know why I want these things but I do
• hit and miss makes me long for shooting with friends
  
• rock made candies
• I ♥ my friend's etsy shop: Gold Teeth Brooklyn
• Consumed waaaay too much of this yesterday
• These stoneware pieces look satisfying to touch
• Hi, can I have your fancy shorts please?
• cute teenie workspace
• Fortunate teens party with Morrissey
• Super spaz happy chiwa
• Have you lied about reading a book before?
• Design boom & bust 10 years to go
• I never got over wanting a vintage bug:
  

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

Kenneth Fandell  

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.

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.

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.

resources:official site, artnet, smartartpress towel

checking out

bang bags; alps etsy shop

Wanna travel somewhere far away with me?

back to the dance

Eric Zener

The first day after a long weekend is rough.

economics

I want:

Natalia Brilli delicious leather wrapped watches aprox $349

I can afford:

laser etched leather REALFAKEWATCH $42

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!)

• If I had the wall space I'd pick up digitized Dylan
• I want my wedding to look like this and wear this to it
• The whale incident reenacted!
  
• there are times
• I wish I had Chinese parasols in my workspace
  
• industrial office gear is so chic
• I have a major crush on Steve McQueen
  
• I want to visit the American Merchant Mariners’ Memorial
• pieced together polaroids
• roaring 20's
• Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO: The Guggenheim and Falling Water
• dog&chair portraits
• Happy bday Moz!
  
• Kyohei Abe
• The Wool&Misc mystery surprise package will rock it!
  
• My fantasy on film
• 
  

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.

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.

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

Jennie Ottinger's sketch book
check out her sprayblog interview

*UPDATE: how could i have forgotten this guy?!

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!