Being somewhat concerned with my own biology at the moment (and always and forever concerned with Zombies, ps) I thought I’d post some interesting artists that I’ve been watching lately with thesis or concerns surrounding biology and the body…
Like Emily Barletta. I love these felt works – everytime I look at them I think that [...]
Is it my fever, or is this really cute? Or do I just have a girl crush on the model from RamonaWest? That could totally be it. Are bolero’s cool? Does it matter? I love so much in this little vintage shop.
J (sickly on the couch beside me) gasped at the same time I did watching this. We actually muted Crossing Jordan.
I really love this photo – if I had the compunction to pumpkin carve right now, I would do this – I love the simplicity and beauty of these. J and I are now both infected with whatever I have, we’ve been laying about on the couch (with a school interval) feeling bad for ourselves [...]
Steve Chasmar has an incredible stream of vintage Halloween photos that are truly incredible. Some of kids are way scarier than they were intended to be. But they’re fantastic all the same. Enjoy the scary day!
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Very Cute Band – Hello Seahorse
Very Cute Song- Won’t Say Anything
I believe in both the positive aesthetic and magical qualities of icing. Truly. Amy Stevens examines both in an interesting thesis project – What exactly are we, if we’re not designing, decorating, seasonally and festively rotating, icing women? Is getting it wrong.. just as lovely? Check out her work here, and decide for yourself.
I really love all the colors in ..well, all of Harpy’s photostream.. They’re just so talented. I would love to have the balloons printed on a gallery canvas, I think it would really complete a children’s room or a front hallway. Stunning. It was hard to pick my favorites for you!
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So since I’m feeling like a tonne of hot, weepy, sleepy retching bricks, I thought hey, what better to do than blog. I can’t focus my eyes long enough to read Strauss, and Patrick Riley is just giving me a hemorrhagic academic tumor, I figure that maybe I should just give up. M took me [...]
That I was getting sick -
5. I understood all of Althusser on the first read through. And then called him Locke all day.
4. A – “Look at the Bunny!”
J – “That’s a soccor ball.”
3. I fell asleep with my hair in my apple cider.
2.I fell asleep peeing.
1. At one point I wondered if my eyeballs [...]
I know it’s formulaic. I know it doesn’t always work – but at least this one made me chuckle. Because the last ones.. Well, I thought.. “What if they don’t get sarcasm?”
On my new couch! From CommonDecency. (They have really incredible, strange and lovely pieces.)
I love this beautiful, totally interesting necklace by Lizzie Fortunato found on La Garconne. I think it would look fabulous with a well tailored grey dress, flannel or wool. It’s beautiful.
Try the Rubitone, industrial designer Ignacio Pilotto’s pretty little invention.
It’s very sleepy in my house this morning, very quiet and sleepy. Even the coffee machine didn’t seem to want to do its job with any kind of vivacity. Then again, it took me around 5 blind minutes fumbling around to actually get everything in the pot, so it may have been a little abused. [...]
So, at the Humanities reception tonight I got an award for the work I did in Marx.. *blush* It was pretty nice. Sometimes when you bust your ass its nice to have some people come and eat free food and drink and clap for you. *laugh* Even if they don’t care. Regardless, I got some [...]
I’ve had Lauren Haupt and her Etsy Shop “Local Library”, in my favorites for a while. Every now and then wander about her shop, leave it on the screen, sigh, look at J, look back at the screen..watch J drop salsa all over himself..(This tactic does not work. He thinks I have asthma.) Then I [...]
9:19pm
eating: Leftover Mexican food and old white wine
watching: A homeless drifter edition of Criminal Minds
listening: Miles Davis, The Complete Concert 1964 With Tony Williams.. disk 2..
wearing: T shirt and jeans. i can see two pairs of my socks being used currently.. one more filled than the other..
thinking: if i need to explain that A is [...]
This would be part of the decor. These are truly fabulous. Los Angelas artist Mike Stilkey could install a love of books or art in anyone. Check him out on his website – mikestilkey.com
Because all I can think about are things for my home. I haven’t bought a new pair of pants in about a year, but I’ll be damned if I’m not going to get tea-towels. I love these beautiful hand printed one from Leanne Graeff, they are so sweet and folky. Poor J is going to [...]
How can you not love art by somebody who cites Sinatra, Hopper, Nobokov and Groucho Marx as influences? I love the humour and the style in these pieces by Kate Gabrielle, a 20-something history major. Find them here!
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via ColorLovers
(not going to lie, considering some combination with the plum for the new sofa)
SO.. A little while ago I started methodically searching Kijiji (if you don’t know what it is.. please look it up.. it’s like eBay without bidding and ridiculous prices. And local.) for an antique couch to reupholster. Yes, I’ve been researching reupholstering at home. It’s on my secret list of things to do, along with [...]
In the spirit of the chilly weather, and looking slightly bad ass collegiate, I love this leather jacket from WESC.
via: Urban Outfitters.com
*blearily slides into kitchen chair*
My god. I never thought a whole evening spent editing and citing would be so tedious and long and.. awful. I wish I was a smarter person, who simply cited as she went, but I suppose its baby steps right? I completely laughed at the guy at the end of the [...]
So coming off last weeks successful list, I’m thinking that three medium sized weekly items might be the way to go. Also, given that it is unmistakably fall, I’m going with seasonally appropriate things. Weee!
1. Buy and carve pumpkins.
2. Make Curried Squash and Apple Soup
3.Pick a date for our fall party/housewarming. (Tuesday. Date Chosen: Nov.14th!)
Some music to banish your Monday Blues! – Au Revoir Simone “Fallen Snow” (Thanks to ForMeForYou for the great recommendation!)
I’m sitting here with my hazelnut coffee this morning at 7:59 on Monday, and I’m not particularily sure where the weekend went. It seemed to just slip completely out of my fingers! Saturday we layed about and watched movies and ate french toast until 3, when we went to the studio with P. and J. [...]
I really like these pieces from Cora Thomas’ “The Docent” jewellery line. They’re anything but the strange well informed little old lady guiding you through the art gallery. Though, if anything, as sinister..
11:35am
eating: french toast, coffee, bacon, vanilla yogurt
watching: The Hulk with Edward Norton. Not bad.
listening: to this most of the week.
wearing: black sweatpants, olive t-shirt
thinking: The wind is blowing 75km an hour, and I’m pretty sure our house is going to implode.
It’s been a week. It seems like everyday has been loaded with meetings and e-mails and calls and planning – nothing particularily busy, but busy work and busy things, it seemed to make it long and tedious. For the first time in a while I’m glad that it’s Friday, and I have the entire weekend [...]
Is anybody else feeling bird cages lately? It may be because it’s the only acceptable animal in our apartment building, or because an empty one of these inhabits memories of my childhood.. But I’m diggin’ them in all forms. I really like this one off of eBay.
I’m trying to decide what exactly to wear that will say “I’m smart. But still a woman. And I don’t care what I look like” to the various conferences, events, awards, talks.. So far I’ve got a pair of shoes. And nothing says “I’m brilliant” like actually showing up nude. Sweet. However, I do think [...]
I am very much in love with this Savoir Chair from Crate and Barrel. Too bad my bargain basement self won’t cough up the 899$ to install it in my living room.
Thank god it is acceptable that this love was 75% off. And that my foot fits perfectly into a 6 1/2.
I love this two tiered stand for mail, change, keys and such in the front hallway. And for 2$…
And I think these are really cute – vintage shoe stretchers from, of all places, Yugoslavia. I’m going to use them as door stops in our drafty house. I always wonder how these things end up here…
Went to Value Village today to look for odds and sods for the house – nothing particular, but I’m too cheap to go anywhere else right now (see upcoming post re: shoes) and found some cool things. I’ve been looking (unsuccesfully) for a pretty cake stand, the ones I do find are too expensive or [...]
10:14pm
eating: almond joy from Seattle (they’ve been sitting in I.S. freezer waiting for me since we came back) and Malbec
watching: The Love Guru .. it’s entertaining.
listening: Listened to a lof
wearing: sweatpants, t-shirt.
thinking: I love Malbec. And sleep.
Perhaps because I’m craving some with tonic… I fell in love with this at dustDesign.
When my dad used to go overseas we would all get these letters, written in the inside of the envelope. The envelope had been opened, a letter written inside, and then sealed and mailed. It always felt like there was nothing inside, that just an envelope had been mailed to me, empty and lonely. But [...]
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