I was doing the Apartment Therapy thing this morning. I clicked through five pages of posts and then froze when I laid eyes on this.
It’s a European bus roll from Transit Design and you can buy it off of Etsy.
I love this thing so much.
And while you are on Etsy, go ahead and stop by my shop too.
The Kids Are Alright image courtesy of Russh Austraila (September 2010).
And before I forget, iTunes is offering the song Boyfriend by Best Coast for FREE! Get it on your playlist now now now.
Image courtesy of No Retrospective photographed by Gia Copppola.
I got this shot after about twenty clicks of snooping around.
Start: I saw this distressed f-ed up t-shirt on Jak & Jil and it is by Dylan Forsberg for “Where I Want to Be”. And this picture is from his blog.
You know I love obstructed views of random peoples faces.
Brook picked up this issue of French Vogue for me a few weeks ago and I didn’t really get a chance to look at it until yesterday.
I love this magazine.
Also before I forget, DO NOT under any circumstance pay any money to go see Salt starring Angelina Jolie. I don’t care if the role was originally for Tom Cruise or that they paid her $20 million to star in this crap-chute . It was bad (except for one Hannibal Lecter-ish scene).
I saw this shot in the young Hollywood Issue of Vanity Fair. (You know, the cover where Kristen Stewart looks like she just tied off and wants to ride it out on the lawn.) It had been sitting around for sometime and finally went to magazine heaven under the blade of my scissors.
The caption reads:
A collection of the director’s (John Hughes) notebooks, the pages crammed with his tiny handwriting. Hughes never went anywhere without one.
I love that the notebooks vary in size, color and type. It’s almost as if he would fill them up so quickly, even with his little handwriting, that he would have to buy one immediately wherever he was whether it was the Rite Aid or the airport gift shop. Imagine him rushing into one of these places holding onto the tail end of a fleeting ah-ha moment and buying the first notebook he saw in the same way a die-hard smoker would buy a pack of cigarettes after a six hour flight.
Most writers or artists are very very particular about what they scrawl their ideas into. For a writer, I can imagine the spiral coil irritating their hand placement. What about wide or college ruled? The darkness of the lines that you are going to write onto?
For an artist there are details like paper weight to counter bleeding. Some want bible thin sheets. Others only want acid free paper or a hard cover. And let’s not even branch off into the selection of a writing instrument.
Here is some randomness I got in the mail from Anhie in La La Land. It’s a baggie of neoprene crinkle cuts from designer Alexandra Cassaniti.
She makes very nice minimalist papery tops. She has a very nice brand identity (looks like a Helmut Lang baggie) and a sense of humor. See below.
I love these collages by Gordon Harrison Hull.
They have an Austrian Expressionist quality that I am very much attracted to.
Top: Floral Inferno Top paired with Nude Bikini Top, all DALAT
Bottom: Floral Inferno top paired with vintage nude tank, vintage floral culottes
With the most amazing luck, I was able to attend a screening of Inception the other night. I scored a t-shirt and poster (which I gave to my friend whose birthday it was) and a sheet of tattoos with bar codes. I went to the bathroom and put that sucker on straight away.
I love promo swag!
The movie was very good and I refuse to speak about it until it officially comes out.
(That’s my dog Moogie.)
Been busy working on more stuff and you will be able to see it and buy it soon.
I was doing my regular thing this morning, trying to figure out what to post. Then, I checked my email and there was an unread from photographer Lukasz Wierzbowski who currently resides in Wroclaw, Poland. I still get a lot of random emails from artists from my old public art job and I always check them, just in case.
I am very attracted to these images. I just scanned through easily 50 of his pictures and my hit ratio was very high. I have a weak spot for honest poses, awkward/strangeness in an image, obstructed faces and hair.
Lukasz is able to freeze his subjects in this perfect moment. When I say perfect moment, I mean this minute window of time that shows up and vanishes. If you catch it, you catch it. If not, you’ll be beating your chest and gnashing your teeth.
You have to have your timing down to a neurotic art especially now with the digital delay. Before with film, you could see the very tip of that moment, squeeze down on the shutter and it was yours.
Take a break from Facebook and Twitter for the love of God. Look through more of his work. You’ll get sucked in.
I am a huge nerd and like the Matrix movies.
There. I said it.
I was watching the second installment of the Matrix the other night and fixated on Persephone’s (played by Monica Bellucci) dress. They’re like precise fins and perfectly accentuate her hour glass figure.
She is the beautiful, bored and meddling wife of the Merovingian. If you don’t want to see any of these films, just watch her scenes.
Image from the DALAT mood books.
Most people would be alarmed if they got a shipment of foreign powder in the mail.
Not me.
I got the best Hawaiian package in the world yesterday from my friend Juli (J has the bone structure of Uma Thurman and can compose a symphony with a Panavision camera). She supplied me with li hing mui powder for topping anything and everything, delicious coffee, macadamian nuts, and li hing mui-coated Sour Patch Kids.
But as awesome as all this stuff is, my faves are the Juli notes. The shipment had the look of a homespun mixed tape and I love it!
Getting fun mail is the bee’s knees! Thank you J! XOXOX
Here is a detail shot of the MAXXI National Museum of the XXI Century Arts in Rome. It opened around last month. You can thank Zaha Hadid and her team.
I found an after hours picture of a conference table on their blog. By the looks of it, this would have been my kind of meeting. Imagine everyone in prim and proper office clothing cutting and shaping miniature edifices out of colorful construction paper.
Look at the white slinky bridge! Just think what it would be like crossing that bridge at noon.
Happy Independence Day everyone!
Today is my dog Moogie’s birthday and it just so happens that he hates fireworks.
Happy birthday Moogie man!
You know that saying, “If you can’t duct it, f+$# it“?
I was on Apartment Therapy this morning and saw something that you can craft really quick for your 4th of July festivities tomorrow.
A banner!!!!
And all you need are scissors, a stapler, string, some duct tape and a little time. I personally don’t have that bright blue colored tape at my house so I would sub paper for that section. Have fun!
Here are some pictures from 16-year-old photographer Olivia Bolles better known as Olivia Bee.
I poured through her entire picture diary for you and picked out a few of my faves.
