francoise nielly

One of my favorites: Francoise Nielly's paintings.

cooler than stop-motion thursday

Tilt-shift thursday

really, really perfect

yes, absolutely

This isn't an illusion. It's real. Read the rest: The_Balance by Pascal Anson

distracting

Hands down one of my all-time favorite magazine spreads. Everything is so beautiful. For the rest: W Magazine.

my future childrens' costumes

It is basically almost October, meaning it's almost Halloween, which is why this is being posted. Happy Monday.

2 for 7: lusting & slothing

a) What an amazing ring/want b) Occupation: model, Reason: pays the bills because attempted pro skating career failed c) Want: Garance Dore's purse d) Want: Dries Van Noten mens' bag (please tell me it's a backpack)

All images by: JAK & JIL BLOG. I always forget about this blog and I don't know why. I'm guessing it's a sub-conscience defense thing to prevent me from wasting hours looking at their pretty pictures (no other way to put it).

Either way, re-discovering them on a Sunday night was one of the greatest things to happen today. (Second only to making an completely meaningless-but-will-make-you-think-otherwise-artsy film with my sister). I mean it. Don't judge.

HDR, the next step

HDR Video Demonstration Using Two Canon 5D mark II's from Soviet Montage on Vimeo. This is so cool! Like beyond cool. I am a nerd.

wrong decade

I was born in the wrong decade.

Almost done with the other blog. Maybe I'll have two? Indecision sucks.

hold please

Blog posting is on hold until I figure out what I want to do with all my other sites (I have a lot). I'm just trying to consolidate because I'm feeling overwhelmed. Is this something like an identity crisis? Virtual identity crisis? Gross.

In the meantime, here's Little Rock, AR for y'all (I can use that word because I'm referring to Arkansas. And I really enjoy that word).

so perfect

If this were my studio, I would never go outside. It's so perfect.

In other news, I'll be back on the west coast tomorrow afternoon meaning that there'll be a lot of pictures. Fingers crossed they actually develop!

Smell ya later! Road-tripping to D.C. this week.

home for the ol' tube

Amazing find at a farmer's/flea market. It was stained brown, but thought it might look better with some of the wood peeking through the brown. So we sanded it pretty roughly and then stained. It's so easy! Next time, I plan on coating myself with bug spray and wearing gloves so I don't sand my fingers. But, this was well worth the mosquito bites. I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat.

brooklyn gang, summer 1959

Bruce Davidson can do no wrong. Oh, what I would do to own one of his books, let alone meet him. Check out his stuff here.

the treehouse

So my friend moved into an amazing new house last weekend and we re-painted her room to a) open up the space and b) make it a happy room instead of the gloom-and-doom room it was before. Worked out great! We thought about painting one wall + ceiling yellow, but nixed it since we figured the landlords would be unamused by it. Two yellow + two white walls = perfect. All in a very literal day's work.

I also want to shamelessly point out that we fixed all of the prior painter's mishaps.

Just discovered 216 Union. Their bags and totes are pretty great, but I'm really enjoying that they're branching out into lightweight (read: comfortable) shirts with sweet prints.

(in the unlikely event they read this, if they're looking for someone to clean up/organize their blog. i'll do it in a heartbeat.)

Come again? The Joule in Dallas, TX. I'd be interested in seeing some full/semi-underwater pictures taken at the edge of that pool.

No words. Other behind-the-scenes white house photos here.

This post is dedicated to Lyle. Enjoy Cupcakes could only be made better if it were a traveling mobile. Their about video is great, too. 'Cept I would replace husband with a friend and child with a puppy.