gasp!
Last week, when I had ‘lazy time,’ I was sitting around watching one of my favorite shows from the Sundance Channel on my laptop (Man Shops Globe…) and saw this salad shaker! This probably does not mean much to many people, but they were shopping antiques in England and found this piece that made me smile. My grandmother remembers playing with these when she was a little girl and now I have the same memories as she has one in her home. Perhaps I can snap a little photo when I am back in Atlanta next week.
[iphone photo of my monitor...Man Shops Globe] This little wire contraption starts off as a wire bowl. As you can see in the picture, if you pull the handles up to the top, it forms a ball and theoretically, you can shake your salad inside. Clever. Also makes a fascinating toy.
right up there with my dream to go to “car school”…
…is my dream to learn how to build furniture. It’s one of those things that I would write down on a life list of ambitions if I were feeling very optomistic. This post over on Simple Lovely made me drool.
elle shoe diary.
I’ve seen this posted on a few different blogs. I’m kind of a closet shoe-lover. I love shoes, but I rarely wear cute heels because I am honestly more of a flip-flop kind of girl. I try to be better from time to time and make resolutions to wear my impractical shoes more often. Honestly the only resolutions I have ever kept are the ones that involve TRAVELING MORE. I literally hit all but one city on my checklist in 2009. And yes, I do feel accomplished and happy. What a fantastic year.
vintage love.
Came across all these old photographs while at work (rough job, I know…this is actually PART OF MY JOB). I copied the URL and came home and spent a lot of time looking through the albums.
Aren’t they fantastic?
[Peter Revson-Ford Mustang]
I would bet that this shot was completely accidental, but it looks like a piece of art to me.
[Graig Fisher - Chevrolet Camaro]
TRAGIC. Every time I see an old car chase scene in a 70s movie, I think that they probably would have been more kind to those cars had they known how much we adore them today.
[Bob Brown - Chevrolet Camaro + Ford Mustang]
[Peter Roberts / George Brocklehurst - Mini Cooper S Allan Moffat - Lotus Cortina]
Photos from the Archives of Autocourse.ca
sewing! la la la.
I’m not entirely sure what came over me, but I was shopping vintage one day and bought this one dress intending on shortening it. Ever since I have been finding new alteration projects. A few weeks after my sewing obsession started, it was 99 cent videos including PROJECT RUNWAY DVDs at my video store. Good Lord, I do not know what will happen next. So many actual sewing projects floating around in my head.
But for starters…the dress that started it all.
Cute print, no? It was just at a very awkward mid-calf length and not very flattering.
So I shortened it and wore it with skinny jeans + boots to work.
RAWR.
Let me first start this post by saying that I have had a hell of a time trying to figure out the new image posting on WordPress, and I am not fully sure that I have it down. Which explains my absence.
I love this poster from Obey and pretty much all work by Shepard Fairey [who has found himself in some legal trouble as of late]. However, this poster makes me think of a quote by Kurt Vonnegut:
“When it became obvious what a dumb and cruel and spiritually and financially and militarily ruinous mistake our war in Vietnam was, every artist worth a damn in this country, every serious writer, painter, stand-up comedian, musician, actor and actress, you name it, came out against the thing. We formed what might be described as a laser beam of protest, with everybody aimed in the same direction, focused and intense. This weapon proved to have the power of a banana-cream pie three feet in diameter when dropped from a stepladder five-feet high.” -[Source]
I freaking love that. I’m not writing this to make any political statement except that I tend to be annoyed by artists who are politically motivated. Sure, we all cannot help but live out our political ideals in SOME FASHION, SOMETIMES through our art….but if you honestly think that your [art medium of choice] is going to change the world, you need to not take yourself so seriously. It would be a better use of time and more enjoyable for everyone to find inspiration elsewhere.
well…
I loved the new blog platform but am still undecided.
The new photo uploader for WordPress is infuriating.
trying a new blog platform.
This may not be forever, but I am trying this new platform for my blogging. So far I am leaning toward making a switch. So change my name in your feeders! For atleast a week! 
http://snareinasea.squarespace.com/
the leaves? amazing.
I could tell that it was Fall a few weeks ago when I walked out my front door and took in a breath of fresh air. But now the leaves are more than stunning, they are amazing. I have got to get out there tomorrow and take some photos!
A movie that rivals Little Miss Sunshine [my absolute favorite movie of all time]? I may have found it. The Brothers Bloom is a movie that was (to my knowledge) limited release. The Grand Cinema was playing it here in Tacoma, but it never worked out for me to go see the movie while in theaters. Anyway, I found out this morning that it was out on DVD and I ran my ass down to my favorite tiny little indie kid video store and rented it. I laughed until I cried, people. Go rent it.
Please tell me there is going to be a book on Man Shops Globe! I am not much a TV watcher (I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love TV…I just don’t have cable), so I’d likely miss this if it were not for iTunes. . .
Keith Johnson really does have the best job in the world. Who would not kill to be a buyer for Anthropologie? I really cannot wait to see this series.
Hitchcock Love
It has been years….YEARS since I have seen a Hitchcock film. Which is odd because he was a brilliant director and these movies should be like staples in my house next to Shawn of the Dead or Little Miss Sunshine.
What amazes me so much about his movies is that they are still — to this day — eerie. While you may giggle a little when they attempt to dramatize the dream scenes with monochromatic color overlays in flashing motion, you have to admit that by the end of the film you were genuinely moved.
As for a little eye candy…I’ve pulled up some stills and storyboards via the interwebs.
The movie is set in San Francisco, which of course made me oh-so-happy since I am visiting there for the first time next week!
Seeing Jimmy Stewart in a movie was like going back in time for me and hearing his voice made me so nostalgic. I was very much into classic films in highschool (I never claimed to be cool), so I honestly got a tiny bit teary eyed when he started talking. It was like hearing a family member’s voice when you are homesick.
If you are at all into the use of color and meaning in film, this link is great.
Hotel Empire is now the chic Hotel Vertigo.
I love the color in this scene. Bravo.
And who wouldn’t just adore his friend’s studio?
Photos via:
+ CSwap
