SOMERSAULT

Lucy Chadwick via The Selby

2011-12-04T10:05:00.001-08:00

A Movable Feast

2011-01-07T10:01:00.000-08:00

A Moveable Feast is one of my all time favorite books. I love his description of Paris and the moments that he encounters. I would love to trek down to Key West and visit Hemingway's house.

image found here

Bluebells

2011-01-07T09:59:00.001-08:00

Ever since watching the movie I Capture the Castle and hearing the main character talk about the scent of bluebells, I have wanted that scent in my life.

2011-01-07T09:57:00.000-08:00

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. Lewis

2011-01-07T09:43:00.000-08:00

found here and here

Oprah

2011-01-07T09:36:00.000-08:00

Green With Avocado Envy

2011-01-06T09:35:00.000-08:00

I recently made fried avocados for a dinner party I was invited to. They were quite the hit. Dipping can come in all forms, I recommend:

Ketchup with a little sriracha sauce mixed in
Brianna's Honey Mustard (with the avocado on the label)
A warmed up cheese and cream sauce

Even the non-avocado obsessed attendees (I know, they're out there. Can you believe it?!) were obsessed !

recipe from The Food Network.

Scrabble

2011-01-06T09:32:00.000-08:00

A serious family past-time.
I'd like to play with lions cheering me on.

Sidewalk Games

2011-01-06T09:28:00.000-08:00

Twister at the drop of a hat? Yes, Please!

image from Maison des Reveries

Alice and A Spot of Tea

2011-01-06T09:24:00.000-08:00

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea,
which is one you forget about after wards.
A.A. Milne

Rock the Kasbah

2011-01-06T09:21:00.000-08:00

Leaving for Morocco in exactly 2 weeks!
national geographic online

Women I hope to look like one day

2010-11-04T14:11:00.000-07:00

Read the article here.

Starting Up Again

2010-11-04T14:08:00.000-07:00

found here

reactivation.

Chocolate Caramel Tart

2010-01-02T11:18:00.000-08:00

Lottie + Doof

Rooftop

2010-01-02T11:06:00.000-08:00

on the lookout, after a corn-on-the-cob-dinner.

June 2009.

Skin

2010-01-02T11:02:00.000-08:00

Skin remembers how long the years grow

when skin is not touched, a gray tunnel
of singleness, feather lost from the tail
of a bird, swirling onto a step,
swept away by someone who never saw
it was a feather. Skin ate, walked,
slept by itself, knew how to raise a
see-you-later hand. But skin felt
it was never seen, never known as
a land on the map, nose like a city,
hip like a city, gleaming dome of the mosque
and the hundred corridors of cinnamon and rope.

Skin had hope, that’s what skin does.
Heals over the scarred place, makes a road.
Love means you breathe in two countries.
And skin remembers—silk, spiny grass,
deep in the pocket that is skin’s secret own.
Even now, when skin is not alone,
it remembers being alone and thanks something larger
that there are travelers, that people go places
larger than themselves.

"Two Countries"

By Naomi Shihab Nye

Bust

2010-01-02T10:58:00.000-08:00

Carnevalet Museum, Paris, Winter 2008

Resolution-Making

2010-01-01T19:23:00.000-08:00

1. Watch all of Jean-Luc Godard's films.

2. Watch every Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire Film I can find.

3. Cook something new each week.

4. Drink good amounts of Red Wine.

5. Yoga a few times each week.

6. Save money for more traveling.

7. Sit out on the fire-escape and watch the world go by more often.

india in 6 days...

2009-12-29T08:09:00.001-08:00

i leave for india soon soon soon!

i cannot wait to see old friends, take photographs, explore, have adventures, take trains and hike in the foothills of the himalayas...

xrays and bones

2009-12-29T08:07:00.000-08:00

a piece i made this fall.

SugarCane

2009-12-29T08:02:00.000-08:00

all images found somewhere i can't remember..

Man On Wire

2009-12-29T07:57:00.000-08:00

Man on Wire

hah.

2009-12-29T07:55:00.001-08:00

whaaaat. best ad evaaaa.

2009-12-29T07:50:00.000-08:00

found here

i've had this photo as my background on my computer for ages. i would love my next place to have a kitchen like this. black and white checked floors are a must.

BowTie Ring Tattoo

2009-12-29T07:34:00.001-08:00

found here

2009-11-18T07:29:00.000-08:00

Haze

2009-11-15T17:22:00.000-08:00

(1 2 and 3 found somewhere i do not remember. 4 found on 2 or 3 things i know)

Fly Away Home

2009-11-15T16:59:00.000-08:00

Just re-watched this movie for the first time in years.

Beautiful cinematography.

(and Jeff Daniels is a bit of a fox...)

Runa Islam

2009-11-09T17:58:00.000-08:00

Still from Runa Islam's video As You See It.

2009-11-09T17:57:00.001-08:00

The steam seeping up from the manhole smelled of flour and bakery bread.

-4th ave/9th street

Mushroom Leggs

2009-11-09T17:54:00.000-08:00

found here

The Apple of Contentment

2009-11-09T17:52:00.000-08:00

read the full story here

Skeletons

2009-11-09T17:38:00.000-08:00

my studio over the past few weeks.

(Taken with Shake-it phone app... my new infatuation.)

Hope Gangloff

2009-11-07T12:20:00.000-08:00

Hope Gangloff has a new show up at Susan Inglett Gallery here in nyc.

I love seeing her paintings up because they are these amazing, large-scale painted snapshots. Her lines, colors and patterns are awesome up-close.

2009-11-07T10:43:00.000-08:00

The Salt of the Earth Mingled with the Salt of the Sea.

(Lawrence Weiner "Statements" Print at the E|AB print fair, NYC Nov. 6-8)

Lobster Dinner

2009-11-07T10:05:00.000-08:00

A brooding Robert Pattinson over a lobster and corn dinner.

A priceless photograph.

vanityfair.com

2009-11-06T08:57:00.001-08:00

"Yesterday, I came across Cédric not far from my house, just like this, looking all cool and reading his paperback in the sun. Of course, I started talking to him in my totally fluent angleeesh, and of course, it didn’t take him more than a second to ask me, 'Tu es française?'"

The rest of the story is just beautiful...

(Garance Dore)

avocado television

2009-11-06T08:24:00.000-08:00

all i'd like right now is 3 massive avocados. 1 tomato. onions. salt. 1 bag of tostitos. and a day full of guacamole-eating while I laze on the couch watching hours of some awful but equally amazing television series.

image found here

Wanderlust

2009-11-06T08:12:00.001-08:00

2009-10-25T19:45:00.000-07:00

Has Conceptual Art Jumped the Shark Tank?

Lights Boats Love Baths.

2009-10-25T19:37:00.000-07:00

things that are needed.

2009-10-25T19:34:00.001-07:00

Melba Toast

Rosebud Salve

Where the Wild Things Are

Pencils and Pens

Brussel Sprouts

Fall Leaves

Oregon Trail

Backpacking Through India

Water Towers

Forrest Fires

Rivers

1920

Umbrella Rain

Rusted Socks

Homecooked Meals

Meat Patties

Turquoise

Haze hanging up above

Pumpkin Patch

Decrepit old barns

Horse Hooves

Tofurkey

Red Satin Quilt

Queen Anne

Barcodes

Wrought Iron Fences

yellow and gold.

2009-10-25T19:32:00.000-07:00

oil rigs. NYtimes.com

Andrew Bird

2009-10-25T19:31:00.000-07:00

I could listen to him play all day.

Apple Core

2009-10-16T06:57:00.000-07:00

1992, Cast aluminum coated with resin and painted with polyurethane enamel

Claes Oldenburg

Changing Seasons

2009-10-15T21:51:00.001-07:00

It's becoming winter already! Snow in New England? A freezing apartment and no heat?! I hope it lets up so there is more time for hot apple cider, picnics in central park with the changing leaves and pumpkin carving on the rooftop!

Home to Connecticut this weekend to pick some apples, cozy up by the fireplace, and see old friends. I need to escape studio work, the busy city and the drizzly sidewalks.

found on weheartit.

George Tavern, London

2009-10-15T15:01:00.000-07:00

how fun to live above an old school bar, make coffee downstairs in the morning and paint and sculpt during the afternoon upstairs. the regulars show up at 5, getting a pint before they head home for dinner.

found on the selby.

Blondie

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2009-10-12T21:36:00.000-07:00

“A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.” Gilbert Grosvenor.

found here

India.

2009-10-12T21:34:00.000-07:00

travel book? check. plane ticket? check.

so soon so soon so soon!

Drew.

2009-10-12T21:33:00.000-07:00

found here.

2009-10-12T21:32:00.001-07:00

“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat it, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

William Saroyan

found here

2009-09-28T21:27:00.000-07:00

monkfeet.

2009-09-28T21:22:00.000-07:00

"I think if it's not magical, it's not going to happen, because all the other solutions I see around me-religious solutions, scientific solutions, intellectual solutions- you know, everything is too little too late and not good enough."

Woody Allen

Meat

2009-09-24T19:01:00.000-07:00

oof. i dapple in vegetarianism. veganism even. but these are pretty kick-ass.

2009-09-22T19:33:00.000-07:00

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet

Are of imagination all compact.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Twinkle Lights

2009-09-22T19:23:00.000-07:00

found here

2009-09-22T19:20:00.000-07:00

"Hey you, It's your friend, me. Let's talk soon."

answering machine messages

100 Greatest Writers of All Time

2009-09-19T06:53:00.001-07:00

1. Ezra Pound 2. Flannery O'connor 3. Iria Murdoch 3. Frank O'hara 4. Henry Miller

I thought this was an interesting list with great little explanations. And some kick-ass photos I had never seen before.

found via here.

2009-09-19T06:44:00.000-07:00

i'd kill for a walk through the bois d'amour right now. a cup of verveine miel tea. kersale coffee and almond croissant.

Miranda July

2009-09-18T17:58:00.000-07:00

Miranda July Interview. One of the greats.

See her work here.

To the Moon

2009-08-14T10:11:00.000-07:00

homemade space.

MugShot

2009-08-14T10:06:00.001-07:00

found here.

Pentax

2009-08-14T10:04:00.000-07:00

Just received a new old camera today... I think it could be the same one as this.

In need of good subjects to photograph.

To The Theater

2009-08-09T18:16:00.000-07:00

Photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto

Itching to See:

1. Coco Avant Chanel

2. Adam

4. Paper Heart

5. Taking Woodstock

6. New York, I Love You

7. Jennifer's Body

8. The September Issue

9. Amelia

10.Where the Wild Things Are

11. The Lovely Bones

12. Post Grad

Mad Men Season 3!

Recently saw, love and wish to be able to watch them for the first time again:

1. 500 Days of Summer

2. Away We Go

3. Gigantic

4. Sunshine Cleaning

5. Happy Go Lucky

6. The Edge of Love

Must Re-Watch ASAP:

1. Thoroughly Modern Millie

2. Stealing Beauty

3. The Royal Tenenbaums

4. Me and You and Everyone We Know

5. A Walk on the Moon

6. Flakes

7. I Capture the Castle

(Netflix just showed me a list of movies I would enjoy and two of the section captions were visually striking cerebral movies and dark british dramas. love it.)

Yellows and Blues

2009-08-09T18:07:00.000-07:00

Paris. December 2008.

I remember this day perfectly.

It was bitter cold, the wind was bitter.

We went to the Carnevalet Museum and then to a cafe for chocolat chaud.

I bought a plum purple coat and we made tomato soup for dinner.A hole started to form in my worn out black boots after walking for days on cobblestone streets, exploring the streets of Paris.

Almost Famous

2009-08-09T17:58:00.000-07:00

I'd kill for a summer on-tour. Chilling on an old-school bus, reading, writing, hangin' out with good people... I'm sure it would get monotonous, but ideally seems just the ticket.

The scene in which they all start singing Elton John's Tiny Dancer is one of my all-time favorite movie scenes.

love cameron crowe.

2009-08-02T20:06:00.000-07:00

"be yourself. everyone else is already taken."-oscar wilde

Stuck

2009-08-01T09:30:00.000-07:00

It is the first of august already! Time is flying by... remember when you were young and it felt like the summer was endless? Filled with carnivals, beaches, sandcastles, bike rides, trips to the ice cream shop, sprinklers, gardens, fireflies, lemonade stands.... the list goes on and on. I feel as though this month is going to be gone tomorrow. It's like your stuck, no matter what you do time won't slow down!

I am trying to make the most of it by putting up a huge list of things I want to do and actually DO them.

This is the start of that list:

1. Cape Cod to get a bit of color

2. Run every morning

3. Make weekly (more realistically, bi-weekly) trips to the ice cream shop

4. See all of my friends many many times before we all fly off to our respective schools (Lisa in Dublin..!)

5. Finally finish my website...! Needs many additions and tweakings.

6. Paint! I've been making good progress on about 4 paintings, 2 done, 2 almost, starting 2 more tomorrow...

7. Continue trying to write with my left hand.

8. Read the pile of books on my desk (Prove the librarian, who laughed at me when she saw the amount and length of each book i took out, wrong. Have librarians become more grumpy and cynical in the past few years, or is it just the ones that I happen to come into contact with?)

9. Cook fresh, healthy dinners with the herbs vegetables from the garden .

10. Think of a great and spectacular idea for my thesis...

11. Take my vitamins.

Whewf... That'll keep me busy and productive.

Sleep

2009-08-01T09:14:00.000-07:00

The Princess and the Pea.

(old NYTimes magazine cover)

This is Why You're Fat

2009-08-01T08:31:00.000-07:00

Thisiswhyyourefat.com

I especially love this Jell-O mold Cheeseburger.

This weekend is also the 30th anniversary of the McDonald's Happy Meal. Go Celebrate.

Bicycle

2009-08-01T07:23:00.000-07:00

i need a bike!

(found on garance dore.)

All in the Family

2009-08-01T07:15:00.000-07:00

(found on Style.com, a screening of Taking Woodstock)

Swim Suit

2009-07-31T07:05:00.000-07:00

a bathing suit hung out to dry.

Found on This is Glamorous

Wardrobe

2009-07-31T06:59:00.000-07:00

Some of my recent Favorites from The Sartorialist. All beautiful, simple summer looks.

Have you got a Little Old House and a Lemon Tree?

2009-07-31T06:37:00.000-07:00

Oof! Thank you Taza(I am also in love with her blog..) for this find.

I can't stop listening to it!

Fall

2009-07-31T06:33:00.000-07:00

(no idea where i found these...)

Autumn

2009-07-31T06:20:00.000-07:00

Early oozings

Unwise, probably, to start anticipating fall this early in the summer season, but I can’t wait for the day when a glass of ice water may stand upright on my desk without four napkins to soak up its sweat.

And it will be nice when mornings don’t have that haze to them that melts makeup and makes you look at 8 AM the way you normally do at five. Summer clothing, too, is a terrible thing to negotiate. The balance between comfort and propriety—now leaning dangerously in the direction of skimpy dresses and short-shorts—will return in fall to an easier compromise of covered limbs and garments that can be buttoned up.

Walks are better in fall. Apples too. The air smells better, time spent indoors is cozier, the sun feels more exceptional. There’s no point in pining, but something tells me I’m not pining quite yet— just testing the middle ground between yearning and anticipation.

Magic Molly, Found here.

Exactly how I am feeling right now. I am tired of the heat and humidity that plagues the city streets. I am excited to be back in Connecticut for a few weeks, laying in the green grass with a good book, driving down to the beach for a picnic and a late afternoon swim, playing tennis with mi madre and running around the gorgeous old park in my town (designed by famed Central Park man Frederick Law Olmstead), chilling with my yellow lab Milly, trips to the Umbrella Factory and an end of summer family reunion and cape cod visit…. Then back for the craziness that will be Senior year… at least there will be colorful leaves, hot chocolate runs, reading under a cozy blanket and sweater-weather to help a scattered mind out.

Tall Yellow Dress

2009-07-25T20:04:00.000-07:00

I wonder where this dress is being taken out to?

I hope it is a romantic dinner in Venice, followed by a stroll through a magical garden with fairy lights all around. And fireflies...

Love

2009-07-24T11:05:00.000-07:00

A homeless man on the street asked me for money today. When i told him I had none on me (true) he proceeded to say "That's okay hun, you have yourself a mighty fine day, maybe you'll find yourself a boyfriend today..." in the most upbeat tone.

I was left walking to the laundromat quite puzzled.

I love New York.

(image found here... i think?)

Diane von Furstenberg and Gloria Vanderbilt

2009-07-24T10:59:00.000-07:00

I love everything about this video.

The old photos of Gloria.

Andersen Cooper.

Diane von Furstenberg.

Her turquoise earings.

Her honesty.

The fact that Gloria Vanderbilt wrote a book titled, Obsession: An erotic Tale.

That I passed the opening party for it at Diane's store on my way to a picnic on the hudson.

They are both such wonderful women.

Yinka Shonibare MBE

2009-07-24T08:28:00.000-07:00

Going to see this show tomorrow at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

This exhibition is a major midcareer survey of work by the UK-based Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. Shonibare’s artwork explores contemporary African identity and its relationship to European colonialism through painting, sculpture, installation, and moving image. Shonibare is best known for his work with visual symbols, especially the richly patterned Dutch wax fabric produced in Europe for a West African market that he uses in a wide range of applications. His tableaux of headless mannequins costumed in this fabric evoke themes of history and its legacy for future generations. Through these works he explores the complex web of interactions, both economic and racial, that reveal inequalities between the dominant and colonized cultures of Europe, Asia, and Africa. A site-specific installation created for this presentation titled Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play will be on view in several of the Museum’s period rooms.

I am so psyched!

Vivien Leigh

2009-07-24T08:13:00.000-07:00

A Streetcar Named Desire and Gone With the Wind are two of my favorites. I remember first seeing the latter on TV with my dear friend Andrea when we were in middle school. We took many many snack breaks but by the end both wanted to be Scarlett.

Found all of these photos of Vivien Leigh on her facebook fan page...

(this is for you Ju, because of your epic GWTW love...)

Mad Men

2009-07-23T08:46:00.000-07:00

Started watching the 2nd season of Mad Men on DVD!

Can't wait for the third on AMC in August!

oof.

2009-07-21T18:19:00.000-07:00

Now getting a paragraph out of him is like pulling a piano out of a pond...

Winter Passing.

Siren Fest, Coney Island

2009-07-21T18:15:00.000-07:00

More photos on style.com

Dumpster Dipping

2009-07-21T10:30:00.000-07:00

Genius. Pure Genius.

nytimes

Today.

2009-07-20T09:36:00.000-07:00

1. Letter Writing

2. Rooftops

3. Ramen Noodles

4. Diet Coke

5. Sunflowers

6. Polaroids

7. This Side of Paradise

8. Tea-Tree Oil

9. Keds

10. Red Lipstick

Boat-Living

2009-07-20T09:17:00.000-07:00

Saw Whatever Works last week with my roommate. We both jumped when Randy Lee James said he lived on a houseboat on the hudson....I think that a boat will be my next place of residence in Manhattan. Somehow.

image found here

2009-07-20T09:10:00.000-07:00

“I’d like to buy a little villa in Italy and write all day, with lots of sweet babies running around and a divine husband.”

-Sophie Dahl

Fire Escapes and Balconies

2009-07-20T09:03:00.000-07:00

I started sitting on my fire-escape recently, after dragging the ac out of the window. I love sitting out there, watching the world go by. There are groups of pigeons that will excitedly fly up through the intersection into the sky. It is also great when people sitting on the top of the tour buses realize there is someone out on a fire-escape. They start waving and/or snapping photos. Fifteen minutes of fame?

found here.

Jello

2009-07-19T12:10:00.000-07:00

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I think I'm going to have a dinner party where no one speaks. I'll give all my guests pens and pads instead of the usual dinner conversation.

Karl Lagerfeld's Twitter.

Gemma Booth

2009-07-18T12:15:00.000-07:00

Treasure Box from Gemma Booth on Vimeo.

Oh to play dress up. I used to have a huge basket with the most wonderful things. I would prance around the yard in different getups. I do wish I had a skeleton costume like that one though.

found on photographer Gemma Booth's blog.

The Seven Year Itch

2009-07-17T12:36:00.000-07:00

Went to see this last week downtown with a few friends. It was screened in a large outdoor courtyard space in the financial district, right along the East River. It was a great deal of fun. There is nothing like an outdoor movie in the summer to set yourself right, especially with the nice breeze coming off of the river. OOF!

Rachel Whiteread

2009-07-17T07:40:00.000-07:00

I love Rachel Whiteread's giant chess set. I have been a bit obsessed with her work for quite some time now, but I had never seen this piece before.

found here

[500] Days of Summer

2009-07-17T07:19:00.000-07:00

Going to see this today!

(I have to admit, I sort of love a few rain predictions in the summer... It makes it feel more legitimate sitting inside the dark movie theater, since you are not wasting a sunny day.)

Update: Oh, so good!

Lisa Mayock

2009-07-17T07:10:00.000-07:00

Read the lovely little interview with 1/2 of the team behind Vena Cava. I love reading about people and their interesting finds and routines. Ms. Mayock bought a bunch of lipstick from a Polish 99 cent store and keeps it in her freezer. How spectacular is that? I can just imagine them all lined up like little christmas soldiers...!

Found on Refinery 29

Glastonbury Festival

2009-07-05T09:02:00.000-07:00

See more here.

Twilight

2009-07-05T08:27:00.000-07:00

I love this photo shoot of the cast of Twilight. The spot reminds me of the huge field I grew up near. And the light is just exquisite! So summery. See more photos here.