Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
hitchcock 2008
vanity fair recreates scenes from hitchcock classics using stars of today. charlize theron (above), renee zellweger, marion cotillard, jodie foster and naomi watts.
via the ad blog
this is just a test
if this sweater and my parrot sweater were in an awesome fight. who do you think would win?
via ffffound!
atchafalaya houseboat
atchafalaya houseboat: my years in the louisiana swamp, a book by gwen roland with photographs by c.c. lockwood.
from NPR.org
"In the 1970s, Gwen Carpenter Roland was about to start work on her doctorate when she decided instead to live off the land -- and water -- in the Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp in south-central Louisiana.
With a box of crayons and the book How to Build Your Home in the Woods, Roland and her then-partner, Calvin Voisin, built a houseboat on a barge. They lived there for six years, with no electricity and no running water.
Read more, listen to the interview, see more of CC Lockwood's photographs HERE"
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eco zoo for you
very cool interactive "eco zoo" by mcann erickson. click and pull the screen to climb up the tree, when you find an animal, click on its thought bubble (if it has one) to see its pop up book. the one about an angler fish deals with turning off the lights. the one about a kangaroo deals with bringing your own bag. very smart, a must see!
via cpluv
four for four
2. ampersand: a blog devoted to the art of the "&"
3. line dancing zombies: kill bill meets thriller in a sonny j video
4. MTV Australia rebranding: by umeric
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bag me? baggu!
baggu makes the cutest little reusable bags i ever did see. well, other than karen's treecycle bags for native sun.
via cool hunting
uninvited collaborations with nature
from nina katchadourian's mended spiderweb series
"The morning after the first patch job, I discovered a pile of red threads lying on the ground below the web. At first I assumed the wind had blown them out; on closer inspection it became clear that the spider had repaired the web to perfect condition using its own methods, throwing the threads out in the process. My repairs were always rejected by the spider and discarded, usually during the course of the night, even in webs which looked abandoned. The larger, more complicated patches where the threads were held together with glue often retained their form after being thrown out, although in a somewhat "wilted" condition without the rest of the web to suspend and stretch them."
such an interesting idea and how intricate the work must be! even more, i love the title of her outdoor portfolio - "uninvited collaborations with nature". it brings up a part of the project that you don't really think about - the spider, or the tadpole, or whatever part of nature she uses, has no say whether or not they want to participate. so at first all i saw was the beauty in the photo above, but now all i see is the wrecked home of a spider.
via lost at e minor
happy birthday week!
i recently introduced sean to the concept of "birthday week" vs. birthday day. basically, the first few days of the week you constantly remind your friend that it will be his or her birthday later that week. you can do this by saying "happy birthday week!" every time he or she answers the phone, or by screaming "happy birthday week!"as you pop out from behind the refrigerator just as the birthday boy or girl comes back in the house after walking their weimaraner. (based on my experience, i wouldn't suggest that second idea.) then you start celebrating on the day of thier birth (in sean's case, a thursday) and keep celebrating that day of birth until the week is through. see below.
sunday we watched a story on alanis morrisette on cbs sunday morning (ironic i'm telling you!), took showers, and got lunch at firehouse subs. that's when the magic started :) i had tiffany meet us at firehouse. sean doesn't really think anything of it. (this might have been due to the awkward "customer service" we got, or more tiffany got. you'll have to ask her.) but then when we go to leave, tiffany gets in the car with us. now sean knows something is up, but what? we start driving down 95 for about 45 min until i turn off at the st. augustine exit. i had a whole surprise day planned! we started at the conch house for reggae sundays. russel, katie, sean, eric, chris l, and ashley all surprised sean there. then we moved to the sunset grille where karen, katie and greg joined the surprise. and next up . . . the vampire weekend concert at cafe 11! the show has been sold out for months, but i managed to buy 10 tickets the day they went on sale and i'm so glad i did. the show was awesome! lots of fun, cheap beer, good friends, got my vinyl signed, ran into emily and adam from anomaly, made memories, you know.
so there you have it. a birthday week done right :) but be careful - birthday weeks often lead to a loss of money, loss of brain cells, loss of sleep and in some cases a loss of friends after constant mass emails and waaay too many plans :) thanks to everyone who came out!click here to see all the pics from this weekend.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
my birthday boy!
it's sean's birthday today! send him bday wishes on myspace! http://www.myspace.com/tuffbeard
whatacatch!
omg. marisa just did a think fast! swedish fish throw to joey as he was walking down the hallway and dude caught that fish IN HIS MOUTH! way to go jegly!
Monday, June 2, 2008
?uestlove!
oooh, and we ran into questlove at drastic plastic record store on sunday before we headed to the airport! i guess they were there to play a show and he just strolled in and started looking around in the used vinyl section. i made varick take a picture with him, but we both got to shake his hand. and he introduced himself as ahmir, which i guess is his real name - ahmir townsend. anyway, it was perfect way to round out our awesome weekend in omaha, ne.
fooooosball
soooo, in omaha this past weekend for the 2008 aiga national leadership retreat, we ended up at a bar called the french underground which had a foosball table. as many of you know, i have a love for the foos. i also have a table in my house, but i never get to play it as i live alone. anyway, in omaha i started playing with torrey from aiga indianapolis and we were killing it! winning 5 - 0. then he stepped out and michael from aiga memphis stepped in and we killed it too! we were winning game after game until the deadly duo: marlon from honolulu and tim from birmingham.
2.17 minutes of foos was uploaded from that night. and where does it start? right before the streak-breaking goal shot from tim that kicked me off the table. figures! haha. either way i had tons of fun and made some great friends that night.
