October 14, 2013
Mix #29: You Hold My Hand and Tell Me It’s Fine
PHOTO: Silja Magg
Listen to You Hold My Hand and Tell Me It’s Fine on Spotify.
Posted In mixtape, music
October 11, 2013
Happy Weekend
01/ Not a haunted house, rather photos of the walls of the original CBGB.
02/ Yes. That’s an artist who paints by squirting paint out of his eye.
03/ The Planter Chess Set almost makes me want to commit to learning how to play the game.
04/ Sand Prints shows off ancient printing rituals that are created using carved cylinders.
05/ Would you live in this translucent house built around the tree in a forest?
06/ A fully functional handcrafted wooden Vespa!
07/ How about this Cube House?
08/ Photographer Matt Weber has been capturing New York kisses for 30 years.
09/ Forever Bikes uses 3,144 bicycles to create a 3D labyrinth installation.
10/ A photo series that captures every day life with a man and two plastic skeletons.
This week on Design Crush:
Wooly Baby
Penny Sage
Myriam Dion
Fern + Crystal Temporary Tattoos
Jaylon Israel Hicks
Elisa Strozyk
Leslie Fandrich
October 11, 2013
Leslie Fandrich
Leslie Fandrich‘s paintings make me happy, plain and simple. Her use of bright color palettes is fantastic, as is her ability to hop between watercolors and acrylics. (Both vastly different to work with, if you’ve never tried.) Leslie’s abstracts leave my emotions swirling and my mind spinning in a very good way. I’m so happy that she’s decided to set up shop.
October 10, 2013
Jaylon Israel Hicks
Think back to when you were 21 years old. How you filled your days, your nights, and the in between. Then think of Houston-based artist Jaylon Israel Hicks, who was born in 1993 and is busy “expressing his ideas about life through abstraction.” Chew on that a little. (via Booooooom)
October 9, 2013
Fern + Crystal Temporary Tattoos
At first glance these fern and crystal temporary tattoos from The Aviary had me thinking they were the real thing (in fact, I think you’ll find them on my my Fresh Ink board where I pinned them months ago). Each one is taken from shop owner Victoria’s original illustrations and printed on professional-grade material for up to five days of wear. I think it would be so much fun to cover both arms and parts of your face with the ferns for Halloween!
October 9, 2013
Myriam Dion
Who would have ever thought the daily newspaper and a super sharp X-acto knife would yield results this beautiful? Myriam Dion, that’s who. These intricately cut works of art prove that there’s more beauty in the everyday than we can ever hope to see. (via The Jealous Curator)
October 7, 2013
Wooly Baby
It was lovely and crisp here in OKC this weekend, which always puts me in the best mood. I wore my first pair of socks since April, and now these cozy slippers and slipper socks from Wooly Baby are screaming my name! They’re eco-friendly (made from 85% recycled materials), have a suede bottom, and a wool-lined sole. They come in high and low ankle heights and are available for babies, kids, women, and men. Do I hear some holiday gifts being crossed off??
October 4, 2013
Happy Weekend
01/ Check out this creepy-cool abandoned treehouse mansion!
02/ A submarine surfaced in the streets of Milan… or did it?
03/ This apartment building’s brick facade appears to be melting off.
04/ The negative space of a house cut within a 908 page book.
05/ Ridiculously amazing photos of animals congregating.
06/ A colorful farewell to a condemned house in Germany.
07/ A maze of mirrors inside Sydney’s Hyde Park.
08/ Would you live in this modern pyramid house?
09/ Extinction empathy tattoos commemorate not-so-cuddly species.
10/ Doublefaced, portraits of a girl with the illusion of two faces.
This week on Design Crush:
Gulten Imamoglu
Insta September
Paola Navone Collection for Crate & Barrel
Skulls
Woodland Creatures Masks
Confluence
STACT
Slow-Cooked Vegetable Stew
Marc Giai-Miniet
October 4, 2013
Marc Giai-Miniet
French sculptor Marc Giai-Miniet creates miniature libraries full of the smallest little books and other features. I love how industrial and macabre his sculptures feel, a little like they might be the lairs of someone/something evil and calculating. Did you spy the three bodies above?
October 2, 2013
Woodland Creatures Masks
With Halloween being just over a month away costumes and disguises are on everyone’s minds. These colorful and creative woodland creatures masks from Keely O’Brien of (kiss me)go are so good (as is her entire shop). Each mask is a print of an original collage made of sturdy card and cotton twine. Choose from a sweet old owl, a galactic wolf, a gentle black bear, a trickster coyote, and an elegant fox.
