NOSTALGIA

I love browsing vieilles_annonces's photos for a touch of nostalgia...

POLYHEDRA

I love this geometric necklace from Jalea Jalea.

PLAYLIST_MAY 8

Listening to Cat Power's cover of "I Believe In You".

LITTLE EDIE'S WORDS OF WISDOM

"This is the best thing to wear for the day. You understand. Because I don't like women in skirts, and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt, and then you pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take the skirt off and use it as a cape, so I think this is the best costume for the day. I have to think these things up, you know? Mother wanted me to come out in a kimono, so we had quite a fight."

"I understand why people get married. It's all a question of who you want to stay with. Of course I'm mad about animals, but raccoons and cats become a little bit boring. I mean for too long a time."

"Listen, kid! I'm extremely organized. I know exactly where to look for this stuff. I've got it under control right here, but I can't find it. Get it?"

"If you can't get someone to propose to you, you might as well be dead."

UTAH

I love the landscape of this country.

LOOKING UP

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Argentina, April 2009.

DESTINATION: BRAZIL

MoMA has launched a section of their online store to sell products by both up-and-coming and established Brazilian designers. The big laser-cut necklace by Renata Meirelles is going straight onto my wish list...

MAY 5

Happy Cinco de Mayo! A good excuse to post this beautiful picture of Frida Kahlo...

A FASHIONABLE LIFE

One of my favorite parts of Bazaar magazine is the section called "A Fashionable Life", and one of the best I can remember was the feature on Jacqui and Peter Getty and Gia Coppola. I love the LA sunshine...

Photos by Lisa Eisner for Bazaar.

PLAYLIST_MAY 4

Listening to "Tonight I Have to Leave It" by the Shout Out Louds.

PLAYLIST_MAY 1

Two things that made me smile today: a Jen Gotch shot of the ocean, and dancing to Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder.

Have a beautiful, happy weekend.

ROUGHING IT

I love adventurous women.

STYLIN IN LA

Some great photos and style tips from Jessica de Ruiter on Refinery 29.

SPRING FEVER

Larry Towell / Magnum Photos via Slate

PROA

Recently I was lucky enough to visit Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires. It's an absolutely gorgeous building by Caruso-Torricella Architetti and I highly recommend checking it out if you're in the city...especially the rooftop terrace.

image from the Proa website.

DESERT

BRONTE

Is it wrong that I already want another one of these?

PLAYLIST_APRIL 16

I know I'm so late to the party on this one, but I just discovered Phoenix...and I think I'm in love. Listening to "If I Ever Feel Better" (thanks Richard).

VACATION

Just returned from an amazing vacation. One of many incredible spots, above...

SPRING

image from Sarah Ryhanen of Saipua, via DesignSponge

PLAYLIST_MARCH 26

Listening to "Face to Face on High Places" by School of the Seven Bells. Because they've made an album, Alpinisms, of "mountain climbing songs".

"There is an art to finding your way in the lower regions by the memory of what you have seen when you were higher up. When you can no longer see, you can at least still know..." - Rene Daumal

MORNING SUNSHINE...

via Pia Jane Bijkerk.

CHRISTIAN CHAIZE

"'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.' - Marcel Proust

Five years ago, Portugal did present itself as a new landscape in my life - both literally and metaphorically. Since then, I have photographed exclusively along a very small stretch of its southern coastline. Returning to this specific place, I've sought out its nuances. In doing so, I have peeled back layers of how I see, and how I experience this magical environment.

The results of my slight obsession have evolved into two distinct series. Here are two images from Praia Piquinia, a body of work focusing on a singular, secluded beach front in which all of the pictures are taken from essentially the same elevated angle. What the still life was for Morandi, this beach is for me. From a distance, I observe the variables: light, weather, time of day, the ebb and flow of the ocean, and the sunbathers, unaware, below my large format camera. The images are shot vertically, a departure from the traditional, horizontal format in landscape photography. It puts my subject matter in the form of a portrait - an ongoing record of this ethereal yet playful nook in nature over the minutes, the days, the years. Ultimately, I try to instill an element of time within these captured moments... visceral time, elastic from one image to another. And always, I seek to have new eyes." -Christian Chaize

Discovered Christian Chaize's Praia Piquina series today - please take a look as the photographs are gorgeous! I'm putting the 30x40" version on my half-birthday list...(July 10, for all those keeping track).

Buy his work at 20x200

HAPPY SPRING!

image © Tim Walker.

PLAYLIST_MARCH 18

feeling francophone...listening to "Ce jeu" by Yelle and "La belle et le bad boy" by MC Solaar.

CARINE REVEALED

Just finished watching the documentary on Carine Roitfeld on CNN.com. Oh to have that French accent...

Watch it online here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

"She is like nobody else, and that is already the most important thing, non?" -Karl Lagerfeld

THE LAST EMPEROR

Valentino: The Last Emperor opens today at Film Forum.

SAFARI

three rhinos


girl with chains / basketwood diptych


elephants in the aberdares

I'm going on virtual safari today...all works © Peter Beard.

GORGE

how amazing is this ring...from Conroy + Wilcox at Erie Basin.

STATUS REPORT_3:02 pm

what I'm drinking: green tea
what I'm listening to: "The Pirate's Gospel" by Alela Diane
what I'm doing: brightening up the day with color via Matthew Williamson F2009

PLAYLIST_MARCH 10

a comforting standby for today: "Fake Empire" by The National.