PATHS OF LIGHT

"Paths of Light" photographs by Gordon Harrison Hull - whose birth was "brought about by the use of an Ashanti fertility dress created specifically for (my) mother by a witch doctor in Kumasi, Ghana."

SOAK IT UP

summer's coming...no better way to welcome it than with these sarong / towels by Nomadic Trading Co., available at Commune.

PLAYLIST_APRIL 5

Playlist in three parts: (1) The Gallery - Joni Mitchell / (2) Our House - Crosby Stills + Nash / (3) Simple Man - Graham Nash

ARE MOKKELBOST

beautiful paper collage work by Are Mokkelbost.

HEADSTRONG

I've had a strange desire to wear headdresses and turbans lately - I'm thinking summer 2010 will see a lot of my silk scarves re-purposed as hair wraps for the beach...

CAT POWER

Love these David Black photographs of Cat Power (i.e. Chan Marshall) - one of the most awesome women ever.

CARLY WAITO

gorgeous paintings by Carly Waito.

PLAYLIST_MARCH 15

"Night Time" by The XX

MASTER AND MUSE

on the heels of this Vogue piece comes this lovely video from the Tate - Agnes "Mougouch" Magruder speaking about her life with painter Arshile Gorky.

PLAYLIST_MARCH 5

today: just silence.

BARNACLES

BIOGEOMETRY

Loving all things both geometric and organic lately. Like these Balenciaga prints from FW2010, which remind me of this work by Victoria Haven...and these.

BIJULES

Love these rings from Bijules...like tiny mountain landscapes.

WHERE I'D LIKE TO BE

image: Brian Hodges via T Magazine

OUTER SPACE

Apologies for the radio silence lately. This city/country mouse has been in hibernation, but she's back.

Listening to Pushover by Etta James; I recommend downloading the entire album ASAP.

W O W

cannot get over these 2 images from Vanessa Jackman...just perfect.

LITTLEDOE

obsessed with this lookbook of feather headdresses from Littledoe.

SOMETHING WICKED

Once I find the perfect variety of anything, I buy it over and over. My candle obsession: Something Wicked, in Tota scent.

DANS LE DESÉRT

Vogue Paris puts together an amazing, dream-team editorial, with photography by Ines Von Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin and styling by Carine Roitfeld, Emanuelle Alt and Camilla Nickerson.

See the whole thing at Fashionista.

PLAYLIST_JANUARY 27

I've been listening to so much good music lately - I couldn't pick just one.

Cold War Kids - Audience
Sad Brad Smith - Help Yourself
Jens Lekman - Arms Around Me
Bat for Lashes - Use Somebody
Little Joy - No One's Better Sake
Animal Collective - My Girls
Taken By Trees - My Boys
Tunng - Bullets
Tanlines - Real Life (Memory Tapes Remix)
Cosmo Jarvis - She's Got You
Beach House - Take Care
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
Edward Sharpe + the Magnetic Zeros - Home

SHOOT EM UP

WILDER NESS

This gorgeous video for Pringle's SS10 line - by Ryan McGinley, starring Tilda Swinton - makes me miss the wilderness and beaches of Scotland.