Great Shot!

Great photos by Delaney Allen.

O'Grady Lady

I was looking at the Davis Museum's website to see what's new (where have all the curators gone?) and discovered the artist and alum Lorraine O'Grady. I'm a little embarrassed that my art history background is so patchy that I'd never heard about her in the first place. Anywho she has a great website with tons of info and images of her work. It's worth a look.

The Wild Kingdom

Two great movies that capture how bizarre, magical and unfair life seems to be when you're a kid.

Lifesaver

Behold the best chocolate bar around. The perfect blend of dark chocolate, with a hint of toffee, sea salt and pecans. Meals at our home are quite the affair these days. Trying to get little boys to stay seated, not kick one another or throw food, and actually eat something takes every once of energy I have. Eating a few pieces of chocolate post meal is just the ticket to electro-shock me back into coherence. Bonus points for naming the Seinfeld reference in this post :)

Color Coated

Love the color combinations at Wooyoungmi's Menswear show.

Coated

Great long coats at Celine Pre Fall. Love how long and slender everything is, the coat, the bag, the shoes, etc.

I also love the razor pleats on this leather skirt.

Isn't it lovely

I love the simplicity and beauty of the packaging for this bakery in Mexico City.

The Ultimate Upholstery

My favorite architecture professor Filippo designed this lovely home, but I can't get enough of the rock-like seating in the right corner. Wayne sums up how I feel about these bad boys with the following statement:

Lady and the Landscape

MFAMBAMFAMBAMFAMBA

"For the artist possesses the ability to breathe soul into the lifeless product of the machine, and his creative powers continue to live within it as a living ferment. His collaboration is not a luxury, not a pleasing adjunct; it must become an indispensable component in the total output of modern industry." -Walter Gropius

Poster Boy

Love the use of text and photography in these football posters by Zoran Lucic.

Mind Grapes

Here are some things that are inspiring me for an upcoming project:
Feminity
Basketball shorts
Pink and Grey
Mad Max
Mothers and Daughters
The Salt Flats in UT
The MJ poster on Meikel's wall growing up

to be continued.....

Painted Picture

Cool painted photos by Shae Detar.

Falling Short

I love the random stuff I find on Netflix online. The latest gem I've unearthed from the late 90's is the comedy central show Primetime Glick with Martin Short. His bizarre references and vocab are a wonder to behold. The best interview show by far.

 

my life at the moment

The 80's, 90's and Today!

Cameron has been singing this Temple of the Dog song on and off for the last week and I can't get it out of my head. Plus it's one of those songs where I only know the first few lines, making it all the more painful to play over and over in my mind. On the bright side it reminded me to watch this great Eddie Vedder cameo on Portlandia.

Narciso!

Kohl's always makes me think of the Daisy Fuentes collection for some reason. I've never been tempted to shop there until I had a lightening bolt shoot across my screen in the form of an ad for Narciso Rodriguez for Kohl's. OK perhaps that's a bit dramatic, but I love love love his clothes and heaven knows I can't afford anything that has appeared on a runway, so this is my chance! Here are my favorite looks (also I love that the model looks like she's in her 30's).

A Case of the Blues

A cool shirt from 3.1 Philip Lim. It looks like a mash up of denim and it reminds me a bit of my mother-in-law and her impressive ability to patch up even the most dire pair of jeans. I'm not a huge fan of the pants or shoes but I think the shirt would look great with a nice pair of black pants.

stairway to heaven

Jamie Kripke: Alps 40

I've been missing the mountains of Utah out here in flat as a board Texas. This place it nuts, I have yet to encounter even a single hill. When I came back to UT for a friends wedding last week, seeing the landscape was like a breath of fresh air and it definitely felt like home.

Geometric Food Art

Apparently this is a thing, who knew?

Atkins Diet Inducer

I tend to post things that I find visually appealing, but in honor of Halloween I present the most disturbing image I've seen in a long time. Behold the sexually transmitted infection cupcakes (including herpes and genital warts) available now at London pathology museum bakery.

Eames at Home

I love Renzo Piano's description of the Eames house:
This is a place where you can live out your dreams of happiness, surrounded by your family.

Amazing

As an adolescent growing up in Utah I dreamed of many things including living in Paris some day and more immediately having a trampoline in my backyard like all the rich kids in the neighborhood. Now these two seemingly disparate desires have met up in one awesome looking bridge design for the city of Paris. If they build it I will come.

Pic me up

I love these aerial pics by Giles Price of the construction leading up to the London Olympics. I also randomly love the name Giles. Not sure why I like the name since the only Giles I'm familiar with was a contestant on Project Catwalk, the British cousin to Project Runway that I used to watch in college on youtube in five minute increments. 

Dressed Down

A great mix of formal and casual from Dries Van Noten.

Spaced Out

I love this painting by Nathalie Guinamard. A very cool play on interior domestic space.

Someone get me a macaroon stat!

Last night I watched the documentary Kings of Pastry about the French MOF pastry competition. It was the perfect tired end of the day viewing, complete with nice French cafe music and people making incredible looking deserts only to throw them in the garbage and proclaim that the sugar wasn't quite right. Cameron came home right when I started to become teary about a poor chef who shattered his sugar sculpture and began sobbing in the kitchen. What can I say, it had been a long day.