All sorts of cuteness.
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Tillman the skateboarding, skimboarding, snowboarding bulldog
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Prada’s Spring Retro Sunglass Line is Ga Ga Gorgeous
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
Psychic friendship
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
I was just thinking of my friend Anton a few days ago, and then he sent me this picture. Yay for old friends.
Shopping for glasses
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
I’m really liking these, but they’re oh so expensive. Where can I find cheap glasses?
Lady blogging
Saturday, April 9th, 2011I read a lot of ‘cute bohemian lady’ blogs, but they’re starting to kind of annoy me. It’s formulaic. Blog about the following: scultped plants (especially terrariums), DIY weddings, your oh so cute and scuffy boyfriend, your hipster pregnancy, your engagement ring, some random beautiful food (and the artisan cutting board/vintage bowls/one of a kind plates you serve it on), anything letterpress, tea towels and other home textiles, clothes that aren’t really functional. It’s basically an online lifestyle boutique, without actually stocking any inventory.
I still read a lot of these daily because they make me happy, and that’s the whole idea right? Cute home, cute couple, tra-la-la. I guess it’s just so far from my life that I end up wondering where the fuck I fit in, and where my peeps are. I’m kind of jealous. Who doesn’t want a gorgeous apartment filled with indie designs and quirky friends that run things like gem jewelry shops and organic wacky gelato companies but can somehow still afford to bring great wine (let alone pay their rent, in Brooklyn). Who wouldn’t want that? But, still, I’m more and more wondering where the normal girls are.
And I’m perplexed because a lot of these blogs charge for ad space, for what is essentially a selection of images from the internet in the previously named categories. Some of them have traffic higher than city newspapers. And yet the work has to be minimal for many of them. There are those who write, there are fantastic, hilarious, literary, blogs out there. And then there are those who curate stuff off the internet. The latter seems to get a lot of traffic (and ad revenue) for not a lot of heavy lifting. Which, good for them, I am one of their readers after all.
Of course what I’m saying is a kind of why aren’t I doing that.
Dear Wikipedia…Sincerely, The Ladies. Updated.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011Below this is Sue Gardner’s post to the group to calm everyone the fuck down.
Did you read all the New York Times opinions about why women make up less than 13% of the Wikipedia editing community? Since then I’ve been following Wikimedia’s discussion list: ‘Gendergap – Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects.’ It started out really nice and I was encouraged, as I am every now and again, to be part of the Wikimedia community. I like grammar. My college courses trained me to identify and cite resources. But I’m still kind of scared of contributing to Wikipedia. Friends, especially girl friends, do you edit Wikipedia?
Recently the Gendergap conversation has had me pulling my hair out because it’s all about ‘women’ as a group and that usually means pointing out gender stereotypes. This is the email I wrote to them tonight: (more…)
Besitos
Monday, March 14th, 2011
The new headmaster of Hogwarts
Sunday, October 10th, 2010This guy gets my vote, 100%. JK Rowling + endangered animals = win win.
Our Quidditch game is going to be superb!
From an article in National Geographic on funky rare animals discovered in New Guinea (click the photo).
I want to work for National Geographic and report from the jungle! Need a writer guys? I can weather the jungle and still turn out a good story, hell I lived in the jungle of Mazunte in the rainy season, I think I can handle New Guinea, particularly if they don’t have land crabs.
Eames video Powers of Ten with the new habitable planet
Sunday, October 10th, 2010Made in 1977 by the Charles and Ray Eames (of furniture god status) office, this film takes us from a picnic into outer space and back again to the atoms inside a human hand. Vidoes like this are a good reason to follow the Design Within Reach blog, even if I can never afford anything from the store, ever.
Mid way through I startled myself asking, Holy hell, where would that newly discovered habitable planet be in this? 20 light years out, says National Geographic’s blog on Gliese 581. It also contains this awesome quote:
Roughly three times more massive than Earth, the newfound planet is tidally locked to its star, which means that one side is perpetually basked in daylight, the other side constantly dark.
Aliens, if they exist, are most likely to live along the line between shadow and light, a temperate region known as the terminator, the scientists said.
Imagining the view from the terminator, Vogt said, “You basically see this star sitting on the horizon. You see an eternal sunrise or sunset, depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist.”
I made a lol cat
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
moar funny pictures
Also I’m in Mexico City for a few days and it’s great and Mexico is great and I’m terrible at updating this blog but it’s because I’m having a ball all over the place.
Can you believe this blog didn’t have a tag for ‘ideas about cats’ before this? What kind of cat lady am I. Yeesh. As you can see, Huxley is enjoying Mexico as much as I am.
Ya’ll are like, where are the blog entries?
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009I say, eh, sorry. I wanted to flood you with gorgeous pictures then my camera broke. I wanted to flood you with gorgeous descriptions then my internal voice broke.
Solution: Come visit.
Off to eat more churros, ta ta.
Ok, wait, come back. Day of the Dead photos will be up next week when I pull them off a friend’s camera.
Shameless plug: This Sat, Nov 21st, is my birthday!
Sorry for the silence. It’s kind of nice to ignore the internet, every now and again.
I finally have a Mexican home
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Stories friends, stories. But it’s all been on hold while I bounced around looking for an apartment. There are some shoddy apartments out there, but this, this is not one of them. I have an amazing place to live.
Leaving my temporary crash pad at Sara’s was a little sad, she kept feeding me great food and hanging out with me, but it’s exciting to have a place where I know I will be for more than a few days.
The cat, poor poor Hux, agrees. This is like, his 6th place in three weeks or something. Yeesh.
More soon. Bedy by for now.
Be Happy: A flowchart
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
You guys I’m moving to Mexico
Monday, September 14th, 2009VIVA!
More details shortly. I leave the first weekish of October, with plans to spend a month at the beach in Cabo and then head inland to the artist hangout of San Miguel de Allende. It’s going to be me and Huxley the cat.
So excited. More soon.
TBA TBA! Wacky performance art returns
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009It’s Portland Institute of Contemporary Art‘s annual Time Based Arts festival again, and I’m blogging for what I think is my 5th year. As far as contemporary art is concerned, PICA effectively raised me. They started comping tickets out to Kirsten before I even graduated college, and have given me a free pass almost ever since in exchange for blogging. This year, they took over an old school as the visual arts and late night show venue, and it’s gorgeous.
Here’s my first blog on the experimental film Crock, which I warn you, is a bit vulgar.
iPhone in hand, I’ve been taking some pictures. Here’s two and a video, more soon.
The Sugar Shack, created with on site materials found in the closed school.
Local artist Ethan Rose's synchronized music boxes
Color photos taken by train in 1900s Russia, and a Titanic original glass negative
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
In Newsweek, a story of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, asked by Czar Nicholas II to be the Russian royal photographer from 1907-1915. He traveled by custom dark room train, shooting on glass plates in 3 filters (R,G,B) to create the appearance of full color photographs. I love the gauzy look it gives these images.
The only glass plate negative I’ve seen was a magnificent one. My dad is Chilean, so on his 50th birthday we returned to his ranch home in the lake district, coming back to a country he hadn’t seen since he was 15. One of the places we visited was the farm home of my aunt’s boyfriend, a man she’d left behind who apparently never got over her. He and his wife had a rotting but beautiful old Victorian home in the country, with a barn full of piglets that my teenage self couldn’t get enough of. At night they let the single iron stove heater die out, so my other clear memory is of piling under dozens of blankets against the cold–an inverted princess and the pea.
Hanging around the living room one night, the farmer pulled out a box of little treasures that a missionary from England had left at his country church long ago. Tucked in with letters and idols was a perfect glass negative of the Titanic leaving port. Can you imagine?
The dark marks showed the Titanic in the first moments of it’s movement away from the dock. It wasn’t chipped or faded at all, about the size of a playing card and the thickness of a coaster, kept perfect by a man who traveled to rural Chile from England, and then passed around by the church caretakers. When we asked what he would do with it, he said it would always belong to the church, and someone would take care of it after him.
Russian photo link via @mikebarish, who has lots of good travel tweets.
French bike pop songs
Friday, August 28th, 2009Here are a few music videos from the 60s in France showing stylish people riding bikes.
Alex Marco, The Bike. Via BikeSnobNYC. It looks like those cool Peugeot checkerboard jerseys were only made from 1963 to the 80s. Too bad.
Shelia, l’ecole est finie (school is out)
Bonus: This doesn’t involve bikes, but it’s a strange, strange song:
Moments
Thursday, August 27th, 2009I’ve been having a terrible time at work lately–because everyone is on vacation, I’m having to do all sorts of jobs, learning to do them and then doing them in rushed time. One thing is combining data across four different spreadsheets that differ in name and are riddled with errors. It’s something I’ve done all day today and will do all day tomorrow. My writing, my work I love, has all been put off.
In an attempt at not freaking out, or to stave off the collapsing feeling inside my head, I’ve been listening to podcasts. Radio Lab on WNYC is a beautiful show that explores everyday things, talking to experts in layman’s terms, yakking with my favorite neurologist Oliver Saks (read The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, read it), that sort of thing. And then, when people react to their show by creating something else of beauty, they share it. Like this:
I made a donation so my cardboard spirit animal could sail the world
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Just read about her project, she’s hilarious. She’ll send you a coconut, a sailor hat, a Big Gulp full of stuff from afar… I can’t sail the world, but I sure would like to, so I’ll support it. Double points for her cool glasses.
I pledged $26.71, because I wanted to pledge over $25 and I liked the way those numbers mirror each other.
What should my spirit animal be though? Hmm.
Thanks, Kirsten, for the link.
