current obsession: Austin Kleon

i just love love these little poems/drawings by Austin Kleon. each one is made my redacting a newspaper article.
they are so clever and funny.


prints are available at 20x200 and you can find out more about his book and work over here.

recharging

lately the combined effects of long work days, finishing up wedding planning (it's only a month away!?!) and crazy sinus pressure have left me completely exhausted and uninspired.

thankfully there's the internet and creative people like this and this and this to bring me (and all of you) lovely images like those above.

oh and thank goodness its cool enough outside now for enjoying many many cups of tea ;)

photo source (1 / 2 / 3)

to tattoo or not tattoo

i just saw these cool temporary tattoos by Tattly featured over at Daily Candy. now i'm too much a baby to get an actual tattoo (and waaay too fickle) but there are so many awesome tattoos hanging around South Philly where i live and i'm always a little jealous i'm not more adventurous. part of me feels like you need to fully commit though and get a whole sleeve to really pull it off though.

so what about you? do you have tattoos? are you thinking about getting some?

a little bit of this and that for the weekend

thank goodness it is friday! i am so completely ready for the weekend, it was kind of a rough week. SIGH. tonight we're headed to the phillies game (in 103 degree weather? umm sure...) and then tomorrow i'm headed up to new york state for my cousin's bridal shower.

now for some great stuff i wanted to share before i head off for some much needed decompression...

-- new song FINALLY from St. Vincent! can stream it here. can't wait to see her again in november.

-- have you seen this awesome photography project, dear photograph? and yea, some made me teary (i cry at everything)

-- great photography can also be found over at Life (like the one pictured above - see european vacationers have been doing jumping photos for decades ;)

-- also this past week one of my favorite painters Lucian Freud passed away so go revel in and celebrate his amazing work

hope you all have great plans for the weekend and make sure you STAY COOL!

acrophobia

so i have to admit that i am pretty scared of heights, thus making me an acrophobic. what's funny is that even though i don't dare going near a ledge and peering over, i absolutely cannot stand to watch other people do this as i'm terrified that they will fall. i have made some headway in recent years, i hiked to machu picchu and i've even finally gotten to the 400 level seats at a Phillies game. BUT this new photography craze of "rooftopping" is just a little bit too much to handle...

all of the work shown is by the photograher Tom Ryaboi





what are your biggest fears?

souce: the daily mail

current obsession: charmaine olivia

i just love love the artwork of San Fransisco based artist Charmaine Olivia. i've already amassed quite a substantial collection of her work and i'm always wanting to get just one more... she's completely self taught and quite prolific for being so young.

her work can be found on etsy, society 6, and her personal website.