Special Sweets

My eyes popped out of my head when I discovered Andie's Specialty Sweets on etsy. If I could do it all over again, I would have had hundreds of these edible mushrooms at my wedding. I sent some magical mushrooms to Dana and look forward to sending some special treats to you and Gabi too...;)

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Face to Face

That reminded me of John Stezaker

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VOGUE

George Chamoun does some very interesting work. Among his other bizarre and fascinating pieces are these Iconatomy collages... He isn't making any comparisons between the amalgamated stars, just very interesting how similar famous faces can be. I thought it was rad. Also, among his other thoughts and random bits and pieces is this piece of awesome:

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Dreamer

My friend Tab makes neon dreams. She takes some pretty sweet photos and is having an exhibition tonight...I'm very excited to see her work and to celebrate with her. She is also a cat lover and once we had a play date with Stevie and her siamese cat, Buddha. It didn't work out.

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1929 Indian

A friend of mine is in a band called 1929 Indian, and she asked me to Art Direct the band's cd artwork. We decided to go into a dream / surreal-esque direction and a friend of mine, Sean, shot what was in my mind. Ruth is in the band and is also the girl in my dreams;) This was a really fun project in so many ways. I made the starfish headpiece with a few friends and also laced up those branches. I'll be sure to post you an album when it's out.

Hope you like. x

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Annalemma Eight: Creation

How to Make a Bride

I am very proud of this. As a contributing writer, photographer, and designer of issue eight, this has been my most ambitious project of the year. It felt like I crossed the finished line when I received the physical magazine in my hands last week.

The issue has gotten a thoughtful review by writer/designer/illustrator Nancy Smith on the Rumpus blog. Huge thanks to Chris of Annalemma for encouraging me to take a shot at writing and for giving me the chance to be published. Get your issue here.

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the beauty of creation

I love this beet cake video from tiger in a jar on Vimeo.

Also, the recipe I will endeavour to make.

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105 Years Ago

My great grandmother Alvina's wedding dress. Handmade in 1906.

photos: Jen O'Malley

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Sew Nice

So intricate and beautiful. Jazmin Berakha.

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Summer Read #1

The Bhagavad Gita

There are many translations of this 2,000+ year old ancient text. I am enjoying this one by Eknath Easwaran.

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Fakin It

I get a real kick out of these fake book covers by McSweeney's designer and illustrator (and Annalemma Issue 8 contributor) Walter Green. We are wrapping things up and sending to print this week. I'm very excited about this issue.

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Here's to 30

Hope it's been a fine day, full of mischief and flying high. xoxoxo

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skulltea

via blacklist studio

Before Has Never Felt This Far Away

Chauvet Caves

Discovered in 1994

Dates between 18,000 - 32,000 BP

And now we get a closer look.

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Maya & Milla

Milla Jovovich's 1994 music video

Inspired by Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon

beautiful film making, beautiful women

Maya Deren - Meshes of the afternoon (1943)

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Dreamboat

This past weekend I went to Sydney for a design conference called Semi-Permanent. It's an incredibly inspiring and amazing conference where I had the privilege to listen to twelve speakers share their love for design, art and photography and how the paths they travelled down have led to incredibly rewarding and outstanding careers doing what they love.

One speaker in particular really got to me. His name is Corey Arnold and he is amazing. Corey shared how from the moment he was able to stand he was holding a fishing rod and catching all kinds of sea creatures { including sharks! } He is an Alaskan Commercial Fisherman and also an incredible photographer. I'll let the photos speak for themselves, although there are some pretty interesting and hilarious stories behind each one. Oh! and something about the TV series "The Deadliest Catch"... I've been too far from America for too long...Enjoy.

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