LAPIS from 1966 this is a great article from the catalog from the james whitney retrospective in toronto in 1984. it gives a good history of his work and how he made everything–mostly by hand (punching holes in paper, painting, etc.) and later with assistance from rudimentary computer systems his brother developed. enjoy these...
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back in portland about a year ago, haley, eitan and i were sitting around brainstorming. we started talking about our refrigerators and how we organize them. yes, highly interesting…but actually so! strangely enough, they put the cheese in the compartment in the door that everyone else (or at least i) use for the butter....
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i have this terrible cough that won’t go away. i haven’t slept well for the last three nights, not to mention keeping nico up all night…cough attacks at work, at dinner, on bart….it’s terrible! tonight i was looking up some remedies…and lo and behold, guess what came up? DARK CHOCOLATE! apparently the theobromine content...
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jen and friends are having a trunk show at the silverman gallery!this thursday august 27th from 6-9 be there!!804 sutter st in SF(right down the road from the metier girls, who happen to be on sale, hell yeah!) sarah’s debuting her line, stars and ravens (yeah!!!)……. i’ll be modeling serial cultura’s fall 2010 collection...
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nico and i did some test shots on the beach in martha’s vineyard for a photo project we’re working on. the results:
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WOW: check out more of gregoire alexandre’s beautiful photos here
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these were in opening ceremony’s windows for a while, just found the website. confetti system‘s handmade-in-brooklyn pinatas filled with handmade confetti. they’re so simple and beautiful! if i was rich, i’d buy a billion and smash one every day of the year for the rest of my life. like a gong to start the...
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the busy beaver button company just opened a new space in chicago. we missed the opening, but i have so many buttons laying around from their button-o-matic candy machines that i feel like i was there. bars and stores throughout the city have candy machines that feed you buttons designed by mostly local artists....
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also snuck some shots of my favorite pieces in the art institute when back in chicago in april. these are the pieces i always come back to. i have a history with them, a romance, one might say. they are my standbys, my rocks. they make me happy whenever i see them. it’s like...
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before i left for my big vacation, i helped my mother clean out my grandmother’s apartment and massive collection of junk. we found a ton of old reader’s digests (among boxes, bags, and other containers full of more stuff!), which have incredible cover patterns & illustrations. here’s a sample of some of my favorites:
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