i first met lessa at her and hayden‘s place in bushwick while visiting nico in new york. she made us a simple, delicious pasta dinner and we shared stories about camp and shitty jobs, a nostalgic conversation between recent friends. when they came to visit san francisco at the end of the summer, we...
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my all-time favorite street style site, hel-looks, has been revamped! the new and improved look makes navigating the archives of fashionable fins much simpler and efficient. unlike the polished snobbery of the sartorialist and or the trendy young things caught by the facehunter, hel-looks has always documented a wide rainbow of characters who may...
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here’s wishing you and your families a happy, healthy, and peaceful holiday weekend! nico and i are heading to see his family up in ukiah, then over the pass to reno to spend the weekend with mine. i spent the whole day baking cookies & brussels sprouts and i can’t wait to get down...
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we thought we’d take a moment away from our busy thanksgiving cookie baking schedule to bring you a few favorites from the BIG THINGS SHOP. forget about the black friday silliness and shop handmade & local w/BT! our master gift wrappers would be honored to wrap your gift (no charge!) and bonus: Bay Area...
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originally i wanted to write about my search for the perfect winter parka…but while researching the history of parkas and looking for images in the alaska’s digital archives, i quickly realized that shopping for outerwear is incredibly boring in comparison to the inuit blanket toss! nalukataq is the harvest festival celebrating the end of...
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nico and i recently took a fieldtrip to visit jake at the new materials resource center at the california college of the arts. jake is the overseer of this incredible collection of strange and wonderful materials, including samples of fabrics, plastics, woods, metals and materials you’ve never even seen or thought of before! the...
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steamy sex scenes, bashing out brains, firey flames, cigarette smoking, wizard of oz references, lipstick-ed faces, 90s lace and red suede pumps, a snakeskin jacket, gwar, new orleans, boobs, tons of car crashes, murder, jealousy, hitmen….we obviously watched david lynch’s wild at heart. i really haven’t seen many of his movies (lost highway freaked...
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WOW these playing cards from the william barclay parsons collection at the nypl make me really want to play go fish with some engineers. these aren’t dated, but a similar set in the collection is from 1702!!! check out the crazy pulley system on the 5 of clubs!!!
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data visualization seems to be getting pretty popular and insane these days. the time of simple bar charts and pie graphs has been replaced with fireworks explosions depicting carbon output and complicated webs of red vs. blue states. nathalie miebach‘s sculpture work is an impressive example of how numbers and data can be transformed...
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just finishing up painting the walls at kitsch…so sad to see the BIG THINGS murals by heidi & thomas fade into white. damn, party planning is so much work!!! the only thing i’ll do different the next time around is designate an official photographer! thanks to jen & melissa for these shots…more coming soon...
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