it’s christmas eve and my mom and i are getting ready to prep for tomorrow’s giant meal of filipino deliciousness- chicken adobo, pansit, and my favorite coconut rice cake, bibingka! but before we do that, i’m teaching her how to tweet and helping her run the etsy store…aka looking at fabulous images of fashionable...
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just came across this great online store–actually, a self-proclaimed, “series of curated online trunk shows”–called l’aviva. i found it while searching for some images of morocco, and came across these wedding blankets that i totally would have brought back…if i wanted to carry a bunch of giants blankets on my back… besides the moroccan...
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have been trying to clean out piles of old magazines in my room…but i always go through and tear out any last-minute sources of inspiration before submitting the paper mountains to the recycling. last night i found the above image of hans krondahl’s “gallop” textile in a free magazine i picked up in copenhagen....
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so ive been interning in the art department at the sf bay guardian for the past few months. a few weeks ago, i was helping out at their goldies party, thrown for winners of awards given yearly to outstanding members of the sf arts community. i was honored to be briefly introduced to a...
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aren’t they pretty??? multi-exposure photos and photograms by chicago-baseddoug fogelson
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don’t forget, tonight is zana‘s san francisco debut! stop by her harness trunk show at shotwell (metier‘s neighbor!) tonight from 6-9. zana is such a great inspiration, always doing her thing, looking good, trampling the haters and winning hearts. psyched to see her back in sf for a few days! images via zana’s blog,...
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nico and i stayed in last night to watch my latest movie from the library–michelangelo antonioni’s l’avventura. the shots were incredible, slow, moody, achey. the film is a great exploration of characters and their relationships, and yet another glimpse into the unhappy, tumultuous lives of the upper class. monica vitti looks stunning atop italian...
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as if i didn’t blog enough today (hey, it’s my only day off in 2 weeks so you gotta do what you gotta do)….some images by iceland’s saga, for re:solution magazine. to nerdily quote the bumper sticker, they are “gorge-ous!” her blog, the neverending story, will make you simultaneously sigh and gasp.
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issey miyake ‘a-poc’ paris parade finale, s/s 1999 i’ve been reading a lot about japan lately and checked the cutting edge: fashion from japan out of the library, the accompanying book to a 2005 exhibit at the powerhouse museum in sydney. nozomi ishiguro besides comme des garcons, issey miyake, and yohji yamamoto, the book...
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a friend of ours, nick demarco, had a piece at the berkeley art museum‘s pop up zine shop this past friday, a collaboration w/oakland’s rock paper scissors collective. oakland north was doing mini-interviews asking everyone what kind of zine they would make and what they’d name in. apparently my citymap zine was too boring...
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