working downtown is kind of a bummer on the lunch front. your choices are limited to either shitty, greasy financial district smash-and-grab places or super fancy shopgirl cafes with pricey, soggy salads. but then there’s crepe o’chocolat! the shining beacon in a land of unhealthy union square lunches! my all-time favorite lunch destination (if...
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nico just reminded me about rivane neuenschwander‘s “a day like any other” show that just opened at the new museum. we saw her work at the wizard of oz show at the wattis back in october 08 and it was one of the best pieces in the show! a wall of ribbons with other...
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there’s nothing like reliving your pre-teen fantasies, especially those involving leonardo dicaprio. lisa and teresa and i watched romeo + juliet the other night and could barely mop up the drool on the floor. pre-titanic leo and post-so-called-life claire danes are so youthful and dreamy, individually and even more so as a pair! the...
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today is HOLI, the indian festival celebrating of spring and togetherness! EXPLOSIONS of colored pigments! too bad they’re so toxic….god i wish i was there!
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how have i never realized how fucking rad zandra rhodes is???? i spent a good couple of hours at the library looking at some very inspirational “library use only” books, including one called the art of zandra rhodes. here are some of my favorite pages…i asked my mom for the book for my birthday...
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oh my god im swimming in movies right now. like i mentioned earlier, jaws was the beginning of my attempt to view all the classics that i’m embarrassed to have never seen. here are some of the most recent. any suggestions?? La Strada, 1954 Watch it if you like: The Circus! Fellini; exploiting the...
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fashion blogs have kind of lost my attention lately…how many pictures of the same people can you really look at every day? now i find myself gaining much more inspiration from my favorite daily indulgence- FOOD! my favorite food blog lately is simply breakfast, jennifer causey’s daily catalog of her morning meal. i just...
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i mentioned l’aviva before, but she just launched the third series of curated trunk shows- dowry! gorgeous world design. zulu wedding baskets! check them out here.
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really into chambray lately. like these great little sneakers via elletrain we had a great rag & bone chambray button-down at metier that had pinstripe lining. came in a nice classic blue and cool salt&pepper grey that sold out real quick…which inspired me to pick up an old calvin klein shirtdress at goodwill w/debi....
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“Oh, yes: I finally came up with a recurrence relation suitable for creating a Keplerian octagonal tesselation.” this guy’s website, quadibloc, includes more complicated shit than i will ever understand in my entire life. but boy are the images cool! maybe one day i will take the time to read and semi-comprehend the explanations...
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