about a year and a half ago, i posted some of hans krondahl’s work after seeing an image of one of his textiles in a magazine i had picked up in copenhagen. a few months ago, i was surprised to see that he had read and commented on the post! it was mutually exciting for...
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the first time i went to courtney’s house i was 19 and i thought she was the coolest “adult” ever: she had a garden (that was growing!), an impressively minimal living room (perfectly neat furniture!) and a whole dinner cooking on the stove (in a clean kitchen!). while everyone else i knew was sleeping...
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this past summer, nico and i had the privilege of visiting walter de maria’s lightning field, a land art sculpture built in 1977 on 1 mile x 1 km of new mexican desert. we were scheduled to spend a night in the cabin on site and for days leading up to it, we couldn’t...
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for those of you who came to the BIG THINGS launch party, you may have noticed the awesomely painted walls emblazoned with our name. heidi tullman is the woman responsible! visiting for a few weeks from brooklyn, we asked her to do a sign for the party on a whim, hoping she’d still be...
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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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brandi strickland‘s colorful, age-of-aquarius collages have been catching my eye on various art blogs for a while now. her site & shop, paperwhistle, is a clever way of making her work available to the masses, documenting her process and offering affordable prints and original works. when i read that she had just moved to richmond, virginia,...
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shaadee came to model for us at metier when the latest shipment of isabel marant came in. she looked awesome in the clothes and we had a great time playing dress up and shooting her in the alley behind the store. when we asked what she “did,” she proudly replied that she was recently...
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nick demarco is one chill dude. our summer visits to new york coincided and nick, nico and i spent some good quality time exploring the city, with the jokes as plentiful as the ice cream cones and the humidity. back in sf, a recent college grad, he’s contemplating the meaning of life, whether or...
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sommer and i worked together at metier when i first moved to the city two years ago and i was immediately won over by her wit, wacky jokes, and awesome come-backs. since those fateful days she’s been in and out of the fashion world, the fancy bakery world, and the san francisco world, but...
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you know how sometimes you sit around with your friends and dream up some awesome, ironic idea that you’re sure no one else has had and you all get into character and screw around for awhile with silly voices and dances and maybe you even bust out some costumes. then you’re all, “duuuude, we...
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