fish heads

Never would have imagined putting "fish heads" and "precious" in the same sentence. 

There are many, many more...and they're unbelievable. See Anna Catherine Becker Echivard.

via A near life experience

wonderland

Today I cam across a series of photos titled Wonderland of which the following are examples. In this series the artist, Yeondoo Jung, realizes the imaginations of children. This is such a wonderful idea and the product is beautiful. Not to mention how fun it must have been to re-create these drawings. Click here to learn see his process.

Afternoon Nap

Giant Flowers

He Didn't Sleep for Three Days

I Want to Be a Singer

The Magician Turned the Whale into a Flower

Snow White

Television Was So Funny

See more...

You must take a look at his other work as well. Might I recommend...
the Bewitched series
and
the Locations series

via Hidden In France via How About Orange via Craftzine

the elusive flowering cupcake

This is the most complementary photo of a cupcake I have ever seen. Cupcakes are already such lovely little things. It's nice to see a them photographed in a way that is so suitably sweet. This is a Rosewater Cupcake from Bread & Honey, a food blog. Bread & Honeyis the collaboration of Design is Mine blogger and baker, Summer Allen-Gibson and her friend/food photographer, Alicia Carrier.
You may now find Bread & Honey in the food blog section of the Curios blogroll.

discovered entirely via automatism.

back from the dead

“Three Ds and a C”, Edgar mumbled, reluctantly
surrendering the Report Card. “Three Disinterments and a Cremation!”
exclaimed Father, dabbing his cheeks with a blindfold,
“Son, we may just get you that new bicycle after all!”.
~ Mrs. Tex Benitez of A Column Inch

While I've been patiently awaiting the arrival of a gift for my dear cousin Katie, playing with my brand new negative scanner (!!!), and prepping for the launch of Emory University's creativity.emory.edu (a new creativity & arts initiative created by the university), I guess that I've neglected poor little Curios.
So, here we are, back from the dead, to share the most recent post from A Column Inch. Mrs. Benitez never fails to satisfy my morbid appetite with her imaginative and darkly worded vignettes .

And for the bonus round, here is the exclusive premier of photos from Margie's good-bye for awhile party. (yeah yeah negative scanner!) You can find more about Margie and her upcoming transatlantic adventures by clicking here.

marie claire maison & graphic exchange

Marie Claire Maison, a french home interior magazine, pops up on my design blog radar pretty frequently, but it was the keene eye behind this post at Graphic ExchanGe that really locked my attention. So, I'm taking this opportunity to spotlight not one, but two sites that I love.




Graphic ExchanGe is the cherry-bomb-digity of design blogs. Fabien Barral, a graphic designer and photographer in France, created the Graphic ExchanGe to showcase some of the most admirable working graphic designers, photographers, artists, etc. Barral is also the designer/engineer behind the beautiful workshop Harmonie Interieure. (previously seen here).



I am especially interested in these business card and identity designs. I hope that business cards will be my holiday gift for myself this year or maybe a birthday gift for next year or one day, since first it seems I'll need to locate some kind of business for myself.





first five images via Marie Claire Maison via Graphic ExchanGe
the sixth image via Inspace Locations via Graphic ExchanGe
the seventh image via VSA Partners Inc. via Graphic EchanGe
the eighth image via AvroKO via Graphic ExchanGe
last two images via Daily Poetics' Art if the Business Card (also found here) via Graphic ExchanGe

where we're from

Ada Augustyniak, Poland


We Projects has captured my heart again. You may remember my post about The Ones We Love back in March. The newest collective by We Projects, Where We're From, is still small and growing, but it's a beautiful start.

Magdalena Fischer, Austria


Maximillian Hiadacher, Austria

Where We're From allows viewers to look inside at places where these photographers have felt at home – the places where they have grown up, lived, or are living.

Chrischa Oswold, Austria


Ugne Straigtye, Lithuania


all images via Where We're From

happy weekend

This post title has a double-meaning. It refers, of course, to my wish for all my lovely readers (and everyone else that I care slightly less about) to have a happy weekend. It is also the subject of the photos you see above. Last weekend my family celebrated the Wonder Baby's (a.k.a. Kelsey's) high school graduation. She is the youngest, which is unfortunate because now that the last (but not the least) of us has gone and grown up none of us will have any excuse to act the way we do (though it's not likely to stop us). It was a wonderful day pulled together by hard work (katie must have made at least 150 ft. of paper chain), careful planning (kelsey's one pre-party task was to pray for it not to rain... we figured she was the only one up to this task since she is still on god's good side) and a great deal of generosity (special thanks to annie for letting us borrow her treasured teacups, to target and wal-mart for letting us swindle you, to tad for re-rigging his entire home theater system outdoors, to tony the master of fried foods, and to the murray county agricultural center for the adorable old school chairs).

promises, promises

So, I know I said I would be posting photos from this past weekend. Did I say that I would post them on Tuesday? Eeek. I guess I fibbed, but I have not forgotten. The above pic is a sneak peak. That's mi hermano. One of my very favorite photos from the weekend, for sure. I'm probably biased though, because he happens to be my very favorite person.

fabian unternährer

This morning I received an email from Mr. Fabian Unternährer of Switzerland thanking me for including his work in a post about i heart photograph last month. Well, it was my pleasure; he is a wonderful photographer. So, in light of that fact and to honor his being the first person to ever email me about Curio+Abyss, today we are taking a closer look at what he can do.

le parkour b&w

le parkour

jusqu 'ici tout va bien

robots

marktgasse 4

rainbow

birthdaveparty

So 'thank you' right back, Fabian. You may officially count us among your admirers.
(yeah, we're that easy.)

See more. Learn more: a fascinating article on the art and philosophy of parkour, the art of displacement, the subject of Fabian's la parkour series.

daily dolores

from daily dolores

unphotographable

For all the picture perfect memories kept with minds rather than megabytes...
Here is where you can see them.

"This is a picture I did not take of a homeless man who was a daily visitor to our dumpster, right outside the apartment where a burglar had stolen all my cameras a few months ago, rendering everything unphotographable, and the man had retrieved a chair from the dumpster, a chair we'd thrown-out because it was broken and we were moving and had no more use for it, and the man was sitting out by the dumpster, reclined in the chair, slowly paging through my catalog from KEH Camera Brokers."-Michael David Murphy April 1, 2008

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frolic!

I've added a new blog to A Work Day's Worth: frolic!
Check it out. Chelea Fuss, floral/event planner and fellow blogger, is yet another fantastic person working hard to create a more beautiful world one paper garland at a time.

See frolic!