workstead

i like this firm. i like their site.


seeing eye calendar


east village apartment

dismantling the eiffel tower

i've found the instructions for the eiffel tower. so, if you'd like to try taking it apart, these will certainly help.

"dear madison"

"dear madison"

"just discovered you blog and like your posts! great!"




youtube immortalized interview magazine NY



"more info about our work:
http://withoutyoubaby.com
http://www.invisibleheroes.net"



"maybe you like these too."





"greetings from switzerland!"
(The End)
ado & comenius


word, ado & comenius. that's what's up.



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lost city arts & belvedere

I visited New York this fall and wandered into a beautiful 20th century design and furniture shop called Lost City Arts.

Where I met this sofa...

Isn't he gorgeous? The Danish designer's name was Illum Wikkelso.
Illum... what an enchanting name.

So, anyhow, I was making chit-chat with the owner and he asked whether I knew Belvedere (an Atlanta design shop owned Julie Carr-Baylor...it's very nice). And I exclaimed, "Yes, of course! You know Belvedere?!" He cooly replied that he was pals with the owner and that his shop had inspired her's. Once he'd said it, I got how they'd influenced one another aesthetically. It's always interesting to see those connections, beauty begetting beauty, you know.

I don't usually plug R&B on here, as it seems a conflict of interest, but I wanted to see what we had that might come close (with a significantly more reasonable price tag) and this or this is my answer. Better off with the latter option, the leather Reese. But it'd still take years to look as beautifully loved as the sofa by Illum. I'd suggest customizing it in a leather that shows wear as it will look beautiful in time. Honestly, I can't even think about how ridiculously good looking it would be in 15 years. It's sick.

suspiria

it's bizzare, i know, but the design is crazy in a way that only a late seventies italian horror movie could be.

note the wallpaper as you're watching this girl's face get smashed.

black matter matters

I've heard your cries. So, I will only post objects from Matter that, in addition to being boss, are reasonably affordable.
(and also black, just because)


Grenade Oil Lamp - $60 ...made from actual US Army surplus grenades.


Albert Hook - $45


Lace Tape - $10


Pigeon Light - $125


This post's thematic soundtrack: Dark Matter - Andrew Bird
An actual image of invisible dark matter from NASA

na na na, aw

First Aid Kit - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

la, la, la, la blogotheque with First Aid Kit

check, check them with Atlas Sound

...ah....and Phoenix in front of the Eiffel Tower. Oh so charming...


Katie, what I want from Paris is for you to see a la blogothque show. Can you do that for me? Just wander the streets looking for musicians and video cameras? ;?

moss

His and Her
Pete Marigold, 2009, U.K.

Porcelain Skull
Franz Ignatz Gunther, 1760, Munich

Bol Sein de la Laiterie de Rambouillet
Louis-Simon Boizot Jean-Jacques Lagrené Jr., 1787, France

Zon
Matthew Waldman, 2009, USA

moss: online gallery and shop

inglorious bastards

set photos










once upon a time in nazi-occupied france...

boys,boys,boys,boys

more vids from the lennox bros. and between the eyes prod.

i wonder who art directed. i'll just assume it was somehow me from the future with a time machine.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

I'd never heard this DaVinci quote and now twice in two days.
{that's a sign}

Desmond Winston Manchester XI

I want to be David Wasco when I grow up.

bangarang

Does anyone remember seeing a curio's post about these ages ago?
I just checked them again.
They're still sick.

someone like me, someone like you

I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - Discovery
Starry Eyed (Jabwok remix) - Ellie Goulding


from Tad's most recent mixtape for me:

Use Somebody (RAC remix) - Kings of Leon
You've Got the Love (The XX remix) - Florence and the Machine
All Things Go - Chiddy Bang (sampling Sufijan Steven's All Things Go from Chicago)
(download the entire chiddy bang mixtape here.)
Shut Up and Drive (Wideboys remix) - Rihanna
Blue Jeans - Jesse James
Wanted (Wideboys Remix) - Jessie James

Sally Heller

Visited the WhiteSpace gallery
To see In The Thicket of It (photographs + installation)
by Sally Heller

Of which this is not a photo - rather another work titled Spiraling Vortex.


And this is also from another show.

I enjoy installation pieces. They can be transporting and fantastical. I love it.

so proud

My brother Tad created another award winning float representing YouthPride for this year's Atlanta Pride Parade. His float was a bright pink army tank that blew bubbles. How could that not win?

Here he is leading his army of gay youths accented in hot pink.
And looking as badass as someone in a pink bike helmet can.

plutoid pimpslap

Check these out. I'd never seen an episode of Sailor Moon before watching these re-dubbed versions earlier today. They are worth 20 minutes of your life to watch. You will rofl.

Sailor Moon Teufel Episode 4-A

Sailor Moon Hell Saga | MySpace Video

Sailor Moon Teufel Episode 4-B

Sailor Moon Hell Saga | MySpace Video

halloween party

anyway that you want

luz de la noche

carlos the night light

yessssss

it's accurate to say that i've listened to otis redding more than anyone else this summer. it made me so happy to hear him in a friend's cd player yesterday. audibly, i was like "yessss...." because i guess that's what you say when you hear otis, "yesssss...." and then i saw this pic on the impossible cool tonight.
"yessss....."


(i can't get no) satisfaction - otis redding
a change is gonna come - otis redding

but i'm so bored...

Hark, a vagrant.

bit trip beat

best wii game so far. imho. it's the aesthetic and play of pong or alien invaders, but with the concept of rockband or donkey konga. if you can get into any of those games, you'll like it. and if you are into all of those games, holy snap, you are in for a treat, my friend.

f.y.i.

you can get a hammock for $10 on amazon.

nice to see you again

i'm not sure where this image is originally from. i do know that i had it saved on my computer long ago. but tragedy struck and that computer passed away late last year. it was very sad. and this picture went with it. i hadn't forgotten the image though. those golden drapes are just too blessedly fine. so, imagine my delight at seeing the photograph again while perusing dress, design, & decor. the shot is beautiful for sure. the volume of that yellow and shooting into the light. mad lovely.

a dear caught in meteorlites

i made this.
there is going to be a collage and multimedia show at Aurora in Little Five Points tomorrow.
likely to be pretty lovely.

so, i made the above in honor of that fact. okay, fine. i made it cause scissors and glue are more fun than packing to move.
also, i should say that, as it happens, the guy with the binoculars was commandeered from one of the artists participating in tomorrow's exhibition. (let this be fair warning: if you leave something at my house, it might be absorbed.)

So..... Friday 9/4 • 7:00-10:00p • Aurora Coffee - Little Five
w/ these fine people:
Emily Maxwell
Truett Dietz
Mike Germon
Sunni Johnson
Kombo Chapfika
Andrea Sanders
Hillary Staff

the show will be up through the month of September. check it out.

seriously, deliriously

I just have to tell you about my "new friend with a new blog", TTAGG You're It!!! (Short for: That Tall Alaskan Guy in Georgia) It's my new favorite blog! Until tomorrow when I post about another friend's blog and then I'll have to say that it's my favorite. Which, of course, it will be. But for today it's definitely TAGG You're It!!! My favorite bit so far is when he describes "the Last Bag" and what that means. He's kind of a riot, like a little riot of funny.

You'll have to check it out, but if you only have a second, here are the TTAGG cliff notes:
1. The one about bingle
2. The one that introduces you to knack
(which, in turn, introduced molliegreene)
3. The one with the cucumber and tomato pasta salad

roll over

this tempts me to try sleeping in a twin. it would add 7 sq. feet of floorspace.
but maybe i've already been spoiled by the delights of diagonal sleeping.

this american life

I've been watching This American Life on Netflix instant watch. When I first heard a couple of years ago that they were putting the radio original onto the small screen, I had my doubts. I imagined it as embarrassingly less than pure aural form. Totally lacking. A flop, for sure. Well, good thing no one asked me because as it turns out, they can tell a story just as well with documentary film footage as with audio-recorded interviews. How about that? Who knew? But seriously. And I hear other people are into it. It's won prizes or some such. People who listen to the radio also dabble in television watching apparently. Weird. Anyhow, this week has been a good reminder of all the things I love about documentary work. I'm working on a documentary project right now, but with the parameters currently set, I think it's going to be a little more abstract than Ira Glass' three act themes. (say that 3x fast) So, anyways, that's what's up. Don't say I never post nuthin'. Next week I think I'll make it a point to post about all my old friends with new blogs and all of my new friends with old blogs. That's something to do, right? Is "old blog" sort of an oxymoron? In any case, maybe I'll think of something else to post about and surprise you.

{Ira Glass finger puppet by abbeychristine. click here to see more.}

new to the blogroll

saint verde digest, the image blog of Neville Trickett, just rolls and rolls of cool images, traveling in pairs.




There's even the occasional recipe which is, of course, beautifully illustrated.



{via} ...look for saint verde's "eye view," a weekly guest blog at Elle Decor: SA.

chair whore

if you fancy yourself a design geek, or if you just really love to sit upon things and then think upon those things you are sitting on, check out the blog chair whore, it's all "about chairs and nothing else".

the image above is an ad for the aluminum Emeco Navy chair which has been in production since WWdos, has four-times the strength of steel, is designed to endure torpedo-blasts, and comes with an 150-year warranty. Buying a shotty ikea knock-off would be an insult to all that is good.

to further that point: check out these videos created by Weiden + Kennedy to demonstrate the chair's durability by first repeatedly catapulting it against a wall (as seen below) and then by tossing it out of a third-story window (follow the link). It's a funny and entertaining way to advertise a chair. We are encouraged to try this at home.

shiney

So, I'm finishing up the first season of Dexter today. Watching Dexter -between sleeping, eating, and maintaining the illusion that i'm a functioning adult- sufficiently sums the way I've spent my days off this week. Not a terrible choice, considering it's turned out to be a pretty adorable show. Plus, it reminded me of images I once saw of a Showtime House that lives in a Gramercy Park brownstone, but it had been so long since I'd seen them that trying to describe was..um.. eh.. you know...um..not cutting it. (get it? cutting it? meh. nevermind. i've been over-saturated.)

In any case, now, one google search later and we can play...

Name that Showtime series!
Possible answers include:
The Tudors
Dexter
Californication
Weeds
The United States of Tara

A.

B.

C.

hint: grass cloth

D.

E.

F.

G.
O.aky, this isn't a room. It's a stair case. The Credits Staircase, actually. The name of every single player - from writer to editor to caterer to golf-cart driving bottle water fetcher - is hand-written on the wall. Pretty neat. Took about 3-days...and a lot of hand cramps, I'd imagine.

answers:
a. the tudors
b. dexter
c. weeds
d. calfornication
e. the united states of tara
f. dexter
g. the credits staircase