February 1, 2010
The New & Improved.
Cole of wearelove is one of the best.
He manages an amazing store in Chelsea and now they have a new website. I missed visiting my last trip to New York, but the many times I have been there have always been colored with wonderful memories, and a laundry list of dream items for my future home.
1 week agoProud of what Khoi and I made together.
Ca fait longtemps!
It’s been ages. I must admit that my new profession doesn’t allow me quite the same amount of time for leisure as my previous one did. This could also be read as, “work rules my life.”
That being said, the last few months of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 have been epic.
Things I am currently obsessed with:
1. Readernaut
Do you like to read? Do you read a lot? Do you like knowing what your friends are reading? Were you a HUGE nerd in elementary school and participate actively in the Accelerated Reader program? If you answered yes to any and all of these, then Readernaut is for you.
I love it mostly for the reassuring glow I get watching friends tick their way through books (and not just 140 characters of life).
2. Le Marche aux Puces de Geneve
Seriously, I love the flea market near my apartment in Geneva. It is a little too cold right now, but I am obsessed with the energy it brings to my neighborhood on the weekend.
3. The Broken English Soundtrack by Scratch Massive
Also, I love the movie Broken English.
Parker Posey is phenomenal in this film, and the music sends Zoe Cassavettes debut over the edge.
4. Backyard Bill and his new site
Better than any street style blog I follow (although there is always a place in my heart for them)… more real, and incredible shots.
The shots of Adam Pedersen-Doherty are phenomenal.
5. North Africa
Too general? Well… deal with it. The beginnings of a massive vacation to North Africa are now in the works. I am embodying the spirit of a middle-aged mother of four taking her first vacation without the kids, and will shortly be throwing myself into proper trip preparation.
I love my city vacations, but I need a real life-changer and I hope this is it.
1 week ago
January 1, 2010
Travel in 2009
- North Adams/the Berkshires, MA
- Paris, France
- New York, NY*
- Los Angeles, CA
- Geneva, Switzerland*
- Montreux, Switzerland
- London, UK
- Lausanne, Switzerland*
- Boston, MA* (well, it was my former home base, so it counts on some level, right?)
Past years here (2008), (hmm… 2007?), here (2006), here (2005).
* indicates multiple visits
It was a slow year for a diversity of travel, but I made at least five visits to Geneva from Boston before relocating here at the end of August so…. there’s that.
2010 promises travel for work near and far, as well as a great “home base” for extensive traveling Europe and Northern Africa.
1 month ago
December 21, 2009
December 13, 2009
November 17, 2009
November 4, 2009
thank you bmkk:
3 months ago— It’s like we bring a new pair of eyes and ears, a new mind, an entirely different person, he opined, to anything we experience for a second time.
— Sure, sure; I hear you, she replied. I know what you mean, kind of. Except … Except there has to be some sort of common agency that passes from each person as it transforms into a new one, right? I mean, how else could we know we’re encountering something for a second time?
— An author asked me a question the other day, and now I’m putting it to you: “How long is it since you’ve seen the sun rise?”
October 29, 2009
My grandparents just outside of London in 1957.
One of my favorite family photographs of all time.
3 months ago
October 26, 2009
Curatorial glee via langer:
3 months agoPhotographer Michael Wolf recently documented the sights of Paris as seen by way of Google Street View, and the results are stunning: a collection of serendipitously candid, intimate, and honest “photography” illustrating subjects fully unaware of their observer.
Hope Gangloff’s work knocks me off my feet.
The mundane and beautiful moments of a modern lady’s life beautifully articulated in pale skin tones, painterly strokes (sargent-esque in places), and the bold application of red.
You should really check her entire portolio.
via Fanny Bostrom
3 months ago
October 24, 2009
“ It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends. I can remember now, with a clarity that makes the nerves in the back of my neck constrict, when New York began for me, but I cannot lay my finger upon the moment it ended, can never cut through the ambiguities and second starts and broken resolves to the exact place on the page where the heroine is no longer as optimistic as she once was.
An exceprt from “Goodbye to All That” by Joan Didion
I wish I could live inside Joan Didion’s writings.
3 months ago
October 21, 2009
i clearly missed this while i was in new york. disappointing for me, amazing for everyone who now won’t miss it.
Costume installation by E.V. Day for the New York Opera (via thirdurchin)
3 months ago
October 19, 2009
new kings of convenience.
this takes me back to morning walks along the thames to class in 2004 - 2005. they were my ultimate soundtrack back then.
3 months ago