Lucy Chadwick is everywhere these days.
This is a video by Todd Selby for Zara.
Can I have a house upstate too?
1 // Storytelling of all sorts
2// Pho (starting to be the season)
3// X-factor (I take all the blame for this, although S’s cousin did have something to do with it).
4// BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS
A book buying binge has hit Geneva, the likes of which have not been seen since my last trip to New York and many a fateful hour at the Strand.
Currently reading: Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic’s Search for Health and Healing
Up beat pop song of the moment.
I sometimes miss tuning into Casey Cassum’s (Kassum?) weekly countdown — where you were guaranteed to hear the same songs for about 6 weeks solid before a changing of the guard.
Occasionally a girl needs to feel like the carefree 12-year-old version of herself…. and this Maroon 5 track is hitting the spot right now.
I cannot describe my love of k pop adequately, and it was this song that got it all started for me. This parody would warm my heart on even the coldest of cold days back in my drafty and much-loved apartment in Boston.
thedailywhat: Crazyass Japanese Thing of the Day: “Shōwa Generation” mock K-popsters Girls’ Generation with a parody of their 2009 hit song “Gee.”
via tiffanyneedham
Beautiful gardening video from Tiger In A Jar.
This reminds me of when I was very little and we lived in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia (aka The Plains, Virginia). My mother and step father created some really beautiful gardens on our farm (which was called Hotspur and located on a road that went from being called something like Rt 24 to Rock Hill Mill Road — I kid you not). My mother and step father each had a horse of 2 (each new one brought into the family, more beautiful than the next — my favorite wouldn’t be purchased until we moved into town — a real beaut, a mix between a thoroughbred and a Clydesdale).
Anway, I am rambling — but when we were kids, we had one massive garden patch right under the best climbing tree on the property. My mom would plant sunflowers that I imagined were giants and reached above even my tall step father and eventually we had to put a fence around the garden so that the deer wouldn’t come and eat everything in the night.
The glory of this garden were the amazing cucumbers that would sprout each year, and also great varieties of lettuce. (I still crave cold cucumber soup in the summer with SO MUCH DILL due to summers with an abundance of cukes).
My mom had a thing for tomatoes, but I was never much of a fan as a kid — I loved tomato tarts with Champagne mustard and beautiful mozzerella but I liked mine sans tomates.
Also, we had a long drive way that ended in a loop (kind of like a lasso). In the middle of that gravel laso, my mom and step father built a garden that was a red bricked knot with 5 different plots contained in the knot. I think they based it off a garden that they saw in a beautiful English landscaping book that was in our library. That was always full of all things flowering — including a childhood favorite, zinnias.
My mother would always faithfully wear the zinnia bouquets that I wove together for her, even though she was dreadfully allergic to bees and even though zinnias and bees loved each other more than I loved reading a good book in bed at the time (and let’s be honest, still do…)
Sadly, the people that bought Hotspur from my family pulled that knot garden out tout de suite upon moving in as we set off for what turned into only a 6-month adventure living in the US Virgin Islands. That story for another time…..
Anyway, that all seems like a very long time ago and this video reminded me of all of that…. pretty special, right?
I am posting this DESPITE the fact it is an advert for American Apparel.
Kids breaking to a beautiful piano sonata (I think it is a sonata, musicologists - correct me if I am wrong, PLEASE!)
UPDATE: polonaise-fantaisie messaged me with a refinement…. (THANK YOU!)
in regards to your video, that piece is clair de lune (debussy) from suite bergamasque. i think you’d just call it a piece, because it’s just a movement from that suite and it doesn’t have a distinct genre (concerto, sonata, etude, fugue, prelude, nocturne etc)
Love.
Rachel Comey - a name synonymous with LOVE.
Beautiful video highlighting her S/S 2011 collection, which the video kindly reminds us is in stores now.
I am unbelievably disappointed that I missed the Pierre Huyghe exhibition at the Kunstmuseum in Basel.
