I won't waste your time with my revelation

Wow, have I been a lazy bum in the blogosphere. Last week was a busy one, and quite complicated if I do say so myself. But for once, not because of my own doing.

So there's lots of cool stuff to show you today!

First I'd like to show you some work by Seth Rieder.

This one is my favorite:


































I failed to see the connection with his other pieces, but I like them, especially the Texatonka series.

























Next up, this video by Brooklyn-based photographer Rob Carter. This guy's got some crazy-good work, for real.


Metropolis by Rob Carter - Last 3 minutes from Rob Carter on Vimeo.





































































DEFINITELY follow the link to his portfolio and check out his photography. Amazing! via okay great.


Next up, this is TONS O FUN - a quiz to test how well you're familiar with popular brands! from the folks over at Vyre and via Brand New.













That's all for today, y'all!

I'm Irish every day - how about you?

Oh, St. Patrick's day... a big occasion here at Michigan State. There's a LOT of green on campus today, and I'm sure the streets will be flowing with green vomit by night's end.

And since we could all use a reminder about what St. Patrick's day is really about (crackheads and ancient leprechaun flutes made from PVC pipe)...




First up, this hand-drawn type from friends of type has me cracking up and nodding my head in so much agreement:































Honest to goodness, if this were a t-shirt I'd be buying it up and wearing it in a heartbeat. Too funny.


I've been saving this for a while, but I guess I'll finally post it. I really dig Jamie Tao's art. Who knew a pen and some graphic paper could get you so far? Oh, and talent.

I just happened across the Etsy shop Seven Ply, where they offer designs from recycled skateboards! What an interesting idea. Look at all the interesting stuff.


Earrings!
















































Mustache necklace!



































Dino-necklace!




























And what great product photos, eh? If I happen across some extra cash, I'll be looking into making a purchase.


Well, that's all for now! Have a super-drunken St. Patrick's day, all!

Turn my stupid question marks into simple candy canes

Hiiiiiii!

First I'd like to apologize for neglecting y'all while I was on Spring Break. I tried to update, I swear, but I was on Chrome and it's a bitch to upload pics with it. Try it sometime. Anyway, I tried for like 5 seconds and gave up. Boooo.

First up is this crazy video from Pleix films. They have some truly bizarre videos on there, but this was my favorite. E-Baby and Pleix Blog were some other cool ones. via design crisis.

I thought this was too cool:

I am all about incorporating tree motifs into interior design - especially something this cool! Things like this house in Austin, TX, however, I do not want:




















Erin over at design crisis had the
pleasurehorror of touring this house last November.

"There is a TREE in the middle of the house — in the kitchen, for goodness sake, which is somehow even more offensive... Whoever built this patchwork piece of shit house built it out of plywood, cardboard and duct tape. The roof leaked all around the hole where the tree is, and a foundation was laid over the tree roots. Not good planning.

Plus it looks like sandworms from Beetlejuice are attacking the exterior of the home, and nobody wants that."

Hopefully some DIY-crazed lumberjack happens across that house and helps get its shit together. His darling, yet no-nonsense wife can redecorate and make it shabby-chic! Dunno what they're gonna do about the poltergeists, though. Maybe they will be very religious people and can perform an exorcism!

Yeeeaaahh! Man oh man, that post cracks me up EVERY SINGLE TIME. Click here to check it out!


This blog, Facedowns, is cracking me up.










Also, this shirt is just cracking me up:

So how was that for a blog post? Pretty adequate, I'd say. Yesssss.

Later!

Woooooo!

Hey all.

I'm minutes away from beginning the 10-hour drive to New Jersey, where I will be MILES closer to the Big Apple!

Also, saw Alice in Wonderland last night. Not as good as I'd hoped. I'll let you be the judge - just keep your expectations realistic. They took at LOT of creative license with the characters and plots of both books. It was visually stunning and very Tim Burton in that manner, other than that... it fell pretty flat.

ANYWAY, look forward to my first blog abroad! I'll try to take pictures to show you guys.

Bye!

I built your cupboards out of my bones / shoveled your snow with an ice cream cone

Two sun-shiny days in a row here in the mitten state. Things are looking up!

I am getting progressively more SUPER excited about my trip to Jersey/New York City. But in more immediate news, I an SUPER excited to see Alice In Wonderland (and to party in its honor) tomorrow night. Check out these series of interviews of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton on Jonathon Ross. I've never seen either of these guys give an interview before (I'm probably just not up on the game) but this was so interesting to watch! I'll post the first vid here:




It was so cool to hear insight to their work relationship and into both their lives!


Check out some sweet Tarot cards from the Super Punch Blog. via boingboing.




































































That's all for today, guys. Have a good one!

We can't survive on your bedroom eyes and a spanish guitar

Hello all!

It's been an interesting day thus far. Yes... indeed. It's Tuesday! Which means Monday is over and we're a day closer to the weekend - namely (in my case) Spring Break! Woooooo!

I've found several interesting things over the past day or so, and I've noticed they've all fallen into a nice retro color scheme. I guess I'll comment on that later.

By now, I'm sure plenty of you have seen this Brangelina shoot from W magazine (2005) via whorange. Holy cow, is it awesome. So you're gonna look at it again! Except with my favorite photos from the set.

The topic was "a crumbling marriage" or something along those lines. Doesn't this just look incredibly awkward? No love. Also reminding me of a scene from A Single Man, except with a completely different mood.

















What a gorgeous lady, even though I bet you'd be hard pressed to find a woman looking like her in the 60s. Makeup is right-on.

















I wonder if this photo was a happy coincidence? I doubt it. Very interesting.

















This is just SCREAMING Anne Bancroft in The Graduate. As if all of these didn't scream Anne / Mrs. Robinson right in your face.



















This one is just so real it almost hurts.




















Uh-oh. ACTING!




















Creeeeepy. Glad he's leaving, though. What a shot.




















Well, that was a downer.


How about now we take a look at some beautiful, fresh-retro interior design? Just a little bit. Here's the post from design is mine so you can check it all out.

Really digging this room in general.



















I like all the elements that add color and what they're doing for the awful drab-ness going on there. Guh.
























I want that painting.


Next, this cat's coming to kick your ass! Artist Lisa Hanawalt sure draws some bizarre stuff (mentioned in an earlier post here). I like it, though!




















via my love for you is a stampede of horses.


*sigh* Today is going to be a weird day. I can feel it.

See you guys later.

I'm in a New York state of mind

Ok guys, I am getting SUPER-DUPER excited to be visiting New York City. Like, whoa. There is no possible way I will be able to achieve everything I want to do/have researched, but I will just have to live with that, I guess. More on that later. First, it's business time.

OMG IT'S AN ANTHROPOLOGIE NECKLACE GIVEAWAY COURTESY MY OWL BARN!!!

Check out this adorable necklace. You could be a winner if you visit My Owl Barn and blog/tweet the giveaway!





























Love it!


Ok guys, there has really been too much awesomeness going on on the intarwebz this past weekend, because I am bursting with stuff to show you on here (hopefully that you haven't already seen... sometimes I wonder.)

I saw this via Twitter this morning, then again on the Swiss Miss RSS feed.

Gummi Bear Chandalier!























They'd have to coat the little buggers in poison to keep me from eating the thing. Makes me want to go pick up a bag of Haribo right nao!

Interesting clip from the wikipedia page:

"In the United States, Haribo gummi bears come in 5 flavours: raspberry (red); orange (orange); strawberry (green); pineapple (colourless); and lemon (yellow)^[7]. Many offshoot companies (typically the vegan or health-related gummi bears) use more exotic flavours and colours. Trolli "gummy" bears are similarly most often sold in five flavours in the United States, however Trolli's red gummy is cherry-flavoured as opposed to raspberry."

Yeah, except the Trolli ones taste like ASS.


Also, just saw this:

































I'm impressed.


Next, whilst in my NY state of mind, I've come across some cool Flickr groups and some GREAT photos. Here are a handful I like for various reasons.



















via FHH_nyc

























Can't wait to potentially see the Guggenheim!

via anadelmann



I wouldn't mind visiting this lovely bridge in Central Park, but it will be icky-March weather and won't look nearly as pretty, I'll bet.

















via wallyg


I definitely wouldn't mind paying a visit to Chinatown. I hear there are good eats and cheap shopping.

















via themikelee


I hear this place is THE BOMB... it's kind of out of the way, though. A little too far southeast for where we will likely be wandering around.

















via paul lowry


I'm also definitely going to keep an eye out for Spiderman. You never know where he's going to pop up.




























via ndinneen


Whew. Flickr can be really draining!


Lastly, just because it's awesome:


























There was always something a little "off" about Velma. Now I know what it was. Btw she is totally reminding me of a cross between Daria and Lara Croft.


Later, guys!