what was old is new again.

Coolest family portrait project ever.

looking into the past

dreaming of z-boys.

The book Locals Only: California Skateboarding makes me wish I could skateboard, lived in California, and lived in the seventies. Or was tan. (Never going to happen). None of which is true. But a girl can dream...

Damn you Hugh Holland.

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in the summertime...

Here in Wellesley it is SO. NOT. SUMMER. We get snow just about everyday and while it is beautiful, it is a pain in the ass to maneuver and just kinda gets you down after a while. February is the worst.

So, for your viewing pleasure, select pieces from Moschino Cheap And Chic. Rosella Jardini obviously understands the blues. And how to cure them.

I feel happier already.

cheap and chic

vogue.

Aren't these cool? All the different covers of a year's worth of Vogue Magazine have been layered on top of one another. I love the creativity of taking a seemingly finished product and making it into something new.

All made by shrubrub.

the one. the only.

Zomg. And I'm that excited and am totally geeking out so I feel no shame in saying zomg. But seriously zomg guys. I saw Ira Glass last night at the Sanders Theater and it was amazing. So amazing. This American Life is possibly my favorite thing ever and to hear, and see (which was really strange), the creator was surreal.

He talked about storytelling and how best to convey an excellent (or in honesty not so excellent) story effectively and suspensefully. Meanwhile he told some great stories of his own and was hilarious.

Too true.

If you get a chance to see him speak you should because he is completely charming and totally informative as well. What a combination.

drawing

happy friday.

nina leen.

Dreaming of beach days. 

Peter Sellers in a shot that I am absolutely in love with. And was a total pain in the ass to get by the way.

http://www.denimology.com/2010/11/instyle_magazines_sexiest_jeans_ever.php

Nothing like a little French New Wave to brighten your day.

Indira Ghandi. A Wellesley woman if I ever saw one.

Also, has anyone seen I Am Love? I tried watching about half of it and had to stop (though because it was two in the morning more than anything else). What I did watch I found slightly strange and honestly, poorly paced. Now that I am in a screenwriting class and I know what I'm talking about (yeah, right), I feel justified in saying that the film just took too long in introducing a main conflict. An hour into the movie and little had happened. And it wasn't necessarily in the Sofia Coppola-esque way of basically making a movie of atmosphere. Perhaps the story picks up. I just wasn't that impressed. I'll try finishing it and see what happens. The costuming, though, was gorgeous.

Anyone have any thoughts?

All the pictures are from Life unless indicated.

why don't you sit right down and stay awhile?

So I love She & Him and was totally obsessed when Volume One came out. Since then I haven't listened to them that much because I had exhausted them for the time being. But today I was looking through my blogs and someone posted a video from Volume Two, and it just made me happy. I didn't enjoy Volume Two as much as I did Volume One, so I hadn't watched the video before. It was pretty good (which means pretty good for She and Him, infinitely better than just about every other band), but I really like the older stuff better, hence, Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?.

I was trying to figure out what my favorite song was from Volume One so I could be like "Gosh guys seriously, if you haven't heard insert single song name here than you haven't lived", but I realized that I really love all of them. So just go listen to the album. Especially This Is Not A Test. And You Really Got A Hold On Me. And I Thought I Saw Your Face Today.

And just as a semi-side note, if you haven't listened to any M. Ward (the "Him"), than you should, because he is amazing. One of my favorite guitarists ever. I've never really been good at discerning who was playing guitar but he has such a signature sound that it is easy.