NYC

is exactly how you think it is. but better.

trumpets

Oh, the blowing metaphors and wordplay are just too obvious on this one...

badminton

because when i play, i play like a master... even if i haven't touched a racket in eons. and it's all about the shuttlecock.

roadtrips

good tunes, good company and the open road.
beep, beep.

asian grocery

a world of cheap and bizarre discoveries. don't know if you'll enjoy pickled mustard plant? buy 4 of them for $1.50 and find out. it's all good. just watch out for the chicken feet.

being one with nature (aka may 2, world naked gardening day)

because hey, "when you're out there with a gentle breeze on you, every last hair on your body feels it. you feel completely connected with the natural world in a way you just can't in clothes." - Barbara Pollard

old books

stale. pulpy. yellowed. dog-earred. they've usually seen much better days...but just like anything old, if you give them chance, these oldies have stories to tell. and if grey gardens has anything to teach us, it's that there is always some degree of beauty in faded glory.

lowbrow art

warped, sharp, disturbing, cute, fun, wrong, odd, funny, provoking, weird, fresh, available. you don't need a phd to appreciate a good piece.

photo booths

because some of the best stories are told behind that little curtain...

hard boiled eggs

When in doubt, boil an egg.  Satisfaction guaranteed.

milkmaid chic

oh drew, you are a phoenix. even though you were addicted to playing the same rom-com character for a few years there...and photos have recently cropped up where you are all butter-teefs, all the time...i admire your ability to rise from the ashes and get it goin' on. glamourous yet unruly, that's what i want to be when i grow up.

creative silence

The new video for Feist’s "The Water", directed by Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew and starring actor Cillian Murphy. It's actually a 15-minute short which plays out like a modern day silent film with accompaniment by Feist.

never growing up

Heather Benning, a canadian artist, created a life-size dollhouse in a Manitoba field...with a plexi-glass back and 60's furniture, to mark the era that this home was abandoned. i have never wanted to take a roadtrip more...

blooming orchids

because big girls know that only good things come when dormancy ends! giddy up!

Trailer Cake

Oops, my mouth is nine again.  My parents do all my worrying for me, and my toughest decision in life is how I'm gonna get a hold of that Vuarnet sweatshirt. 

fever ray

Fever Ray is the title, of both project and album. It's the culmination of work that began in 2007 when Karin and Olof, the brother-sister duo who are The Knife, decided to take time out. Karin needed a break – she was about to have her second child – but couldn’t stop writing.

Haunting and beautiful, it's If I Had A Heart

the essential nature of "plan b"

There's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing. Most of us start off our lives with some Plan A which we abandon...switching to a Plan B, which becomes our life.

cranes

There is an ancient Japanese legend that said anyone who folded a thousand paper cranes will be granted luck, happiness and a wish, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury. Not bad, not bad at all.

rockin' out, modern-style

The Eames Plastic Arm Chair is Herman Miller's reissue of the now legendary Eames Fiberglass Chair, based on the original 1948 design.

want one?

slices of life

(leica, don't leave home without it!)

when function and beauty meet

Public art creator JR just installed his latest project in Kibera, Kenya - on of the largest slums in Africa.

After more than a year of planning, 2000 square meters of rooftops have been covered with photos of the eyes and faces of the women of Kibera. The material used is water resistant so that the photo itself will protect the fragile houses in the heavy rain season. The train that passes on this line through Kibera at least twice a day has also been covered with eyes from the women that live below it. With the eyes on the train, the bottom half of the their faces have be pasted on corrugated sheets on the slope that leads down from the tracks to the rooftops. The idea being that for the split second the train passes, their eyes will match their smiles and their faces will be complete.

grilled sandwiches

pecorino and sweet basil leaves, cambozola and pear wedges, or the less exotic peanut butter and honey...anyway i slice it, foreman's a loyal accomplice in this irresistable culinary adventure.

matryoshka dolls

Go forth and multiply!

bon iver

* because it's a wish.
* because it's beautiful.
* because it comes from a place of solitude.
* and because it might just be the perfect soundtrack for a canadian girl who is caught up in the snow and herself.

a warm neck, and therefore cowls

want one?

flurries cowl
moss cowl