wingtips and bowties

Oh my I almost forgot! Possibly my favourite book from the blog, Book By It's Cover, was The Artist's Guide to Dressing Fancy. It's a coloring book! Too crazy.

Mon Dieu J'ai oublie! Possiblment ma livre favori au le blog, Book By It's Cover, a ete The Artist's Guide to Dressing Fancy. Il est une livre de coloraige! Trop genial.

Is there no translation for morphing?

Isn't it wonderful when you stumble upon something beautiful? I was in such a miserable mood but then I came across Book By It's Cover, a blog devoted to books and design and typography. It's not really a blog, now that I think about it, more like a review column... no, more like a book of the month spotlight. My favourite features are from the sketchbook section, just excepts from an artist's... well, their sketchbook! 

N'est-ce pas merveilleux quand vous trebuchez sur quelque chose totalement belle? J'ai ete d'une humeur massacrante mais ensuite j'ai trouve Book By It's Cover, un blog devoue aux livres et le design et la typographie. Il n'est pas vraiment un blog, maintenant que je le pense, plus comme une colonne critique.. non, plus comme un article ou un reportage sur les livres. Mes ouevres favori sont au le section de carnet a croquis, juste les extraits au le... le carnet a croquis a l'artist!
I'm really inspired by Mike Lowery's books^^ His one subtitled 'old church in norway' is just wonderful.

Je suis tres inspiree aux livres de Mike Lowery. L'un titre 'vieux eglise dans la norvage' est juste merveilleux.
They really made me remember how much I love moleskin notebooks. Is it too early to make a christmas list? Nahhhh.

Ils vraiment me fait me souviens combien que j'adore les carnets 'moleskin'. Est-il trop tot faire une liste de noel? Nahhhh.
Goldberg's books didn't have as much of an impact^^ but I just adore her sketches of the little morphing bird girl. Too crazy.

Les livres de Goldberg n'ont fait pas beaucoup de l'effet, mais j'adore ses esquisses de le petite oiseau fille. Trop genial.

Top three images, Mike Lowery

Bottom image, Ashley Goldberg

the hyena and other men.

So. Pieter Hugo's photography is maybe the most disturbing and beautiful thing I've seen in a long time. It makes me sick to my stomach and want to curl up into a ball and die. It's incredible. His series on the Gadawan Kura, the "hyena handlers," of Lagos, Nigeria is just frightening. The monochromatic desert and fur and dust covered flesh is really powerful paired with the little flashes of green or red. Too crazy.

Donc. La photographie de Pieter Hugo est peut-etre le plus perturbante et le plus belle truc j'ai vu depuis longtemps. Il me fait mal au ventre et veux me recroqueviller et mourir. Il est incredible. Sa serie sur les Gadawan Kura, les "dresseurs hyene," de Lagos, Nigeria est juste effrayante. Le desert et le poils et la poussiere, tous monochromatique, ils sont vraiment forte appaire avec les eclats petites de vert ou rouge. Trop genial.

Oh, I found the work via a really great blog, We Made This. 

gray and bone and lonely

I wonder why I'm so drawn to gray and bone and lonely. I mean, depression is endearing, you know? Thrift store boots and hole speckled converse covered in mud, gravel from the road pressing and poking against palms and through pants, tissue thin cotton and black courdoroys and waffle tees.. my god, just beautiful. There's something about their ugliness too, like doodles in your math book from a bad day. Doom and gloom man, that's what it's all about.

Je me demande pourquoi je suis attire au gris et l'os et l'isolee. Je veux dire, la depression est mignon, vous me comprendez? Des bottes au magasin de seconde main et les converse truite avec les trous, barde de la boue, graviers au rue pousse et enfonce contre des paumes et a travers du pantalon, coton mince d'etoffe et des velours cotele noir et des t-shirts gaufre.. mon dieu, puree.  Il y a quelque chose au sujet de notre laideur aussi, comme de gribouillage dans votre livre des maths au un mal jour. La perte et la morosite mon potem ca c'est ce dont il s'agit. 

Oh, photo from fotodec. 

i wonder what the translation is for 'oh gosh'..

Oh gosh Satu is incredible. I'm in love with this photo; the moss on the roof? Incredible! There's something about abandoned buildings and overgrown forests. 

Mon dieu Satu est incredible. J'adore cette photograph; le mousse sur le toit? Incredible! Il y a quelque chose a propos des batiments abandonne et des forets envahle par la vegetation. 

Oh yeah.. I've decided to write entries in english and french, maybe it will help me on the road to fluency, or at lease basic comprehension. If anyone understands french and sees that I have something wrong, don't hesitate to say something.

^_^

ring ring ring ring ring ring ring BANANARCHY!!!

I'm so very depressed that Nothing Nice to Say has been laid to rest. Don't get me wrong, there were duds. There were a ton of duds. But there were also really clever, really funny, bits. They were cruel now and then but more than that they were frank and they were uncensored, unromanticized and unembellished. 

A lot of it was jokes about punks and hipsters and goths and scene kids but it was generally centered around two guys, punks I guess, but not mohawk punks.. more like just two random guys. Other than that bit of normality the comic is sorta ridiculous. Their friends are a bear, a lesbian goth, a feminist pretending to be a lesbian to support the cause, a whiny emo kid, a mohawked vegan, and cthulu, an elder god from a story by the great H.P. Lovecraft.

white room, gray clothes, black cats

from fotodecadent.

oh gosh

What is, what can it possibly be about chipped nails and cigarettes?

misquote of vonnegut by yours truely

photograph of becci by arvida

yellow leaves and microphones and white trees and sky

"Speaking in Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai demands an end to civilian casualties, saying US warplanes bombed a wedding party, killing 37 people, including 23 children."
-BBC

brightly colored buttons and jaundice flesh

You know, I'm usually pretty annoyed by the "tag seven people" posts. They just end up sorta... oh gosh, I don't know. I take back any cynicism or resentment I ever held over them though, because one on My Funny Eye just led me to the most beautiful blog.

Mieke Williams is a bit of a hodgepodge of photography, design, lifestyle, and general awesomeness. My favourite bits are the ones about little things, a hand embroidered pillowcase, an old desk drawer sorting buttons, a little watercolor and ink doodle. 

There's something beautiful in the small, the secret, the worthless. I think it's the only way to find life beautiful, or even bearable. It's all about finding beauty in the asphalt in the ocean; jaundice flesh is the most beautiful yellow ocher and feet with blackened soles smell like air and soil and grass.

purple mushrooms, brown wingtips, and green wellies

more from the woods by mieke.

I can hardy wait.

oh my god,

oh my god,

oh my god,

President Barack Obama.

oh my god.