Pinterest is Calling: Pretty Pics n' Stuff

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Those walls. That couch. The art. The brass. Agh! If only I can get my ducks in a row enough to get my home painted (or painted by B-Rad and I, let's get real here). All of this is exactly what I am into right. now. This wall color is specifically call soft grey. Apparently folks struggle with getting grey too dark or blue or purple or whatever. Just another reason for me to procrastinate putting it off. Anyone have a grey paint they recommend that will look as luscious as the above? I would be much obliged. 

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Can you believe that this photo above is dated January 26, 1994? Just check out the top right hand corner of the polaroid if you do not believe me. Beyond the date can you believe that this aesthetic is back? The plaid, the shoes, the jeans... I am not one for the 90s look and I think it is because I wore it so badly then. I was all of 8.5 years old when this came out (anyone else born in '86?), but our mother fancied herself a fashionista and kept me stocked in Doc Martins, baby doll dresses, and the world worst shag haircut (the pics are too bad to share). I dressed like this and for that reason I will not be doing it anytime soon. Sorry grunge movement. Minimalist-downtown-girl-chic is the one for me. 

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This image was captured at Yiping Yin's Couture Spring 2014 show in Paris. I love the cut of the coat and the color - that grey again! Plus the juxtaposition of the textures of the feathers, the shininess of the pants, and the fluff of the coat. I love that it is a cold weather crop top too. So legit. WWD said that this show was an interesting foil to the butterflies portrayed on the other Paris couture runways because it's emphasis was on the moth. Very interesting indeed.

Skication + Gucci + Beyonce = Bye for Now, K?

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I am going to sign off for a bit and enjoy my vacation at chateau bailē (aka my parents house). In the meantime, I have to share two things with you: 1) this Gucci purse I am totally obsessing over because that purple in the sky in the above image is nearly an exact match. Not the most practical purchase, but the fringe is very on trend, you know. Let's just say that if I won money in Vegas on my birthday I would def buy it? 2) Two songs I cannot get enough of that are on two totally different ends of the musical spectrum: Partition by Beyonce (Queen B! her tumblr is the most.) and Thunder Clatter by Nashville-based Wild Cub.  Over and out. 

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Art Talk: This is Your Brain and This is Your Brain on Drugs

Caffeine

Crystal Meth

Cocaine

Heroine

Adrenaline

Speed

Artist Sarah Schoenfield was privy to the extremes of drug culture when she worked in a Berlin nightclub. Soon after she changed her photo studio into a laboratory and exposed a variety of legal and illegal drugs to film negatives and then magnified the results to comprise her section of work titled All You Can Feel. 

Depending on if you are a user of illicit substances or not you definitely have some expectations and presuppositions of what those drugs do to you because of your exposure to the media's portrayal in films, music, and TV. Sarah Schoenfield's work is interesting because it examines drugs on a different level entirely: it's not what it makes you do, but what it is does to you - specifically your brain cells and blood stream. 

To me these images are a reflection into what the chemical nature of these drugs do to your insides. Plus, even more hauntingly, they all seem to reflect how I would draw or paint the way they make people feel. Kind of like doing your moods on a color scale. Not a scientific portrayal, but a visceral one... It is as if they are all exactly what I would expect to see: as they truly are on a molecular-emotional-basis. Cool, huh?

{See all of her work here. Images via here.}  

Laugh It Off Mondays: A Dog and His Trampoline

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