apple picking

apple picking (1878)winslow homer

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feltidermy

whilst perusing some back issues of frankie, i spotted these feltidermy pieces by girl savage. they made me smile.

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a little too late

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one of my favourite covers is by daniel rossen of grizzly bear, of jo jo’s a little too late

daniel rossen – too little too late

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haasbroek t-shirts

remember the Z-A series by jaco haasbroek? well, he’s submitted a design to threadless that shows the entire character alphabet and people need to vote for it so it can be printed. i would personally LOVE this on a t-shirt!

http://i.imgur.com/fJ0gF.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/uzxvq.jpg

so please hop over to threadless and vote

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portrait of gertha felsovanyi

Portrait of Gertha Felsovanyi (1902)Gustav Klimt

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on the beach

on the beach is a collection of super large format images by american photographer richard misrach, taken from a room in a high rise hotel in hawaii over the course of 3 years.

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lovis corinth

Women’s Half-portrait with Straw Hat (1898)Lovis Corinth

i’ve decided to start doing a daily painting post. i don’t think it warrants an explanation, it’s just that i like paintings a lot.

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bicycles

i already have a bicycle (which i love – it’s a black & white cruiser with white tyres) but i just can’t help looking at bicycle sites. the latest one, which my brother sent me, is globe bicycles. there’s something about white/cream tyres that makes everything classier, non?

http://i.imgur.com/HqVtX.jpg

then i took a trip through my bookmarks (i have the most ridiculous folder called “things to buy” – full of things i could never actually afford to buy) and dug up this gem of a company Read More »

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fast, fresh & green

one of my favourite illustrators/designers, jessica hische, did the design for this new cookbook of vegetarian dishes – fast fresh & green by susie middleton. definitely the kind of recipe book i’d buy as i am partial to fast yet healthy food. i’m the kind of girl who’d buy a tub of hummus and find things to dip into it, rather than actually going to the effort of cooking an entire meal. it’s not that i’m a bad cook (i’d like to think the contrary) it’s just that sometimes i am extraordinarily lazy.

that being said, i did some googling around and found a couple of pages of the book over at scripd, which gives you a taste of some of the recipes. the design Read More »

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silky soft doo wop wonders

the fleetwoods – come softly to me (1959)

i’m not sure where i heard this song the first time, perhaps in the background of a video on youtube. but i LOVE it. sometimes doo-wop can be slightly annoying, but this is just right – would perfectly accompanying a scene in mad men.

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