jicarilla apache fiesta (1934) – laverne nelson black
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howdy
hello, my name is diana.
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i just died and went to vintage opel heaven
ooooh i spent way too much time yesterday perusing this collection of pics from a vintage opel calendar.
WHY don’t car companies still make awesome stuff like this? now it’s just these flashy photos of big shiny black cars cruising along with light beams flashing past them and what what. BORING. i want to see my car in fields of lavender and reflected in some pristine lake in switzerland. WITH PEOPLE. who are dressed nicely.
Posted in Vintage Tagged advertisments, calendar, cars, opel, Vintage, vintage cars, vintage photography 3 Comments
roast red pepper & tomato soup
i’ve been making a lot of soups lately – even though it’s unbearably hot here right now. they’re cheap to make, i can freeze the leftovers (which end up tasting even nicer a few weeks/months down the line when you reheat them), you can eat them hot or cold, and there is little to no margin for error. i mean, it’s soup – toss it in and let it simmer.
so yesterday i made a roast red pepper & tomato soup. i didn’t follow a recipe, i basically had a bag of rosa tomatoes that needed to be used and were too ripe & soft for a salad – and winged it from there.
winter magic
Posted in Art Tagged cold, daily painting, landscape, oil painting, painting, snow, winter 3 Comments
lost things
wowowowow!!! this stop motion short film is eye poppingly rad:
via oh joy
hello my name is dev
hello my name is dev has a cool photo collection, and i chuckled at his profile description on flickr, “i’m addicted to the internet… i don’t think i’ve logged off since 1998.” yup. that pretty much sums up my sentiments, too.
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rooi rouge
indian maiden (c. 1920s) – unknown artist
i don’t wear red often enough, it always does something for the spirit.
Posted in Photography Tagged Art, clothes, colour, daily painting, flickr, indian maiden, Photography, portraits, red, women 3 Comments
little brother
little brother (1921) – norah neilson gray
i’m expanding on my daily painting posts a bit. making it more interesting for me, for you.
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central park
Neither the cold of winter nor the gloom of the Great Depression kept the children of New York City from enjoying Central Park, the city’s greatest green space. Artist Carl Nelson had almost as much fun as the children, drawing by the hour despite the chill of February 1934. When his hands got cold, Nelson recalled, he “would go to the monkey house in the Central Park Zoo to warm up.”
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bérangère claire
“Bérangère Claire presents each season a new collection of classics and basics with refined details … all garments that are easy to wear everyday, but more than a fashion, a style, simple and chic at affordable prices.”
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blue violinist
Marie-Anne Weber au Violon Alto (1903) – Théo van Rysselberghe
i usually have a pretty tough time deciding what the daily painting is going to be (so many!) but this blue – i love this blue.
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skermunkil
marietjie & her team at skermunkil have been churning out amazing stuff for the design indaba expo this weekend (from today the 26th till sunday the 28th). i’m so looking forward to seeing their stand (and perhaps making a sneaky purchase)
Posted in Design Tagged design indaba, jewellery, jewellery design, local design, marietjie, necklaces, rings, skermunkil jewellery, south africa Leave a comment
an interior
an interior (1926) – stanislav zhukovsky
things
i wasn’ t planning on posting today because i’ve been sick in bed for a day and a half. however, there’s only so much sleeping and tv watching a girl can do before feverish boredom sets in. so i decided to play around with my camera which hasn’t got much love from me lately, and took some shots of things i own & treasure.
i found this cup & saucer in a second hand shop in kleinmond. it was made by a finnish company called arabia (i assume it’s from the 50’s/60’s) and is, by far, my favourite thing to drink tea / coffee out of. if it ever had to break, my heart would break. best of all – it has no chips!
welcome home, son
radical face – welcome home, son (highly recommended)
i watched the vicious kind last night and this song played during a pivotal point of the movie. wow, i’ve already listened to it too many times since. the dude from radical face is also from the electric president
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