Bug Bites

Recently I have become rather prone to bug bites, and not only that I seem to have huge reactions to them. I am currently suffering from two bug bites on my foot that have turned the majority of my foot red. Ahhhh they itch!!!!!!!!

The print about is from the ever wonderful Jason Polan. He is the guy who is trying to draw every person in new york, and he even drew me art the Publication Fair last year! You can get this print on 20x200.

Nothing could better describe how I feel right now

I want my bear suit

Goodbye Wafflemaker

I moved last week (once the apartment is in order I will post pictures) and I am finding this site, Goodbye Wafflemaker, very inspiring. The creator of the site is moving and selling everything she owns so she can be immersed in her new community.

My brother has spent the last year essentially living out of a suitcase, which is a very freeing way to live. I on the other hand have been a pack rat my entire life, which would make that a very difficult way for me to live. I am not being forced to do that, but new place is quite a bit smaller so I have been purging like nobodies business.

I kind of want to sell everything I know, but then I think about losing my beautiful books and clothes and I get really sad. It is a nice idea though.

Sara Fanelli

I have the bestest mommy ever. Saturday night she sent me the link to the new book by Sara Fanelli and says if I like she will get it for me. How sweet! Of course I loved the book and now it is on its way to me.

I had not heard of this lovely illustrator before and now I love her. This book sounds amazing, it is a book full of literary quotes and illustrations done by Fanelli. I cannot wait to peruse it!

Below is a picture of what my mom looks like essentially. I look exactly like my mom, and when I have long hair and I straighten it scares me to look in a mirror because I look so much like her. So this her, with a sad face, because I am not on the West Coast as much I wish that I was. (By the way, we both have chins, but it is hidden in this turtleneck, a favorite of the original Betsy)

Such Great Heights

I was writing a paper last night and had my iTunes on shuffle and the first song to come on was the Such Great Heights cover by Iron and Wine. I don't think I will ever get tired of this song. I think every cover I heard I have liked, but Iron and Wine might be my favorite.

Garden State can be kind of tiresome now, but when it came out that movie and soundtrack were pretty amazing.

Grilled Cheese, Fries, and a Milkshake

Yesterday was one of those days that just did not need to exist. When I have those days I always find a grilled cheese, french fries, and a chocolate milkshake seem to help. So that is exactly what I had for lunch yesterday, and it was delicious.

I have been in a kind of funk lately, completely unmotivated to do anything. What do you guys do to help get yourself out of a funk?

Isn't that vintage ad delightfully creepy?

Edelweiss

The song Edelweiss will always be a song that is very special to me.

Phoenix

Oh who is that girl with the awkward Bangs in that photo with Phoenix? That would be me. Those guys are some of the coolest Parisians you will ever meet, and they are all incredibly sweet. ANDDDDD tonight they will be performing on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE with the one and only Seth Rogen as host. Sadly I do not get to go tonight, but I am so excited to watch them perform, they are going to be spectacular. When you see and hear them you will wonder why you haven't been listening to them all along. Unless you have been listening to them then you will be patting yourself on your back for your good taste.

Watch the youtube video below to take a listen to 1901, which you may have heard all over the radio and the internet.

Strange Maps

One of my best friends loves maps. He is kind of a nerd about them, but that is one of the things that makes him great. So when on Even Cleveland I saw posts about maps I was intrigued, and even more so when I saw a link to an amazing blog called Strange Maps. It is exactly as the title says, a blog of strange maps. The above is an image from the blog.

Spring Break MONDAY

So I decided I would finally post some of my sightings from my spring break in the city. I had a great first weekend, but I do not have my images ready to post from that, so here we are Monday March 16th. I started my day with getting my hair cut. It was a lovely way to start the week.

From there I grabbed some lunch, and was perplexed where to eat it before I went to the MoMA, since I was in midtown I decided to eat in one of the public courtyards big buildings are required to put in, because thats what they are there for right? Well I chose the right courtyard, because it had a Hello Kitty themed sculpture garden. She just seems to be everywhere, in office buildings and creepy M.A.C. ads.

Outside of the courtyard I saw a movie trailer that had Lucy and Desi on the doors. I see trailers with their names on it everywhere, I always wonder what is going on being a big I Love Lucy fan, my brother thought perhaps all these trailers belong to Desilu productions.

Then I headed to the MoMA, and saw EVERYTHING. That's right everything. I started in teh 6th floor, and wandered through every gallery. It was absolutely exhausting, but was cool because I have never done that before. I normally go to see a few exhibits and thats it. The special exhibit on the 6th floor is a retrospective of of Martin Kippenbergers work, which I was not familiar with before but was thoroughly impressed with after visiting. Such an expansive body of work, it is people like him who make me want to spend all my time creating, and also anger me because I do not spend all my time creating. I am also including the picture of the matchbook I mentioned a while ago (I saw it at the MoMA first). I also got to see the MoMA 40 years of Modern Art Exhbiting, which was also very cool.

The MoMA wore me out, so I decided to head home and I passed the Friars Club on the way and noticed a plaque noting there was a time capsule buried there not to be opened until 2104. I thought that was pretty cool.

Old School

A while back I was babysitting my friends kid, who is probably one of the coolest kids ever. He is a baby, but kind of a 20 year old. He stays up late and sleeps in, always seems to be in on the jokes when everyone is hanging out, and tries to fit in. He doesn't want to sound uncool, so when you ask him a question and he isn't sure the answer, he goes "myeah" all non-chalant like.

Anyways the point of this post, is when I was babysitting him the dvd that was out was the first season of Sesame Street. This kid was so cool, he watched old school sesame street, none of this modern day stuff where cookies are just a sometime snack. I loved watching it with him.

This is kid is really cool, but watching The Office made him cry, that wasn't so cool.

I was reminded of this over on maquette where I saw an old post she had done about Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street back in the day.

I don't know what it was..

But last night I got a hankering for The Temptations. They are just so splendid, I listened to them all night long. 

My parents did a very good job educating me music wise growing up. We listened to everything, music that was current, music my parents listened to growing up, music their parents had listened to, everything. I thought knowing all of this music was normal, the other kids weren't listening to The Beach Boys? They didn't know who Linda Ronstadt was? That came as surprise to me later on, kind of like I thought everyone knew JFK was a speed reader.

Watch the original recording of My Girl here, youtube wouldn't let me imbed it.

Oh you...

I am watching Obama right now on Jay Leno, and  he is just so suave. 

I miss you

I miss all the people above, please come back to New York.

SPRING BREAK

Hello Friends! Hopefully I will be posting regularly this week, but officially I am on Spring Break. But as you read a few days ago my plan is to stay in the city and do everything I possibly can, so hopefully I will have lots of cool things to post about! But I may be to busy hanging out with my city to do so.

I would still love to here your suggestions on what I should do with my city. So far I have had suggestions to kick it in Central Park and some yummy places to check out. I am up for anything so let me know what you think!

Found on flickr

Ring-a-ling

So I kind of want this ring. What I mean by that is that I want this ring, but I am horrible at wearing rings. I am constantly playing with them, and often end up leaving them somewhere. So I worry that if I were to get this lovely ring, I would leave it somewhere and end up horribly depressed that I lost it.

Dilemmas, dilemmas.

Ring is by the wondrous Tatty Devine, available at Kabiri.

Subliminal Advertising

I went do dinner with a friend the other day, and he asked me if since I am design student if I analyze pretty much every advertisement I see. And at times, yes I do, and I really can't watch ads because my mind goes into overload. But it isn't just the design but the content, which is really part of the design. Like how in the original ads for the iPhone the person who was calling was Johnny Appleseed, subliminally putting in the idea that the iPhone was a piece of Americana. Oh man there is so much about those commercials to analyze.

This also means I am one of those people who always pick out all the product placements in TV shows and movies. So when I saw these posters that look like minimal movie posters, but instead of the actors names it has all the companies that had product placements, I was intrigued. But you know what, now these posters are advertising both the movies and the products all over again. And now I am part of that. Oh what a vicious circle.

Noooooo

So if you were cool in elementary school you had an American Girl doll. Choosing which doll you were going to get was quite the laborious process. I think for most though, I know this how it happened in my case, you ended up choosing the doll that most resembled you. Thus for Christmas in 1st grade I received Samantha. She was wondrous. I loved her, and now I hear American Girl is retiring her. Well I actually first heard this because my friend said they were killing off Samantha. I thought that seemed a little extreme, and it is. They apparently felt that since she has been around for 22 years it is time to crudely push her aside, and make room for new dolls. Whatevs, I still have my doll.

Samantha, you will be missed.

Teen Girl Squad

                                

Do you guys remember Teen Girl Squad from Homestar Runner? When I was in high school it was pretty ballin. I just watched a couple episodes again, and it is still pretty amusing. I mean how can someone being attacked by MSG not be good?

SOOOOO GOOD

Addiction

As I mentioned a while back I started doing Bikram Yoga. It is rather intense, but I really like it. Well Thursday night I flew back to NY so I wasn't able to do yoga, and my body was craving some Bikram. Granted this is healthier addiction than most, but my body's want to do some poses was pretty intense.

Get it Yogi Bear, Yoga? Oh, I am silly...