Thursday, February 25, 2010

spookily beautiful

I'm more than excited to go to this year's Whitney Biennial. Curated by Francesco Bonami, this one has tons that I'm excited to see and even more, the majority of the artists are women.


So excited for Pae White, Tauba Auerbach, Aurel Schmidt, Ellen Gallagher (in collaboration with Edgar Cleijne, and Storm Tharp. I could go on and on, but I'll do so after I actually go see it.

Storm Tharp's watercolors are spookily beautiful.




Monday, February 22, 2010

Friday, February 19, 2010

all woman, all hot.


Christina Hendricks is seriously sultry on the cover of New York Magazine this month. I am so excited to see her more on Mad Men this next season.



Tuesday, February 16, 2010

McQueen

Alexander McQueen's passing last week was a loss to not only the fashion world, but to the visual world. His designs were amazing, but I loved his presentations of them.

Presentation is everything.

RIP Alexander McQueen.





This one is possibly one of my favorite that I've seen. The Spring 2004 Collection was inspired by Sydney Pollack's They Shoot Horses, Don't They?





Friday, February 12, 2010

Paper Mountains

I've been meaning to blog about Denise Kupferschmidt's work for a while...


Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Band initiation


band of outsiders gets me every time with their lookbooks. using some of my all time favorite celebs including jason schwartzman, marisa tomei, and now leslie mann, donald glover, and i'll take that handsome dave franco too.


donald glover from community (hilarious show) has made it to my new crush list. man, that boy is ccccuuuuuuteeee!




Tuesday, February 9, 2010

How-to



For our recent Happy Hour, I made these recipe cards and menu. I decided to go with a European Folk Art theme that I've been really into lately. You can download the templates and recipe cards on NumNum Chronicles. We also just posted all the photos, how-tos, and recipes! Click here for how-tos and here for recipes.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Have one on me



The new Joanna Newsom... I know not everyone likes her, but I do and this sounds AWESOME. thanksbye!


Tuesday, February 2, 2010

A moment...

I just want to share a moment, a person with you. Nick Dewar, an illustrator, who passed away recently. He was a great talent and although I didn't know him personally these words from his website says a lot about him.

Q: "How do you define success? "In your terms, how successful are you?"

A: My definition of success is pretty simple. I don't think money is all that important. As long as you have enough to pay the rent and buy some nice food that is all you really need. Everything else is a bonus. I have never understood people who drive themselves to work long hours at jobs they hate to pay for things that will help them forget how much they hate working at their jobs. I think the really difficult thing is being happy both in who you are and what you do. If you can achieve this then you are really are a success. There is also the caveat that you shouldn't hurt anyone or anything in order to be successful, that sort of negates the point.

He seems like he was a great person and I wish his family well in this time of difficulty. Please take a moment to look at his great body of work and appreciate it and him.