national fantastic

Lovely work by Stephanie Davidson.
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the morning benders

this song is so beautiful.
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a visual blog

"L. Eckstein is a NYC-based graphic designer and artist. When she had a job that came with an office, all matter of visual interest could be tacked up on her wall, or walked down the hall to be shared with a co-worker. Her job no longer comes with an office. This is now her wall—and her hall."

all my eyes

tom tom magazine

"Tom Tom creates a community for these women by way of their sleekly-designed quarterly, now on its second issue, covering everything from current fashion to signal processing and drum techniques."

love.
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pandas!

Maybe it's my friend Eileen's puppy bowl party Sunday or it could be the fact that I just saw Kung Fu Panda, but my mind is obsessed with all things adorable today.

"It was the first taste of independence for the youngsters at the Wolong National Nature Reserve, in Sichuan Province, south west China. Keepers at the reserve posed for a class photograph with their wide-eyed pupils and were helping the babies adjust to their new life under the gaze of visitors at the reserve. Around 1,600 giant pandas live in the wild in China, mostly in Sichuan and the north western provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu. Another 290 pandas are in breeding programmes in the country."

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making music into art

What a fantastic, d.i.y idea, put you're favorite lyrics of your favorite band, on canvas. Then hang, annnnnd it's art. I like this idea. It could make a nice gift as well.

vinegar hill house

I went to the Vinegar Hill House on Sunday night with some friends. It was fantastic, the service was very good and the food was very flavorful.
My friend's daughter, Coco (51/2 years old), described where we sat as "creepy, it's like we're in a castle"
She might have been referring to the lovely fireplace and the wood lined cabin- like walls. I loved Coco's commentary none the less. The music was sweet, a little Hall n Oates and there were fresh succulent plants everywhere. My experience at Vinegar Hill House was great, Check out their menu, I had the pumpkin ravioli, so buttery and delicious. I also had tastes of the fennel salad and the brussel sprouts, equally as delicious.

Valentines shoot!

On Saturday, I styled a food shoot with my good friend Abdi. Our friend Cathy is blogging about the food the she makes, the photos above are a couple of the things that she made. I really love how it turned out!!

Food/Recipes : Cathy Christino, Word of Mouth

Art Direction/Styling: me, Michelle

Photos: Three photographers,

aziz at the soho apple store tomorrow!

Aziz at the Apple Store in Soho tomorrow at 7pm!

soccer for all

Dream Ball, love the idea love the design.
“To the children in The Third World; Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Congo and etc, who can’t enjoy football freely because of poverty, war and natural disaster, having a football means a lot and can be a dream and hope to escape from their poor life.

However, the children are so poor that they can not buy a football. So, they play football with the ball made of plastic bag or coconut palm leaves, therefore giving them their own footballs which can give them hope. This is our aim for this project.

We suggest this Dream Ball made of relief boxes delivered to those poor children by recycling.

A. Create patterns that can help making a ball on the surface of an aid box.
B. Activities of giving aid boxes to children in The Third World.
C. The used aid boxes will be recycled as a football by children with the patterns on boxes.
D. By making Dream Ball with the children together, the aid organizations will get the chance to be friendly with them.”
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gimme some hanger tea

so clever!

the alien project of 2009

me!

ben!

jon!

cathy!

sami!

traina!

katie!


While looking through old photos of last year, I came across the ALIEN project, the idea came from my friend Trish. It was her idea to place her necklace on top our eyes while laying down and waLAH, instant ailens. Makes me smile.