ten thousand things

BASICALLY

2012-02-09T15:49:00.004-05:00

"Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently." -Robert Brault

PLAYLIST_JANUARY 27

2012-01-27T15:14:00.003-05:00

Bowerbirds - Northern Lights

THREADS

2012-01-19T10:35:00.004-05:00

love this sweater. Magdalena Frackowiak shot by Claudia Knoepfel and Stefan Indlekofer for Vogue Paris, November 2011.

STAY GLAD

2012-01-03T14:23:00.005-05:00

remember: stay glad. wake up and fight. dream good. keep hoping machine running.

happy 2012.

Woody Guthrie's New Years Rulins, from one of his journals - dated January 31st, 1942.

PLAYLIST_DECEMBER 7

2011-12-07T10:14:00.003-05:00

this.

THAT'S HOW YOU LOOK TO ME

2011-08-19T13:57:00.003-04:00

can't stop reading this: "I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone," from Revenge of the Lawns by Richard Brautigan.

PLAYLIST_JULY 5

2011-07-05T11:53:00.003-04:00

For today: I'm Sorry I Love You by The Magnetic Fields.

THE TWIST

2011-06-22T12:50:00.001-04:00

Love this "Fringe Necklace" from Steven and William.

HAMPTONS MODERN

2011-06-16T17:57:00.003-04:00

Hamptons modern, via MONDOBLOGO

LACE

2011-06-16T17:53:00.005-04:00

been collecting a lot of photos of lace shorts lately. love them paired with stripes like this. and now I need to take some scissors to my blazer...

photo: Tommy Ton

PLAYLIST_JUNE 16

2011-06-16T17:39:00.004-04:00

one of many today: "You Don't Love Me" by The Starlets.

photo: My Funny Eye

TWIGGY

2011-06-06T18:41:00.001-04:00

DAYS OF HEAVEN

2011-05-31T13:02:00.007-04:00

Just can't stop thinking about this.

BLUE + RED

2011-05-31T10:23:00.004-04:00

Natalie Joos in blue and red. From her lovely blog, Terms of Endearment.

SNEAK-ERS

2011-05-17T17:37:00.003-04:00

love these - the Invisible Shoe by Andreia Chaves.

SISTERS

2011-05-17T17:32:00.001-04:00

Carla + Franca. The best.

TECHNICOLOR KATE

2011-04-26T01:34:00.006-04:00

Kate Moss shot by Mert + Marcus for Vogue Paris May 2011

RADIO SERVICE

2011-03-18T10:25:00.000-04:00

Ruscha, by Hopper. via The Impossible Cool.

PLAYLIST_MARCH 15

2011-03-15T17:12:00.005-04:00

This afternoon's jam: "I Follow Rivers" by Lykke Li.

MADE A MANO

2011-03-10T11:15:00.005-05:00

How amazing is this tile pattern from Made A Mano? Very Pierre Hardy, no?

MARGIELA x OPENING CEREMONY

2011-02-15T11:36:00.011-05:00

The Maison Martin Margiela capsule collection for Opening Ceremony was unveiled on Sunday, and as they're two of my favorites I was excited to see the result of the collaboration. Margiela reinterpreted its core concept of 'recuperation, transformation and reinterpretation' into a group of 20 styles, which can be transformed into a range of separately wearable garments - there's a jacket with a detachable lining (wearable individually or as a pair), trousers with interchangeable tops, boots in two parts, bags within bags...like a textile version of Meccano. It's impressive how Opening Ceremony continues to push the envelope by collaborating with really progressive designers to make these concepts accessible to a wider retail audience - it'll be launching globally in September 2011 at Opening Ceremony retail locations and select Maison Martin Margiela partners worldwide.

(The photos are by Estelle Hanania, who does some pretty amazing work! Check out her website.)

DOWNTOWN GLAM

2011-02-14T15:47:00.006-05:00

so excited to share a few of the gorgeous images from the AMYCLAIRE shoot I was lucky enough to be part of recently...all photos by Marco Pedde.

ROUGE

2011-02-08T12:40:00.004-05:00

ladies! THIS is how you wear bright lips, please.

PLAYLIST_FEBRUARY 4

2011-02-04T15:00:00.001-05:00

can't stop listening to "Too Young to Burn" by Sonny + the Sunsets.

POLLOCK + NEEL

2011-01-28T15:35:00.004-05:00

happy shared birthday to masters of badassery Jackson Pollock + Alice Neel.

MODERN BRIGHTS

2011-01-13T15:31:00.011-05:00

Ruby Aldridge by Norbert Schoerner for Harper's Bazaar UK, February 2011 - via Fashion Gone Rogue.

DOUBLE DOSE

2011-01-12T18:17:00.010-05:00

Love that Tommy Ton is capturing so many style twins in Europe...see more on Style.com and GQ.

*

2011-01-10T00:17:00.003-05:00

Kate.

PANTON

2011-01-07T17:41:00.007-05:00

Verner Panton.

HAPPY 2011

2011-01-07T12:42:00.004-05:00

...belatedly, from Maison Martin Margiela.

THIN'S IN

2011-01-03T12:15:00.001-05:00

Skinny stacked rings. Love.

GO

2010-12-31T20:11:00.000-05:00

"The truth is that it doesn't really matter where you end up. The only thing that matters is that you're with people you love. Stop making a big deal out of it; just pick some place and go. Be with your friends, drink or don't, dance or not, and sometime in the night, for just one minute, take a moment and mark it. This is 2011. Here we go."

NOMAD

2010-12-30T21:27:00.008-05:00

love this Vogue Germany editorial - Jacquelyn Jablonski by Sebastian Kim, July 2010

DEVIL'S IN THE DETAILS

2010-12-27T18:38:00.007-05:00

from various places - via here.

DAYS OF HEAVEN

2010-12-24T01:32:00.005-05:00

On my list..."Days of Heaven". Terrence Malick. 1978.

WHITE SPACE

2010-12-24T00:48:00.003-05:00

Via the awesome convoy.

SOLSTICE

2010-12-21T11:54:00.003-05:00

This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath, the door
of a vanished house left ajar.

Taking hands like children
lost in a six-dimensional
forest, we step across.
The walls of the house fold themselves down,
and the house turns
itself inside out, as a tulip does
in its last full-blown moment, and our candle
flares up and goes out, and the only common
sense that remains to us is touch,

as it will be, later, some other
century, when we will seem to each other
even less what we were.
But that trick is just to hold on
through all appearances; and so we do,
and yes, I know it’s you;
and that is what we will come to, sooner
or later, when it’s even darker
than it is now, when the snow is colder,
when it’s darkest and coldest
and candles are no longer any use to us
and the visibility is zero: Yes.
It’s still you. It’s still you.

from "Shapechangers in Winter", Margaret Atwood

MOHAWK

2010-12-16T13:55:00.004-05:00

I'm such a sucker for a great mohawk...got my daily dose today thanks to Tommy.

DEAD ON

2010-12-16T13:34:00.001-05:00

Love this. From Pictures of My Mother.

TOTEM

2010-12-15T10:56:00.003-05:00

Love these gorgeous Totem Lights by Robert Lewis - from Commune.

ROCKS OFF

2010-12-01T12:11:00.002-05:00

heart these Herkimer diamond studs by Better Late Than Never.

IMPRESSIVE

2010-11-29T12:50:00.006-05:00

A man who wears bright color well is so rare. From Backyard Bill.

HOOKED

2010-11-11T09:57:00.002-05:00

Eileen and Mark's closets...love.

SOMEWHERE TO TRY OUT THINGS

2010-11-10T09:55:00.006-05:00

"I’d like to find somewhere to try out things, together, things to do with our hands or machines, in any way, not like boy scouts or even like craftsmen and not even like workers and still less like artists, but like men with arms, legs, hands, feet, hairs, sex, saliva, eyes and breath, and to do them, certainly not to possess things and to keep them for ourselves and not even to give them to others, but just feel what it’s like to do things by trying to do them, trying to find out whether everyone can do things, other things, with their hands or machines — or whatever — etcetera etcetera. Can it be tried?

My friends say it can."

When I Was a Very Small Boy - Ettore Sottsass

LAUREN MANOOGIAN

2010-11-03T16:26:00.001-04:00

lovely layered necklaces by Lauren Manoogian.

WO & WÉ COLLECTION

2010-11-02T12:40:00.006-04:00

Olivier contacted me a short time ago to show me his work - and I'm so glad he did. Aren't his lamps gorgeous?

OH JOY

2010-10-13T17:36:00.005-04:00

love this Christian Joy video from Claire Carre (via geometricsleep).

PLAYLIST_OCTOBER 13

2010-10-13T15:55:00.003-04:00

The Decemberists - Eli the Barrow Boy

POP

2010-10-04T17:06:00.004-04:00

love this combination of turquoise Acapulco Chair with cozy sheepskin.

CRYSTALLIZED

2010-10-01T15:59:00.007-04:00

from here.

PLAYLIST_SEPTEMBER 29

2010-09-29T14:59:00.003-04:00

the beginning of fall - ushered in with The Tallest Man on Earth - wishing summer wouldn't end.

TEN BITES

2010-09-27T14:30:00.003-04:00

wish I could eat with this lady every day. ten bites with Lauren - here.

HEREBY RESOLVED

2010-09-01T15:39:00.010-04:00

Walks by the ocean.
Outdoor dinners.
Spontaneous dancing.
Weathered wood tables.
Fresh food.
Salt air and big porches.
Great books and group crosswords.
The best of life.
Bring it on.

CHRISTINE

2010-08-24T14:24:00.002-04:00

Christine Centenera: two variations on a theme. the girl is just ALWAYS killin' it.

THINGS FALL APART

2010-08-10T17:23:00.020-04:00

...and there's so much beauty in that.

RAQUEL

2010-08-09T16:15:00.004-04:00

Raquel Welch...forGET about it.

BLONDE ON BLONDE

2010-08-09T16:12:00.002-04:00

Kate Moss shot by Patrick Demarchelier for Vogue UK's September 2010 issue; see the full spread here.

SERIOUS HOUSE ENVY

2010-08-04T10:31:00.015-04:00

Glenn O'Brien, Gina Nanni and their son Oscar, photographed by Todd Selby.

PLAYLIST_JULY 29

2010-07-29T13:08:00.003-04:00

for today - this - of course.

LAST HURRAH

2010-07-29T12:25:00.004-04:00

there's still enough of summer left for these...right?

PLAYLIST_JULY 27

2010-07-27T12:10:00.001-04:00

today: Have Love Will Travel by The Black Keys

GRACE (2)

2010-07-25T20:45:00.002-04:00

just. the. COOLEST.

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY

2010-07-23T10:59:00.008-04:00

photos by Rebecca Genet

ON THE NOSE / IN A NUTSHELL

2010-07-01T10:15:00.013-04:00

...so who's coming surfing with me this weekend?

most images from the always-inspiring Saturdays blog

THE CAVE

2010-06-30T17:57:00.002-04:00

"It becomes long, deep; it widens, extends, narrows. It is a constricted place, a narrowed place, one of the hollowed out places. There are roughened places; there are asperous places. It is frightening, a fearful place, a place of death. It is called a place of death because there is dying. It is a place of darkness; it darkens; it stands ever dark. It stands widemouthed; it is wide-mouthed; it is narrow-mouthed. It has mouths which pass through. I place myself in the cave. I enter the cave."

Aztec definition of a cave, via Social Fiction

PLAYLIST_JUNE 30

2010-06-30T17:28:00.005-04:00

Neko. and more Neko.

STATUS REPORT_2:28 PM

2010-06-17T14:23:00.012-04:00

what I'm drinking: ginger tea
what I'm listening to: Bloodbuzz Ohio by The National
what I'm doing: coveting every single piece in Suno's Resort 2011 collection.

SUKI CHEEMA

2010-06-17T09:48:00.005-04:00

love these geometric textiles by Suki Cheema

WHERE I'D LIKE TO BE

2010-06-11T11:15:00.003-04:00

here, please.

DUNST

2010-06-10T09:27:00.001-04:00

lovely image of Kirsten Dunst by Derek Blasberg.

KATE + KEITH

2010-06-08T11:41:00.007-04:00

love these Todd Selby photos of Kate Young and Keith Abrahamsson's apartment...especially the folding screen headboard, wall-mounted saw, owl drawing, and big Moroccan rug.

(OTHER)WORLDLY

2010-05-28T12:01:00.008-04:00

just might be my favorite editorial ever. Alex Wek, shot by Andrew Yee and styled by Damian Foxe, for FT's How to Spend It magazine, May 2010.

PRETTY MUCH

2010-05-24T19:45:00.002-04:00

...exactly what I've been wearing lately. Photo by Vanessa Jackman.

FRIDA REDUX

2010-05-24T19:13:00.006-04:00

Claudia Schiffer in Vogue Germany, March 2010, photographed by Karl Lagerfeld

PLAYLIST_MAY 18

2010-05-18T18:12:00.004-04:00

I keep watching Snejina Latev's gorgeous video for "Fangela" by Here We Go Magic.

BEHIND THE SCENES

2010-05-12T14:07:00.016-04:00

just a few images from an amazing project I was lucky enough to be a part of last week - still dreaming about it.

DREAMGIRL

2010-04-22T10:21:00.005-04:00

Kate Moss photographed by Ryan McGinley for W Magazine June 2007

PATHS OF LIGHT

2010-04-20T16:36:00.006-04:00

"Paths of Light" photographs by Gordon Harrison Hull - whose birth was "brought about by the use of an Ashanti fertility dress created specifically for (my) mother by a witch doctor in Kumasi, Ghana."

SOAK IT UP

2010-04-20T08:59:00.007-04:00

summer's coming...no better way to welcome it than with these sarong / towels by Nomadic Trading Co., available at Commune.

PLAYLIST_APRIL 5

2010-04-05T10:44:00.004-04:00

Playlist in three parts: (1) The Gallery - Joni Mitchell / (2) Our House - Crosby Stills + Nash / (3) Simple Man - Graham Nash

ARE MOKKELBOST

2010-04-02T15:56:00.008-04:00

beautiful paper collage work by Are Mokkelbost.

HEADSTRONG

2010-04-02T15:40:00.007-04:00

I've had a strange desire to wear headdresses and turbans lately - I'm thinking summer 2010 will see a lot of my silk scarves re-purposed as hair wraps for the beach...

CAT POWER

2010-03-25T12:17:00.006-04:00

Love these David Black photographs of Cat Power (i.e. Chan Marshall) - one of the most awesome women ever.

CARLY WAITO

2010-03-22T15:51:00.006-04:00

gorgeous paintings by Carly Waito.

PLAYLIST_MARCH 15

2010-03-15T12:29:00.000-04:00

"Night Time" by The XX

MASTER AND MUSE

2010-03-10T11:31:00.005-05:00

on the heels of this Vogue piece comes this lovely video from the Tate - Agnes "Mougouch" Magruder speaking about her life with painter Arshile Gorky.

PLAYLIST_MARCH 5

2010-03-05T18:07:00.004-05:00

today: just silence.

BARNACLES

2010-03-05T17:56:00.010-05:00

BIOGEOMETRY

2010-03-05T17:34:00.006-05:00

Loving all things both geometric and organic lately. Like these Balenciaga prints from FW2010, which remind me of this work by Victoria Haven...and these.

BIJULES

2010-03-02T17:15:00.009-05:00

Love these rings from Bijules...like tiny mountain landscapes.

WHERE I'D LIKE TO BE

2010-02-26T11:41:00.003-05:00

image: Brian Hodges via T Magazine

OUTER SPACE

2010-02-26T10:00:00.002-05:00

Apologies for the radio silence lately. This city/country mouse has been in hibernation, but she's back.

Listening to Pushover by Etta James; I recommend downloading the entire album ASAP.

W O W

2010-02-02T14:22:00.004-05:00

cannot get over these 2 images from Vanessa Jackman...just perfect.

LITTLEDOE

2010-02-02T12:53:00.005-05:00

obsessed with this lookbook of feather headdresses from Littledoe.

SOMETHING WICKED

2010-01-31T12:45:00.007-05:00

Once I find the perfect variety of anything, I buy it over and over. My candle obsession: Something Wicked, in Tota scent.

DANS LE DESÉRT

2010-01-28T10:31:00.010-05:00

Vogue Paris puts together an amazing, dream-team editorial, with photography by Ines Von Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin and styling by Carine Roitfeld, Emanuelle Alt and Camilla Nickerson.

See the whole thing at Fashionista.

PLAYLIST_JANUARY 27

2010-01-27T09:50:00.009-05:00

I've been listening to so much good music lately - I couldn't pick just one.

Cold War Kids - Audience
Sad Brad Smith - Help Yourself
Jens Lekman - Arms Around Me
Bat for Lashes - Use Somebody
Little Joy - No One's Better Sake
Animal Collective - My Girls
Taken By Trees - My Boys
Tunng - Bullets
Tanlines - Real Life (Memory Tapes Remix)
Cosmo Jarvis - She's Got You
Beach House - Take Care
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
Edward Sharpe + the Magnetic Zeros - Home

SHOOT EM UP

2010-01-25T19:21:00.002-05:00

WILDER NESS

2010-01-22T16:10:00.005-05:00

This gorgeous video for Pringle's SS10 line - by Ryan McGinley, starring Tilda Swinton - makes me miss the wilderness and beaches of Scotland.

BITTAR SWEET

2010-01-22T15:54:00.006-05:00

Alexis Bittar is donating 100% of all sales to the recovery effort in Haiti until the end of today...does that give me a good enough excuse to buy these?