Hey everybody! Hope you had a wonderful weekend. It went by fast! Here are this weeks pics:
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Rebecca – Chicago, Illinois
Joy and her friend Hayden with one of the “blue men” from Blue Man Group.
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Rachel – Los Angeles, California
LA Street c’est chic. LA pedi.
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Lauren – New York, New York
Gutai: Splendid Playground show at the Guddenheim this weekend.
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Farrell – Los Angeles, California
It is great to be back at home.
My mom made sure to remind me that when I move into my new place, I needed to “sage” my apartment. Like the good daughter that I am, I did just that. It might seem crazy, but many cultures practice the burning of sage and other plants in order to purify a space. I have done it with all of my apartments and living spaces and will continue to pass it on to my children. Try it out!
(via Our Humble Abode)
I recently did some repainting in my apartment and am thinking about doing a little more (none of it in sage but that’s beside the point). I can’t quite decide if picking just the perfect shade of a color is an art to master or simply a stroke of luck to strike. I’ve had a lot of ‘not quite’ color results in my day. But having just spent the prior several hours or evenings hoping a color would warm on me with one more coat or in the daylight or with the furniture back in the room, I’ve lived with the unsatisfactory results for months to years on end. I’ve also had the much rarer experience of feeling like a color turned out exactly as I envisioned it. It’s great.
I really hope this is a skill that I can hone but I’m still not quite convinced.
I am loving my new neighborhood and wanted to show you around. Here are some pics I snapped the other day.
Last week we started this new Coast to Coast series as another way for Farrell and I to keep up with each other now that we live so far apart. Last week I asked Farrell a series of questions (you can check them out here); this week she has posed a few for me to answer.
BLUE on New York’s Lower East Side
1. What is your favorite accessory right now?
2. What is your favorite thing about NYC and what is your least favorite thing about it?
My favorite thing about NYC is its energy. My least favorite thing about it is… Well, I don’t know, actually. I wish I had enough space to host dinner parties, and an outdoor space to grow a garden. I also wish living in NYC didn’t come with an ongoing sense of conflict about living away from my family. And I wish it was spring & summer here all year round.
3. How does it feel to have bangs? Are you going to grow them out or keep them?
I got bangs about two months ago and they’re easily the most exciting thing that has happened in my life this year. They feel good but sometimes I still feel like I have a thick toupee pasted on my forehead. I can’t really decide if I’m going to keep them or grow them out though I did just trim them, so they’re at least here to stay for a little while. I’m thinking about growing out the rest of my hair long again, like this. Also, I’ve tried this side sweep a few times. I think it’s really pretty but it’s not working out so well for me.
4. What song have you been listening to over and over lately?
5. What is your favorite museum in New York City and why?
I was walking through my new Silver Lake neighborhood in LA, when I stumbled upon the wall that Elliott Smith stood against in his Figure 8 album. It was shocking. I used to love that album deeply and tenderly. I listened to it so much that I feel like it is part of my DNA code somewhere.
I remember when I was in college and found out that he was dead. It was devastating. It felt as if a whole piece of my identity was gone forever. As soon as I got home from my walk, I listened to the whole thing again. It sounds different to me for some reason – maybe a bit happier or maybe that is just me. I suggest you get down on this amazingness.
“I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don’t think perfection is very artful. But there’s something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn’t have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it’s just to make this thing as beautiful as they can.” -Elliott Smith on Figure 8
familiarizing myself with my not-so-new-anymore camera on a wet & snowy evening.
Monday morning here again, which means a round of pictures to kick off the week. What kind of shots are living on your phone? Send one over for next Monday’s post.
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Meaghan – San Francisco, CA
Light installation on the Golden Gate Bridge from the embarcadero
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Lauren – New York, NY
Living on the edge
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Teddy – Austin, TX
Behind the DJ booth at the Hype Hotel
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Farrell – Los Angeles, CA
Melrose Trading Post
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Colleen – Cleveland, OH
Baby in a pot
This MIGHT seem random, but lately I have really been valuing my friends. In the past year, everyone in my life has given something without anything in return. I feel endless gratitude for all the support and people in my life. I can’t wait to return the favor. It is going to be great!
Thank you!
(image via here)
(image via Flickr)
We have been staying with our friend in Santa Monica for the past 10 days. Now, we are moving over to the Eastside of LA in Silver Lake. This whole city is new and exciting for us. So far, I am loving the weather/sunshine and being around some old and new friends.
Can’t wait to see where all of this leads…
In the mean time, I just watched this movie which left a lasting impression.
If you are in Austin for SXSW, check out the Monster Rally shows.
I think this is hilarious!
I saw this artist on the Colbert Report and I am still not sure how I feel about consumer art. What about you?
I read this story in the New York Times about a writer who lost his mother and all that happened in-between.
Happy Friday!
(Image found via Pinterest)
(image via here)
A few months ago I got a new wireless router; it came with a pre-set network name and password. The network name was something boring but the password was set as: blackunicorn314.
I take so much pleasure in imagining the NetGear worker who chose my password to be blackunicorn314. I mean, who is this guy?! Anyway, I’ve wanted to mention this here for some time but resisted the urge to save it for today. Pi Day. Just to make it that much more…that. Cheers.
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