[images via Interview Magazine] Jonesing for some Polaroid action right now (although thats nothing new); in lieu of my own Polaroid, Ill have to settle for disposable cameras from CVS. In other news...
Easy to recreate (and Im SO going to do this): ...NOT so easy to recreate, but let us all agree that those talon rings are the definition of OFF THE CHAIN, and would go with just about everythi...
I love this. From a 1967 interview in the Paris Review: INTERVIEWER Another critic has written that your “worlds are static. They may become tense with obsession, but they do not break apart li...
[Givenchy Resort 2012 and Couture Fall 2011, via style.com // B&W Rock n Roll madness via LIFE magazine] Lets talk about how much I adore Givenchy. Which is a lot. Swoon-worthy and wearable at th...
I cannot believe I only have one more month of my internship, and only a little over a month left in New York. Time has flown far too fast this summer, which I believe is an indication of how much fu...
1, 3, 9. Embroidered Photos by Maurizio Anzeri 2, 6. Iconography by Brian Vu 4, 8. Color photographs of turn-of-the-century Russia, via The Big Picture 5. A photograph by Petra Reimann 7. A WWI...
Totally feeling some Vegas vibes right now... preferably these 1968 Vegas vibes, as provided by a set of BOMB candid photos taken by a group of Yale Architecture school students on a studio trip.&nbs...
These colors. The last two photos are the view from the loft my mother lived in when she lived in New York in the early 80s. So good. [images via some random site, poculum, personal]
Loving this blog from textile designer Zara Atelj. SUCH yummy images: Images via The Daily Pattern
I LOVE these. Photographs by Danny Lyons, via the selvedgeyard.
Its been quite a week. Just finished Nabokovs Lolita. Wondering what to read next...
soundtrack of the day: and on an unrelated note, todays my first day of work! EEK!
I move to New York tomorrow morning. Could not be more excited. (!!!) Also, some things I like to look at: [images via touchpuppet, vain and vapid, lefashion]
Some of my favorite lines from the poem "Pale Fire," written into Nabokovs novel of the same name: Now I shall speak of evil as none hasSpoken before. I loathe such things as jazz;The white-h...
Ive been on a major Patti Smith kick lately. By lately, I mean for the past four months. GOD ISNT SHE JUST GORGEOUS??! [image via google images]
Catherine Opie describes herself as a conceptual documentary photographer, a seemingly idiosyncratic and inherently contradictory self-categorization that works to challenge the naturalized binary of...
Poetry and eloquence are both alike the expression or utterance of feeling: but, if we may be excused the antithesis, we should say that eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard. Eloquence s...
just CHECK these collar/lapel details. SO FLY: [via touchpuppet] -Ava
MY CURRENT WORLDVIEW: [jak&jil] [touchpuppet] [touchpuppet] [fashiontoast] [touchpuppet] -Ava
Lately, Ive been obsessed with this blog of rare and candid celebrity photos, perhaps because of the titillating aspect of voyeurism inherent in peering into these private/"never-before-seen "...
SO IM BACK. Exactly a month after I last posted.... failure. Honestly, I think I was loath to keep blogging over break because (even though no one really reads this blog and its not like its actual W...
this semester is FINALLY OVER. i almost cant believe it... now what am i going to DO with myself??!?? read these: ...and see my old friends... ...and find a job... ...and go back here: .....
right now, im writing a paper on these photographs by shelby lee adams for my appalachian lit class... tricky business because, although theyre certainly compelling images, i get the uneasy feeling t...
judging from the look of my inspiration folder at present, heres the mood now, yall... something thats all about a little bit of everything, from mod to cowboyish to preppy to ridiculous and glamorou...
writin a paper on this documentary called Crisis in Levittown for my American Studies class (my last academic act before thanksgiving break sets in, thank goodness!)... and not to be biased, but its ...
this is straight-up beautiful. ...and completely computer-generated? WOW. Silestone -- Above Everything Else from Alex Roman on Vimeo. -Ava
how i see the world right now: [images via touchpuppet, yes please mademoiselle, google images] -Ava
lately, ive started keeping a journal. its been really nice and necessary to have a place where i can say ANYTHING i need to, without any sort of audience in mind. i used to try to keep a journ...
seriously. gives me shivers every time: -Ava
my life has been getting so crazy lately that i really needed to get out of town... so lee and i took a roadtrip and went exploring, cameras in hand, just like we used to in high school... sometimes ...
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