I decided to take somewhat of an impromptu pre-Memorial Day long weekend to New York…! The program consisted of lots of running around to: Schiaparelli & Prada, TOMAS SARACENO on the roof o...
Swedish textile designer and BIG THINGS AHEAD interviewee Hans Krondahl has been digitizing his personal archives and recently wrote me with some images he dug up of works from 1985-88 created after ...
Who can possibly resist the glamour, extravagance & strange allure of drag queens!? After seeing these images from Gilles Larrain’s 1973 book, Idols, documenting the 1970s New York transves...
I’ve been going to Reno for Passover with my family for the past four years. This year I took the Chinatown gambler’s special bus from Oakland with a bunch of old Chinese dudes through th...
Lots going on this weekend in the SF art world- hope to see you out and about! Here’s the agenda: FRIDAY: I’ll be covering CCA’s Fashion Show for Modeconnect! My bff Nico and friend...
I brought my copy of Blackstock’s Collections to tutoring today and my student got a kick out of Gregory’s drawings of collections of items- shoes, noisemakers, animals, hats, warplanes, ...
Diggin’ on Frank Hallam Day‘s photos of hand-painted signs of hair salons in rural Ethiopia. Day explains that these are part of a larger project exploring the Western influence on Africa...
I’ve been saving these images forever, it’s time to release them into the world! Some favorite picks from some deep digs into the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Love this ...
So you may have seen the photos of my most recent mini-vacay in Palm Springs…but what I was waiting to share was the NEW dullDiamond bracelets that I took with me on the road to photograph in t...
WOW last night’s NightLife Earth Day party at the California Academy of Sciences was such a blast! Thanks to everyone who came out to learn about composting, gardening, edible bugs, bug photogr...
Tomorrow is our dirt/earth party at the Academy of Sciences, so we figured it’s about time for a little update of the Dirt Chronicles. This time we’re exploring the magical powers of dirt...
BIG THINGS is SO excited to be partnering with the California Academy of Sciences for a radical Earth Day celebration! Join us at the Academy next Thursday, April 26th for Dirty, Earthy NightLife, an...
Last July, I posted some images from the last archi lookbook and wrote about my experience modeling a few outfits for their fall collection while they were shooting in San Francisco. I finally got ar...
Mid-week vacations are a rare bird. Caitlin drove down from Portland and stopped over for an Oakland hangout when we decided on a whim to rendezvous in LA for some Palm Springs desert action. We call...
I am officially recovered from World Party Day! The party in SF was a great success despite the rainy Tuesday night. We packed Asterisk Magazine’s headquarters with streamers, alien and earth b...
On July 1st of this summer, California is slated to close 70 state parks due to severe budget cuts- that’s 25% of America’s largest state park system! I am one of the many Californians di...
My partner in planning all of these World Party Day shenanigans is none other than artist/designer/craft-lover, K it Palaskas in Sydney! I had admired her blog for so long and asked her to do a projec...
I hope everyone had an awesome World Party Day yesterday!!! The San Francisco party had me running all over town in preparation, so here are a few tutorials from our WPD series…a little late, b...
Well everyone, World Party Day is right around the corner! It’s actually starting TONIGHT in Australia and Kit is busy prepping her party in Sydney while we here on the West Coast have one more...
A party isn’t really a party without FOOD! Luckily we have Venessa from Kernels & Seeds on board to show us how to make a two-fer-one-recipe of bread pudding! Split your dough between a swe...
It’s almost here…WORLD PARTY DAY! Join BIG THINGS, the party experts at The Adventure School, Sydney-based crafter extraordinaire, Kitiya Palaskas, and Asterisk San Francisco Magazine in ...
After an epic trip to Chicago’s premier Mexican candy store, Dulcelandia, Debbie & Lilian are on to Part 2 of their World Party Day celebration- teaching us how to make your own diamante-sh...
I have always been a big fan of the orchestra- the history of the music, the physical experience, all the beautiful instruments and the musicians! In the fall, I went to several performances at the S...
In this first part of their World Party Day tutorial, Debbie Carlos & Lilian Martinez take us on a tour of the Chicago Mexican chain candy store, Dulcelandia!!! My teeth are aching just looking a...
I could barely contain myself when I got Sarah’s email about her idea for World Party Day, so I am ECSTATIC that we can finally share it with the world! I’m not really a huge jello fan, n...
Meeting someone at a party………..wo w. Who doesn’t love those flirt-across-the-room moments? Making out in the bathroom? Someone passing out before anything really that great hap...
The Victorias over at GiftWrapHQ have seriously outdone themselves…again! After their first mindblowing World Party Day post on party bags, now they’ve teamed up with Kitty Farrow Press t...
Mariah is a creative consultant over in South Africa and her blog, size too small, is a beautiful collection of finds and images. We asked her to contribute to World Party Day and she came up with th...
Well, we figured since we’re gearing up for World Party Day, we might as well do some time traveling while we’re at it! Sara from Brown Paper Bag is back for Time Travel Tuesday and zaps ...
Oh man, do we love banh mi sandwiches. Oh MAN, do we love bicycles. And oohhh MAAANN do we love picnics! This is the kind of creative World Party Day event that we want to see happening all around th...
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