incantation I

grand libraries. white candles. silver rings. a portal. blooming tea. book binding. milky pages. ink. film spools. midnight colored anything. murakami reality. oliver poems. kaleidoscope camping....

voyager’s guide to Sheringham

This is a guide for the voyager (me and you), curated from notes in my travel diary and camera. I hope this is the first of many. Welcome to Sheringham, an English village twixt sea and pine (it...

oraculum for the new year, 2013.

oraculum 1. a divine announcement 2. a prophetic declaration 3. an imperial rescript January first, two thousand thirteen. I present to you my oraculum. Held in glass and kept on the bookcase in my...

If you really knew me, you’d know…

I met a teepee-dwelling, wild-horse-breaking son of a Minister cowboy at the biggest treehouse in the United States. He was fixing his pickup and building a fire in tandem when we met. His father...

in which I start a blog and thank The Internet

How does one thank The Internet? This omnipresent entity in my life has delivered an education so perfectly mine, I want to thank it. Honor it. Have it over for pad thai & whiskey gingers. Of...

A Season of Rest + Travel

So, it’s official. I’m a free bird. Have been all summer. Soon to arrive: photos from my European adventures. I’m back, baby.

5.11.2011

I am now twenty-two. I am also supposed to be sleeping for a final in the morning. Better get on that! In ten days, I’ll have (hopefully) survived my last finals season, so I will see you on the...

All of the lights: Miami Preview

Prepare for neon glow enchantment.

Museum of Magic 4.18.11

Wishing you a dreamy & celestial Monday night. This week’s collection is dedicated to the soul-singing technicolor sunset we just enjoyed minutes ago in breezy Miami. + For my personal glory...

Guess where I am?! The Last Spring Break Edition

I’m writing to you from this very room. This polaroid = one of my all time favorites. Ten days of sunshine, palm fronds, + sets by spinnzinn. In a word: bliss.

How to Conjure a Business of Intrigue

We are knee-deep in the Digital Age. Anyone with a computer and a dream can tap into the supercharged current of global business. It’s a world of unbridled digital velocity. We’re beaming up,...

Museum of Magic 4.11.11

The Week in Focus 4.8.11

Today is my sister’s 19th birthday. Happiest of Birthdays to you, Britt! Naturally, I made her into a sunflower. Her gift: BrittneyOswald.com. A domain by any other name wouldn’t smell as sweet....

Shiny Things 3.31.11

rabid fox unicorn rings Light Art galaxies using a Kinect: photographs by Audrey Penvin I want to go here more than anything. Hostel in the forest. Ruben Ireland’s illustrations are stone-colored &...

The Week in Focus 3.30.11

A night stroll through the village windows. Katla with those eyes on the wall. The morning after: a 10am light study in black and white.

Shiny Things: 3.24.11

by yours truly. taken in my village. Have you met the technicolor raver of the deep seas? Enter: The Comb Jellyfish. Get all your novel-writing done: revel in the trance-inducing sounds of steady...

surprise digital holiday

The midterm hangover workload has finally diminished here at the House. That was a long one! Crossing the half way mark in my last semester has brought me to a very excitable place. I’m getting...

celebrating a holiday

My last ever midterm season is officially OVER! Today is a holiday for gathering and merriment! I’m off to celebrate this occasion. Tomorrow is a double header: Shiny Things & Week in Focus. See...

summer coast gazing: a polaroid

This is a polaroid taken in August of 2010. We sat on the shoreline at Robert Moses beach off southern Long Island, scouring the ocean coast for seabirds and dolphins. Currently: half frozen in the...

Museum of Magic 3.14.11

Week in Focus: 3.13.11

This black and white film might just be new my favorite grain-happy go-to: Ilford XP2 Super 400. It develops in C41 processing just like color film. These are my first few shots with the film. The...

Museum of Magic 3.7.11

Tale of the Whale: a Humpback Revelation

It all started with a Humpback whale. My left hand cradled binoculars close to my fleece-lined chest. My right hand rested at the ready on the shutter of my Nikon. We were the only crazy-enough...

Shiny Things 3.3.11

Lena Wolff creates enchanting paper collages, like the one pictured above. From one asthmatic to another: let’s find a way to make this Darth Vader Inhaler a reality. Someone’s gone and drawn my...

symmetry & the gender spectrum

This article was written in response to The Lie of Femininity by Ev`Yan of SexLoveLiberation.com. It lit a fire inside me. Go check it out. For the past two months, I’ve participated in a bi-weekly...

Museum of Magic 2.28.11

The Week in Focus 2.25.11

I am so in love with my new Tah-loo hoodie. It makes me feel like an earthy magician. Two sassy fortunes I received this week. Here’s the result of my first venure into the world of cyanotype...

Shiny Things 2.24.11

Ryan Berkley illustrates awesome things, like the image above. Ever wonder about the muses of rock stars and their song lyrics? Child of the Moon has a gorgeous vintage photo-filled post up: Girl...

Museum of Magic 2.21.11

Have a marvelous moonlit Monday evening.

The Week in Focus 2.18.11

A house portrait. These characters live with each other in a house next to campus. This is the joy of the college experience. The book’s illustrator: Janine van Oene.