The Much Needed Words of Advice

I've been feeling like I don't like anything I do lately, and sometimes it really is hard to keep on going and making things and making attempts at creativity. This video, found via Something's Hiding in Here, was just what I needed. Thanks, Ira. You rock.

Ease Your Feet into the Sea

Ease you're feet into the sea

My darling it's the place to be

Take your shoes off curl your toes,
I will frame this moment in time.

I love for me, for you

Plain and simple. Kate Miss makes such adorable things, from doodles to jewelry. I think i kind of want to snag this one. I'm so hooked.

[by for me, for you]

Let's talk about distance

I feel like I've come a long way in the last few days, and while YES I have travelled from one far side of the country to the other, and YES, I have found myself on any number of forms of transportation, I still feel like those distances seem pretty insignificant. Sometimes it seems harder and farther just to get myself out of bed and into the shower. Or to get myself to write down my thoughts that have to travel all the way from my head.

[via ffffound]

Vacations are hard to come back from. I have a hard time readjusting to the lack of sleep, the lack of reading, and the lack of general nothing-doing. Bear with me while I adjust. Until I realize that my temporary escape is really over, maybe I'll just try to find a good book to bury myself into.

Wouldnt you like to get away? Kerouac's beckoning with open arms, and open roads of eucalyptus, westward bound.

Wouldnt you like to get away? Give yourself up to the allure of Catcher in the rye.
The futures swathed in stars and stripes.

- "Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie" by B&S

Dream Office/Studio

So I'm beginning to look at apartments for August. This has me feeling like I did not exactly take advantage of the "green room," our extra little bedroom in our house / storage room and sewing room. In turn, that has me thinking about my dream office/studio work space.

Today, on design*sponge, there was a sneak peek of caroline gomez's home and studio, and i love her work space, even though it is just an area of her living room she curtained off. Love it.

I definitely need a better work table that can sit at the center of my room. The teeny space on my desk that's not being consumed by my computer really isn't cutting it.

Trapholt

more digging up old photos. I remember being totally in love with these letters at the Trapholt Museum in Denmark.
I need to travel more. and sew more.

Sarah Gardner

I absolutely love this print by Sarah Gardner

So lovely

Things keep on changing

The blog continues to undergo cosmetic changes as I continue to build up a sort of branding for "a pocket novel". I spent all day today zooming through Design Sponge looking at designers' homes and studios and wishing my home was decorated as lovely as theirs. So tomorrow J and I are gonna head off to the SPCA rummage sale and try to did up some junk.

I really love the bust on Michelle Adams' bookcase:

Things I've been wanting to share with someone

This summer there were two posts on BLDGBLOG that really blew me away. They, of course, really had very little to do with architecture.

The first was a post entitled "Pandemonium" And featured the photography of Alexey Titarenko, specifically his series titled "City of Shadows"

BLDGBLOG showed the following image with the following commentary:

But I suppose this is what the world would look like if we could see the residue of everyone who's ever passed through – a vast, multi-limbed creature made of tens of thousands of human bodies, winding its way through streets and buildings, looking for some place to go.

For some reason, that image and sentence just really took me aback.

Introduction|Explanation

Now that I am a townie, and you all I figured that perhaps I could find a way to keep in touch with you more directly. I won't promise coherent posts, and often they prob won't even have to do with events or activities that are actually going on in my life, but I'll take it as a way of keeping close to you all.

I'm not a very good blogger. So I apologize ahead of time.

I will try to post something more substantial when I'm not at work, when I can write something that is not just whatever comes out between webproofing sections.

Explanation:
You all know my belle and sebastian obsession. I have always enjoyed them because the lyrics always are very much telling a story, creating characters and plot lines. I wish I was a better writer.

But the name of this blog, and my old livejournal, comes from this particular belle and sebastian song that I always find a very strong connection to:

I was surprised, I was happy for a day in 1975
I was puzzled by a dream, stayed with me all day in 1995
My brother had confessed that he was gay
It took the heat off me for a while
He stood up with a sailor friend
Made it known upon my sisters wedding day

I got married in a rush to save a kid from being deported
Now shes in love
I was so touched, I was moved to kick the crutches
From my crippled friend
She was not impressed that I cured her on the sabbath
So I went to confess
When she saw the funny side, we introduced my child bride
To whiskey and gin

The priest in the booth had a photographic memory
For all he had heard
He took all of my sins and he wrote a pocket novel called
The state I am in
So I gave myself to god
There was a pregnant pause before he said ok
Now I spend my day turning tables round in marks & spencers
They don't seem to mind

I gave myself to sin
I gave myself to providence
And I've been there and back again
The state that I am in

Oh love of mine, would you condescend to help me
Cause I'm stupid and blind
Desperation is the devils work, it is the folly of a boys empty mind
Now I'm feeling dangerous, riding on city buses for a hobby is sad
Lead me to a living end
I promised that I'd entertain my crippled friend
My crippled friend