two backyard finds

tall yellow yellow flower and a fallen plane



i love this paper artist: nathalie boutté!

gunta stölzl

i know i've posted about gunta stölzl before at some point. photos above of her weavings/sketches from the book bauhaus 1919–1933: workshops for modernity

lots lots more found here

and some of the works of this talented hannah waldron remind me of gunta's.

in the interest of fairness

thought i'd post some recent dog flickr/tumblr favorites since i posted cats the other day.

this guy above was sniffing around in the plant nursery and would not stand still for a proper picture (despite the fact that the owner says the dog regularly has his picture taken by strangers).

sweet
this guy reminds me of a dog my family briefly had, waldo
charlie picking out wedding samples
cracks me up
cute
morning loo dog walk
another charlie
morning coffee
characters
venice bistro
i am the best
pernille
coffee date

lately

finding it hard to motivate to bicycle to the farmers' market in the rain this morning. maybe it will let up soon....

it's nice that

rachel's new necklaces!

william steig

as a child i loved sylvester and the magic pebble and the amazing bone by mr. steig. today i checked out the book william steig drawings, which includes many of his new yorker drawings. his drawings are so scribbly and ugly and beautiful and hilarious. amazing how something so scribbly can capture so much about gestures, life. in the introduction, lillian rose writes of steig's drawn world:

it's a place without money or machinery or 'things.' it's a world populated by artists, farmers, knights, ladies, gentlemen, lovers (many, many lovers); by lions, dogs, cats, rabbits, chickens, birds, fish (congenial creatures all of them, but with every human fault); by drunks, violinists, bums, actors, clowns...an intimate, pastoral, not too dangerous world, where poetry rules and time does not pass.

this book contains a bunch of drawings of people serenading animals and vice versa. too funny.

more, bigger

worn right

i had to start an old trucks in alameda set.

wind-trimmed

threading in the choirs

someone recorded the lovely first song by the charming emil svanängen of loney dear last night at bottom of the hill

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no one's leaving

harden my heart

cooling one of my favorites of hers

it's time for cat madness! ^ ^

giant pinky leon!

so many excellent cats on flickr lately.

two behind leaves: chester and this sweetie
big cat pillow
this animal
busted charlie
oh my goodness
basil
that look
lunch stretch
trotsky the cat
are you going to feed me now?
hazelnap (hazel reminds me of my old cat, humphrey)
smulan (the crumb in english)
all cats, all the time

why we broke up

i don't know why i requested this book from the library, when i was obviously going to purchase it.

these two must have so much fun together. so much wacky creativity and oddball knowledge between the two of them. you can tell they enjoy each other from their interview on city arts and lectures. it's airing again on sunday. (looks like there's no podcast...) maira's take on cake is brilliant.

why we broke up

wim wenders +

from his book once, which contains photos from his travels and the stories behind them. go see pina if you have not.

victoria hannan

wilder quarterly

another, a lullaby, by jonathan johannson: du sa (you said)

lyrics translation approx: you said something about, about the other side/ you said something about, you said something about us/ you said something that never left me/ you said something that stayed

tonight

we are young

the dog, the people, the yellow stool, found through elisabeth

❉

guess i'm collecting old truck photos now. old trucks are plentiful on the island.

found jonathan johansson this weekend. you might like his songs even if you don't know swedish (considering i can only understand about half of what he's singing...).

and then found rockfotoemma, a blog of a swedish musician/band photographer. here's a photo of hers of aforementioned jonathan johansson).

-\|/^-

tainted love (like the original better, but mm amuses me—drama!)
hearts club band
little less conversation

the movie i have seen more times than any other movie. never gets old.

dusk graininess

bigger

enjoying the weird glowy dusk-storm coming light on the way home today. i like that the days are getting lighter.

fast saknar sverige idag. har gjort bort mig. det måste man göra ibland. men också gör att jag vill fly lite grann. får bli in i en bok istället. lyssnar på kent idag: lsd, någon? den här skivan blir bättre o bättre. skulle vilja se dem i stockholm en dag.

om man är urtråkad kan man rufsa till håret o ta lite photobooth foton.

XX

agnes thor photography
yann faucher (i'm sure i've linked to before)

poppies

bees for poppies
my sympathy
time to get ill
random but good

hello pale toes

first 2012 day of no socks!

shirley & lee
tina

tonight girl walk // all day!

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nowness=so good (the site design, the photos, the interviews)
found through nicholas haggard, also so good!

swedish pop: tell no one about tonight
reminds me of this

o o o O o o

you spin me right round (wow. such a bad video.)

perfect circle

julien strangler (not so circle related)

mixed bag

photos from minä perhonen's book

heather mcghee on bill moyers & company=rad

on a non-serious note: if they were to make a movie about suede, lou taylor pucci from thumbsucker should clearly play brett anderson. the drowners

✺

yellow

girl walk // all day
elephants & little girls
thanks for the tips, jen

i'm excited that alameda residents are trying to start a little farm on this end of the island.

ocean of noise

feathers and pipe cleaners

my super talented friend jeff made this in his first semester at risd. hypnotizing.

inside

i want you
thrown right at me (there are about 35 versions of this duet on youtube—hard to pick one)

trying to decide if i want to go back out into the bluster.

MLK

some good listens in honor of MLK:

the new jim crow author michelle alexander on fresh air. the last part of the interview is especially powerful.

the latest this american life about apple (and other) products being made in china. storyteller mike daisy goes undercover as an american businessman in order to see what's going on in the factories in china.

wish one could listen online on alternative radio to the whole interview with richard wolff about occupy wallstreet.

the new bill moyers show is also about occupy. i have not yet listened to the whole first installment, but guessing it's pretty good since bill came out of retirement to make it.

this morning

in pictures:
1. cat is abducted by ufo (for being this cute)
2. year round roses in alameda
3. honey man showing off his bees at the farmers' market
4. fireside letters and light
5. green+green=green

skating

for the bookworms

history of sadness chapter: before language, the sea mirrors feelings of loneliness


history of love chapter: sexual, personal confusion
confusion or
confusion with thicker lines


scenes from 1955 chapter: oh shit
caption at the bottom: mcdonald's opens its first franchise restaurant, april 1955


history of love chapter: real problems in a relationship | imagined problems in a relationship

got this book of mike mills' drawings from the movie beginners (my favorite 2011 movie) for xmas. love it. so funny. bigger and more spreads here.

on my reading list for 2012

jeffrey eugenides' the marriage plot
ann patchett's state of wonder
salvage the bones by jesmyn ward
the art of fielding by chad harbach
something by oliver sachs
something by marcel proust
perfume by patrick suskind
doc by mary dory russell
under the banner of heaven by jon krakauer

bye 2011

oh, you're taking a photo of those cards? let me sit on them for you.

(card backs)

happy 2012 to you!

gott nytt år!

a horse is a horse

when home in december, i always end up going with my mom to the stable where she keeps her horse. my mom has been a horse person since she was a girl, while i have never been a horse person. but horses are pretty cool regardless. top is godiva. my mom is pictured with her horse, nejlika, who traveled to california by plane from sweden. certain kinds of horses are more expensive to buy in the states than to buy in europe and have flown over! nuts. did you know that horses often ride on passenger planes?! nuts. my mom is 70 and has a replacement hip, but she rides regularly. nuts. :-) but good for her i'm sure.

nejlika expects (and receives) treats on the regular. carrots, sugar cubes, cookies made for horses, apples. giving nejlika treats is one of the more fun activities at the stable.