key

I think everyone must have a first memory

of some house, some room, a vivid picture

that will remain deep down in one forever.

Sister Parish

...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about.

Sister Parish

photo: Gould Auctions

so "very discriminating"

So magnificent!

The House of Beauty and Culture

(& thank you for the quote,

marvelous Mrs. Blandings)

images via

The House of Beauty and Culture

+

Corbu's Cave

or five minutes to deliver an act of generosity that changes everything

This is straight from Seth Godin's blog today:

"You rock

This is deceptive.

You don't rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, world-changing artist all the time. In fact, it's a self-defeating goal. You can't do it.

No, but you might rock five minutes a day.

Five minutes to write a blog post that changes everything, or five minutes to deliver an act of generosity that changes someone. Five minutes to invent a great new feature, or five minutes to teach a groundbreaking skill in a way that no one ever thought of before. Five minutes to tell the truth (or hear the truth).

Five minutes a day you might do exceptional work, remarkable work, work that matters..."

Seth Godin

[note to self: five minutes a day seems so do-able, doesn't it? and then there are the days we're able to accomplish even more than five minutes of being a rock star; it all adds up. every little five minutes of effecting change seems like a good thing right now]

Long Tall Sally from Beatles Bible

because we once so loved thrasher

we've had many many skateboards in our house

and they remind me of what seems, now, a bit

simpler time (but i think memory is playing tricks here)

the collection of good things that is secret forts

notes, today, a movie that looks fascinating:

machotaildrop

via

secret forts

by way of saturdays

photo: espnskateboarding

see also: huntley | gnarcore

transitory lasts

Finding myself in agreement

with the very lovely and

talented Helen James on

the point she has made here.

Some (somehow pure) images

haunt you forever. It's art when

that happens, and art that needs

to happen to move life ahead. What

remains (to haunt) right now?

Often, it is a little off.

A tad blurred.

A jaunt. A memory.

The glimmer of a thought. A muse.

To place it on the wall,

to hold it still. To inspire.

A spirit caught in time.

Art.

Helen James Design

Photo: Wendy Blevan

and the shoes, the shoes

carey mulligan in prada

photo: getty images

"if you want to be creative, get out and there and do it: it's not a waste of time"

Michael Giacchino

what Matthew Knott says about it, here

comedy keeps the heart sweet

the human race has

one really effective weapon,

and that is laughter

mark twain

please note: a twain festival. here.

i wish i could remember where i got this, but i don't.

if anyone knows, i'd like to link it back. thanks & enjoy.

via gould auctions

Rise, wash, and address Powerful Goodness!

Mr. Franklin's Day

daily routines

via

monoscope

by way of

one floor up

bound to be true

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound

to live by the light that I have."

Abraham Lincoln

photo: from a photo by

Shōji Ueda

(iphone/sfmoma/2009)

Gretchen and Julia

"Enthusiasm is a terrific quality. The more I think about happiness, the more I value enthusiasm. It can seem cooler and smarter to be ironic, detached, or critical, and it’s certainly much easier and safer to adopt that sort of stance. But enthusiasm is more fun. Enthusiasm is generous, positive, energetic, and social. It’s outward-turning and engaged. It’s unselfconscious, warm-hearted, and kind of goofy..."

Gretchen Rubin's take on Julia Child: Here

birch by bike

birch

sf

(photo: birch/tumblr)

Eikoh Hosoe

Kamaitachi #31

1968

SFMOMA

(iphone/12.09)

See Something

"He didn't like artifice or pretension. Even when it made his process more difficult, he insisted on the real thing. If we were photographing a hand holding a pizza, it had to be the pizza maker's hand. Once when Penn was doing a portrait, the famous subject went on at length about his accomplishments and current work and future plans. Penn listened patiently, and finally, after a very long pause, he quietly said, 'It sounds like you are trying to impress me.'"

Quotes (title and above)

from "Seeing the Light,"

by Phyllis Posnick

Vogue (03.10)

Photo by Penn of Simone de Beauvoir

from Photographs Do Not Bend

Koo Sung Soo

From the series My Wife, Thirty Years Old

SFMOMA

via model's own

(often mentioned on little augury)

wishing you a restful weekend

two favorites together

The Style Saloniste

is celebrating the work

of P. Gaye Tapp, a.k.a.

Little Augury (whom

I admit being pretty

darn smitten by; adore

her style, her verve, her

charmingly crafted stories

and exceedingly lovely

eye). More, here. Cheers!

Artwork: P. Gaye Tapp, Little Augury

Website: Parthenia

by the way

mrs. blandings is going to los angeles

and that's a very very good thing (&

okay, i know the above isn't LA, but

i came across it here while looking

for palm trees & there you go). so:

hurrah, Patricia! Can't wait to hear

all about this sunny trip-to-be...

Ivan Terestchenko

The colored thread, the braid, the

neat scissors. The sweetly elegant

needlework. The spools, the paper,

the pins. Simple/a universe.

blog

book

eye

somos amigos

Full of Heart, originally uploaded by Bobby Moon

Wish you could have
heard what we heard tonight:
Somos Amigos is changing lives.
It's a marvelous inspiration, a
heck of a lot of (joyfully achieved)
work, and looks to offer one of

those chance-of-a-lifetimes to

make a difference.

Here's the website.
Here's the video.
Here's what you can do right now.

future tense

whatconsumesme

via

jonascarlsson