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Phillip Toledano - Days With My Father

incerdible images, incredible story and incredible design. things like this really hit home for me. and every single one of these images is strikingly beautiful.

Plrds.com - Polaroid Photography Collection

not saying it's a bad article. but it could be a lot better.

HOW TO SURVIVE ART SCHOOL

the human body is amazing.

Ariana Page Russell - ‘Index’ 2005

“My own skin frequently blushes and swells. I have dermatographia, a condition in which one’s immune system exhibits hypersensitivity, via skin, that releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the skin’s surface is lightly scratched. This allows me to painlessly draw patterns and words on my skin, which I then photograph.” (thanks Decker!)

50 things to do before summer is over

"A couturier must be: An architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for colour, a musician for harmony and a philosopher for temperance." - Christobal Balenciaga

secret playhouse

also, i would like a house/or studio like this. which could posssssss be totally possible in my back yard over the stream. how dank would that be?

via, lolita.

inspiration

“Millions of people are directly interested in the false. They
live by lying. To deceive is the business of their lives. Truth is
a cripple; lies have wings. It is almost impossible to overtake and
kill and bury a lie. If you do, some one will erect a monument over
the grave, and the lie is born again as an epitaph.” -Robert Green Ingersoll (emphasis mine)

This dramatic ankle-length skirt is as simple to make (and wear) as a sarong.

Skirt How-To
1. Buy 2 to 2 1/2 yards of 60-inch wide silk taffeta.

2. Finish the edges by folding them over and securing with iron-on Stitch Witchery ($2 for 20 yards at amazon.com) or by using a sewing machine.

3. Hold one corner of fabric against your left hip, then wrap the fabric twice around your body.

4. Grab a small handful of fabric about 6 inches in from the corner you just wrapped around your body and double-knot it to the corner you're holding against your hip.

5. Adjust the skirt so the draped portion is in the back.

Resources
Fabric, $25 per yard, Butterfly Fabrics, 212-575-4744. Boss Black blouse, $250, hugoboss.com for stores. "Dane" sandals, $640, jimmychoo.com for stores. Badgley Mischka "Chandelier" earrings, $185, 212-398-7363

First Published: November/December 2007

via, marthastewart.

Cutting Book Series with ED Rushca “Artists who make pieces, Artists who do books” (detail), 2008: Noriko Ambe

Rose-La liste

this is so great. great ideas.

via www.dorthealstrup.com

please read this great post about Pierced paper - pinholes, and other paper craft artists.
thanks cally creates!

America Is F*cked.......(Graphically at least)

America Is F*cked.......(Graphically at least) from Jess Gibson on Vimeo.

I can paint and draw. I believe as much myself and others also say they believe it. But I am not sure that it is true. Only two things are certain:

1. I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women. But other subjects interest me even more. I am convinced that I am not particularly interesting as a person. There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning until night. Figures and landscapes, portraits less often.

2. I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Even when I have a simple letter to write I am filled with fear and trembling as though on the verge of being sea-sick. For this reason people must do without an artistic or literary self-portrait. And this should not be regretted. Whoever wants to know something about me—as an artist, the only notable thing—ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do.

— Gustav Klimt

(hyper)

obsession

i highly enjoy the cinematography in this. there are some beautiful shots. if you know who shot it, let me know.