::afternoon tea::

Seriously, these kids are blowin' up! Out of control. Vogue.com sez that you should check out Darlings (with the Sundelles) this Friday at Market Hotel and I totes agree!!

**photo montage hijacked from vogue.com**

you inspire you. joshua blake.

my friend Josh helped me out this past weekend by taking some really nice photos of my work. in exchange, i helped him do some test lighting shots for a shoot he did last night and thought i'd share them because they look pretty cool. you can check out more of Josh's work at his site, http://joshuablakephotography.com/.

::gravestones::part deux::

From the Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah, GA which was created by the Savannah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The ladies in the 'roids are my friends Kelsy and Emma and believe it or not, Kelsy actually is a DAR. Quite a nice little coincidence!

you inspire you. gravestones and martha stewart.

In the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, Martha Stewart Living ran this article about "the headstones of this country's oldest cemeteries." I don't know how other families do, but in mine, we visit cemeteries all of the time. I mean, cemeteries where relatives are buried...not just any old cemetery for shizzers and giggles or something. I took this Polaroid when I was in Boston on The Freedom Trail this past summer. I really like Puritan Death Heads as those little skulls with wings on the gravestones are aptly named. That would actually make a great band name. Anywho, I like cemeteries. During the day at least. And the more you think about it, people are obsessed with cemeteries and graves and memorials to the once living. Think about Napoleon's tomb in Paris! Or those beautiful cemeteries in New Orleans full of mausoleum's...or the tomb of the unknown soldier in Arlington, Va....there is so much inspiration in death.

Happy Birthday to my Mum.

Dear Mum,

You are one of my most favorite ladies. Well, let's face it, you are my favorite lady. I'm not going to tell anyone how old you are today so don't worry. Just be happy that you have me to keep you young:)

Love you,
K.

::more Yvan::

::pour Leah et Nikki::
http://yvanrodic.blogspot.com/

you inspire you. maripol.

this post is inspired by a great Polaroid artist, (not me~someone else! haha. jk jk.) Maripol and a little tribute to The Impossible Project's success! i am so happy that instant film for Polaroid cameras is being put back into production. i no longer need to cry myself to sleep at night. there is hope in the world again!

::morning inspiration::

::afternoon tea::

Thanks J.Lee!

a little dose of inspiration from a friend::
http://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_shares_happy_design.html

::afternoon tea::

oh just one of my favorite people...my brother Eric...

you inspire you. robert rauschenberg.

a visit to the MOMA on friday reminded me of how much i love robert rauschenberg's combine series. remember that great show the Met had of them in 2006?

::morning inspiration::

G. Altman.

::i::heart::grandparents::

i think that now is as good a time as any to tell you that i'm obsessed with my grandparents, both maternal and paternal. this post is regarding my dad's parents, the ones that have lived in the same row house in northeast philly since the fifties.

Jonathan Safran Foer inspired this post after I read his piece in last weekend's T Magazine Food Issue. He wrote, "My grandmother survived World War II barefoot, scavenging Eastern Europe for other people’s inedibles: rotting potatoes, discarded scraps of meat, skins and the bits that clung to bones and pits. So she never cared if I colored outside the lines, as long as I cut coupons along the dashes. I remember hotel buffets: while the rest of us erected Golden Calves of breakfast, she would make sandwich upon sandwich to swaddle in napkins and stash in her bag for lunch. It was my grandmother who taught me that one tea bag makes as many cups of tea as you’re serving, and that every part of the apple is edible." JSF, are you talking about my grandparents or your grandmother? I'm not sure.

reading Foer's thoughts on his survivor grandmother makes me think, "is there an entire group of people who have been affected by the behavioural habits of their survivor parents/grandparents whom i have a secret bond with?" and to clarify, survivors meaning those who survived the Holocaust, as both of my father's parents did. i don't think that i can truly articulate in a blog post what my grandparents have meant to me, imprinted on me, taught me. after visiting Auschwitz, one of the camps my grandmother passed through, while studying in Prague in 2005, i called her to tell her i had been there and that i had bawled like a baby. to me she said, "but you know our story. you know this. you have to live your life." and i believe in this more than anything else, that despite everything they have been through, my grandparent's deepest desire remains for their children and their children's children to live, to survive, to know happiness, and to know they are loved for who they are. now that's something worth surviving for.

::evening inspiration::

Tel Aviv by Yvan. I want to go to here.

::in::memoriam::

you were cute. we had a good time together. but i wore ya down baby.