Room Love

Don't you want to spend your Saturday right there reading a book and having iced tea?

(Via DesignSponge)

Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) is one of my favorite artists. Her massive found-object sculptures have always been overwhelmingly haunting to me and seemed to be full of secrets. She tended to cover her sculptures in one color, generally black, white or gold to make each object less noticeable. Nevelson's work has been collected all over the country so chances are good that there's a Nevelson sculpture in a museum near you right now.


Also, can we talk about the way this amazing lady dressed? Mink eyelashes, man's hat and giant fur coat. What a badass.

Merry Christmas, Jellyfish!

Please enjoy this artsy film I made starring a jellyfish at the Newport Aquarium in Newport, KY. If you turn the sound up you can hear Christmas music as well as a family arguing over camera angles. The Newport Aquarium is amazing. You can walk underneath several tanks full of sharks, sting rays and sea turtles. Awesome!

Impressive. Most Impressive.

There's no denying that I'm a huge Star Wars fan. For Halloween Paul and I (well, mostly Paul) set up a projector in our backyard so we could watch "A New Hope" with friends and neighbors. After seeing that, of course, we just had to watch The Empire Strikes Back the next day (we watched that one inside, since it was pretty cold and we didn't want to continue to bother our neighbors with our geek fest).

On the heels of that, I just found these photos of Star Wars actors in between shoots on Wired. Part of me wants to look away, since these real photos belie the existence of another galaxy that I totally subscribe to every time I see one of the Star Wars films. But I love seeing how young George Lucas was as well as how many endlessly creative people participated in the film (and the fact that it was made 2 years before I was born).

P.S. Anthony Daniels couldn't sit down in his C-3P0 costume, so when he needed to rest he leaned on this board. In the blazing sun, in Tunisia. Yikes.

I'm Back!

I can't believe my last post was in April! Yikes! A lot has happened since then, namely, I got married in September, went on an incredible honeymoon, then moved from Chicago to Evanston in October. Paul and I got married at the Columbus Park Refectory here in Chicago, surrounded by 100 of our closest family and friends. It was the best day of my life (as well as a pretty sweet party).


Here's a picture of my husband Paul on the balcony of our hotel room on the big island of Hawaii. Our room overlooked all this gorgeous greenery! We couldn't have had a better view (the ocean is to the right of Paul's shoulder).

It feels good to be back in real time, not in the exciting-but-stressful bubble of wedding planning. I can't wait to get back to posting about cool stuff.

Sweet Children's Secret Room

If I have kids, I'm totally going to install this trap door that leads to a playroom for them. If I don't, I'm still going to install this. When my brother and I were little we used to look for trap doors in my parents' house, and we loved the trash chute in my grandma's apartment building. We would have LOVED to have discovered this treasure.

The Indecisive Seagull

I sat outside on the patio at work the other day talking to my mom on my iphone. The whole time I was on the phone a seagull had landed near me, and was peaking into the window of the cafe, looking for scraps (I think). I recorded it and sent it to my mom.

It's 50% funny and 50% kind of sad.