Stacking Wood

These kids are so cute...and with great style!
Stacking Wood from Olive Us on Vimeo.

How To Steal A Million

How could this set-up get any more perfect?  So cute!  Audrey Hepburn in How To Steal A Million.  More photos here.

Quilting

I'd like to take up quilting; there's so many cool patterns people are doing these days.  I've never made one before though, and this is the quilt I keep stumbling across that inspires me the most (and seems the easiest).

via Design Maze

Cabins

Molloy & Sons: Donegal Weaving

Molloy & Sons | Donegal Weaving from Jamie Delaney on Vimeo.

Optical Shops With Charm

Why can't more optical shops in the States have as much charm and as cozy a feel as this lovely Occhio Optik in Stockholm?  Seems like most of the shops around Austin look more like a generic Lens Crafters than an independent shop with character - well, there is the one exception found at Santa Fe Optical.  But alas, I don't work at that one...sigh...

photos via Bonocle

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day!!!

Photo by Bomobob via Etsy

Tom Robbins on Valentines Day

The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.

~Tom Robbins in Jitterbug Perfum

via That Kind Of Woman 

Paper Cut Project: Paper wigs

Elaborate paper wigs made by Nikki Nye and Amy Flurry under their banner of, Paper Cut Project. Exquisite!

 

Karen Walker Sunglasses

I plucked these photos right off of the Honestly, WTF blog because they were amazing! Australian designer Karen Walker teamed up with Advanced Style blogger Ari Seth Cohen and shot the new lookbook for the Walker Summer 2013 collection.  Awesome.

Early Morning Photoshoot

It was so gray and overcast this morning - perfect time for an early morning photoshoot for our new website...coming soon...

Musical Style: Santigold

You've said you want be more than an artist - a brand. Is that something Jay-Z taught you? 

That was why I went to Roc Nation. They [understood that] a lot better than most music managers. We're in such a crazy time for the business, no one really knows what's going on. It's changing so fast that people can't keep up. So many managers are still like "you make a record, you tour the record, you make another record..." and that'sso not it. There's so much other stuff you have to do now. Somebody told me a long time ago, when my first record came out, "your record is just your business card" - you're not going to do anything with the record other than build your brand. That stuck with me. So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist. I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken. Anyway, I'd get bored with just doing music! 

~Excerpt from Santigold Interview on Pussy Riot, Wes Anderson, and the Future of Music.

By Oliver Franklin via British GQ

Art of the Title: Opening Title Sequences

A good opening title sequence is rare and hard to find, but when you are captivated by "Hello", so to speak, then you know that the next two hours are going to be great...well, one can hope at least.  Art Of The Title is a wonderful website that chronicles all the best opening sequences and features short interviews with the designers.  This is a great website to while away many hours if you're indulging your Helvetica fetish.


The True Blood titles are one of my favorites; it shoves sex and religion \ life and death side by side, just like the south that I grew up in.

Gourdough's Public House

A colleague suggested that Conner and I try Gourdough's Public House since we're on a hunt to find the best burger in Austin.  Originally started as a foodtrailer around town, Gourdough's became so popular that the owners opted to open a second, more permanent brick-and-mortar, location on South Congress.  So good - although it's not for those who are still sticking to their healthy-eating resolutions for 2013, since everything comes with a doughnut.  Super cute, excellent cocktails, and a meal that will last you well into the evening.

photo via Gourdough's Facebook Page

photo via FoodSpotting

This is what Conner and I split-the Ron Burgundy burger with bacon, a fried egg, American cheese, cilantro, guacamole, and tomatoes.  Decadent...

1964 Track Meet

Women's track meet at the University Of Texas 1964. 

Via Sloth Unleashed

Take Away Shows

In my mad attempt to find any live videos of Alt-J, I stumbled upon French blog, The Blogotheque; great bands filmed in beautiful ways in intimate settings in a series called Take Away Shows.  It's amazing and makes me want to move to Europe where they have these beautiful examples of architecture to capture interesting concerts.


Battles | Wall Street | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Some other of my Take Away favorites:
A) Alt-J
B) Bon Iver