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

Alt-J: Tessellate

It's been forever that I've found a band whose album I can not turn off.  Alt-J is currently the group that I listen to, on repeat, on my to work and back.  The British quartet, who met in art school and considers themselves to be of the step-folk music genre, have my heart; mainly because they blend old English vocal harmonies, complex drumbeats, and dark lyrics.  Sigh goes my car stereo...and they're coming to Austin for SXSW. Tessellate-directed by Alex Southern.

Tessellate recreates Raphael's fresco, The School of Athens, painted in Vatican City in the early 1500's.  Whereas School of Athens depicts the most important minds of classical Greek philosophy, Southern's interpretation shows modern English gangsters and hustlers.  The original art historical piece is said to champion love as a way to higher knowledge (at least according to Wikipedia) and I wonder what this new reading is supposed to champion. 

Fitzpleasure-directed by Emilie Sornin

I'm In Love With You...

I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.

~John Green

via That Kind of Woman

Jay-Z: 99 Problems