Saturday, January 29, 2011

the golden rule


“This poster is a father and son col­lab­o­ra­tion. All ele­ments are hand drawn by Koen (age 6) with a Sharpie marker at the din­ing room table, then arranged dig­i­tally in our stu­dio. The type is the “Golden Rule” as penned in the hon­est hand of a child. Maybe what we learned in kinder­garten is most impor­tant after all.” Avail­able from Studio On Fire (14 x 20 let­ter­press poster, $30).

calligraphy collaboration




Beau­ti­ful valen­tines from Hello Handmade Paperie – a col­lab­o­ra­tion between artist Shanna Murray and cal­lig­ra­pher Betsy Dunlap. Each valen­tine is printed with Shanna’s lovely rib­boned lau­rel illus­tra­tion on the front and a cus­tomized note penned by Betsy on the inside.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Roaming Wishlist '11

1. Hotel Surazo, Matanzas, Chile.

2. Los Roques, Venezuela. An archipelago national park in the Caribbean.

3. Hapuku Lodge & Tree Houses, Kaikoura, New Zealand.

Freedom. Freedom to what?


"To what avail the plough or sail, or love, or life -- if freedom fail? Freedom. Freedom to what? Escape, run, wonder turning your back on a cowed society that stutters, staggers, and satnates every man for himself and fuck you Jack I've got mine? To be truly challenging, a voyage, like life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen, who play with their boats at sea --"cruising" it is called. Voyaging belongs to the sea men, and to the wonderers of the world who cannot or will not fit in. Little has been said or written about the ways a man may blast himself free. Why? I don't know, unless the answer lies in our diseased values....Men are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of "security", and in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine--and before we know it our lives are gone. What does a man really need --- really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in ---and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all --- in the material sense. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by. The dreams of youth grow dim where they like caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. Dedication to the sea is the symbol of migration and movement and wondering. It is the barbaric place and it stands opposed to society and it is a constant symbol in all of literature, too. As Thomas Wolfe said, "It is the state of barbaric disorder out of which civilization has emerged and into which it is liable to return."

----Stearling Hayden, Wonderer, 1964


Wednesday, January 26, 2011

"Sordid... but at least it's life"

Movie List (*work in progress)

I keep forgetting some of my favorite movies... time to make a list:

JAWS
In its own category. All five films are included.


AMERICAN (INDIE)
* Dan In Real Life, 2007
* Conversations With Other Women, 2005
* Stealing Beauty, 1996

* The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, 1998
* Elephant, 2003
* The New World, 2005
* Paranoid Park, 2007
* Whit Stillman film (Barcelona, 1994; The Last Days Of Disco, 1998)
* Lovers of the Arctic Circle, 1998
* The Loss of Sexual Innocence
* Secretary, 2001
* Boys Don't Cry
* All The Real Girls, 2003
* The Hi-Lo Country, 1998
* Tigerland, 2000
* The Virgin Suicides, 2003
* Lost In Translation, 1999
* The Myth of Fingerprints
* Safe
* Secretary
* High Art
* Laurel Canyon


AMERICAN (MAINSTREAM)
* Last Chance Harvey, 2008
* Rounders, 1998
* Leaving Las Vegas

AMERICAN (OLDER)
* Kramer vs Kramer
* All The President's Men, 1976
* McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 1971
* Three Days of The Condor, 1975

AUSTRALIAN
* The Waiting City, 2009
* Japanese Story, 2003
* Somersault, 2004





FRENCH
* La Reine Margot (Queen Margot)
* En Coeur En Hiver (A Heart In Winter)
*
L'Heure d'Ete (Summer Hours), 2008
* The Beat That My Heart Skipped, 2005
* Dans Paris, 2006
* L'auberge espagnol, 2002 & sequel Russian Dolls, 2005


OTHER FOREIGN FILMS
* In The Mood For Love, 2005

IRISH
* In The Name of the Father
* The Matchmaker
* Once
* Hunger

SCOTTISH
* Trainspotting
* Shallow Grave

ENGLISH
* Anything by Merchant-Ivory
* 28 Days Later

MOVIES I LOVED GROWING UP...
* An American Werewolf In London
* Dead Poets Society
* The Goonies
* Space Camp
* Trading Places
* Beverly Hills Cop
* Lethal Weapon

love chooses you


"Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you.
All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away."


(Kent Nerburn)


words and wallpaper

I was flipping through a magazine recently and came across a wedding dress photo spread. Never mind the dresses, what I couldn't take my eyes off of was the design and calligraphy in the background. I kind of want to create something similar in my bedroom... sweeping letters and vintage wallpaper... yum.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Love this poster design...


Website Design

Love this web design...