wood type

We scored some beautiful wood type over the weekend.

why i love daylight savings

Taking dinner to the beach to watch the sunset at 7:30pm.

is it friday yet?

Today is going to be a very long day with little computer access. Ah Monday. This image makes me smile.

what saturday night looks like at my house

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.

21 months

21 months of beauty and joy.

tinkering

We’re starting to figure it out. Well, Marcus is and he’s showing me. Fun stuff!

love this

I think this is such a cute idea.  Now to find enough empty wall space…

 Via Emmas Designblogg.

the architect’s brother

Robert and Shana Parkeharrisonmake some hauntingly beautiful and erie photographs.  Robert stars in the photos as “Everyman”.  They only produce about 10 a year, because from conception to execution, they are so time consuming to make.  These images are hand crafted.  Remember the darkroom?  They build and photograph the sets and make paper negatives from collages of these photographs.  They add paint and beeswax to the finished prints.   They also make photogravures.  I love this sort of elaborately staged photography.  It combines elements of sculpture and theatre.

Until recently, I was only familiar with the Architect’s Brother Series.  It seems they are now working in color.  I don’t know much about this new color work.  They are C prints, but I am not sure if they digitally altered or not.  I was shocked to come across pieces in which Everyman was not present.  A woman appeared in a few of the images.   The sets are less elaborate in the color work, but it is an interesting departure.  

Here is some of their color work.

 

I would love to know more about their new process and if it has changed much. 

See more here and here.  Buy their book here.

sick day

I woke up with fire throat this morning. Ugh! So I am home from work resting today while Marcus and Pippy are out having fun in this beautiful weather. Double ugh!

My mom’s remedy is to drink Odwalla Superfood and pick at a roasted chicken all day. To that I add ginger tea with honey and lemon and lots of sparkling water mixed with grapefruit juice. Oh and coconut sorbet. It works wonders on the fire throat!

white

For the first time i think ever, I want to paint my walls white.  I mentioned this to a friend and her response was “Who are you?”  I don’t know.

There were about 4 or 5 different wall colors in my last apartment.  When we moved into our current apartment, we asked our landlord to not paint over the brown that the previous tennents painted the walls.  It wasn’t our first choice, but I figured it was better than white.  I was wrong.  We hated the brown walls pretty soon after we moved in, but I was pregnant, so we couldn’t do anything about it.  Then the baby came and we didn’t want her to breath the fumes and we were also in that new parent daze.  Well here it is a year and a half + later and still with the brown walls. I didn’t realize how much of our “stuff” is brown.  With the brown walls, it’s pretty drab.  Our main living area is long and narrow with windows on only on wall, so it’s pretty dark as well.

My heart skipped a beat when I saw this photo set.  This is what I want!  A crisp white back drop is just what our “stuff” needs.  I’ve always been a cozy girl.  Maybe it’s the thought of the approaching Spring, maybe it’s the shiny happy girl who now shares our space, but I am craving light airiness like never before. 

Photos from Decor8’s Flickr.

adam fuss

 I love the work of Adam Fuss.  The above image is a photogram.  I love that he made a photogram with birds!

See more Adam Fuss here, here and here.  See more photograms here.

meet the newest member of our family

Shortly after Pippy was born, we started to acquire a bit of an old press collection. This is the newest addition. We have a few other letterpresses, but this is our first Vandercook. We are super excited. We got it last weekend from a Craigslist ad. It has a sibling - another Vandercook proof press. It is in the back of our car because it is so heavy that we haven’t figured out how we’ll get it upstairs. Space is an issue, so our collection is pretty scattered. This press currently lives in our dinning area and I think it is going to stay there. That way we can actually use it. It’s so pretty too. The other one will probably go in the living room.

M is a printmaker and he’s good at figuring things out, so we’ve been tinkering. He signed up for a letterpress class at the San Francisco Center for the Book at the end of March, so he’ll be able to show me more. I can’t wait to start!

I’ll update with more press photos as we gather them together.