Not sure if it gets more bourgeois than this, but I have to admit, it’s a lovely idea.  They will create plates depicting the way the sky looked on the night you were born…   something quite romantically appealing about that.

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This is a big “duh,” but I re-watched the Eames’ Powers of 10 video the other day, and was impressed all over again by how awesome it is.  I recommend a watch, a re-watch, or sharing it with a child over the age of five.  If I were, say, a 6th grade math teacher, I would be all about showing this to my class every year.

I love these phantasmagorical images by Ver Huell featured on BiblioOdyssey.

My husband had the fantastic idea to build a geodesic dome trellis and document the progress… this summer will be the summer of the Bucky garden! I was looking for things on Ebay and found this book… awesome!! Not cheap either. But certainly in the vein of what my husband is planning. Being the plant person, I’m in charge of what gets to go on the vine… at the moment I’m thinking a variegated creeping fig… it clings closely to whatever it’s climbing, so it will climb nicely, and the two-tone colours will be nice… my other idea is clematis.

Perhaps next we can build a greenhouse…

Sorry for the lack of posts this week.  I’ve got a few excuses… finals, crappy week, and nothing worth posting!  Until today that is.

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The George Eastman House (as in Kodak Eastman company), now a museum, has joined the Library of Congress in creating a Flickr account and posting old photos from their archives for the public to see, tag, and comment on. I feel that more historical societies should do this. Not only does it engage a new audience who may never have thought to visit places such as these, but it provides a much needed link to the past for old and young.  It is such an inexpensive way of curating and/or documenting historical photographs which probably have not been exhibited before, due to the sheer volume of the collections. The autochrome set on the Eastman photostream is particularly lovely. Here are a few that I love.

Um… new favourite jewelry line! The “Death Star Debris” and “Multiply” collections in particular…

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If you are in LA and you like sweet humble artists who produce beautiful work, come see this show…  Sean is a good friend, and is super talented (I swear I’m not biased). The reception is from 7-10 PM on Saturday.

Here are some new things at Muji that should go in our living room… *wink wink.

…and these to walk around the house in:

My step-brother Blair has a knack for making things out of wood.  Look at this lovely box he made for my sister-in-law with Purple Heart and Zebrawood (which I’ve heard are both hard to work with).