Gems of the Week

Ceramic cactuses by Vsocks.

Grace Easton.

The Carol poster is so great.

Beech Hall.

Emily Isabella for Hygge & West.

ART & DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION

the matching bird project / animated book covers

MOVIES + TELEVISION + ACTORS + SUCH

movies about nice people / Tom Hardy / I will be purchasing the 800 page Mad Men book mentioned in this interview / on Mr. Robot's cinematography / "I would suggest that Meyers is as much of an auteur as anyone else" - agreed / the progressiveness of The Golden Girls /

ETC.

My Superpower Is Being Alone Forever: Off the Market / "To appreciate her is simply to be morbidly fascinated by the mind that would write those words and think, Yep, there’s the chorus." / oh look! it's a video of my hand / sad topographies / I made a cheese hedgehog for work (he tasted terrible) / and on a serious and inspirational note, Lyndsay's breast cancer story

Gems of the Week

A few screenshots I took from High School Confidential.

Photograph by Willy Vanderperre; styled by Edward Enninful; W magazine June/ July 2014.

I have a copy of Frankie Magazine's Spaces: Volume 2 and it is so very good. Definitely one of my favorite home/interiors books. Here's a video preview. You should get a copy.

20th Century Carpets at Wright via FutuRustic.

Emily Isabella.

Pari Dust ("style inspired by all the exquisite art & architecture that surrounds me").

Toy typists at Letterology.

A vintage Sara Lee cookbook at and everything else too.

Claire Keane.

Meow Meow Tweet - Summer Saviors.

Bolden.

Will Bryant.

ART / ILLUSTRATION / DESIGN-Y

a french fry top, an egg bag AND MORE in my new post for Etsy / support Yellow Zine - Issue 5 / Lazy Oaf: Space Oddity / beans / paradise is here / Jenny Lewis's rainbow suit / Athleticism Meets Lifestyle  / Landscapes for the People / Q & A with Matt Roeser (designer at Candlewick Press) / boob prints / some fruit goods / "Out, Damned Spot" by Kaye Blegvad / a debonair cat shows you how to chiffonade / in the studio with Building Block / Jen Collins for Tiny Showcase / Good Witch Bad Witch zine / frond sticker set

MOVIES / TV / ACTORS / THE SUCH

kitchen skills of TV dads / Joe Swanberg's top 10 at The Criterion Collection / light stalking / Yael Stone and Lea DeLaria / "Hell is going to a friend of a friend's birthday party" / Disney villains / Natasha Lyonne + Maya Rudolph chatting / "Kohan and her team build a structure less on plot machinations and more on the ways tiny actions—an act of rudeness here, a moment of kindness there—ripple outward until they become huge waves that can capsize ships" / Orange is the New Black actors on Law and Order / Tim Rice on his songs for The Lion King / me too / Eli Wallach / "But with any piece of art, you have to put aside what you wanted to see and ask: What are they showing me? And judge it on that." / "Who cares about feeling like an adult! I want to feel like my self from always"

BOOKS / WRITING

The Best Book in the World / "A lot of people give advice based on their unique and singular experiences as if they can somehow draw universal wisdom from that. I suspect there is also an element of sabotage involved" / "Realism is a construct, the same as any other genre. In America, it sits in a place of privilege as something more literary and authentic—but this is about nothing but tradition" / the joy of typing / RIP Mary Rodgers / "Like most children, my taste was perverse; I gravitated toward impish protagonists who played mischievous tricks, threw fits, and caused general mayhem."

Gems of the Week

Lisk Feng.

Scout & Catalogue.

Emily Isabella.

Illustrations of the Coen brothers by Agata M. for The Dissolve.

Jacqui Lee.

Cotton & Flax.

Liam Barrett.

Nancybird.

Alexander Vidal.

MOVIES & TV & SUCH

Mud is great & now available on Netflix instant / Ryan Gosling as Busby Berkeley / The Comeback may be coming back (and in other Friends news - random roles with Matt LeBlanc) / "Why I loved not liking Veronica Mars" / on the unrequited-love trope / mask tests for The Silence of the Lambs / "My own life is totally different from the movies! The movies are just ... I like the idea of trying to create a world for the characters to live in, and usually it's sort of an invented place. And that's just something you do in the movies" ... or in books. I will never understand why some people think that Wes Anderson lives in a replica of the Tenenbaum's brownstone / on Sofia Coppola directing a new version of The Little Mermaid / I had no idea that Matthew Weiner's son plays Glen / The Golden Girls / the problem of doing what's been done before in regard to the Muppets (ummm, I have so many fresh ideas for the Muppets - get in touch Disney) / tv criticism vs. film criticism / Thelma Schoonmaker / Bob's Burgers burger names

DESIGN-Y

The Mushroom Picker / Talkin' JEWELS: Erie Basin's Russell Whitmore / an interview with Joseph Schindelman (original illustrator of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) / through the window / beautiful stone iphone cases / free printable brunch invitations (plus some stickers) by Emma Trithart / get a custom plushie of your face (or - if you're not a narcissist - the face of someone you know & love) / a cute app / an interview with Eirian Chapman at The Design Files / a stuffed blobfish

ETC.

the story of how Moomintroll was born / electric blue eye make-up techniques / must every YA action heroine be petite? / I thought this was the way that everyone ate kiwi / a wedding announcement / Shirley Jackson's The Sundial - one of my 2013 reads (also, my beloved fave: We Have Always Lived in the Castle) / I would love to have a yurt office / cookbook in a box / the engineering of the chain restaurant menu / the pointlessness of unplugging / "If you actually believed Paltrow’s life was perfect, that’s kind of on you for taking every blog post and flowery Vogue profile literally" - this is what I want to say to people who get jealous of other people's lives just from their instagram photos - that's not an accurate depiction of their reality, nutbrains! (I mean nutbrain in the nicest way - it's the insult I use with my fam) / cookbooks & poetry / dogs licking peanut butter off their snouts / a ballet tumblr / Butters: A Food Blog