food nation

YUM!!! delicious-looking flags made for the sydney international food festival last year. they must have left out the american flag made out of jello, spam, and ambrosia for aesthetic reasons. thanks eat me daily!

movie madness

oh my god im swimming in movies right now. like i mentioned earlier, jaws was the beginning of my attempt to view all the classics that i'm embarrassed to have never seen. here are some of the most recent. any suggestions??


La Strada, 1954
Watch it if you like: The Circus! Fellini; exploiting the poor and naive; BIG eyes and goofy faces; having a purpose in the world; buskers


Rosemary's Baby, 1968
Watch it if you like: THE DEVIL! Eccentric old people; hot young Mia Farrow; Pixie haircuts by Vidal Sassoon; selfish husbands; Witches


La Vie En Rose, 2007
Watch it if you like: Edith Piaf; singing!; French accents; romance, depression, addiction, and loss


Chinatown, 1974
Watch it if you like: Capers; Hot young Jack Nicholson; Hot young Faye Dunaway; The LA water crisis; P.I.s

swedes do it better

have been trying to clean out piles of old magazines in my room...but i always go through and tear out any last-minute sources of inspiration before submitting the paper mountains to the recycling. last night i found the above image of hans krondahl's "gallop" textile in a free magazine i picked up in copenhagen. how clever! it reminds me so much of my favorite italian futurist painting, dynamism of a dog on a leash, by giacomo balla.



krondahl's other textiles from the 70s are equally fun and punchy. if you speak swedish, this seems to be an article on his more recent work. and the chicago art institute has a nice online collection of his work, seen below:







an exhibit of his work was at the waldemarsudde in sweden this spring and travelled to the malmö art museum. a book of his work was made to accompany the exhibit...gotta get it!

molto bene

nico and i stayed in last night to watch my latest movie from the library--michelangelo antonioni's l'avventura.



the shots were incredible, slow, moody, achey. the film is a great exploration of characters and their relationships, and yet another glimpse into the unhappy, tumultuous lives of the upper class.



monica vitti looks stunning atop italian coastal islands, hair piecey and blowing. she goes gallavanting through ancient roman towns and posh hotels, trying to justify her love for her best friend's lover...



here's a great scene from the beginning of the movie...(don't worry, i won't spoil it)


and one of my favorites from the end...