tight

just got rainbow tie-dyed tights in the mail from we love colors. is san francisco ready?

TIGHT!

pal girls

before i left portland i organized and styled a photoshoot with a group of girls who are part of a police activities league fashion design camp. the photos were finally posted here. the girls were incredible, kept posing "just like tyra banks" and had an awesome time being models for a day. they really got a taste of the fashion photo world. this is just one photo from hundreds that we had to whittle down to about 25....enjoy!

photography by minh tran

things i like

here are some things i like looking at right now:



thomas beale's harlequin






cai guo-qiang's transient rainbow


costalots sunglasses at oaknyc.com

athens georgia

dorothy recruited me to drive down to georgia with her to go apartment hunting. she got a job in a lab at uga and didnt want to blindly choose a place...so of course i came along for the ride. chicago, indianapolis, louisville, nashville, chatanooga, atlanta, and 14 hours later we're in athens, georgia. we stayed with a sweet gal named gayle through couchsurfing...great host and tourguide, showed us the ins and outs, secret spots and good food. overall a great trip, lots of sweating, not too much eating (too hot!), learning about new kinds of magnolias, cockroaches, "townies", and $3.85-$4.35/gallon gas. a few photos are coming, but here's a taste of the local flora...the magnolia grandiflora juxtaposed with the "normal" magnolia


ours


theirs

arriba!

i spent the last 2 weeks in mexico with nico. most of our time was spent in akumal, a small town south of cancun and playa del carmen. it was founded in 1958 as a diving community and still has some of the best diving in the riviera maya. it was the best vacation ever--snorkeling, collecting shells and coral to make necklaces, building drip castles in the sand, and driving through the jungle in a rickety rental car. monteczuma did not seek revenge upon us and we met some wonderful people in merida, capital of the yucatan. we drank coconut water out of coconuts, saw a cat with one eye, drank pineapple juice out of plastic baggies, and visited the oldest cathedral in the western hemisphere! we also visited a few mayan ruins, swam in a brackish lagoon with parrotfish, and saw a shark and sea turtle! how can it get any better than that? now i am back in chicago visiting my family, but i wish so much to go back south of the border...the colors there are blinding...

be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

well we made it to san francisco. i graduated college (!) on sunday, packed my shit up on monday, drove down on tuesday and arrived on wednesday. needless to say, it's been quite a full week. im sad to have left portland, but incredibly excited to start a new chapter of my life! the book is closed (or open, depending how you look at it) and the first few pages have been pretty interesting so far. it's hot as hell here, nico says its the hottest weather hes felt here in years, everyone's inside because it's too hot. the city usually doesnt get like this...but...i mean i dont want to blame global warming, but....

anyways, im uploading photos from the road. highlights included:

- alamo ripping us off $25 for prepaid gas. bullshit! then they gave us credit for it because we're NOT SUCKERS! haHA
- seeing the year my parents went on vacation at the oldest theater in ashland, oregon
- almost stopping at "sleepy hollow" pet cemetary near redding, california
- CRATER LAKE holy crap so sweet!!! wizard island!!!
- hearing usher's love in the club more than 6 times
- homemade enchiladas with nico's mom when we got home. a perfect ending

here's some visual cues to help you remember:


fake wizard island


real wizard island


fake wizard


real wizard