it doesn't get cuter than this

don't put off your happy life

oh hai...here i am. it's friday yet again, gorgeous out and i'm dancing in my desk chair listening to some good tunes.

last weekend with the family was great, as is (was) to be expected.


this guy and i are now BFF

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things i've encountered, imbibed, and enjoied today (in no certain order):

#1 lego man


fillin in the holes

kinda reminds me of space invaders for some reason. maybe one inspired the other? or maybe not.


pre-installation

a lego related story:
when my brother and i were little, we would barter barbie playing time with lego playing time. he knew that i liked legos though, so he had an upper hand. we usually compromised at 1/2 hour barbies, 1 hour legos. sometimes we'd go all out and play a barbie/lego combo where the legos were aliens. fun!

#2 this photo


attention, dear sister. you should use the color scheme in this photo in your nursery. how calming.

#3 a plaid dress

i want (need!) the plaid dress in this au revoir simone press photo.


one smart looking dress

because i haven't found it (yet!), i settled for this plaid brassiere instead.


a little personal to share, i know

#4 sebastian tellier

a frenchman with a good sense of humor. divine is today's theme song and here is the (funny!) video

ART

on my way from the subway this morning i saw 10 reds caps...count 'em, T-E-N reds caps in only 4 city blocks. i'll never cease to be amused by that trend.



speaking of the nati, i'll be heading home a week from today. get to see my preggers sister and sister-in-law, go to a real thrift store, spend time with the fam AND friends...and even go with Jess to her doctor's appointment to learn the sex of Baby Mason.
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though i miss the marc jacobs of yore, i still think the man is a genius. and love him. and i could care less about victoria beckham but appreciate that she has a sense of humor about herself. really enjoyed the recent nytimes article on juergen teller...


you can get out of town if you don't like these ads

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a friend recently put me on henry darger. dude was insane and wrote a 15,000 page fantastical manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion (phew!) and made hundreds of drawings and watercolors to illustrate it. OH and nobody knew about them until right before he died. i really dig his work...already put the documentary about his life in my netflix Q. i was all "i'm going to read his biography, too!" but it costs nearly $500! WTF?! i'm going to do some further investigating and try to track it down, but...seriously?!


i encourage you to google for larger images...gotta get in close to really appreciate


darger traced a lot of his work from pix in magazines/papers/etc. i think i spot the Coppertone girl's head on the right!

darger's work reminds me of another mentally insane artist...Richard Dadd. at one point before he was diagnosed as 'not all there,' Dadd had to fight off urges to attack the Pope. me, too, dude...me, too.

I was taken by one of his faery paintings at the Tate in London this summer.


detail

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okay, one last thing. a little light-hearted fun to send you on your weekend...because it's FRIDAY! compliments of dutch boyz Kraak & Smaak.