Alice

 Mia Farrow in Woody Allen's Alice, 1990.

Love these things.  Japanese pattern books from Kinokuniya

Pastels

Anyone that knows me at all knows that I seem to have this color palette that follows me around.  Although I tend to stick to the neutral side of things, I do have a great love for very neutral pastels.  That's one of the reasons I found this video of Paul and Linda so endearing.  Those lights in the background.  But mostly, it was just the sweetness of her singing along with him while she took like 10 billion photos of him...all while wearing those boots.

I looked through my recent "likes" on Tumblr and came across a lot of images that fit into this color story.  I really had to stop myself or else I'd post all 655 of my liked posts.

And as for Irene, luckily it wasn't as bad as they had thought.  Phew.

Photo credit:

1.  Friendship album by Margaret Williams, 1839.  

2.  Unknown

3. Edwina Podemski

4. Toowooyou

5. Vineet Kaur

6. Philip Govedare

7.  Stevie Nicks, duh.

The Tokyo home of Katsuya Kamo.

So perfect.  

Photos from The Selby

By the way, I'm currently preparing for the arrival of Irene.  We have a windowless empty room in our apartment that we'll probably move our mattresses into.  We have candles (it was impossible to find a flashlight in this city!), wine, food, and coloring books to keep us busy in case the power goes out.  I'm hoping that this will all blow over (harhar) and things will return to normal asap.

COSMIC WONDER Light Source

COSMIC WONDER Light Source Fall 2011.  They make some great menswear as well.  Bear with me as I will probably make another CW post tomorrow or something.

Cosmic Wonder

Light Garden, 2009

Magic Village, 2004

The everlasting peace in this village is sustained by your hopes.

Forest Heights Lodge, 2003

To Sleep, 2002

A Shadow Necessary for Windows, 2002

I was looking for more clothing by COSMIC WONDER Light Source and I started exploring their website and I discovered that their clothing line is actually just 1/3 of a conceptual project that was founded in 1997 by a Japanese artist named Yukinori Maeda.  Cosmic Wonder is a multimedia art project, COSMIC WONDER Light Source is their fashion & lifestyle project, and COMIC WONDER Free Press is book and music publishing.  There is also the Solar Garden, which is environmentally friendly clothing, textiles, and soap.  How perfect!  

Les frères Lumière

My very talented friend, Joy and I are in the midst of creating a clothing line, so I'm on a major inspiration hunt.  I came across some photos from the Lumiere brothers and I was instantly inspired.  Now I need to find a good biography on the dudes because Wiki just ain't gonna cut it.  I'm intrigued.  (If you have any suggestions, please send them my way)

Danse Serpentine, 1896!

The dudes filmed Loie Fuller dancing (in black and white) and painstakingly hand painted each frame.

Excuse me while I continue getting sucked into a Lumiere, Loie Fuller Wiki black hole....who knows where I'll end up.  Probably like, on the page for this.

Photos from Wikipedia, naomirivas hoy!,  Carin Berger, Photohist, Iconolo.gy

At the Met.

Please excuse the phone pictures.  I just wanted to post some pictures of things that I happened to find interesting at the Met.