Lush Color

It's odd when you find yourself drawn to polar opposite agendas. My palette is rigidly muted. My favorite colors are black, grey, ecru, putty, greige, nude, and every such variant. But i find myself often collecting and crushing on images with the opposite, lush, candy colored, impossible-to-resist ROYGBIV ethos. I keep them these tacked up on boards and glue-stuck in little notebooks. Here are a few. Could there be anything more childishly obvious and heart-achingly lustworthy? I think it's instinctually appealing. Like bees to a buttercup.








(from Luxirare)




(from The Selby--Christina and Swaim Hutson)





(still from the first film in the Trois Coulers series, Bleu by Krzysztof Kieślowski.)


(photographer Alex John Beck)




(Le Ballon Rouge, 1956 and Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge, 2008)


(Laduree macaroons)


(sharpies!)


(best of beauty!)

Colors arranged like this are often cues for my own shutter as you can tell my a lot of the photography i've featured here. You need only look! But here's an example:



The blog MY NYC IN COLOR also has so many divine photographs of new york alive with color, along this vein, you could spend hours feeling breathless over it. I couldn't even start to post all of the images i like, and it would ruin it to isolate them from her insightful writing, and discerning edits.

Subway Stories

These kind of stories make me so, incredibly, inexpressibly proud to live in New York City.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/nyregion/18subway.html?_r=1

Ummm yeah, welcome!

No points given for identifying all the irony and pity nonsense, as anyone who's known me for any meaningful period of time is probably rolling their eyes right this minute. And since that's probably my only readership, no explanation necessary. But there it is, I promise this blog will not be nearly as pretentious as the title suggests.

Thing is, after the demise of The Jellyfish Convocation (and oh, how we miss the glory days of jellyfacts!), I was thinking its time to strike out on my own, you know? As in, attempt to maintain a blog, amidst a job that I work 12-hour days and all my other leisure time spent eating and shopping, rummaging, taking photos, hoarding beauty products (for others!), using parentheses, curling up with my cat and sometimes dancing (a lot).

I also have to add, there may be a disproportionate amount of attention paid to felines in this blog. Deal with it.

Chow Fun. So seductive

McLovin. Chica chica, yeah yeah