Scala by Horst Glasker

I love these stairs found through Poppytalk! They are located in Wuppertal, Germany and are by German artist Horst Glasker. Each word on the steps describes different aspects of human relationships. I was looking up more images of the stairs and also came across an image of the stairs pre-paint from 1978! What a difference the vibrant colors of the steps makes! I would love to be able to walk up or down a flight of steps like this in my daily life.

I also found both of these images of a different project on the artist's website. I love this one as well!!

Red Trio

Miki

Can this be real? I really think he thought he was a baby boy...

Sunday

I am so excited! I just got a new camera! My first new camera in a few years and it is a dream. I was a true skeptic about artistic photos in digital for a very long time and have slowly (over the past few years) been warming up to it. It helps that this camera is a dream and has all the qualities of some of my other film cameras yet all in one neat little package and old fashioned metal body. This sweet little camera will definitely keep me occupied until i get one of those big hitting pro SLR's!

Ghost Driver

Secret Garden

Sea Green

Texture Study

Alley in Colors

Bicycle with Pink and Yellow

Seydou Keita

I am a huge fan of photographer Seydou Keita, an "amateur" portrait photographer from Bamako, Mali. Back in the day when I used to live in the hills of Southwest Virginia studying Art I used to spend many a day and hour at the Virginia Tech Art and Architecture Library. They had THE best collection of art books I have ever seen. They had a few different volumes of Seydou Keita's work that I would check out and bring home to feast my eyes on for many an hour. I have been looking for some books ever since and his work has definitely served as a great inspiration to me. All images by Seydou Keita.

India Flint

I am absolutely in love with the work of textile artist India Flint. I came across her work a few months ago in an issue of Selvedge. She refers to herself as a botanical alchemist. She dyes cloth using plants and water and makes the most dreamy pieces of work. Check out her work if you get a chance....

Bike Box

I love this beautiful bike box I saw parked outside the grocery store the other day. It reminded me of some beautiful old bikes I saw at the Japanese fish market in Tokyo last year! (bottom two pictures)

Beautiful Bird Species

I took these photos of the beautiful cases in The Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. a few weeks ago. Taxidermy is always a little strange and sad for me but somehow in a museum setting it seems to be appropriate. The last one is a beautiful now extinct species, The Carolina Parakeet. I hope to take better more clear pictures next time I visit.

the ramp comes down!

after a long hard day's work with the our extreme gratitude for yoni and cynthia's incredible help, the ramp has come down and the backyard has been liberated! Sadie had a ton of fun exploring all her new nooks and crannies and even had an adventure in the crawl space. check out michael leaning against the fence we could barely even see before! Thank you soooo much cynthia and yoni!! (also, cynthia had the incredible idea of saving part of the ramp as seating! see below were we are enjoying a nice rest after a long day!)

fresh paint

We finished up a few more spaces with fresh paint, more to come....

I'm on a Boat...

Photographer Alejandra Laviada

I love these photos by Alejandra Laviada. All images are from a series titled PHOTO SCULPTURES, except for the phones which are from the series JUAREZ 56. She is an artist born in Mexico City who studied at RISD. She is currently represented by Danziger Projects in NYC.

will miss you

i stopped by serendipity books in berkeley the other day and was taken away to a magical shop. the place is filled from top to bottom, back and forth, side to side, pile upon pile, bags upon bags of books.....i especially loved the colors of the spines of all these old books together and think they make an amazing palette. there were books from the 1600's even, they were gorgeous. the shop owner could care less where i had lost myself among the passageways and i spent some time just navigating myself around the whole place. i will definitely be back with more time. also, since i wasn't sure if i could take pictures or not i was trying to be very sneaky. now, that i know it is okay, i will have more pictures in the future.