wrapped

I started wearing scarves of the more silken variety around a year ago, and now I find it hard to go a day without wearing one! I've been acquiring them left and right now, some from my mom, some from vintage stores and flea markets, some from miss allison herself.

today I spilled 'em all out on the floor to find one scarf in particular and was struck by how frickin' many I have!! SO MANY. Here are some close-ups. Patterns are beautiful.

LOST

So not only was last night's episode of Lost amazing because J.F. Sebastien from Bladerunner made a cameo BUT a particularly irate member of the Dharma initiative threatened his coworkers that he was going to call Ann Arbor. THATS RIGHT. ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN, MY HOMETOWN. A quick blog post on the MLive website gives a few more details.

Anyway, not only did the Dharma Initiative get its start in my hometown, but my little brother's name is Jacob. WHAT DOES IT MEEEAAAANNNN.

subtract

"The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed."
-Søren Kierkegaard

This week's illustration friday is themed "subtraction", which has a terrible lot of possible interpretations past the mathematical one. Lots of personal meanings to apply! Here are some other ones I liked from this week - ben conservato, won tsuen, andre gribble and ori toor.

arteest of the month or so

I should maybe start talking about or linking to a specific artist I like more regularly. Lets start with Jon Klassen, who has named his website Burst of Beaden. He is an incredibly talented illustrator who seems to have no boundaries as far as what crazy stuff he can make. Most notably would be some gorgeous concept art for the movie Coraline - I love the little architectural details he included in those pieces.

However it's his personal work (like the piece above) has enchanted me. A lot of it deals with the great vastness of a landscape, which is so totally amazing when combined with his style. He also worked on "An Eye for Annai", which I spoke about earlier on this very blog. Go check him out!

passive

can we talk about how much I love passiveaggressivenotes?!!?!?!? I think everyone has written one of these before, which is perhaps why each entry is so much funnier. The one above I imagine many an art student could giggle about.

I will most certainly notice these notes much more often, that's for sure. AND thanks to this website I was introduced to the design police. I will most likely be using their little download package to make sure everyone knows the gravity that is the public use of Comic Sans.

feast!

When the ENTIRETY of my dad's side of the family gets together, this is how much food we make. Two whole tables of this. IT WAS SO DELICIOUS THOUGH.

finally, miho

miho finally, originally uploaded by emma_brown.

I found this mysterious message lying around the Lunning's house a few weeks ago. They have a Japanese exchange student named Miho... so that part of the mystery is solved, but what is that monster? And finally what? THESE QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED!!!