for a dinner party for the season premiere of true blood last night, i baked up some truly bloody cupcakes. truly bloody cupcakes are red velvet cake with vanilla buttercream frosting and raspberry preserve filling and finished off with a sprinkling of red sugar and a splattering of corn syrup blood. oh yes and a frightening [...]
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truly bloody cupcakes
Posted in aesthetics, baking, home, noir, the apartment on June 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
william eggleston
Posted in aesthetics, art, love, new york, people on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
it makes me happy when two things i love, photography and writing, come together in one brilliant place like this New York Times article on the new william eggleston exhibition at the whitney. to quote a favorite line describing the work: “hues of almost hallucinatory intensity, from a custard-yellow sunset glow slanting across a wall to high-noon [...]
yet another couch post
Posted in aesthetics, home, jersey city, olde things, pretty things on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
i got a new (ofcourse, old) couch at salvation army this past weekend. it was raining bad outside and i broke the hinge on my front door trying to get it in but here it is in all its envious green velvet glory. it feels luxurious to have a couch that is not threadbare and full of holes. [...]
bone pickin’
Posted in aesthetics, art, home, noir, the apartment on November 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
i’m a little bit behind on this, but it was so exciting at the time that i realized i must document it somewhere. a few weeks ago i found a life-size anatomical model of a human spine in a dumpster while taking a back route behind a grim shopping center to get a cup of coffee. at first, as [...]
rooms with a view
Posted in aesthetics, art, ephemera, home, love, new york, noir, people, photography, places, pretty things on September 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
meryl smith’s art is way cool. maybe even a little too cool.
but i really do love her “tea shirt”
and her flower deer
and whatever the hell this creepy amazingness is called:
ok, actually i love all of her stuff but none more than her living quarters which were photographed by Todd Selby for his website, www.theselby.com. Click the image [...]
jean-baptiste grenouille could do it…
Posted in aesthetics, clothing, love, people, pretty things on September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
if i had a quarter for every dram of cuteness, lovliness, and overall preciousness that clara bow was, i would be a mighty rich lady because i’d bottle in little glass vials, apply it to pulse points daily and sell the rest on the black market to greedy hotel heiresses and the o’ so aging queen [...]
happiness is a warm couch
Posted in aesthetics, home, new jersey, people, pretty things, victoriana on August 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
i have been thinking lately about getting a new old couch. mine has never been that amazing and in the past year or so has turned an ugly shade of shabby. it has served me well considering i found in on the curb. i have used to to backdrops for photo projects, slept on it, [...]
rainy days and tuesdays always get me down
Posted in aesthetics, clothing, home, jersey city, photography, places on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i have mondays off in the summer. this just means tuesday till friday i work extra long days and monday nights feel like sunday nights, only worse. my mondays off don’t last long enough to get used to and i end up wasting them doing mindless things like taking forever to get a shower, going [...]
new necklace
Posted in aesthetics, love, pretty things, victoriana on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
true love.
Posted in aesthetics, love, new york, people on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
quite awhile ago domino magazine did a tour of the apartment of belongin to couple amedeo and kazu of blonde redhead. it is so lovely that i thought it worth mentioning again. see the whole article here.
