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. [...]
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yet another couch post
Posted in aesthetics, home, jersey city, olde things, pretty things on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
dotty attie
Posted in aesthetics, art, jersey city, new jersey on July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
from wikipedia.org:
Dotty Attie (born 1938) is an American painter. Educated at the Philadelphia College of Art, she has been exhibiting in museums and galleries worldwide since 1972. Her paintings are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum.
Born in New Jersey, Attie is best known for her [...]
jersey city decisive moment of the day
Posted in jersey city, my art, new jersey, places on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
henri cartier-bresson famously wrote about ‘the decisive moment’, the divine, sublime moment that one takes a photograph a fraction of a second before it is gone forever.