I’ve been taking stock of everything around here, planning new projects and evaluating old. Next week will be a full post of our house all bedecked in its Christmas splendor, and a look into upcoming color trends, but today? A collection of what’s been on my mind.
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Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles. Beautiful balloon installations by Charles Pétillon.
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My President Was Black. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ outstanding essay.
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Subway riders reading books.
Though I have to disagree on the mild NOOK/Kindle/e-reader hate. OK, as a photographer/observer, people aren’t holding interesting covers for you. But as a reader? I have so many titles in a thin little device! Magic. -
Loving illustrator Julia Rothman’s ode to her pink bathroom.
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Oh, gosh. I want to put tassel garland on the bookshelves for Christmas. And paint the whole thing black while I’m at it.
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I’ll go ahead and paint the kitchen black too. Why not?
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There’s a new display in Rome of Artemisia Gentileschi’s paintings, along with fresh analysis of her work.
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A follow-up from the New York Times on Chicago’s violence problem. Rahm has been promising more police officers, but we’ve yet to hear much else.
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A collection of the formerly censored photographs by Dorothea Lange of America’s Japanese internment camps. These were made public in 2006.
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Sometimes I just click on over to look at vintage rugs. It’s a fun hobby? Good for taking the mind off politics and problems for a bit? I have no place for this rug, but perhaps you do.
