A R C H I V E

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Tunes

Here are some songs that have been in our heads recently

Lily



Mind you, it's Hallow's Eve.
Keela

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Anti-Trend

Here are some current art and/or design trends we would rather didn't exist.

POSITIVITY. 
Every picture/poster/drawing/street art/etc. that I come upon these days has a giant feel good message splashed across it.

I either feel good or I don't,
I don't want you spreading me the love through your pansy art.
I don't need it.

This is an example:
It makes me cringe.

Maybe you can tell I am not in a good mood.
But I would much rather see and make art like this:


In fact, I did make this. 
A few hours ago.

Lily

I am not quite sure.
I hurl when I see gum sculptures and excessive kitsch creations.
I don't think those are "trends" right now, but I'd rather not have to look at them ever again.
Also, I am not a mystical unicorns surrounded by waterfalls, mist, and fairies type of person.
The lack of a visual example will save your eyes from burning and becoming dead matter on your face.

Instead, marvel at this classic piece by Titian, "Rape of Europa," 1562. I just finished analyzing this piece in my art history class. So fascinating.
Keela

Friday, October 29, 2010

VIP-III

Very Important People.
My parents in Rosebud, Montana ca. 1990.

I found this picture at home in a box and stole it.
It now hangs in my dorm.
My dad and I took this exact same hike last summer took a photo on this same bridge.

My dad makes the best breakfast, his dream is to open up a local breakfast place.
My mom is the most thoughtful person I know and knows how to brighten any day.

My parents rock. I don't know how else to put it.
They are best support system and the best people to hangout with.
Pretty much my best friends.

Keela

One of my favorite sculptors.
Antione Luis Barye.




Lily

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Represented

We both found pictures that reminded us of one another.


THIS ROOM IS LILY JANE.
Why?
The blue color is similar to her room at home.
The arrow.
The typography poster.
The wood floor.
The printed trinkets and posters.
The cleaniness and simplicity of everything.

The light and colors of this photo remind me so much of Keela.
It's a thing I can't explain. 

Lily

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Dear Mother Nature

A complaint about the weather.
Colorado: Snow (8 inches!)
Northern Minnesota: Snow
Minneapolis: Cold and windy, but respectable for this time of year.

Baltimore: 70° and humid.

I can't take this.
Its almost november.
Halloween is supposed to be cold not balmy and pleasant. 


Take me back to the frozen north.

Lily

WPP-XXVII

From the RISD Picture Collection, meat folder.


From a book in the RISD Nature Lab.
This is a Hemeroplanes Triptolemus.
This IS a moth.

Keela

Painting I am writing a paper about.


Lily

Monday, October 25, 2010

Sweet Tooth

Our favorite treats. 
I am a fan of:
Cow Tails
Midnight Milky Way bars
Carmel Apple Pops
Vanilla Tootsie Rolls
HICHEW
& Zotz.

Homemade salted nut rolls aren't bad either.
Almond Joys, Mounds, Candy Corn, & Baby Ruth's are not acceptable. They will be chucked.
Keela

Yay
1. Bit O' Honey*
2. Sponge Candy
3. Caramel
4. Mounds
5. Caramel Apple Pops
6. Dots
7. Hot Tamales
8.Milk Duds






Nay
1. Snowcaps
2. Licorice
3. Charleston Chews
4. Dark Chocolate


Lily


*All my friends hate Bit'O Honey, it upsets me.
I even brought them in to share and was refused. 

Friday, October 22, 2010

VIP-II

The French photographer and artist Christian Chaize.

"The results of my slight obsession have evolved into two distinct series. Here are two images from Praia Piquinia, a body of work focusing on a singular, secluded beach front in which all of the pictures are taken from essentially the same elevated angle. The images are shot vertically, a departure from the traditional, horizontal format in landscape photography. It puts my subject matter in the form of a portrait - an ongoing record of this ethereal yet playful nook in nature over the minutes, the days, the years. Ultimately, I try to instill an element of time within these captured moments... visceral time, elastic from one image to another. And always, I seek to have new eyes."




SO COOL.
Keela


My VIP is Ira Glass. 
I love love love radio shows like This American Life and Ira is the king of that domain. 
The stuff you can learn from those shows is so cool.


There is so much out there to ponder, 
and Ira brings it all together. 


Lily

Thursday, October 21, 2010

NYC

Last weekend we hit the city. NYC that is.
With our friend Kelsey.
Some photographic evidence for you.










Keela & Lily

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

WPP-XXVI



Lily


From my art history lecture.


Keela

Friday, October 15, 2010

VIP-I

A Very Important Person. The newest feature.

I had a person I really wanted to do but I forgot who it was.
And so, I give you
Sebastien Preschoux


These string things are awesome.
I have been a little more open to installation and 3D stuff since having to take as sculpture class.
And these are really nice. 





Lily

I want to be Quy Nguyen.
He works at Martha Stewart Magazine as one of two collecting editors. This is another of my dream jobs.




Quy basically visits flea markets and antique shows all over the country, collecting objects for his own collection, Bower Antiques, and for the magazine.

What an ideal lifestyle.

Keela

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

WPP-XXV

Unknown


The Crayola Color Chart, 1903-2010. A visual representation of Crayola's color growth.
The number of colors doubles every 28 years,
so in 2050 there will be 330 different crayons! CRAZY.

Keela



I'm Revolting


Lily

Sunday, October 10, 2010

one.zero.zero on ten.ten.ten

HEY PEOPLE GUESS WHAT!

This is our one-hundredth post!
That's one hundred with one 1 and two 0s.
Like this: 100.

Anyway, we are really excited.
Plus it's 10/10/10.
How neat is that?

We started this blog so we could share our differing opinions with the blogsphere, and the world.
It was a spur of the moment one night, and we flocked to a computer and created this blog and posted about stirrup leggings. That was 100 posts ago. And here we are, at new points and places in our lives, bloggin' steady. The future is promising, and we can't wait for what it might entail. So keep your eyes readin' because we are starting a new feature!

It's called VIP.
Very Important Person.
We will introduce you to a VIP, either a role model, artist, author, designer, or influential human being.

The Pyrenees 100 years ago. Just for the sake of the number 100.

Happy 100th post,
Keela & Lily

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Foreign

If we could live in a foreign land.....

If I could live somewhere outside the good ole' US of A. 
What a thought.

I guess it would be somewhere pretty awesome. 

Probably Europe.
England
Germany
IRELAND.

Or Australia, although that might be too hot.
I like Dingoes.
And Kangaroos are cool.
And Koalas.
And Platypuses. 

On another note.
I think it's really cool that there are so many different accents of the english language.


This is English form England.

This is english from Ireland.

And this is english from Australia.

Lily


No doubt it would be Sweden. However,
I want to spend a summer in
Nova Scotia.

Or Newfoundland.

A cottage built for two and a small fireplace.
A small town with a family-owned grocery and a dog who follows me around.
A dirt road and dewy mornings.

Keela

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

WPP-XXIV




Chesterfield Wing Chair

Keela



Lily

Sunday, October 3, 2010

The Outdoors and Us

The outdoors shape both of our lives, in similar yet different ways.
Cheers to the good old outdoors.

I've grown up in a family invested in the outdoors: camping trips, national parks, snowboarding trips to Montana, backpacking excursions, canoing in the BWCA, and endless time at the Potter cabin. Located about an hour and fifteen minutes away, our second home is the epitome of a true rustic Minnesotan cabin. Heated in the cold months and busy with iced tea and bathing suits in the summers, it's charm will never be lost.
 What I love best:
After dinner boat rides equipped with blankets.
The smell of the espresso machine in the mornings and the warm smell of hashbrowns, susages, and eggs.
When you wear nothing but your swimsuit all day.
Eating meals on the dock.
Weekends with friends.
Early saturday mornings at the flea market.
Strawberry picking and jam making.
Old quilts and cozy reading chairs.
The sauna.
The upstairs loft, where my whole family sleeps.
We would sometimes drive up Sunday afternoon and drive home Monday morning for school. Quite often, my dad drives back into town for work and then drives back out after work. 
We love it; I love it.

Keela
p.s it's name is Loon Song.


Have I ever talked about wood hauling on "The Blog"?
Probably, but is my ultimate connection to the outdoors and rustic living.


My grandma (maternal) lives on a non-active farm in northern Minnesota, and she has a wood burning stove. What do you need for a wood burning stove?
Wood!


Every year my mom's whole side of the family gets together and has "wood hauling."
We head out down the lane and into the woods to reap the woody offerings of the forest. 
The nippier and fallier the better. 
Your cheeks should turn pink.
1995


Afterwards we eat beef stew and chicken noodle soup.
This is the first year I won't be in attendance.
I think ever.


Lily


p.s. My grandma's property is called Pine Knoll