the unexpected

karen mabon

Florida

Amy Merrick

Ceramic Love

I love ceramics: old and new. I hate that they break but I guess that's part of the precious feeling we experience.
This week I have been having a hard time dealing with the final and most intense of a trilogy of breaks.


Dawn Vachon new works are basically my dream of perfect.
Available at SMALLpieces
and CRAFT

These images are of Big Creek Pottery Workshop I found via an ambitious project collapsing. They could very easily be the photos of my parents and friends. My mother lost her wedding ring while throwing a pot and falling in love with the real love of her life.

Moonrise Kingdom

Confused by the release date earlier this year I thought I would be able to watch Moonrise Kingdom on my birthday.
If you have been in a cave hibernating Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. Thankfully my long wait shall be over on the 30th of August thank goodnesses for Cinema Nova.

Lovely Moonrise Kingdom related things I have found while waiting include
Posters
Website
Fake Books
an Animation
and of course Trailer

Time Without Clocks

Oh, Picnic at Hanging Rock how I wish I could transport myself to either melt into your pages or dance in your stills.  I really liked the book as a teen and I remember watching the film many times. I just loved the dreamy state it would induce. I have recently relocated not far from the Hanging Rock as today being Valentine's I was tempted to bunk off work for a picnic. Unfortunately the universe had different plans and my Valentines has consisted of waking with puffy eyes fromcrying to much during this film, my BF singin me (a rather misplaced and off key) Happy Birthday in my place of employments, due I think to a coma like induced state from working double shifts for the last two weeks, and I am now home alone eatting tacos, and looking at pretty internets 1, 2, 3.

 I have also been reading about the author Joan Lindsay, as I was trying to find evidence of a vague story I have had in my head. While travelling with her partner, she had a vision on nuns running through a paddock. She later learned that this place was the site of a convent which years earlier had been destroyed by fire. This is the kind of thing that will stick in my head, but I will never know how it found its way in.

While internet digging I found these lovely photographs. Lindsay used her school days as a base for the story of Picnic at Hanging Rock; I think you can feel it from the photograph of them as young women. I rather hope they bunked off class.

'Three Remarkable Women' is inscribed in pencil on the reverse of this photograph in Leslie Henderson's hand. Marion Boyd Wanliss (1896-1984) became a medical practicioner, Leslie Moira Henderson (d. 1982) became an author and niece of Vida Goldstein and Joan a'Beckett Weigall (1896-1984) later married Sir Daryl Linsday and was an author of several titles including 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' and 'Time Without Clocks'.

 

The end of everything

While browsing in Paradise Books, I came across a photograph of Marilyn Monroe, which I am sure, I had never seen. Andre de Dienes is the photographer and the photos where taken in either 1952 or 1953. The text stated that Monroe had called de Dienes late one night unable to sleep and in the grip of a dark depression. He picked her up and they took these shots in the dingy back alleys of the Hollywood hills. The cars headlights light the shots. Monroe told de Dienes to title the shots The end of everything. They seem like stills from a dark little fairytale.

Lovely Lullaby

You can make this kind of thing yourself

take a look at this lovely instruction HERE

An ad that deserves being looked at over and over

 

Why don't we see great advertising like this any more?

Personally I blame market research

Two great articles related articles to read HERE and HERE

and this one from ages ago that I really liked HERE

and if you feel like knowing a little bit more about girls and 

being a girl you might like the blog and pod cast

Stuff mom never told you

and the super blog

Got a Girl Crush

and the sassy online teen mag

Rookie

Inside Ellie Curtis's head

I came across Ellie Curtis last year and totally fell for her imaginary world of odd creatures. I would love to make a few party dresses using her fabrics, which you can buy from her shop.

Can't Stop Looking

I came across this set of wedding photos by Sean Flanigan via Les Yeux sans Visage, and I just keep looking at them, in fact I can't seem to stop looking at them.

I like that the shots that are totally staged look totally staged and the ones that are not, do not . I like that Christina is not smiling in all of the shots and it reminds me of a friend of mine who cannot smile on queue. I do feel a tad creepy for looking at them so much. Photographs that capture my attention this much are usually older and the moments they capture long past.