In the shop!

At the Old Faithful Shop.

I hope you ushered in 2012 in style.  I made a little last minute janky fluorescent paper crown for  myself, and was glad I did!  There’s nothing like a silly accessory to make you feel more in the spirit of the holiday.

Made with: fluorescent orange paint; a plastic headband, rubber cement, construction paper; a variety of Formaline tapes.

May your 2012 be better than your 2011!

Landscape as an Attitude, 1979

This is a Mirror, You are a Written Sentence, 1966-68

The Discovery of Geometry, 1978

Interview here.
(made aware of the artist by this post)

These are pretty much the most inspiring photos I’ve seen in weeks. Just amazingly beautiful.

African Elegance by Alice Mertens / photos by Joan Broster (1973)

(via Weird Friends)

I have been inspired by really bold contrasting colors and prints lately.  Here are a few wild, bold, and lovely things on Etsy right now that make me happy.

1. By Rachel Rose  2. Jennifer Loiselle  3. Barking Sands Vintage  4. Projecteur  5. Floaty Party (um, how much do you love this photo?)  6. KCSUZ

Hi friends!  In honor of Cyber Monday, receive 15% off on regularly priced jewelry!  Use code “L00kS33Holiday” at check out to receive the discount.

Update: Well you missed the sale, but readers can receive free domestic shipping in The Look See Shop using code “LSCODE7634″ through December 25th!

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, but I started a new job (hooray!) at the end of September and have had very little spare time or energy. I will still be posting, but the posts will be a little spread out. Please keep me in your RSS reader!

So this past weekend my lovely mother came to visit from Northern California. We visited LACMA because I wanted to show her LACMA first of all, but also wanted to see their contribution to Pacific Standard Time. My favorites were California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way and the installation of Five Card Stud by Ed Kleinholtz which was quite moving and immersive. This is a post about the former, but the latter is darkly fantastic and definitely worth visiting.

I took a janky phone photo of the Eames living room, as recreated by LACMA to compare to the real thing. I can tell you that even though it wasn’t identical, it filled me with joy and made me want to hop into the installation and have a cup of coffee a friend (or with the Eames’s).

Real:

VS

Faux:

Not quite the same, but you should check it out here for more detail.

We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.
-John Waters

I bought this tiny vase (only a few inches tall) at a shop near me, and just love it. Ceramicist Michelle Valigura’s work reminds me of Alexander Girard and a little of Mary Blair.