And a happy Monday to you! Wow, I had forgotten about this beautiful series by Annie Leibovitz, done for Vogue in 2003! Seems appropriate to post since the movie is right around the corner.Via TrendLand

Tags: alice, Annie Leibovitz, art, book, designers, Entertainment, fantasy, Fashion, Photography, vogue, Wonderland
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Met up with Diana and Ben to hear a very cool talk for the re-release of The Faith of Graffiti, put on by powerHouse Books. Not only was the creator of the book, Jon Naar, there, but many of the “writers” featured in the original 1974 release were too. It was amazing to hear the different perspectives on the motives of graffiti, whether it was political, artistic or was done just out of boredom. It was a great primer on the origins of tagging in New York. I especially thought it was cool that I went to this right after I saw that Banksy trailer!

Tags: art, book, dumbo, graffiti, Jon Naar, New York, photograhy, powerHouse, tagging, The Faith of Graffiti
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Meant to post this before I left, but ran out of time. Amalah.com was kind enough to share this hilariously passé guidebook to marriage, When You Marry.

As far as I can tell, this book was intended for a high school course in “Family Life Education,” a White-House-encouraged initiative to strengthen future American families against the corrupting forces of communism, feminism, interracial dating and heavy petting. We’re going beyond the flour-sack baby, here, people, we’re going to bring down the national divorce rate through our ability to make high school students squirm in their seats. It’s outdated! It’s offensive! It’s adorable! It’s all this, and more. Much, much more.

Via Boing Boing

Tags: 1960, book, family, high school, Humor, marriage, offensive, outdated, text
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I love this tutorial for this adorable side table! It’s so easy and looks so neat!

Tags: Apartment, belt, book, craft, creative, decor, dyi, how to, straps, table, tutorial
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A few months back Jack and I went on a bit of a book buying spree from the Strand discount bins. It was really neat some of the treasure we found, but I think my favorite find would have to be a picture book of highly detailed illustrations of New York. It was printed in 1967 by a German, named Robinson, and is a beautifully obsessive love-letter to a fascinating city!










Found on Amazon (sadly without any images)

Tags: book, funk & wagnall, german, illustration, love, New York, robinson, strand
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Ah, the work day is coming to a close; and even though they are predicted rain for a while, I’m looking forward to a chill but fun weekend.

Above is my favorite book, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. I’m rereading it for the 800th time.

Tags: book, chill, fun, micheal ende, neverending story, read, weekend
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I’m so torn! I love and trust Spike Jonze to do the amazing job he always has, but I have a thing against really short children’s books being made into feature length films; what Jack calls “The Cat in the Hat Treatment.” My curiosity is peaked and my fingers are crossed, though!
Via Kitsune Noir

Tags: book, children, movie, poster, where the wild things are
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Even though I got a little sick this weekend, it was a very very nice one. I woke up Saturday and went through old sketches I had scanned in high school and college for any untapped ideas and thought I should get back in the habit of having a sketchbook/journal again. So, I picked up a ruled Van Gogh Moleskine at a nearby stationary store. Also, while out, this book caught my eye, and I couldn’t put it back on the shelf (which is so bizarre, cuz business and job books usually turn me off so thoroughly)!

What also made this weekend great was early Sunday morning, while we were asleep, we made our first sales! Holy cow! We have a series of ACEO cards (the cardinal, owl, peacock and cardinal) up in the shop, made from the watercolor birds I did a little while back. Here’s to many more sales in the future!

Tags: birds, book, cardinal, creative, Etsy, flamingo, journal, moleskine, owl, peacock, reading, sale, sketchbook
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This is amazing to go through: an international index of hundreds of covers of H.G. Wells’ iconic book! I love seeing the various interpretations different artists have; some go purely typographic, some give small, subtle hints to the story and themes, while others basically make it so you get everything just from the cover.
Via Core 77

Tags: art, book, cover, design, h.g. wells, war of the worlds
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Simply stunning work (as it always is from Penguin)!
Via FFFFOUND!

Tags: 007, book, covers, creative, james bond, penguin
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