Manicure Wednesday: Mellow Yellow

No. 27:  Mellow Yellow

Sally Hansen - XTreme Wear

I'M ON THE BALLOT!!!! :D

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Spring Cleaning my Macbook

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Atheist Week is upon us!!!

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Milan Design Week 2011: Philippe Starck lighting the way

Whenever I think of Philippe Starck, it reminds me of some douche bag from my Design 2 class, but after that his Louis XIV Ghost Chair comes to mind.

'marie coquine chandelier' by philippe starck

images courtesy of baccarat

From Design Boom:
the designs within the 'highlights collection' range from contemporary reinterpretations of classic chandeliers to complete free-ranging design variations in which heritage is fused with modernity. here, crystal is combined with the most unlikely materials into lighting structures, utilizing LED technologies. Philippe starck's 'marie coquine chandelier' features a classic looking candelabra that is structured around an umbrella.

acting as a canopy over the lighting unit, it diffuses its luminosity to create a soft ambience.

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This chandelier specially with its tiny shades is not my style.  Yet when I saw this chandelier something really caught my eye.  I don't know if it is the oddly placed umbrella, or the unified color that makes the parts blend in while still showcasing the baccarat crystals, which attracted me....But something about this design pleases me.

He took a very conservative Marie gave her an update and a little naughty (coquine)charm.

Human Experience #10,903: See you later bye!

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Rawr: Friend to Tigers and Humans Alike

Yesterday I went to pick up my mother's Jeep from service at Napleton / Kissimmee

and saw this ad:

I am not happy with the LIVE Tiger at the event.  I e-mailed the organization who is promoting it, Orlando Jeep Club, and will be calling the manager at Napleton to take down the flyers and cease the promotion of animal cruelty.

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Here is my email:

I sent it to the social director, president and anyone who is on the contact us page.  This is a very serious issue, and they need to realize how determined I am.  Animal oppression, animal rights and animal welfare is something I feel strong about - compassion is not an option but a necessity. 

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Please tell Orlando Jeep Club that animals are not for our entertainment.

Please tell Napleton Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge that promoting this is cruel.

Human Experience #10.899: Walmart Love

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Media Marketing Darling: VOTE APRIL 4th

It is that time of the year when the AIAS votes for their new member leads: Pres, Vice Pres, Treasury, Media Marketing, etc....

I will be amazing at this position because I live/work/and breathe all things internet.  I have accounts on all major media outlets.  I am ready to spread the word of Architecture.   I have lots of ideas how to expand our association, what to do better, what to do new at all.  I am very excited.  I wish I would of attended more meetings this semester, because I need alliances.  VOTE FOR ME.

Ever since Architectural History 2 and learning about the Constructivist period - the Russian advertising posters always stood out:

I have been waiting to use it for a campaign but I could not decide when and where. 
This is a great time to put it into action.  The juxtaposition of the black and white female with the bold colors the bright call to action font is perfect for my Savage Minimalist revolution.

I need these posters made, printed, and posted around campus so that I may win the position I am seeking.

I will be attending the Monday meeting to successfully start my campaign for action.

VOTE FOR ANALIA
APRIL 4th

MEDIA MARKETING

for real, real - reaaaal?

Dear New York Times Reader,

Today marks a significant transition for The New York Times as we introduce digital subscriptions. It’s an important step that we hope you will see as an investment in The Times, one that will strengthen our ability to provide high-quality journalism to readers around the world and on any platform. The change will primarily affect those who are heavy consumers of the content on our Web site and on mobile applications.

This change comes in two stages. Today, we are rolling out digital subscriptions to our readers in Canada, which will enable us to fine-tune the customer experience before our global launch. On March 28, we will begin offering digital subscriptions in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

If you are a home delivery subscriber of The New York Times, you will continue to have full and free access to our news, information, opinion and the rest of our rich offerings on your computer, smartphone and tablet. International Herald Tribune subscribers will also receive free access to NYTimes.com.

If you are not a home delivery subscriber, you will have free access up to a defined reading limit. If you exceed that limit, you will be asked to become a digital subscriber.

This is how it will work, and what it means for you:

On NYTimes.com, you can view 20 articles each month at no charge (including slide shows, videos and other features). After 20 articles, we will ask you to become a digital subscriber, with full access to our site.

On our smartphone and tablet apps, the Top News section will remain free of charge. For access to all other sections within the apps, we will ask you to become a digital subscriber.

The Times is offering three digital subscription packages that allow you to choose from a variety of devices (computer, smartphone, tablet). More information about these plans is available at nytimes.com/access.

Readers who come to Times articles through links from search, blogs and social media like Facebook and Twitter will be able to read those articles, even if they have reached their monthly reading limit. For some search engines, users will have a daily limit of free links to Times articles.

The home page at NYTimes.com and all section fronts will remain free to browse for all users at all times.

For more information, go to nytimes.com/digitalfaq.

Thank you for reading The New York Times, in all its forms.

Sincerely,
Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
Publisher, The New York Times
Chairman, The New York Times Company

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God fucking damn it.  I love to read the NYTimes but now they want $20 a month for a digital subscription!!!! I understand asking for $$$ for contect but wow.  I already get Better Homes and Gardens, Vogue, Cosmo, and Architectural Digest delivered and most those subscriptions are only $15-20 a year.  w - t - f....  Now I have 20 articles a month so I have to choose wisely what I read and what I dismiss; the proverbial Sophie's choice.  I love getting lost in their slideshows of fashion, architecture, art and Bill Cunningham's people!!!  I hope this doesn't transfer over to T Magazine.

read on.

In the Media: On Photobucket

My Japan Picture:



Pictures from the Gyno

When the physicians assistant came in and put this on the counter,

I thought she left behind a big carton of cigarettes.

I stand corrected; It is MIRENA:

Dramatic packaging.

Better reference pictures - The giant Mirena box:

 

  

This is what it looks like:

on the end, on the right side you can see a T shape - that is the contraption.

God Speed little one!!!

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Random: 

 

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After all the trauma I went through I should of gone out for drinks, or at least made them at home.  Instead I took my own medicine, curled in bed, read Architectural Digest, wrote, looked at my 'to do' list, and eventually spoke with my baby.

My uterus needs TLC.

Human Experience #10,898: Luck of the IRISH :D

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Art + Architecture: Wright or Wrong?

Fantastic article dissecting the methodology of Frank Lloyd Wright throughout his works.  I bolded parts of the article I found interesting. 

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Over the seven decades of his long career, Frank Lloyd Wright created some of the most innovative buildings of the 20th century. But advances in building materials and digital design technology — and his worrying, even megalomaniacal vision of architecture as a tool for social transformation — have gradually caused the field of architecture to move beyond his shadow. Wright always insisted architects should not confine themselves to merely designing pretty buildings. He believed architecture was "the mother of all arts" and could transform the world.  Herein lies the paradox of his career: he was a visionary figure whose ideas were often so radical and ambitious that they seemed impractical, even dangerous. Throughout his life writers remained suspicious of his intentions, colleagues regarded him as a crank, and clients went around the twist at his utter disregard for agreed-upon budgets and specifications. Wright always knew better; it was just a matter of time before he could convince you of your error. And yet he left a legacy of buildings second to none in American architectural history.


The Milwaukee Art Museum's exhibition "Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century" marks the centennial of Taliesin, Wright's legendary, scandal-plagued hilltop home and summer studio in the midst of farmland about 40 miles west of Madison. It is a decent media hook for a Wright show, and the display is housed in a pleasant setting: the Quadracci Pavilion, designed by Santiago Calatrava and opened in 2001. There is a definite poetry to seeing a great architecture exhibition in a dazzling piece of architecture.

Such a contemporary setting is something of a risk, as the show is expressly conceived to convince us of Wright's enduring importance as an architect. It does not completely succeed, for reasons that I think have more to do with him than the choice of exhibits, or organizational structure. Wright hated cities, and most of his ideas about urbanism remain as impractical today as they were half a century ago. For example Broadacre City, his grand vision of suburban planning, called for every family to have at least an acre of land.

Nonetheless the show's multiple curators — Frank Lloyd Wright Archives director Bruce Brooks Pfieffer, archives curator and registrar Margo Stipe, Milwaukee Art Museum chief curator Brady Roberts, and Phoenix Art Museum director Jim Ballinger — make the argument that Wright's idea of organic design, in which architecture, simply put, responds to the local terrain rather than dominating it, presages today's enthusiasm for sustainability and green architecture. The range of projects presented in the exhibition, familiar to anyone with a working knowledge of Wright's career, suggests that Wright's vision of an organic architecture was indeed surprisingly adaptable and sustainable.

In fact, the more challenging the terrain, the more creative and inventive Wright became. Think of "Falling Water," built in 1936 over a waterfall and connected with nature in a profound way, or the "Raul Bailleres House," commissioned in 1952 for a rugged clifftop location in Acapulco, Mexico, but never built. The design takes its primary cues from — and incorporates — massive circular boulders in the landscape. A steeped terrace down to the sea is also elegantly and sensitively integrated into its surroundings.

But the question remains: how much of the architect's enthusiasm for natural local materials and sensitivity to site was a product of his old-fashioned, hardy outdoor upbringing in 19th-century rural Wisconsin — Wright was born in 1867 and raised on farmland settled by his Welsh ancestors — and how much of it was a forward-looking and visionary gesture concerned with environmental sustainability? Wright certainly revered nature throughout his life, despite the very modernist grammar of his designs.

It is not easy to approach Wright in a new way, given the volume of literature about him and his career and the abundance of past exhibitions and museum catalogues devoted to his designs. The present show covers a lot of familiar territory, which is probably inevitable, though happily includes 33 design drawings borrowed from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation that have never been publicly exhibited. (The drawings are among 100 works on paper that make up the majority of the show, about two thirds of the exhibits.)

I am not sure I believe Wright was a pioneer of sustainable architecture: he was never averse to using re-enforced concrete, a material that he helped to pioneer. (The Guggenheim museum, completed in 1959, is an example.) But I do believe the curators are correct in their belief that there is something valuable to be learned from Wright's designs, something relevant to our time. And yet I can't put my finger exactly on what that is. Perhaps it is simply attitudinal.

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Source:

ARTinfo

Milwaukee Art Museum

Japan

What is going on in Japan is pretty dramatic and scary.  I hope everything goes as well as it can.

March 11th, 2011

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Japan 2011: Crisis Response Page

Lake Louisa: Camping in the WILD

I have been wanting to camp for a while.  This weekend I made it happened with my friends on hand and plenty to do to enhance nature.  The stars at night looked absolutely gorgeous!  The lake was beautiful.  The people were friendly :) And the cabins?  AWESOME!!!!!!!!!  We drove past them on the way home and it is a YES all the way.  For my birthday we are renting one and turning it into a party cabin. 

I cannot wait until May!  :)  I am so excited for this and the little surprises of that weekend.  It is going to be a fantastic event with everyone I care for there :)

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Setting up the tent:

C. had this awesome tent.  We only needed this one for all of us.  It is huge!

Perfect for Bonnaroo 2011 :D

Another view of our site.

C. working on the set up. 

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The Lake:

 

No Swimming!

Beautiful sight :)  On the other side is the pimptastic cabins!!!  I can't wait for May.

Beautiful Cypress Trees along the lake.  There are canoes for rent.

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The Fire:

Lots of our stay was building the fire, maintaining the fire, and finding dry stuff to throw in the fire. I did not realize so much went into keeping a fire ALIVE.

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Morning After: 

 

V. and C.

 

Ahead of the pack!

I love Charlie Sheen.  Everyone should climb off his back, his body his choice.  Who cares what he does, he is having a good time.  It is his life.  He is totally living on impulse, saying what everyone knows is true: 

partying = fun

Some words just sound good together <3

Sheenmania:

1. W.W.C.S.D (What Wouldn't Charlie Sheen Do)
2. Live The Sheen Dream
3. Wiki: Charlie Sheen
4. charlie sheen glossary
5. It's time to Play: Sheen, Beck, or Qaddafi?
6. Charlie on Twitter
7. Part of: Howard Stern Interview

Sleeping is for those without tigerblood.   Keep Winning!!! Live inside the truth.

Manicure Wednesday: Teal Baby

I was bored with all the colors I had.  I found a brand new nail polish in my room while cleaning yesterday.  Teal!!!!!!!!  I don't even know when I bought it, but I love it. :)  Thank you Analia from the past.
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I want to do some fancy designs but I forgot my tiny colors.

If I add anything, I'll update.

matching tootsies

Fashion Week Heroes

I love fashion.  The looks, cuts, colors, imagination and the ladies ;)

What I abhor: FUR, LEATHER, SILK, SKIN, SUEDE

Animal cruelty is such a serious issue that goes overlooked.  I do not approve of killing animals for their pelt so a jacket can have a little fancy trim - FAUX carries the same effect.  I object to the killing of animals for their meat - there are alternatives.  Every being has the right to live their life as they please. 

If you love fur watch how it is made; not some bullshit tummy friendly video. Watch how animals have their fur ripped from their bodies while they are still alive and thrown onto a pile only to bleed to death.  If it doesn't turn your stomach, bring tears to your eyes, or make you question humanity - you are a sociopatch and please stay away from me.

I get daily updates from A Shaded View on Fashion and that is what tipped me off on these Heroes on the Catwalk:

Madrid FW 2011

FUR IS MURDER!

ARRIVA CON EL MENSAJE

BESOS Y ABRASOS A MIS HERMANOS/AS PELIANDO POR ANIMALES

<3

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Source:

Animal Equality

Yeah Booooooooooooooooooy

"You are like a mini Flavor Flav..."

 I found this picture on my phone :D And, it brought me back to that quote.

Only good memories!!!