william wondriska

from  a long piece of string

love this folk dance found on rosa pomar's blog  
a very different kind of freestyle dancing
and choreographed by this same (from above link) anthony lee: wildfire and somebody that i used to know

sun sipping

julie's coffee and tea garden in alameda has a great back patio, with bright sun covered benches and shady coves and everything in between, plus plants and iron wings.

weekday carnival, a finnish blog

my cousin lotta's fashion, etc. blog (for swedish åhlens department store) is back 

this calls for a swedish song: redan glömda

hi little dog.

julia mint

falcon wright

fenster spring break

beach house zebra

thomsen's and vines

 

i love finding new favorite spots in alameda. i keep thinking i've seen all the cool stuff in alameda, but not so, luckily. this morning i discovered thomsen's garden center/vines cafe run by husband (in the cafe upstairs) and wife (in garden center downstairs). they've been there over 30 years and the place is super charming, with nooks with benches and surprises all over the cafe—birds flying above the molding, patterned floor, stained glass windows. i had to have a fika and buy a couple of plants, which i plan to hang stephanie style.

reuben margolin

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a few years ago i saw this make episode on reuben margolin, an sf kinetic sculptor. randomly, last weekend, i saw one of his pieces, tule wave, in real life at the david brower gallery in berkeley. so beautiful and calming. see it in motion.

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alameda houses 

right now my favorite on blunderbuss (partially because of how he sings "swea(t)-in" and "noyvous")

he looks pissed

but he is purring

thank you to sofia gatica

congratulations to courageous argentinian, sofia gatica, who has been fighting monsanto for over 10 years and is one of six leaders awarded the goldman environmental prize. (there's a great short video in the article too.)

it is completely baffling and disgusting that monsanto is allowed to continue their "work" (more like greedy exploitation and poisoning), given the long history of their products and actions killing, sickening, hurting people and the earth. the list of their truly evil deeds is so long and so many people fight against them (usually unsuccessfully and sometimes while having their lives/livelihoods threatened by monsanto in the process). how monsanto-ans live with themselves is a mystery.

$20

more green

especially me

green

gave the plants a sun bath while i could keep an eye on the plant-eating cat.

and knitted a cowl this weekend. took less than one skein! may have to do more in other colors.

the big trees that line alameda's streets are sprouting green leaves now, flourescent in the sunlight. the spring abundance is building.

b/w

feliz!

two backyard finds

tall yellow yellow flower and a fallen plane



i love this paper artist: nathalie boutté!

gunta stölzl

i know i've posted about gunta stölzl before at some point. photos above of her weavings/sketches from the book bauhaus 1919–1933: workshops for modernity

lots lots more found here

and some of the works of this talented hannah waldron remind me of gunta's.

in the interest of fairness

thought i'd post some recent dog flickr/tumblr favorites since i posted cats the other day.

this guy above was sniffing around in the plant nursery and would not stand still for a proper picture (despite the fact that the owner says the dog regularly has his picture taken by strangers).

sweet
this guy reminds me of a dog my family briefly had, waldo
charlie picking out wedding samples
cracks me up
cute
morning loo dog walk
another charlie
morning coffee
characters
venice bistro
i am the best
pernille
coffee date

lately

finding it hard to motivate to bicycle to the farmers' market in the rain this morning. maybe it will let up soon....

it's nice that

rachel's new necklaces!

william steig

as a child i loved sylvester and the magic pebble and the amazing bone by mr. steig. today i checked out the book william steig drawings, which includes many of his new yorker drawings. his drawings are so scribbly and ugly and beautiful and hilarious. amazing how something so scribbly can capture so much about gestures, life. in the introduction, lillian rose writes of steig's drawn world:

it's a place without money or machinery or 'things.' it's a world populated by artists, farmers, knights, ladies, gentlemen, lovers (many, many lovers); by lions, dogs, cats, rabbits, chickens, birds, fish (congenial creatures all of them, but with every human fault); by drunks, violinists, bums, actors, clowns...an intimate, pastoral, not too dangerous world, where poetry rules and time does not pass.

this book contains a bunch of drawings of people serenading animals and vice versa. too funny.

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worn right

i had to start an old trucks in alameda set.

wind-trimmed

threading in the choirs

someone recorded the lovely first song by the charming emil svanängen of loney dear last night at bottom of the hill

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no one's leaving

harden my heart

cooling one of my favorites of hers

it's time for cat madness! ^ ^

giant pinky leon!

so many excellent cats on flickr lately.

two behind leaves: chester and this sweetie
big cat pillow
this animal
busted charlie
oh my goodness
basil
that look
lunch stretch
trotsky the cat
are you going to feed me now?
hazelnap (hazel reminds me of my old cat, humphrey)
smulan (the crumb in english)
all cats, all the time

why we broke up

i don't know why i requested this book from the library, when i was obviously going to purchase it.

these two must have so much fun together. so much wacky creativity and oddball knowledge between the two of them. you can tell they enjoy each other from their interview on city arts and lectures. it's airing again on sunday. (looks like there's no podcast...) maira's take on cake is brilliant.

why we broke up

wim wenders +

from his book once, which contains photos from his travels and the stories behind them. go see pina if you have not.

victoria hannan

wilder quarterly

another, a lullaby, by jonathan johannson: du sa (you said)

lyrics translation approx: you said something about, about the other side/ you said something about, you said something about us/ you said something that never left me/ you said something that stayed

tonight

we are young

the dog, the people, the yellow stool, found through elisabeth

❉

guess i'm collecting old truck photos now. old trucks are plentiful on the island.

found jonathan johansson this weekend. you might like his songs even if you don't know swedish (considering i can only understand about half of what he's singing...).

and then found rockfotoemma, a blog of a swedish musician/band photographer. here's a photo of hers of aforementioned jonathan johansson).

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tainted love (like the original better, but mm amuses me—drama!)
hearts club band
little less conversation

the movie i have seen more times than any other movie. never gets old.

dusk graininess

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enjoying the weird glowy dusk-storm coming light on the way home today. i like that the days are getting lighter.

fast saknar sverige idag. har gjort bort mig. det måste man göra ibland. men också gör att jag vill fly lite grann. får bli in i en bok istället. lyssnar på kent idag: lsd, någon? den här skivan blir bättre o bättre. skulle vilja se dem i stockholm en dag.

om man är urtråkad kan man rufsa till håret o ta lite photobooth foton.

XX

agnes thor photography
yann faucher (i'm sure i've linked to before)

poppies

bees for poppies
my sympathy
time to get ill
random but good

hello pale toes

first 2012 day of no socks!

shirley & lee
tina

tonight girl walk // all day!

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nowness=so good (the site design, the photos, the interviews)
found through nicholas haggard, also so good!

swedish pop: tell no one about tonight
reminds me of this

o o o O o o

you spin me right round (wow. such a bad video.)

perfect circle

julien strangler (not so circle related)