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Two Nice Things.

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Here are two nice things from my day:

1. Walton Ford is a great artist. I had never heard of him before today, but now I can’t stop looking at his weirdly vintage, meticulously detailed paintings of animals. It’s like if the Hudson River painters decided to create a really witty bestiary. I like it a lot.

2. I have started blogging for the Huffington Post! I’m going to be writing about good causes, interesting products, and eco-friendly fashions. Fun stuff, all around. It’s through my work at Milkshake Kids, which is proving to be a really awesome job.

Paper Houses.

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I spend far more time playing with paper than any reasonably employed person should. But I don’t think I could ever make something like this in a million years. Can you believe this twisty Alice in Wonderland house is made entirely of paper?

It’s the work of artist Mandy Smith, who works with all kinds of paper (including toilet paper!) to make everything from unicorns to record players. Amazing!

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If You Give A Kid A Sticker…

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I want to go to Australia for lots of reasons (mostly wallabies) but here’s another: Yayoi Kusama‘s installation at the Gallery of Modern Art. Over the course of several weeks, he gave thousands of kids thousands of stickers, turning the once-white room into a rainbow of colors. It’s called “The Obliteration Room” and I love it so very much.

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Gift Guide

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This “Cloche With Babies” costs $395. I could totally DIY it.

Here’s what you’re getting, according to the Restoration Hardware site:
“Mounted on posts and arranged beneath a glass cloche, vintage forms from a doll factory make a striking sculptural statement.

  • 28 industrial doll forms, reproduced in resin and mounted on metal posts
  • Displayed beneath a tall cloche of hand-blown glass with a solid wood base“

If I owned this, I would sit around in a huge leather chair, thumbing through my copy of The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death while staring pensively at my baby-filled cloche.

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Photograph by Troy Moth

If I could go anywhere in the world, I would want to travel north. Maybe it’s from reading The Golden Compass one two many times as a kid, but I’ve always been fascinated with the coldest parts of the globe. The romantic poets got this. There’s something terrifically lonesome, beautiful, and downright sublime about all that snow and wilderness and wildness.

Since I can’t go feral anytime soon (though my desire to live in a Tumbleweed hasn’t been completely squashed by recent developments), I’ve been attempting to sublimate my wanderlust into looking at pretty, pretty pictures. I’ve collected a few photographers who capture the cold parts of the world really well, and I figured I would round them up in one place….

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