In Good Company

The photographs of my incredibly talented friend, Cydney Puro - whom I've raved about before (read here) - are being featured in the too-cool-for-school online publication, This is Paper. Her work is gorgeous and rad. Take a look HERE.

Supermodel, Work

New perspective.

Taking a moment.

Olive and the nectarine.

Death of the nectarine.

The talented Emily Ulmer photographed my nugget a couple weeks ago.

Above are a few of the magical images that resulted.

I gasped when I saw them...

Bun Bun

Arbus fan art.

In the Middle of the Night

A totes-fab Glamour Shot session went down in Burbank last night. While Alexis and her handsome malamute, Napoleon, channeled Kate Moss and Cindy Crawford, my talented friend Jeff channeled his inner Mario Testino and clicked away. I had the fun job of art directing the classy shoot. A poor man's Grace Coddington, if you will. We were going for a midnight snack theme. Have a sneak-peek! Thoughts? Like a John Currin painting, no? We had so much fun... Much more to come.

Oh, Snap

Lucky me. One of my favorite photogs, dead or alive, happens to be a friend. Cydney Puro. Check out her beautiful work HERE. In exchange for one of my illustrations (one featuring lotsa' boobies and nipples), she is going to photograph grumpy lil' Olive. Rad, eh?

Prints Charming

Gosh, I would love to purchase prints of these photos I found via Pinterest but have not been able to figure out who took these shots... How great are these?

Fridays

Source: kindovermatter.com via Debra on Pinterest

Husband is home.
Family's complete.
I am all smiles.
Like this old lady.
Only I have teeth.

Great Expectations

Supermodels seemingly have it all. Post-partum figures that money can't buy, yummy over-achieving hubbies, and beautiful children whom they breastfeed effortlessly. See Exhibit A:


Exhibit A - VS angel Miranda Kerr feeding her son before strutting her shit on the catwalk in lingerie.

WTF.

Having never had a baby before Olive, I had no idea that photos like the one above, and blogs like this one, do not depict the norm. Glossy, doctored images of highly-disciplined freaks of nature in perfectly-staged settings paired with edited blog entries about their fancy at-home, glitch-free, successful natural births to chill babies are bound to make any "real" mom feel like a failure - myself included. Olive was a challenge from day one, and it's important to note that ours was not a relationship based on love-at-first-sight. See Exhibit B:


Exhibit B - Me and Olive hanging out at the hospital when she was first born. Feelings were mutual. She was pissed at me for starving her (my milk supply hadn't let down yet), and I was frustrated with her for chewing up my nipples (seriously, ow-wee).

Fast forward to today. My weight is at an all-time high, my home is a war-zone, and I continue to struggle with breastfeeding my colicky baby. Unlike Miranda Kerr, I am not strutting around in diamond-covered pasties and a thong. I am a fat ass, running on empty - sleeping any moment I can, anywhere I can. See Exhibit C:


Exhibit C - Reality bites.

Though Olive and I didn't hit it off from the get-go (our relationship problems stemmed from the difficulties I encountered when breastfeeding), our mother-daughter relationship has developed into something pretty darn sweet over the course of a month. (Olive turns 1 month old tomorrow!) My insides melt like butter when the little one stares at me; I swear, there's nothing I wouldn't do for my bossy munchkin... Exhibit D:


Exhibit D - Who ya' callin' bossy?

Ahh.

Balloons (Midtown, Manhattan) by Youngna Park. Available at 20x200. So pretty. Makes me want to reenact scenes from Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette...

Princess Di

A Family One Evening in a Nudist Camp, PA

"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child." - Norman Mailer. Oh, how I love me some controversial Diane Arbus shots. I think I will go rent and watch "Fur" now.

Ahh...

richard ehrlich's homage to rothko. more here.

Artsy Fartsy

'Meter Exposition' by Tolzislow Turkiewicz, 1974 available on 1stdibs.com
Mmm... op art.


Scala dei Turchi Island, Sicily, Massimo Vitali, 2009
where's waldo?


can't recall where i found this, but i'm digging the humor.

Hearts Springing from My Eye Sockets

i totally luuuurve this shit.

stilnovo chandelier, 1950s available at rewire


two boys smoking in central park, diane arbus 1962 available at galerie half


early edition arne jacobsen egg chair, 1968 at galerie half

An Affair to Remember

le cub and i had wanted to be transported to our wedding venue in a eurovan like this one. we ended up being transported in a ghetto fabulous escalade. hahaha. i still love the eurovan...

photo by krisatomic

ANXIOUS.

first day at buddy system studios is tomorrow. i am not feeling well, but i shall hide the unwell feelings. don't want to be like the above-pictured "nipply" dog. must be more like this energy-filled rat-chasing puppy. what the blah am I saying? going to bed. word.

photo source: "place of the upside down" by roger ballen. available at 20x200

Don't Need Much

Julia Roitfeld at home in New York. More images HERE. LOVE. Shot by The Selby. Check out Fanny and Bill's perfect city hall wedding HERE. SUPER LOVE.

Aww.

Sad Vader by Alex Brown. Available at 20x200.

(This post's for you, Frosty!)

I've Got Sunshine

on a cloudy day...

Isn't this photo homage to Rothko bloody brilliant? Check out Richard Ehrlich's work HERE.

It was raining this morning when I drove le cub to LAX.
Birthday boy is traveling to Chicago for work this week.
No pity here, because his next stop (over the weekend) is New York!
Wish I could join him, but I've got a film to shoot.
How tragic.

Film is Not Dead

At the request of my mother, and for the viewing pleasure of all friends and family in Taiwan who won't be making our wedding, le cub and I have hired a videographer. The amazing Joel "Dreamy" Serrato will be documenting the whole shebang. He shoots on Super 8 film with vintage cameras! Take a look at his work HERE. Yum. And his blog? HERE.

Pictured: Neat-o photo by photographer Joshua Scott

Here Comes The Sun

I love this photo of the Beatles. Available for an arm and a leg at 1stdibs.