BIRTHDAY: Willie Nelson

 

Happy Birthday, dear Willie.

You are always on our minds.

THROWBACK: 90s POP

Discounting sweet, golden oldies playing on our Mom's car radio,

this is the pop music we grew up with.  Genuine 90s pop.  It rocks.

Here's a sampling of the top of the pop!

TRANSPORTATION: Penny-Farthing

This high-wheel contraption was the first machine to be called a bicycle.  It became the symbol of the late Victorian era, popularized cycling as a sport, and now is now a favorite of Luddites and hipsters.

PATTERN: Polka Dots

Polka dot.  An ever fixed mark in classicity.

Never a trend.  Always spot on.

ARTIST: Michael Eastman

Vanishing America series

Cuba series

Horses series

Michael Eastman.

A self taught photographer, 

Eastman's large scale images are simply breathtaking.

On his Vanishing America series, Eastman said, 

"I love these old buildings and I love how they make me feel 

and what I remember. I feel a sense of urgency about this project 

because every time I go to another city, 

and I explain what I'm looking for, someone says, 

'Oh I wish you had been here a week ago or last year'...

I need to photograph these places while they are still here."

INSPIRED: Work Space

Glimpse into the minds of inspiring writers, painters, thinkers, humorists, artists, and designers through their work spaces.

E.B. White

Mark Twain

Roald Dahl

Virginia Woolf

Ray Eames

Pablo Picasso

Paul Cezanne

Yves Saint Laurent

Jane Austen

Jackson Pollock

George Bernard Shaw

Mark Rothko

Nigella Lawson

Rudyard Kipling

Ernest Hemingway

Peter Beard