Happy New Year.

Here are our fave albums of 2013.

The numero uno choice for your New Year's Eve dance party.
Daft Punk.

And...for your New Year's Day overhang,

sit back to Modern Vamps of the City.

Make sure your cinch straps are tight,
2014's gonna be a helluva ride!

SCENE: the Best Christmas songs

 

ART HISTORY: Cartoon

A cartoon was a preparatory drawing for a piece of art such as a fresco, painting, tapestry, or stained glass window.   The term originates in the Middle Ages. Cartoon comes from the Italian cartone and the Dutch karton for "strong, heavy pasteboard" the material on which the study was drawn.

DESIGN: Pre-Fab

French metalworker and a self-taught architect and designer Jean Prouve. 

He transferred industrial technologies to architectural aesthetic. 

Check out this time-lapse video from Design Miami this year in which a team assembles Prouve's 1945 Maison Démontable 8x8, a pre-fabricated house designed to help those left homeless after WWII.

ART: Selfie

Albrecht Durer

Andy Warhol

Annie Leibovitz

Mary Cassatt

Cindy Sherman 

Chuck Close 

Edward Hopper

Frida Kahlo 

Inge Morath 

Lucian Freud

Pablo Picasso 

Vincent van Gogh

2013 may be known as the "Year of the Selfie", but these artists know what the self-portrait is all about.  No duck-face here.

ANNIVERSARY: Boots n Burbs

4 girls, 2 years, 1 blog

Happy B-Day BnB

ALBUM: A Christmas Gift for You

 

Greatest. Christmas. Album. Ever.*

*I just forgot about Frank Sinatra's Jolly Christmas.

Phil Spector's masterpiece is top 5 at least.

Here's a sampling of the 13 track honey pot.

WEAR: Aran Knit Jumper

 Tis the season to pull out your classic Aran knit jumper.

Love the ones comin out of new brand & Daughter.

A quick bit of history...

The Aran Islands, to the west of Ireland, are the origin of these 'Fisherman's' jumpers,  

The jumpers were spun from untreated sheep's wool, 

hence the creamy color.

Read more here :)

HUE: Radiant Orchid

Chosen - Pantone's 2014 color of the year.

 It's calming, it's kind.  Do you like?

One thing's for sure - Kelly Osbourne's hair is IN!

INNOVATOR: Rube Goldberg

Sculptor, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, engineer and inventor.
These days, we mostly associate Rube Goldberg with Mousetrap or middle school physics classes.