Lost and Found

Cut from the original Fantasia, Claire de Lune, by Claude Debussy, stars an elegant crane who eventually meets another in the moonlight in the bayou. The print was completed with lineart, cellshading, and never made it to the final Fantasia line-up, so years later it was redistributed with an alternate song as something else for Disney. This version is found only on the special edition release of Fantasia.

This is most certainly my favorite classical piece, and with animation it just makes me love it even more.

-XO

Color Lover.

Color inpsiration from Alix over at TheCherryBlossomGirl.com!

-XO

Every Girl Goes through a Photography Phase

...I just never got out of mine. Unfortunately for me though, my cameras went out before I was done with them (outdated or what happened to the last two: the first was dropped - broken LCD screen - and the second, along with the first, was stolen when my apartment was burgled in February). In any case, I would really love a new camera, and the Olympus Pen is looking mighty attractive (except its price tag! $800?? Yikes!).

Of course I found it in a Japanese magazine, and of course their advertising and promotion of the camera is a hundred years beyond the American style. Advertising in the US still revolves around streamline blahhhhh-ness, especially when it comes to digital devices. Everything is sharp and shiny and designed by guys who wear Oakleys like it's still 1999. Anyways, it sounds like a phenomenal camera for what it is and it has the style to make it worthy of anyone who likes taking photos but not lugging around a giant SLR all the time.

-XO

PS! - Check out one of the aspect ratios of the photos it takes! Almost perfectly square like a polaroid (which has been my favorite photo-shape since first seeing Diane Arbus's photography in my first year at college). Neato!

Magazine Clippings One

So I decided to share some of the inspiration I get from some of these awesome Japanese style magazines that I keep referring to in my posts.

These two outfits from Liniere are two of my favorites from the most recent edition. I may not love over-alls, but the green ones the girl is wearing in the photo on the left are almost more like artist clothes. The over-sized, buttondown, navy shirt that is masquerading as a jacket is great because instead of having to wear a heavier, real jacket or sweater you can take it on or off all summer to avoid sunburns and keep cool too (bonus points!).

I also love both pairs of shoes (especially the mini-wedges on the left) and both bags.

Super awesomes.

-XO

Bookshelves.

I love bookshelves. Walls that are made entirely of bookshelves; that cross over doorways and corners and know no boundaries.

I love books.

-XO

The Root of My Vespa Adoration?

It wasn't until last summer that I saw Roman Holiday for the very first time. I've always loved Rome, so that was an automatic plus, and Gregory Peck is delightfully devious, and Audrey Hepburn was the fashion icon of mid-century films; really there was no room to go wrong.

One of my favorite parts of the film, aside from every scene that involved riding a Vespa, was when Audrey's character buys these cute, cheap sandals while walking down the street, even though she has almost no money. It's her appreciating the culture, the style, and the every day fashion of people she has never had any contact with (if you haven't seen the film, she's a Princess who decides to run away in the middle of a tour of Europe).

There's something about this movie that makes me smile just thinking about it. Hmmm :)

-XO

You Can't Always Get What You Want

Why do all the cool shoes that I want have to be Japanese and unavailable in the US? I found these online at Rakuten.co.jp. In the US, it feels so difficult to find shoes that don't have any sort of novelty like glitter, or shininess, or plastic incorporated in the design. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of things like that in Japan (okay, probably even more) but at least they have variety! Anyways, I'm going to continue to drool over the simple, cute shoes from Japan until I can find something even slightly similar here!

-XO

Outfit Two

Another outfit inspired and drawn from reference from a Japanese Style Magazine.

Love me some green jackets. And I do love brown, leather boots too, I just don't have any... yet!

-XO

Let's Run Off and Join the Circus!

I'm not one to post things about weddings, but this one was too amazing for me to not share! And I'm not sure if it's the abundance of yellow (which by the way is fast becoming my favorite color for weddings - of course that's probably just my biased opinion because yellow is already my favorite color) but there's an energy and happiness that is often dulled down for other weddings which almost makes them more somber and depressing than uplifting and exciting like (I believe) a wedding should be!

-XO

PS! - Tiny rabbits as cake toppers! Freaking sweet.

Found on Once Wed.

Old Shoe, New Twist

I remember being about five years old and asking my mom obsessively about getting jelly shoes... of all different colors. Of course, I probably only ever acquired two pairs (the second only after I outgrew the first). So jellies are making a small comeback, but this style that I found today seems to take the cake on re-inventing it.

Laces? For serious? Awesomesauce.

-XO

Ryuichi Ogino & Tadahiro Uesugi

Over at Gallery Nucleus, there are a lot of amazing artists. I was looking at one of my favorite artists, Tadahiro Uesugi (he did character design for the gorgeous film, Coraline) and I somehow also ran across another talented Japanese artist, Ryuichi Ogino, whose fashion illustrations are mesmirizing.

-XO

Sufjan Stevens on a Windy Rooftop

If you haven't heard Sufjan before, well, now's a great time to listen. One of the few boys who doesn't seem to mind singing a little too high and a lot heartfelt, and who is completely unafraid of being different.

-XO

Take Away Show #50.1: SUFJAN STEVENS from vincent moon / temporary areas on Vimeo.

I Love the Planet

Growing up, my dad had two globes in our house; one was a globe of the earth with terrain elevations of mountains and plains, and the other was a globe of constellations. I would sit with them for ages just studying everything on them. Now I have a hankering for a globe and this one that I found on Etsy may just be the winner (once I get paid again of course!). Are there any nostalgic things from your childhood that you would want to get?

-XO


From ionesAttic on Etsy.

Outfit One

Outfit inspiration design with reference from Comfie (a Japanese style magazine).

Art by me.

-XO

Boys' Tuesday

Everyone knows it's easier to buy all the things you want online from the same place so you can get them all at the same time. Urban Outfitters always seems to have a plethora of awesomeness (and also a plethora of totally unwearable crap as well). So I dug out some of the awesomeness into an outfit that I would suggest to any boy who has a heart for the early 19th century and good looking shoes.

-XO

Buying shoes never felt so good.

I love products that are created around charitable ideas.

Jojo's are a new shoe project that donates a year supply of water or plants a tree in Africa when you buy a pair of super cool shoes.

I don't know about you, but I'm hearting the gray ones.

-XO

jojo project from Bureau347 on Vimeo.

Hello, Hello Birdie

Whenever I come across amazing textile-fabric online, I get the urge to go out and buy a sewing machine. Anything I've ever sewn has been hand-stitched which hurts my back and takes an excrutiating amount of time.

Even if I can't use this amazing fabric from Ink & Spindle to actually make anything cool, I could at least use it as makeshift curtains for my closet!

-XO

Soko, So Late

So apparently French singer, Soko, has been around for a couple of years and I'm late to the game, but I just heard her bizarrely, awesome song, "I'll Kill Her" this week and I just had to share. I also love her style, a lot.



-XO


Photo via Edouard Plongeon.

Cuteness from 京都市 (Kyoto!)

Yesterday I spent two hours in Japantown with Vanessa, and we giddied-out over all the awesome Japanese fashion/style/design magazines. I could only allow myself to buy one (they're all $12 - $30, mostly staying on the lower side of that range), but I was totally inspiration hungry for more, so I looked up some sites online and found this great place in Kyoto, Japan (they have a few stores according to their website tit-rollo.com (yes, I know, the name is "Tit"...).

Their clothes are not all flattering for my tastes, but I love sweaters and tie-wrap vests and all the colors are fantastic! (Blue, white, gray and brown together make me swoon!). And so I picked out my favorites from the site, which unfortunately, I can't seem to purchase anything from online.

It's one of the rare times that being in the US actually makes it harder to get something! But I'll be sure to keep an inspired eye out here!

-XO



PS! - Check out the awesome canvas and burgandy-pink bag from Chronik! It makes my heart all bubbly!

Let me write that down for you on a slice of pear...

It seems that I have a bit of an obsession when it comes to sticky notes and memo pads. So of course these cute memo pads from Gallery Nucleus caught my eye!

-XO

A Sunny Day in Glasgow (and in San Francisco too!)

There is something exciting and happy about the band, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, that is just represented in their music as well as the art on their 12" record covers. I fell in love with this art the moment I saw it. I'm a sucker for colors, especially in watercolor paintings.

Click on any of the photos to go to Weekly Tape Deck to listen to their single, 'Failure', which of course it totally isn't!

-XO

Baxter Residence

I love texture from different woods when it comes to interior design. I also have an adoration of wide mid-century style chairs; they're easier to curl up and sit in with a book or a dish of mint-chocolate marble soy ice-cream.

-XO

Found over at Bestor Architecture.

I'm a sucker for wood and turquoise.

...which is why this necklace from A Small Collection has me enamored!



-XO

How to Dress Like a Non-Douchebag

Bradley Cooper is constantly playing douchebag characters in films, but the truth is (at least according to anything I've read about him or what he's said), he seems like one of the least douchey guys in film.



This recent photoshoot and article in Details magazine seems to capture that cool, nice, every-guy image that seems to elude him in his movie roles. And really, I just love this look. It's so laid-back and unpretentious.







-XO


Need Supply Co. for the shoes, Abercrombie for the jacket, and American Eagle for the jeans.