Fauxlaroid.
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Just found this incredible iPhone app: Shake It Photo. I love it!!!
Longer post coming soon. I've been busy launching this.
Callie Neylan
L'assemblage.
Elle presque respire. She almost breathes. Will picked up my powder-coated frame on Wednesday from a warehouse in Greektown. As you can see, it's a super shiny turquoise. Initially, I wanted it robin's egg blue or ballet pink, matte-finish, but these colors did not exist where
Dean + Deluca.
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I don't really have much to say except that I took this shot in New York a couple of weeks ago and I really like it. I wish I had known about this, though. I would have submitted this one for sure.
Mon blog de fille.
In case you want to learn how to apply eye makeup and speak French at the same time, here's a blog for you. I found it while surfing some fashion sites this weekend. She uses my favorite makeup brand ever, too: MAC. Ça, c'est super-cool!
Soft as a baby's bottom.
That's what I think every time I think about something that's "powder-coated".
Anyhoo, this is where my fixie frame has been sleeping the past few nights. I dropped it off last Friday (after driving around Greektown, trying to find out how the hell to
Espresso. Ristretto. Con panna, per favore.
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This weekend I was in New York and was there long enough to try out a couple of new espresso bars. I’m obsessed, I know. Above is Ninth Street Espresso’s Tompkins Square location. Very, very good. Except that they looked at me funny when
Slow bike.
I'm almost done sanding my frame. And of course, what's remaining is the worst part. Getting all the nitty-gritty paint that's leftover in the grooves and corners. I could use a dremel tool for this, but Will can't find his dremel since
Slow foodie.
I've been on a Michael Pollan kick lately, having just finished reading The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food. I love his guide to eating:Â
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Pay more, eat less. Good food is not cheap. Like most other things, you get what you pay for.
Dirty hands.
Those of you who know me moderately well have heard me talk about building my fixed-gear bike. Now that I have a bike stand and the weather's (FINALLY – !!) nice, I've been stripping and sanding the frame, taking it down to the bare metal. This is a
Marilyn, revisited.
Browsing through nymag.com yielded this fascinating slideshow: Lindsay Lohan does Marilyn. I remember hearing about it when it first came out, but it just now really caught my interest.Â
It's fascinating to see variations of the female form. As design objects, each element of a woman'