January Playlist

film from the summer

Waiting for snow

Some great Camper boots I just fell in love with..."procrasti-online-window-shopping"

love it

Chillin' out max and relaxing out cool...

Henri Le Secq, 1848

"Hoffy! Save me!"

A great find at the antique fair a few weeks ago.

From the Canadian Archives...

can't get this song out of my head...

burn those bras, ladies

A new playlist?

Magic Lantern

Just some of things I've learned about so far lantern slides!

CDV

I'm home sick today from class and I've set aside some time for some good ol' fashioned blog posting. I've been learning a lot about 19th century photography and have fallen in love with some of the designs on the backs of carte-de-visites (think personal trading cards you would collect of friends, family and celebrities and keep in an album). You can find CDVs at antique markets and they are usually quite cheap, I won't get into further details but here are some googled images of the backs of some cartes.

Pro...cras....tin...ate

Donna Karan Spring 2010

This is what I'm doing instead of some serious photo history catch up. Today was the first day back at school and I have a few things to brush up on but for now I'm happy planning my fall and spring wardrobe.

Let's get this Party Started

Went up north, rounded up some moss and finally put together my terrarium, now i just have to keep it alive

School starts today (at noon) and so does my return to regular blog postings. I will also be posting on "Days in a Year" quite soon, I just have to organize all the little films I made over the summer and convert all the files. See you soon!

Ireland Throw Back

After working 3 jobs all summer (2 of which I've given my notice for already!) I haven't had much of a summer vacation so there has been a lot of fond memories rolling around in my head of my trip to Ireland and Spain in May. I just stumbled upon a few things I wrote down while in Ireland that I saw and liked.

I found this toothpaste in the grocery store and was tempted to buy it based on it's fancy packaging

This was hanging in a shop on Valencia Island, more about it's creator in a bit

they love guinness in Ireland and so do the lobsters, good thing I love both

So the "Work Hard and Be Nice to People" inspired me to make my own poster but upon googling it I've found that it is actually a woodblock poster made by Anthony Burrill (you can see more from the series on his website at www.anthonyburrill.com Maybe I'm way out of the loop by just discovering this guy now but I love what he's doing.

In other news, I just got my schedule for fall classes and I have a 3 hour gap between lectures on Wednesdays. This is bad news for my wallet since Ryerson is located at Yonge and Dundas Squae (as in Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, H&M, The Eaton Centre, etc.) So I've decided that I might start a weekly post of rad things I find on Wednesdays under $40. That amount will probably go down to $20 come November when I'm exhausting my OSAP.

I'm also going to be starting my epic crochet blanket project come September, watch out!