Tag: uhhhmazing art

17 answers.


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1.….it’s not there yet
2.….look both ways
3..…misbehave
4.….leave the music on when leaving home, so that it’s playing when you return
5.….say the most with the least
6.….do not invest in penny stocks
7.….i’m not genius, i’m disciplined
8.….ask for a kill fee
9.….relax..…
10...not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece
11...write a daily list of things to do and check them off as they get done
12...avoid compulsively making things worse
13...don’t postpone joy
14...act on anger the next day
15...pay attention to the people who pay attention to you
16...it takes a lot of preparation to be ready for opportunity
17...hire people who are better than you
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= best advice of 2011 (thus far)

trash & pearls.


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1. We Love To Complain
Don’t complain about us complaining. It’s just our thing. We especially love to complain about the weather. Yes, we know the weather is better in LA. We know! We still want to complain about our weather because it’s ours! The winter is too fucking cold, the summer is disgustingly hot. During the spring, “Oh Gawd, my allergies!” Everyone loves fall.
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– What Are 5 Things I Should Know About Living In New York?

nacl.


Hengki Koentjoro
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All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea — whether it is to sail or to watch it — we are going back from whence we came.

– John F. Kennedy, 1962

teens idk.


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these photos belong to mack ludlow.
i don’t know anything about him,
but with a name like that,
i probably should.

don’t be a drag.


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The weirdest experience I ever had though was with my AP History teacher. She was also very young, maybe 24, and she couldn’t teach for shit. She was pretty cool though and we ended up sparking up a friendship, which, in hindsight, became pretty bizarre. At the time I had just come out of the closet and was the token gay kid in school. She loved that for some reason and would ask me for boyfriend advice. One time she actually made me listen to a voicemail an ex left her and asked for my opinion. I was like, “Um, I don’t know. I still dye my hair blue sometimes.”

– 5 Awesome Things About High School

m8, i miss you.


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I bet it was so easy for them to budget cut your weekend service. It’s always so fucking easy when you don’t know, when you can’t remember. But you do, right?   You remember those weekend afternoons you used to pick me up in front of 9th Street and ride patiently while I got lost in shameless people watching and song surfing until you finished that straight shot commute to the West Village?  Crosstown, downtown – that’s all I needed and you did both.  You.  Did.  Both.
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I’m sure, to them, it’s nothing.  Probably because they don’t know it’s just a cold weekday morning now.  The sun’s is barely up, I’m heading one way, you’re heading another, and no one, not even you or me, is looking for adventure.  And we always look away, ignoring each other because we have to.  Because we can’t.  Because we’re running late.   Because we don’t care.
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but you know what, kid?
i remember how it was.
and that is something.

happy place.


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Personally, I think it’s really important to go to a happy place on Fridays.  You know, the kind of place that’s full up on big ass couches and loud ass laughs and smart ass friends who never fail to make sure you’re soooo glad you came. I know, guys. I know. Getting there is a total beast and sometimes you just can’t f-ing make it. So in case today is looking like you might need a shortcut or two, here’s three:
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you’re sexy and other people like you
you’re the sun and the moon
you’re on the aol homepage

you better work.


derek lam fall 2011

1.  the sartorialist
2.  bill cunningham
3.  anna wintour

irl irl irl (!)

I really wish I could be all cool, whatever, idk blasé about the fact that a ridiculously wonderful friend of mine asked me to be her plus one to the Derek Lam show on Sunday. But babes (babe babe babe), when you’ve been following new york fashion week from the comfort of your work computer for all the years you’ve ever even had a work computer and suddenly you’re only a hop, skip, and a jpeg away from three people who have been all up in your bookmarks since 2008, you kinda gotta f-thattitude. I mean, really. Holy high ass fashion, batman.

ps – jf, you are the f-ing tops. thank you sooooooo much.

happy you know what.


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ring the bells that still can ring / forget your perfect offering
there is a crack in everything / that’s how the light gets in.

– “anthem” by leonard cohen

what you really really want.


Andrew B. Myers
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“There’s a debate in our culture about what really makes us happy, which is summarized by, on the one hand, the book On the Road and, on the other, the movie It’s a Wonderful Life. The former celebrates the life of freedom and adventure. The latter celebrates roots and connections. Research over the past thirty years makes it clear that what the inner mind really wants is connection. It’s a Wonderful Life was right.”

– Social Animal by David Brooks, The New Yorker 01/17/11

how to meet the girl of your dreams.

buy a falconer’s glove.
approach the girl you like wearing the falconers glove.
ask her, “excuse me, have you seen a falcon fly by here?”
look up to the sky, hopeful / sad.
if she says, “no,” look distraught and ask her
if she wouldn’t mind helping you look for your falcon.
no human being would ever turn down an opportunity like this.
use the time you spend together searching for the falcon to get to know her.
at the end of your search (10 minutes) you will probably need consoling
re: the loss of your one true friend.
by this point her interest in you based on the fact that
you were able to put so much love and time into the raising of a falcon
will more than ensure a second date, and from there
it’s just a hop skip and a jump to marriage.

good luck!
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*NOTE..–..If by chance a falcon does appear out of nowhere, simply say, “[Falcon’s Name], I’ve missed you so much!  Don’t ever scare me like that again!”  Then offer to take the girl to dinner for helping you find your lost falcon.  Bonus: You just got a free falcon!
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