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I think we should all order up these, huge awesome black and white posters by Debbie Carlos. Soft and sweet images served up gritty style. here

oh hey....

 

kinda busy this week but, check out these beautiful, thoughtful, inspirational images shot by photographer, Pia Ulin There's something to love in each image whether it's herringbone floors, clean lined cabinetry, classic modern design juxtaposed against antiquity, a shot of color in a flatly lit room, a palette that looks so ripe you want to bite into it.......see if you can find that one detail that makes the shot.....

{ once upon... }

I'm not sure what's cooler, the concept { every monday, wear something different and stand on something }, the art direction or the photography. Heidi Lender's series of photos featuring fashiony, interior designy, travel concepts are the bee's knees.

also, I want those zebra shoes.





you can follow Heidi's tumblr feed for updates of her series { once upon... }

blacks, whites, reds

vogue germany

vogue china

Girls In The Window :: Ormond Gigli

I want to blow this up and use it as wallpaper in an old, downtown utilitarian loft........

I actually prefer this version for the purpose { a vintage exhibition poster from '83 $600.00 on

etsy }

"In 1960, while a construction crew dismantled a row of brownstones right across from my own brownstone studio on East 58th Street, I was inspired to, somehow immortalize those buildings. I had the vision of 43 women in formal dress adorning the windows of the skeletal facade. We had to work quickly to secure City permissions, arrange for models which included celebrities, the demolition supervisior's wife (third floor, third from left), my own wife (second floor, far right), and also secure the Rolls Royce to be parked on the sidewalk.

Careful planning was a necessity as the photography had to be accomplished during the workers' lunch time! The day before the buildings were razed, the 43 women appeared in their finest attire, went into the buildings, climbed the old stairs, and took their places in the windows. I was set up on my fire escape across the streeet, directing the scene, with bullhorn in hand. Of course I was concerned for the Models' safety, as some were daring enough to pose out on the crumbling sills.

The photography came off as planned. What had seemed to some as too dangerous or difficult to accomplish, became my fantasy fulfilled, and my most memorable self - assigned photograph. It has been an international award winner ever since. Most professional photographers dream of having one signature picture they are known for. "GIRLS IN THE WINDOWS " is mine. "

Thank you Eileen for bringing this to my attention!

on the wish list.

Compelling, in a weird and beautiful 'where's waldo' way...

The blown out quality, so serene....

Massimo Vitali's large format photography has me completely captivated. I noticed that Kristin Lee has one hanging in her kitchen {total art envy} and had to take a closer look at his portfolio.

Like having your own private window that looked on to the coast of Italy, whenever you wanted it...

yes, I'd like to hang a huge photo of semi clothed euros enjoying the beach.

it's just charlotte perriand, wearing pearls, on a mountain

no big.

happy bastille week.

digitally mastered

When my brother was a kid, one of his bedroom walls was covered with a huge, grainy, black and white photograph of a 747 on a tarmack. The graininess of the photo created an almost pixelized design up close, but from a far {10 feet back} it almost felt as though you should have a lighted baton in each hand, directing the plane to the gate.

I was always a little envious that he had such cool walls and it has forever sat in the back of my mind {the internal design lab portion of my brain} as a, someday-somewhere-I'll-use-this, idea.

I have no idea where my father found that gigantic poster/wallpaper, but in the mid - 70s I don't think it was being digitally produced and most likely wasn't something easily accessible outside of the trade.

These days most digital print shops will recreate any image you give them on to paper or even canvas. For those a little timid about swathing the entire length x width- an enormous canvas can have great impact.

I keep thinking about the Eames 'House of Cards' . Some of those would be really fun on a playroom wall. If not used as wall covering, try them as a triptych using huge digitally printed canvas.

How about this one....

makes my skin crawl a little but perfect for a science lab.

Palate cleanser......

above photo:: Jeffrey Hirsch for New York Social Diary

One of my favorite boy's rooms is that of the son of photographer, Pieter Estersohn. Estersohn used one of his own photographs of a temple in India, digitally blown up, to create this stunning room.

The room itself is quite small yet the impact and depth of the photograph, visual creates space. The subject is so elegant, couldn't you see this in an woman's dressing room?

photo credit:: Pieter Estersohn

A few technical details: original images need to be at least 150 dpi and the cost runs around $5.00 per square foot.

more cars

More great vintage car shots. This time with clever copy. From the flickr set, 'cars, trucks and others'
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There was a time, way back when, when I started this blog, that every once in awhile, i just posted photos with little writing. My theory was that, sometimes, great imagery is all one needs for inspiration. Sort of like the glossy coffee table book, that you pick up and flip through every so often just to get ideas.

I kind of liked that. So to my purist, erudite, blogger friends who are far better writers than myself, I apologize, but I'm going back to that format. Just every once in awhile. Not because I have senioritus, but because sometimes a picture is worth a kajillion words. Plus, vintage cars sort of rock .

photographer::elizabeth weinberg::

the 'peace out' posted on Friday was the work of Brooklyn based Photographer, Elizabeth Weinberg. Weinberg was selected as one of PDN's 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch in 2010.

Her unique approach to creating images that make the viewer feel as if they, themselves are the ones behind the lens, creating an almost tactile experience.

You can almost smell the impending rain storm, hear the music playing on the road trip and feel the movement of the waves.....

There were so many great shots on her site, I had a hard time narrowing it down to these. Check out her site for more. *here*

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There's a curious thing about L.A. that you don't find in any other large, U.S. cities. We spend an inordinate amount of time in our cars. As the crow flies, from my house to Hollywood is about 13 miles. In drive time that can mean an hour to an hour and a half. Unless it's very early in the morning, or late in the evening, and not on a weekend but maybe midweek, and then it's more like 30 minutes. It's all about the traffic.

All about the other 10s of millions of others that are trying to get here from there. Buzzing along on strips of asphalt looped and circled like bowls of spaghetti or arching like dinosaur tails. All of us, shuffling around in our little glass and metal boxes. Our private rooms. Our private worlds. Zipping through time, or standing still.

Standing still seems to take up a large part of our time. And there we sit, looking at each other. Oblivious that to the others, we are visible. Oblivious in this way, some pick noses, some read texts, some write texts, some shave, some apply makeup, read the the paper, the bible, floss teeth, sing, yawn, scratch ..... And we watch each other, curious in our furtive glances.







For the last 20 years Photographer, Andrew Bush (this, same photographer) has been driving around L.A. taking photos with what he calls his, "car tripod" a camera, placed in the area where he removed the front passenger seat of his own car, weighted down by sand bags. The result are these fantastic large, color, (intimate) portraits of people in their cars, shot mostly, in and around Los Angeles. To see more from Drives, visit here