this was our N/R (family) christmas.
merry christmas and have a happy holidays!
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first snow
dear you,
we got our first christmas tree with jenny (our dog) today.
it was snowing and foggy and eerie and empty and beautiful.
jenny, who was born in the cayman islands, is obsessed with the snow.
she's like us: beach-born, energetic, and overall kind of crazy. it was no doubt she'd love the snow as much as q and i do.
we got a twelve-foot tree. it was so big the guys who owned the little tree farm had to use a tractor to drag it to our car. it smelled like christmas all the way home.
it smells like christmas in our house now.
i hope i got good pictures.
happy holidays.
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absurdity
1/ PREPOSTEROUS
in !!! itself a- short about........ absurdity,! weirdness,%% unexpectedness,**`!! mystery, irony, ??? ? /!! // ....?!
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2/ SLOW FOOD
sMAsH!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!!1!!1!!!1!!!
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3/ SWEATPANTS
¡¡¡déjä v¨üuuu ovër án∂ ovér ánß øvër ágäín maStERpieCE!¡
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4/ RESUME SUPPLEMENT
a resume in ÄRT%&vïDÉO form. uh we(i)rD!!!
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welcome to absurdity. i've been into cool weird stuff lately. like cool cool weird weird videos. they've gotten me through this week and will probably get me through the next and the next and the next and the next and next next next next and next next infinite next.
thanks, bye conGRaTs!!!!
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and, thank you
yogurt panna cotta . pumpkin pie and ginger ice cream . roasted yams and delicata with yogurt and pomegranate . kale salad with persimmons and tahini dressing . roasted green beans and whole grain mustard . mashed potatoes . stuffing . turkey . gravy cranberry sauce with jalepeños . roasted cauliflower steaks with capers and olives and parsley . berry crisp .
i am thankful for life
i am thankful for opportunity
i am thankful for people and family and friends and love
i am eternally thankful for everything
enjoy your holidays
be thankful for everything that you have
love,
izzy
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street parallels
it's almost thanksgiving break. i'm tired and sleepy and drained.
a lot has happened in the past month. a lot of which i have a lot to say, but not a lot i want to say here. i've been waking up stronger. i'm waking up stronger every day.
on other notes
i've been inspired by more raw photographs lately. open ones. real ones. and i think the easiest way to embody this rawness is through street photography. i think the coolest thing is seeing parallels between street photography from different cities and photographers, and how colors and lines and shapes overlap.
i tried to show that.
i'm ready for gravy.
happy saturday.
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a month from then
the human condition is a installation of the works of various artists in an old, 40,000 square-foot hospital. i thought it was cool and weird and unique and gloomy and just beautiful; the pieces brilliantly match the geometric and sharp shapes of the hospital. i just wanted to share its awesomeness.
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as for me, i'm back. it's been 48 days since i wrote my last post. that's a pretty long time. i've been taking a little hiatus from social lately. it's been nice to just not stress about having to curate and post things on all of my platforms. i started junior year 29 days ago. i turned seventeen 19 days ago. i'm a year older since we last talked.
i've been thinking about this sort of kinetic energy of stress. i think a lot of the time i feed off of other people's stress and they feed off of my stress and other people's stress, and it just becomes this sort of eternal and cyclical exchange of anxiety. i mean, i get it. we're getting older and we have more responsibilities and work and independence. we're almost done with high school. i realize that every once in a while and it just scares me. i love the idea of a new and limitless world. we're practically there.
i've been pretty good about it my monthly freak-outs, though it's taken me almost 3 years to figure it out. i keep reminding myself that i'm okay. that even though i have no control of time and other people and their decisions, i have complete power over what i do and how i perceive and change my community. there's been a lot of broadened thinking lately. i think i've matured a bit from it.
good night.
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found artists: ben clement
this is ben clement. i'm not really sure how i stumbled upon him, but i think i'm in love with the website as much as the photographs.
photog rapher ''' / creativ e director ' ' i;/// jj editor
cool.
happy friday
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where art and cake collide
images by dunja opalko x wallpaper magazine
i haven't been baking much, even though it's summer time. very much unlike me, but i've been so busy with projects and fun stuff that i think it's okay.
the other day i stumbled upon danish designer kia utzon-frank and her london-based company kufstudios. naturally, there was kufcakes. each cake is in fact edible. kia prints marble texture onto fondant or marzipan before most meticulously folding it over cake. in turn, a beautiful stone effect is created, which freakin' insane.
the cake itself is equally as stunning, with folds and layers of sponge cake thin enough to create a fine gradient. "taste is as important as the look, and the cakes should be conversation starters and trigger our curiosity and interaction with each other," their website says. kia uses natural food coloring and fruit juices to dye the cakes.
i think the thing that utzon-frank said that really spoke to me the most was this: "cake is just another material. if something catches my interest it doesn't matter what it's made of. i think there's a huge freedom in not knowing much about the material i'm throwing myself at, as i then don't know the 'rules' and therefore am more open to experiment."
food = experimentation = art
i wish i could do that.
enjoy your weekend,
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because it was great
i made a video a week ago about my grandparents' neighborhood.
i went to jazz camp for a week.
i met really cool people.
i discovered new music.
i took a break.
i spent time with my family.
i'm good. i'm home. let's go.
i miss them.
happy monday
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i've been watching stuff
1/ on work – ryan o'connor
simple. eccentric. awesome. funny. i love it. i love helvetica.
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2/ upstate – jorge cuevas jr
15 seconds of joy and beauty.
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3/ onward internet – sander van dijk
the internet is cool. right.
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4/ pulse - traceloops x shigeto
a favorite song + a favorite artist. the perfect video.
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it seems like it's been forever since i last wrote here. it has, actually. i've been busy with my summer job and trying to be creative in other aspects of my life. i'm more confident now. i'm more confident in my life and actions as a creative. it almost feels like i know what i want to do and grow to be in the future. it's crazy. i'm turning 17 in 2 months and even though i always say i don't know what i want to be, i do know what i want to be. i am who i want to be. i think for me, that's really powerful.
good evening.
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h0me
i made a little thing because i haven't made one in a little.
happy wednesday
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what's going on
what's goin' on guys? i've come here to say that we have T-minus 2 days left until the end of the school year. do you know how good that feels? that feels pretty great.
i've been taking some weird photos lately. like cool weird? alex says that they're cool weird. that means that they really are cool weird. that's good. i love flash now. to kinda celebrate these photographs, i made some weird collages.
- got a new shirt from my dear friend that says "matriarchy now!" i love it. you can buy one (and look at all of her cool projects) here.
- i painted my nails like i always do when i choose to do them once in a millennium
- a cool water-chemical stain that i found today waiting for the bus
- my kefir yogurt ice cream with rainbow sprinkles that i had for dinner last night
- a brownie cake with very sad decorating by me (for my friend's chinese teacher)
and because it's been awhile, here are some links that i've found from the last 12 days.
1/ all of the pretty colors
2/ this awesome wallpaper (yes, real paper that goes on walls)
3/ buy all of the patches!!
4/ OK.
5/ what are you talking about?
happy hump day, everyone
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color switch
john zabawa, cereal mag, liam stevens, manjit thapp, reidar pritzel, natalie tan, kanghee kim, flavie roux, sigmar polke, erik madigan heck, natalie tan
every couple of months, i make a new folder of images. i would sort of describe it as a mood board folder: there are images from pretty much everything that i visit. blog posts, illustrators' portfolios, tumblr, cargo, etc. i link this folder to my screen saver, so every time i leave my computer i come back to these images floating and folding on my screen. it's like a moving inspiration board... sorta.
colors are nice. i've been drawn to more pale colors recently. i like the way they complement more vivid colors. composition is nice too. i've always been drawn to simple shapes.
the pictures and illustrations complement each other. they work together to create a new thing and are great pieces of art because of that. i think that all good art is like that. it can be associated to other pieces and other artists regardless of style or medium.
i like art like that.
happy friday
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blanca
fresh pasta with carbonara
garbanzo soup with raspberry salt
apple with shaved macadamia
glass shrimp with kohlrabi
sweet potato chips with buttermilk
agnolotti with lapsang souchong tea
sunchoke and cardamom cake with cacao
fresh stracciatella with asparagus
dear mom,
thank you for everything.
enjoy your mothers and sundays everyone.
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my office
where i sleep and throw my clothes and sometimes watch a movie
i killed my plants
where i make stuff
where i keep the messy stuff
where R2D2 lives
where the only pictures i have with my friends are
where i keep a picture of them
where projects die and are born
where clips that don't actually work are #aesthetic
where i keep artwork from first grade
there's just a random donut on my desk
people always ask me what my workspace is like.
it's my room.
it's my creative space #PEACHYS
i live here, i work here, i sleep here. it's my space. there's a lot of art and design magazines and stuff. my mom printed out some of my own photographs so i could, you know, get some inspiration from myself or something. i look back on my 2006 self (aka that painting from the first grade) for sources of creativity. real casual.
my room is a balance of myself. there's a lot of graphic prints and minimalist stuff, but there's also an R2D2 on my pillow, a tardis on my desk, and pictures of planets in my closet. i'm very discreet with my inner nerd, but there are hints of it everywhere.
there are usually more plants in my space. i killed most of them. what a shame.
there are cracks on my wall. some are new, some are old. our building is shifting and the wall closest to my bed looks like it's about to fall apart. it adds character. yeah.
i have a whole turntable space on my credenza. the flash didn't really reflect well on it, so i deleted all the pictures. it's there though.
i think comfort fuels my creativity + motivation + productivity.
this is common comfort...
too much?
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let's be creative
an image by tim schutsky + other unknown sources
i look at a lot of stuff on the internet. i like looking at art (in all of its forms) a lot.
i'm constantly inspired. i've recently found a few "things" that i've really, really enjoyed + i've been motivated by. here:
1/ from sketch to screen
the other day i stumbled upon yours truly, a unit dedicated to telling the stories of artists (and more specifically, musicians). i found this piece they did on chaz bundick, an artist / producer / creative. i just loved everything about this.
image by bea policarpio
2/ the crossroads of should and must
i've loved elle for awhile now. i talked about the difference between "should" and "must", but i'm pretty sure you'd much prefer her explanation over mine. she just gets it.
3/ ok gO!
you all know that okgo is my favorite band. this is also my favorite concert opening. i get chills every time i watch it (also like post-concert sadness). it just makes me want to make something awesome.
images by yours truly
4/ wet
don't wanna be your girl. creative processes + art + music + everything that happens in-between. this is the story of wet (the band, if you didn't know).
4/ our solar system
a group of friends recreated the solar system in real proportion because they wanted to. i just found this whole things insane/cool/beautiful/wonderful/thought-provoking. there's a new perspective that i had formed.
night
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okay so
i kind of don't know what to say.
i've been resting my body a lot. i've been eating well. i'm learning in school. i'm trying to take photos every day. i'm reading. i'm waking up at six o'clock every morning, except on the weekends. i walk home every day at around five. i read the news sometimes. i write sometimes. i'm listening to new music every day. i do my homework. i like to look for new shoes even though i don't need them. i smile. i go out with my friends. i brush my teeth twice a day. i play piano every monday and get out of school 15 minutes early on fridays. i try to walk more because it's nice out.
i'm doing well.
i feel like i don't keep up with writing here enough. i know, i know, i'm sorry. but i'm going to change that within the next couple of weeks. i have stuff in store to share, but i'm not exactly quite sure what it's going to be yet. #coolcontentcomingsoon. promise. i'm hoping to get some videos out pretty soon... i just haven't gotten around to it because you know, school and projects and all that fun stuff. but i promise that cool things are underway.
so i turn this question to you all: what kind of content would you like? more recipes (which would be in summertime)? more film stuff? graphics? art? life stuff? writing? do tell. (seriously, i'd really like to know).
i'll leave you with "cool things that i've found in the last 22 days" things. haven't done one of these in awhile.
1/ floating record? could you imagine this in your bedroom? yes? yes.
2/ my favorite little video (i found last week). it's not really about pizza
3/ this pair of very minimalist earrings that i adore
4/ a really intriguing short film on "fangirls"
6/ i forgot about this piece + have been listening it for the past week
7/ my favorite human being doing my favorite human things
have a lovely saturday, everyone.
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i'm so happy
i'm home. the past few days of spring break have been the most relaxed. there was a moment when i actually thought that it was summertime.
i'm happy. i'm so happy, and being so is one of the most askdfklj feelings. it's hard to explain, but i'm sure you've felt this way before. when i'm happy, i get creative. i've made so many little things (including a 'california' video!!!) in the past week alone.
i even made a little playlist about it. cool.
enjoy your spring everyone. i'll hear from you soon. promise.
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on film
still from 2001: a space odyssey. my favorite film.
i've spent a lot of time watching films in the past few days. short films, long films, films of my own, i've been watching them. we're on this weird road-trip-not-road-trip trip in california right now, so i've queued a list of little films for the rides.
i love film (i'm talking about motion pictures here, but i love actual film also). i love the ability to tell a story without words. i hope by now you know that i like to understand things visually, so it shouldn't be surprising when i say that i love movies.
i wanted to share some of my favorite films that i've found and that i'm currently watching during our car rides. some of them are weird, some inspiring, some cool, some beautiful, but all incredible. they are all worth watching, promise.
i love film.
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1/ the sound of film . robert marshall
the sounds that often are missed when we replace film with digital media.
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2/ michael cina – a century of artifice . VSCO
a short film on the life of one of my favorite graphic designers.
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3/ august in paris . sage
an eccentric music video with lots of legs and no faces.
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4/ can you read my lips? . little moving pictures
i come back to this video a lot– it explores the difficulty of lip-reading in a world of hearing.
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5/ opening titles to semi-permanent design conferences . marx
a really beautiful opening title to a conference (?). cool. here are the behind the scenes.
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6/ greenland . tim kellner
tim + travel films = awesomeness.
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7/ the uses of envy . lara lee
bold, graphic animations with a bold narrative.
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8/ casey neistat, words of wisdom . jack harries
casey neistat's words of wisdom. what's better than that?
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have a great thursday, everyone.
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