illustrated cameras

Hey there! I finally have enough energy to blog now that the busy weekend is over and I'm finally in air conditioning! Woohoo

I had a great weekend going back home. It was especially nice spending time with my family, doing yoga in the park (while my bro played bongos!) and going to my old childhood friend's wedding! Really exciting. Pictures to come (crossing my fingers the film pics turn out well!)

Anyways... as you may know, Matthew and I have started our own blog called Smooth Sailing. We like posting photos we take together and we're even starting some new & exciting projects!

Here's an illustration that I drew of both our cameras! It was fun to compare the differences between them. New + old love... camera friends forever!

Hope you like it! I hope to do more illustrations like these soon :)

Stay cool! xoxo

-gabrielle

adventures in brooklyn.

horray for the end of the week! although i really shouldn't be complaining because i had the past 2 days off from work. now it's friday but it feels like a monday... so confusing.

anyways, i've been hanging out in brooklyn with matthew. we have been really busy bike riding, collaborating, taking pictures (with my 'new' 35mm canon from ebay... i love it so much... see smiling photo above), apartment hunting, eating delicious food, but most of all trying to stay cool! preferably with tons of iced coffee, refreshing fruit & cool salads.

it was matthew's birthday a few days ago and i bought him tickets to see thao & mirah for this past wednesday. it was amazing to see them live (again!) & they certainly never disappoint. my favorite was hearing them play "little cup" but i also have so many new favorite songs after hearing them live.

the opening band was bobby. i never heard of them before but they were totally awesome! they had sweet stage lighting & it was really cool to watch.

all photos by matthew. you can see more on matthew's blog!


-gabrielle.

introducing 'smooth sailing'

Good morning! Isn't it beautiful outside today? I thought so too :)

I want to introduce my new collaboration with my friend Matthew Alexander.

We are always inspiring each other and now that we started working together, we thought it would be nice to have a space on the internet to show our work.

So without further ado... please check out our new website called "Smooth Sailing." We will be posting lots of photos, drawings and little stories to go with each of our pieces. 

Here's a little peek at what's there now, but we will be updating the site regularly!

Be sure to check it out and read our About Us page :)

-gabrielle.

weekend trip: coney island

Hey hey! As promised, here's my post about my weekend adventure!

Matthew and I decided it would be fun to take a little trip to Coney Island one day since he's never been there. We hopped on the subway Saturday morning and spent a good part of the day walking around, taking pictures and people watching.

It was a perfect day to go because it wasn't too hot or crowded. It was Matt's first time going, but I've been to Coney Island a few times... such as for the Siren Festival that happens every summer. Usually there are much weirder people and sometimes it freaks me out a little, but being there with Matt was perfect.

The craziest part was riding the Wonder Wheel! We chose the "sissy" route and sat on the stationary cart... which was scary enough! It was too bad that the carts are basically cages, so the pictures of the pretty views didn't turn out very well.

I had so much fun; I'm proud to say that I've already went to the beach so far this spring/summer!

I definitely want to take more local/road trips this summer! Do you recommend any interesting places to travel?

-gabrielle.

photoshoot with matthew alexander

Hello there!

I wanted to share some photos that Matt took of me on Saturday when we had a little photoshoot. It was perfect timing, since I ended up getting my haircut that morning and surprising him when I got to Brooklyn!

I really, really love my new hair; it's so refreshing. I was in a dilemma of whether to keep it long or go really short, so I think this is the best of both worlds. I can still do almost every hairstyle, but now with less hair. I have such thick hair anyway that it doesn't even feel much different.

Anyways, here are the pictures! I hope you like them :)

Be sure to check out Matthew's new blog as well!!

-gabrielle.