want vs. need

I love these simple and hilarious want vs. need designs by recovering lazyholic's flickr. They are too true.















-g.

ron mueck

One of my bestest friends emailed me these images of sculptures by Ron Mueck, an Australian photo-realist artist based in London.

They are disgustingly larger-then-life, super-realistic, emotionally-charged sculptures made from fiberglass resin.





















-g.

charlotte gainsbourg

Sunday night I semi-spontaneously saw Charlotte Gainsbourg at Webster Hall. I started listening to her new album IRM about a month ago, and I haven't stopped listening since! I lovvvve the way she sort of talks while she sings, and I think it goes really well with the hint of eerie music that plays in the background.

At first I was waiting for Katrina to show up so I was eavesdropping on a ton of conversations en francais, parce qu'il y avait beaucoup de gens francais who came out to see her (and that made the show 100000x better, just because...) Her encore was fabulous and she did a sort of electronic version of Voyage which is one of my favorite songs from the album, and her last song was one I never heard but it was called Couleur Cafe and it was a great song to end on (downloading that... now.)

Afterwords Katrina and I went to the Village Pour House and I got an Ommegang Three Philosophers! It was a great night, and now I know that I can go to concerts on a week night and still be fully functioning at work the next day (with only one cup of coffee!)



Here are some pictures from Brooklyn Vegan:







-g.

amazing package designs

I forgot about one of my favorite websites, the Dieline, and apparently I have missed a lot of what's going on in the world of packaging design. These are some of my recent favorites.

{If you know me at all, it's really not surprising which ones I love.}

MOR makeup:


Fling chocolate, absolutely gorgeous design:





Twigs plants for the home... I fucking love this!





I don't know what brand this is but I love how it uses letters and punctuation marks for the faces on the bottle:



Slim Chips... maybe a little too colorful to eat, but still rad:



Kleenex tissues:



NYC Spaghetti- so creative:



My all-time favorite that is actually in stores now- Help brand remedies:


-g.

pretty things friday

I've been slacking on "Pretty Things Friday," but I finally have time to make this post... YEY!
Here it goes...

Pretty birdie.


Pretty retro... is this a tattoo???


Pretty funny.


Pretty vintage looking.


These look pretty delish!


Pretty much am obsessed with typeography.


Pretty crazy colors.


Pretty true. And very pretty.


Looking at this makes me pretty hopeful.


Stripes are pretty shweet.


Jolie Paris.




Pretty frightful!


I hope you have a nice weekend.

{most are ffffound}

-g.

somefield

I really love these drawings by Somefield. Pretty, skinny girls paired with weird and gigantic sized animals and insects... what's not to love.











-g.

Love Your Earth

Happy Earth Day all!



So many earth day things going on at work, but I have yet to see anyone dressed like this:





(from boooooom)

Even vampires recycle! You should too!



-g.

D.I.Y. Culture

I just read a good article from the New York Times about D.I.Y. (do it yourself) culture. I think the author brings up a lot of good points about the way in which artistic culture still exists despite the globalization media has caused. The internet really helps (and sometimes hinders) creativity, such as music and art, but I think the article made some good points. It discusses the way culture is changing in the present time via internet and other medias; any person can find a "culture," that tickles their fancy, or even create their own cultural bricolage.

Here are a few paragraphs from the article, which you can read here:

Partly the problem with globalization has always been that the term, culturally speaking, is so vague... What’s new is the power available to wide swaths of the populace, thanks above all to cheap travel and the Web, to become actors in the production and dissemination of culture, not simply consumers.

A generation or more ago, aside from what people did in their home or from what’s roughly called folk or outsider art, culture was generally thought of as something handed down from on high, which the public received. The common denominator of popular culture — which these days encompasses so many things that you could even include all sorts of high culture — seems to have just intensified the need people now feel to distinguish themselves from it. And global technology has made this easier by providing countless individuals, microcultures and larger groups and movements with cheap and convenient means to preserve and disseminate themselves.

Hollywood and Broadway, the major museums and art fairs and biennials and galleries, buildings designed by celebrity architects and the music business are all the traditional focus of big media, and they tell us a lot about ourselves. They constitute our cultural firmament, the constellation of our stars. But scientists say most of the universe is composed not of stars but of dark matter.

It is the powerful but invisible force that exists everywhere and requires some leap of imagination on our part, some effort, to identify.

Most culture is dark matter.

-g.