Spring is here!

After much back and forth between temperatures I feel like spring is officially in full bloom. Loving these 70's temperatures and all of the beautiful colors everywhere. The pollen is another story... (and I am officially in love with my iphone, though I still refuse to text.)

miu miu red desert

Blogger is not cooperating with me this morning, but I'll get over it. I was this first shot for Miu Miu's SS13 collection in a magazine recently and I felt it was very french new wave. The more I looked at it the more it reminded me of Michaelangelo Antonioni's film Red Desert. One of my all-time faves. I decided to look up the rest of the ad campaign and it has to be the inspiration for this shoot. There are so many perfect details captured, from the color of the drapes, to the exact pose of her lounging on the bed, to the iconic red room. I've had this movie on my amazon wish list for awhile now and I think I might just have to buy it.

welcome to the 21st century

After 7 1/2 years with my lovely durable LG phone, I begrudgingly decided to take the leap into the 21st century and get an iphone 4.  At least since I waited this long it was only $1.  I have admit I am loving having a camera on me at all times.  I was going through a little photography rut lately and now I think this combined with the changing weather is inspiring me a bit.  So now I am on instagram.  You can follow me here.  Don't be shy, I love seeing everyone's feeds.  There's such a huge range of photo taking on there.  I love it.

mad men portraits

Can't wait for season 6 in less than two weeks!

tara donovan

Aren't these installation sculptures by artist Tara Donovan so incredible?!  She uses simple everyday objects and turns them into incredible works of art.  I actually didn't believe the first one was made up of plastic drinking straws until I saw the super close-up.  I thought it had been mismarked!  It looks like a dreamy wall made up of layers of encaustic.  These are so inspiring.  It reminds me of this lady I talked to once when I was working at an art supply store.  I was helping her pick out a very expensive sable brush and her husband said "Do you really need that?"  She looked at me and said "You're only as good as your materials right?"  I just had to smile and nod while secretly thinking "I hope not, because I use the $2 paints and get materials out of the dumpster out back."

a ship of lace

I've been slowly working on this ship for the last 2 weeks and I finally finished it yesterday.  I had a lot of ups and downs with it.  I almost scrapped the base before I decided to bend the back out and put the lace and velvet ribbon trim on.  Sometimes things have to be really ugly before they become beautiful. 

inspiration

My absolute favorite shot from Anna Karenina.  It was the perfect ending to a perfect film.  It has stayed with me for months after I first saw it.  I will hopefully have a series of movie stills from this soon.  Just have to take the time to shoot them.