"The question isn't who is going to let me, but who is going to stop me."
-Ayn Rand
my life is currently (and perpetually) under construction.
{hire me}
{buy my stuff here}
{my flickr}
.product design
.interaction design
.making new things
.graphic design
.interiors
.architecture
.mid-century modern
.photography
.polaroids
.psychology
.ethnography
.anthropology
.spelling
.WWII history
.simplicity
.complexity
.music
.burning you mix cd's
.wine
.debauchery
.film
.art
.attempting to paint
.corsets
.old photos
.old frames and mirrors
.cooking
.quality denim
.apple iMAC
.cats
.soft beds with white linens
.antique and flea markets
.thrift stores
.concrete and hardwood floors
.candlelight baths
.rainy days
.carbs
.muffin tops
.spending my life savings on magazines
.snuggling against a warm body (these days, this means my cat)
.figuring people out
.perusing craigslist/ebay for hours at a time
.backrubs
.bacon
.black eyeliner
.stylish stationary
.products with well-designed (keepable) packaging
.old electronics/appliances
.cute toys
.chandeliers
.inspiring quotes
.eating strawberries while sketching in the park
.making lists...
good question.
someone smart, funny, and ambitious as hell...someone who has his shit together.
nice people who know how to take a joke and keep it drama-free, because that's the only way to be.
Those who are true to themselves and their dreams - who don't follow or emulate.
i mostly like something with a good twang, be it upbeat or slow. i like sad, but beautiful music. i like music that gets into your veins and gives you goosebumps. i like poetic lyrics from the heart. songs that are 8 minutes long. but with that said, i also like me some robot music.
.Afghan Whigs
.Amandine
.Band of Horses
.Beck
.Ben Folds
.Ben Harper
.Bettie Serveert
.Billy Bragg
.Black Crowes
.Black Keys
.Black Lab
.Blur
.Cardigans
.Chatham County Line
.Citizen Cope
.Clem Snide
.Coldplay
.Conway Twitty
.Counting Crows
.Damien Rice
.Dandy Warhols
.David Byrne
.David Garza
.Decemberists
.Dolly Parton
.Dwight Yoakam
.Eisley
.Elefant
.Elliot Smith
.Engineers
.Fischerspooner
.Fountains of Wayne
.Garbage
.Gary Jules
.Grandaddy
.Guy Forsyth
.Helen Stellar
.Honeychurch
.Interpol
.Iron & Wine
.Jeff Buckley
.Jem
. JJ72
.JLive
.Johnny Cash
.Kathleen Edwards
.Kildare
.Killers
.Ladytron
.Lau Nau
.Longwave
.Loretta Lynn
.Lucinda Williams
.Madonna
.Maria Taylor
.Mazzy Star
.Mendoza Line
.Mercury Rev
.Merle Haggard
.Modest Mouse
.My Morning Jacket
.New Order
.Old 97s
.Ours
.Over the Rhine
.Pete Yorn
.Pinback
.Postal Service
.Prince
.Radiohead
.Red House Painters
.Rhett Miller
.Robot Ate Me
.Rolling Stones
.Roots
.Roseanne Cash
.Rufus Wainwright
.Ryan Adams
.Sights
.Slow Dazzle
.Snow Patrol
.Soviet
.Streets
.Talking Heads
.TEB
.Travis
.Velvet Underground
.Whiskeytown
.White Stripes
.White Town
.Wilco
.Willie Nelson
i probably like a lot of the movies you and everyone else have listed.
my faves?
.the experiment
.secretary
.schindler's list
.the way things go
.anything with will ferrell in it!
Law & Order, HGTV, food network, history channel (modern marvels!), A&E, etc.
Current Reads :: January/February 2007
The Accident --Elie Wiesel
Finding Flow -- Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
The Origin of Species -- Charles Darwin
Emotional Design -- Donald Norman
Current Reads :: December 2006
The Virtue of Selfishness -- Ayn Rand
Less Than Zero --Bret Easton Ellis
Other Good Reads:
The Ice Palace that Melted Away -- Bill Stumpf
Invisible Cities -- Italo Calvino
Walden -- Henry David Thoreau
Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics -- Frederic Spotts
The Tipping Point -- Malcolm Gladwell
Cradle to Cradle -- McDonough/Braungart
The Fountainhead -- Ayn Rand
Naked -- David Sedaris
American Psycho -- Bret Easton Ellis
1000 Chairs -- Taschen
Diary of Sante D'Orazio