Brooklyn

Photos from Sunday.

Reclaimed Home again from BK Flea. I love their store set ups every week. Different all the time.

I also love this old drugstore rack with the bottles and jars. Would love some in my apartment but need to clean up first before adding more.

I snapped this on the fly after we left the Flea. If she can sell her scarves for $20, so can I! And I use only natural fibers, no viscose/nylon/rayon/polyester from these hands.

The start of something beautiful. Leaves are the only thing that become more beautiful as they die.

Les ananans ne parlent pas

In elementary school, my teacher played these episodes to help us learn. I never realized how creepy that pineapple was. It's covered in acne!

I have a disease

If you join, add me and I'll add you back.

Day in, day out

I finally sat down and watched Control last night instead of going to a free CMJ party at Gallery Bar featuring Madlib, Peanut Butter Wolf & my crush of crushes, Edan.

Directed by Anton Corbijn, the movie is based on Deborah Curtis' book Touching From a Distance.



Cinematography: beautiful.
Soundtrack: haunting.
Acting: amazing.

Manners

Japanese train posters. See more here at Made in Mundo.

C'est trop chou!

Fashion collages by JR, plus mp3 soundtracks of every runway show. I don't know where to start!

Leg Humping

Photos from Brooklyn Flea on Sunday:


8th Grader Elenore Simotas worked with her mother and babysitter to screenprint these bags, the proceeds of which will go towards Obama's campaign.


A whoopie pie from Wanna Hava Cookie - vanilla buttercream!


These wonderful rubber stamps were so sad. I wanted one but having bought my fill of treasures, will have to console myself with the hopes that they'll be back next week.


These mixed media collages are inspired by NYC Bodegas and mounted on salvaged wood. From Josh Goldstein at Bodega NYC. They remind me of Coney Island.


The purple shirt caught my eye because I have a friend named Jenny that we call J-Dub. Hi Jenny!


These are my treasures that I walked away with. The striped scarf is from Cambodia, which I bought from Lotus Jayne. The ricotta cheese is by Salvatore Bklyn, and they are at the flea every weekend but this is the first time I've tried/bought their cheese. And now I will buy some every week. It is rich and creamy and all weekend we ate them on crackers, drizzled with red pepper olive oil (leftover from my roasted baby peppers stuffed with capers, anchovies and arugula) and sprinkled with lemon pepper. YUM. The print is screenprinted by Taliah Lempert at Bicycle Paintings. She's so nice and sweet and we got to talking because we both have used the Print Gocco and while it is a great little machine...ultimately it's a pain in the ass to use. This will go on the wall with the other prints I bought. I'm so excited to finally have art in the apartment!

This is what I love about our Flea - there is such a range of stuff for everyone. Vintage finds, food, furniture, crafts, jewelry. There was one booth that was selling $5 compilations of old funk that I was interested in but I refrained from purchasing as Alex was getting all Dad face on me. Hopefully they will be back next week. One thing I learned, if you see something you want, snag it! There are a lot of regulars but also some one-offs. So get it while you can.

Saturday in Photos

Lunch at Tiny's Giant Sandwich Shop; Schiller's across the street


Cupcake and prosecco at Sweet Revenge


Wine tasting at Le Du's Wines


Obama 08 by Jonathan Horowitz


Sunset on buildings


Banksy's Village Pet Store & Grill


Messing with the cat

Hollerween

I'm not sure Angel and I could pull these costumes off this year. But the gamut of my ideas has run from Genie & the Major to Andy Warhol to "Little Red Corvette" (yes, the Prince song) to various incarnations of Bjork. I'm hoping a trip to BK Flea this weekend will help give me some ideas as well.

Here's an awesome site depicting mostly Matthew Barney and some Bjork costumes.

Home sweet home

Now that we are back home I want to focus a little bit on home improvement. More like home decor anyway. I just got a couple of pieces to put up in the living room:
This is a piece by Mister Rob Ryan from the UK. He has beautiful laser cut paper products which he makes into tiles and prints. This is a small piece that's emo without being too cheesy. Like me, hopefully. But who am I kidding, I am a wallower.
This is a print by David Moore of an old WWII poster from England that was never posted. There are a ton of these floating around, re-made by different people but I liked these colors best. I got this for Alex, to remember not to stress too hard.


What I really love are these paintings by SF artist Ian Johnson. I first saw his work about four years ago in San Francisco at a group show curated by Derek from Park Life (before Park Life was born). He usually does old jazz musicians but he has portraits of Haruki Murakami and William S. Burroughs (below, I think) as well.

I like the mixture of realism in the figures and acid trip in the background. Kind of like a mullet - party in the back!

The original paintings are a little much for me right now but I will settle for a print. If they will ever make more. Aha.

Liquid Jane - Botelya

My friend Chad & his band Liquid Jane just completed their first video. Check it out! (They are singing in Tagalog, the main dialect of Manila, Philippines)

Cali in a nutshell

Here's a fraction of the photos we took on the trip. In total, there were 630!!

Arrived Saturday and the first thing we did was hit up In-n-Out for some cheeseburgers. The burgers were solid but the fries left much to be desired. Then headed to T&T's by Civic Center where we stayed all week, and took a walk around Hayes Valley.

Sunday was Tomo's birthday so the day was spent prepping for a home bbq and then eating it all.

On Monday, headed to Burson to see Butch & Lu at the farm, then dinner with the Sacramento Chings at Buco di Beppe.

Tuesday drove to Muir Woods for a short hike, then Stinson Beach where we ate fried chicken and cole slaw with the seagulls. A walk around Chinatown for dinner.

Wednesday was lunch at the Ferry Building with Michael. I had oysters, a porchetta panini, chocolate pot de creme and a ride on M's Vespa. Then to Derek's store Park Life where we got a private tour. It's a combo art and design store/gallery, plus they publish art books. Golden Gate Park & the Hagiwara Tea Garden, then dinner at Koo in Inner Sunset with my cousin Andrea and our friend Jaebock who I have known the better part of 15 years.

Thursday we drove to Napa where we hit up three wineries. Rutherford Hill was our first stop where we purchased a bottle of Zinfandel port. Then on to the big Domaine Chandon where we sampled sparkling wines and had lunch. Our last stop was Artesa, which was back in Napa. It was a little out of the way and up on a hill so we could see a great view of the valley, and scattered with modern sculptures throughout. Shopped a bit at the outlet stores, then headed to dinner at Ad Hoc which was a great experience.

On Friday we headed back to the Bay by way of Berkeley, where we had ice cream at Ici on College Ave. Dinner with Tomo & Tina that night, followed by a game of Scattergories at home.

Saturday we headed to the Mission for breakfast at Tartine (Pacific Coast Breakfast tea & Pain au Chocolat) and then rested until D&L's wedding, which was a small, intimate affair. Tears were shed.

Our final day Sunday, had dim sum with an old family friend before hopping on the plane bound for JFK. The weather was great the entire time and despite my incessant planning, didn't seem too harried. Definitely left a piece of me back there. I think it's under the couch.

Still Morning

Hello from SF! I've not uploaded any photos so I can't share my adventures with you as yet but I can tell you that I am having a great time out here. Worlds have collided. Redwoods were seen. Seagulls were chased away. Stomachs have been full this entire time. I've always considered moving back but after this trip I can definitely tell that I am not ready yet. Today is D&L's wedding and tomorrow we have dim sum and fly home, back to the cat who I miss dearly and back to the cold which I'm glad we are missing.

Mega-update to follow.

Adieu

Goodbye, Brooklyn. I'll miss the noise I'm sure. Heike is here to watch the apartment and the cat. Tonight we had dinner at Joloff, a Senegalese spot down the street where they were screening an independent Nigerian film.

Mama I'm comin home. Again

Off to Cali for a week.

D&L are tying the knot in an outdoor wedding in Marin.

Tomo's 30th.

Pups at the farm. And also my 2nd set of parents.

B&B in Napa - along with winery tours and tastings and a dinner at Ad Hoc.

Hiking in Muir Woods.

Ice cream in Berkeley.

Stay tuned for the aftermath. Until then, lazysundae signing off.

Same same

Krink in Soho - I think. This is by the Benjamin Moore store on 6th Ave and Spring.


And this is Krink for sure, curated by Arkitip.