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mascarah: Men are so predictable.
Jan 30th
I just love this site.  I love looking into different...
Jan 30th
“Like the Moleskine (which I’m convinced is what a Mac would...”
— Roo Reynolds - What’s Next?
Jan 30th
“I’m a straight woman. Men and masculinity turn me on....”
— From Bitchy Jones’s...
Jan 29th
I giapponesi di &design hanno ideato questa piccola...
Jan 29th
“I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking...”
— Terry Prachett (via...
Jan 29th
“I do not understand how anyone can live without one small...”
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ...
Jan 29th

Living Branding = The Branded Life

I work in branding.  Sometimes I am conflicted about the messages I am paid to develop vrs my own...
Jan 28th

typotransformat

  Copy any given text and past it into the upper part of the interface. Then use the ‘transform’...
Jan 28th
traveling with the ghost: やぎともこ (yagi tomoko)
Jan 28th
I am seriously thinking of starting a tumblr group called...
Jan 28th

Grant McCracken is my internet crush

Once it was enough for a corporation to make widgets. Now it must also make ideas. Especially if it...
Jan 28th
I would love to do something like this for the company I...
Jan 28th
This is so sweet.  Design*Sponge » trish grantham
Jan 28th
“I love how you are discovering. I love the process. You are...”
— her to him. 17th january, 2008
Jan 28th
On my way to work. I love being able to drive. Small things...
Jan 28th
so cute.
Jan 28th
i have spent many a late night and early morning here.  This...
Jan 28th
crack is a helluva drug — jessicagoldharalson
Jan 27th
“People who design products are experts cursed by their...”
— Brain Sells: Innovative Minds...
Jan 27th
“Check out the five minute chat about cephalopods (octopuses...”
— From my Head of Corporate...
Jan 27th
“Just how radical is the Internet transforming the experience...”
— Archinect : News :...
Jan 27th
Ladies, he is single and he’s hot and lives in San...
Jan 27th
“As a marketer, you want your agency partners focused on your...”
— thanks hashem for your love...
Jan 27th

finally

i filed my story.  i would make a horrible journalist.
Jan 27th
50th anniversary of Lego today.  Interesting to see it up as...
Jan 27th
grand central station, nyc (via ANNA:poet)
Jan 27th
b @ work (via ANNA:poet)
Jan 27th
bryant park (via ANNA:poet)
Jan 27th
Anna come sono tante Anna permalosa Anna bello sguardo sguardo che ogni giorno perde qualcosa Se...
Jan 27th
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places...”
— Camille Pissarro
Jan 26th
“When it comes to the mental environment, we are all living...”
— The Bullshit Observer: The...
Jan 26th
Warch Watch
Best ever Texaco Ad, never screened with Harvey Keitel blowing up a gas station.  I love advertising...
Jan 26th

about me

Today is the day I am going to get some reading done.  I came across this from the very smart Lisa...
Jan 26th
Une pyramide de baisers, une tempête d’amitié Une vague de caresse, un cyclone de douceur ...
Jan 26th

already taken

i read a lot for my job.  make the logo bigger (click here) is one of my favourite blogs. i just...
Jan 26th
I love this site.  I think that, somehow if we lived in the...
Jan 26th
i am a sucker for a wide angle lens.  (via ANNA:poet)
Jan 26th
i took this shot in 2003 down south at yallingup.  I have...
Jan 26th
i love it.  let’s make a pinhole polaroid camera! (via...
Jan 26th

sea of love - cat power

Come with me My love To the sea The sea of love I want to tell you how much I love you Do you...
Jan 25th
my adam.  i love him.  this is him in his new posh car.
Jan 25th
australia day dancing.
Jan 25th
diary
Jan 25th
marta writes
Jan 25th
yes yes yes please may i have this.  Blanka || Supersize
Jan 25th
happy australia day. (via john white photos)
Jan 25th

little things like this make me miss new...

Tourist man: Pardon me, officer, can you tell us where Orchard Street is? Cop: See that naked...
Jan 25th
Alison Becker's Blog: Dear Awesome Dude...
Jan 25th
Warch Watch
I love this.  Barack delivers the Letterman Top Ten.  My personal favourite:  ”I will not let...
Jan 25th
I love Lou’s work and he’s a little cutie to...
Jan 25th
a great article about Brand Advocacy and how...
Jan 25th

smart boy

he is coming to see me.  we are only friends, but he knows me.  we worked together and thought...
Jan 24th
“Please let them grieve in privacy and dignity for a few days...”
— Star Jones: Media on The...
Jan 24th
Warch Watch
This is sexy.  I love Tokyo.  I lived there for many a summer. Tokyo time-lapse: Shinjuku...
Jan 24th
“Seriously Carolyn : What is there in Perth to do? I...”
— a very good friend who is head...
Jan 24th
My girls. Head of Corporate Communications (right), and Head...
Jan 24th
My boy crush Sam. My mom’s dog.
Jan 24th
The girl crush grows. I totally agree.  My boys have been...
Jan 24th

my girl crush

   I have had girl crushes.  Sure I did.  I grew up in a convent.  But, Cat Power is my...
Jan 24th
On my way home.  I am still (after 20 years of public...
Jan 24th
cowgirl euro chic.  i love it. i feel like she has stepped...
Jan 24th
This made me giggle so early in the morning....
Jan 24th
“If you eat it fast enough, you can sneak it past your brain...”
— Jason Love
Jan 23rd
this is some of my undergrad work in design.  please be kind...
Jan 23rd
“Je t’embrasse tres forte. Tu me manques plus que je...”
— surfer boy speaks french
Jan 23rd
for surfer boy. this is what i was talking about. i think it...
Jan 23rd
“The best way to get a kid to go to bed is don’t ask...”
— Make Marketing History: Now...
Jan 23rd
I love this site.  So much to explore and discover.traveling...
Jan 23rd
to my pretty little sister.  i love and miss you and i am so...
Jan 23rd
“My fellow Americans, I am sick and tired of not being...”
— The Onion - America’s...
Jan 23rd
i am thinking about you kimmy.  chin up my bff.  remember...
Jan 23rd
Saul Bass is my design hero.  I loved his work so much....
Jan 23rd
For my adam. X
Jan 23rd
What a beautiful idea.  via Camilla Engman: PIF
Jan 23rd
Cashmere Mafia is growing on me.  The clothes are fantastic....
Jan 23rd
An on-going project with illustrator Deanna Halsall to...
Jan 23rd
i just read somewhere that “if I could, I would...
Jan 23rd
“Today, i live in the quiet expectation of good.”
— Ernest Holman
Jan 23rd
sannah kvist
Jan 23rd

my friend mr h-brown

a boy friend of mine from San Fran talking about a girl he is seeing.  She has sent him an SMS about...
Jan 22nd
This weather is going to kill me I tell you.
Jan 22nd
Warch Watch
media and advertising - it really is like this.  classic.  via Brain Sells
Jan 21st
OK so I am avoiding writing my article, but I just LOVE this...
Jan 21st

this man rocks and he's so generous with...

writing briefs with both hands. taking calls with my bare feet — charlesfrith
Jan 21st

sorry

I just hurt someone very badly.  I had no idea how he felt.  I am so so sorry.  That comes from my...
Jan 21st
“If an ad is well designed, it will look just as good upside...”
— dooce ®
Jan 21st

pt. three

here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the...
Jan 21st
perfect early 20’s french geek hotness via the...
Jan 21st
“The danger is not lest the soul should doubt there is any...”
— mansuetude
Jan 21st
“Ducasse is the most Michelin-starred of any chef ever. If he...”
—  Alain Ducasse at the...
Jan 21st

aa gill

I lived and loved in London for over 10 years all up.  I never missed AA Gills column in The Times....
Jan 21st
Julia Galdo’s work is so pure and honest. when I look...
Jan 20th

pt. two

i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet) i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my...
Jan 20th
The direct individual-data-connection for hearing, scanning...
Jan 20th
my polaroid wall at work.
Jan 20th
Now this is pretty.  Pretty summer flower frocks for sitting...
Jan 20th
It’s love I tell you.  Love.  But, it’s only a...
Jan 20th
annapoet: hot, sore, strong, sweaty, salty,...
Jan 19th
from the brilliant quarlo
Jan 19th
me. happy.
Jan 19th

pt. one

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my...
Jan 19th
men walking (via ANNA:poet)
Jan 19th
I loved this post from Eric Karjaluoto.  I also feel that design is fused to my DNA.  The way I see,...
Jan 19th
This is a wonderful post.  Living on this side for so long [agency], I had clients ask me the exact...
Jan 19th
So beautifully put together. I miss European dressing in...
Jan 19th
“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
— Jack Kerouac
Jan 19th
Also, she’s just so adorable that having her around makes me feel like my veins have been...
Jan 19th
sold (via matty franklin)
Jan 19th
“when i’m the first person to view one of your photos i...”
— comment left on Noah...
Jan 18th
oh how much I love film and my rangefinder.  so much love....
Jan 18th
She is very talented our Lil.  Swim (via Lil [Kristen...
Jan 18th
please…
Jan 17th
i love you.  sal and carolyn (via ANNA:poet)
Jan 17th
Go. Don’t stop. Keep pushing, thrusting, struggling, fighting. Rise in the morning and leave...
Jan 17th
Warch Watch
my god you have no idea how much this one song’s words helped me this week.  Octopus’s ...
Jan 17th
The gangsta egg frier | Design daily news
Jan 17th
Summer fun for Friday
Jan 17th
sensual and beautiful.  Almost to the point of painfully...
Jan 16th
one of my besties the Australian issue of Vogue...
Jan 16th
So very beautiful and ethereal.  Claude Verlinde
Jan 16th
These are notes from a meeting I was in this morning.  They...
Jan 16th
“We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and...”
— Robert Louis Stevenson - sent...
Jan 16th
FFFFOUND! I think this is lovely. (Again, demonstrating...
Jan 16th
nancy floating circa 1957.  very glamorous. (via photo-geek)...
Jan 15th
wow.  persiana03 (via lilly1975)
Jan 15th
cake jewellery.  just delicious.  Cupcakes Take The Cake:...
Jan 15th
I love this shot I took in 2005. My hood.  My world.  I am...
Jan 15th
I want it all.  I always do.  Wallpaper.com - 2008 Design...
Jan 15th
“Even more than when he’s performing on stage, Steven P....”
— The Passion of Steve Jobs -...
Jan 15th
I want a yellow pair like these.  They are so cute and great...
Jan 15th
Beautiful angelic works of wonder by Anne Siems.  I love her...
Jan 15th
I am a sucker for good packaging.  Yummy packaging | Design...
Jan 15th
On my way to the office
Jan 15th
What’s the worst to lose as we get older? Our hair?...
Jan 15th
hello lover  I am in love. — esquareda
Jan 15th
  (via Come up, Kinch, you fearful jesuit!)
Jan 14th
such a beautiful use of type.  i love love love type.  via...
Jan 14th
FFFFOUND!
Jan 13th
Waxing my chest for Macworld. — lonelysandwich
Jan 13th
me. (via ANNA:poet)
Jan 12th
My little oliver in his favourite position at home in...
Jan 12th
as you know i am on a quest to find a project other than my...
Jan 12th
my new cushions.  pink and green.  given how inexpensive...
Jan 12th
this is me circa 1998 in San Francisco.  I am totally in...
Jan 12th
“must begin press article today without fail”
— carolyn anna hall
Jan 12th

dear molly

your writing is so beautiful. I am so proud of you. You are at the beginning - i cannot wait to...
Jan 12th
what a stylish and sexy man.  SimbaSoho.jpg (image)
Jan 11th
this image was scanned and not photographed.  i keep many...
Jan 11th
Per fortuna non possiedo un iPod! Il governo australiano ha...
Jan 11th
Etsy :: Circular Saw Blade - Clock
Jan 11th
Some of the most beautiful pieces of wearable art I have...
Jan 10th
From Overheard in New York.  I thought this was hysterical.  Guy #1: Dude, you won’t believe...
Jan 10th
dog on bleeker (via ANNA:poet)
Jan 10th
I took this shot of me in 1984, my first or second year at...
Jan 10th
I use to live to take photos.  I was so dedicated to the...
Jan 10th

kimmy

she called from London tonight and will not make it back to Australia in February as originally...
Jan 10th
Very very funny.  I love his quirky photos.  Inspirational. ...
Jan 10th
Oh how I miss living in the real world. QuickOrder - GENOCO...
Jan 10th
How to Be a Better Client — esquareda
Jan 10th
  (via nedrosen)
Jan 10th
If the pop surrealism art movement has an emperor, then it...
Jan 10th
When Acne was created in 1996 the initial idea was to build...
Jan 9th
Beer poll puts Obama in the lead
Jan 9th

are you a monochromatic new yorker?

I was so a monochromatic new yorker and now I am a monochromatic perth-ite.  I would love to...
Jan 9th
saturday with Kicky and Buckaroo (via The 10 cent designer)
Jan 8th

cultural fit

Words of wisdom from the wonderful Marcus Brown that I have the pleasure of knowing.  He has a great...
Jan 8th
“Suddenly everyone with a computer, a mouse and a piece of...”
— Coming to terms with...
Jan 8th
Oh Yeah i hate jamie campbell’s photography.: my...
Jan 8th
I love hand printed cards and am in the process of either...
Jan 8th
schön. (via *mimikry*)
Jan 7th
“I am here to live out loud.”
— Emile Zola
Jan 7th
Is there any place for innovation when it comes to the...
Jan 7th
I just love the simplicity of this chair.  I have been so...
Jan 7th
me and kimmy nearly one year ago.  i miss her.  melbourne...
Jan 7th
That there is some damn fine packaging.  Max Longin -...
Jan 7th
So simple and beautiful.  I cannot imagine it fitting in my...
Jan 7th
“At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, the...”
— John Bogle, founder of The...
Jan 7th
— neonmarg — lonelysandwich
Jan 7th
“Obama’s exotic history means the possibility of a US...”
— another great entry from...
Jan 6th
Listen Listen
Frozen Silence (homepage with mp3 downloads) is a project of finnish hobbyist composer/producer...
Jan 6th
“Maybe the first time you know you are pregnant is when a...”
— BBC via Ed Cotton.  Check his...
Jan 6th
I am not sure if I could do this. I do get the salty...
Jan 6th
I love her use of colour.  Great for slide presentations,...
Jan 6th
My first degree was in graphic design.  This was a long time...
Jan 6th
Love, love, so much love.  American Design (via Alki1)
Jan 6th
i am liking going through some of my old work. karrakatta...
Jan 5th
a baby i use to know (via ANNA:poet)
Jan 5th
a girl i use to know.  the many faces of gracie (via...
Jan 5th
Quite scary…   vintage_ads: An Armed Family Is A...
Jan 5th
when I miss New York I look at my pictures from there. A...
Jan 5th
“Everything from your haircut to your clothes to the type of...”
— Jack White-The White Stripes...
Jan 5th
the view from my bedroom balcony
Jan 5th
Last night.  My home.
Jan 5th
You must take yourself to her site and explore.  Moving,...
Jan 4th
Listen Listen
Haunting and beautiful.  I fill this room with the echo of many voices - Derek Jarmin.
Jan 4th

November 2008

This made me cackle out loud.  I fear with him and I am a woman that spent 10 years in New York...
Jan 4th

Obama spoils Clinton's run

My very good school friend Geoff Elliot wrote, as always, a fantastic article in The Australian...
Jan 4th
diptych four (via ANNA:poet)
Jan 4th
diptych five (via ANNA:poet)
Jan 4th
taken at my mums house last august.  I did try and buy some...
Jan 4th
I love this shot I took in New York around April 2005. birds...
Jan 4th
I love you Molly. Good morning 2008 via Camilla E The idea...
Jan 4th
I love winter sun.  I miss winter sun.  You never really get...
Jan 4th
RUBBISHCORP®  » Blog Archive  » Lovely Lego Print
Jan 3rd
Trends to Watch in 2008 - Advertising Age -...
Jan 3rd
I am always banging on about the rise of provenance in my...
Jan 3rd
“How do our kids compete in a flatter world? How do they...”
— Tom Freedman via Ed Cotton
Jan 3rd
A l’occasion de la sortie de son nouveau livre chez...
Jan 3rd
Note to self:  go and get yourself some polaroid film...
Jan 3rd
I love to knit.  I did it a lot when I was living in New...
Jan 3rd
Warch Watch
WOW.  Very very powerful. Obama’s Victory Speech (via )
Jan 3rd
Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number...
Jan 3rd
Jabber Jockeys “In automatic mode, JabberJockeys...
Jan 3rd
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is...”
— Voltaire
Jan 2nd
via www.thumbtackpress.com
Jan 2nd
stupid weather
Jan 2nd
 The simplicity of this project is beautiful.  The idea, the...
Jan 2nd
Neon
Jan 2nd
via www.productofgod.net
Jan 2nd
“You’re not getting crazier. You just have someone else...”
— Me to one of my friends about...
Jan 2nd

The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His...

To convince the Feds of his innocence, Elahi has made his life an open book. Whenever they want,...
Jan 2nd
OMG I hate hate hate hot weather.  Why did they choose...
Jan 2nd
Warch Watch
Chocolate Rabbit Meltdown (via noah)
Jan 2nd
Very cute way to send a new year’s greeting.  From...
Jan 2nd
annapoet: buenos dias. Voy a seguir ordenando...
Jan 1st
So very talented.  I will purchase some of her work for my...
Jan 1st
FFFFOUND!
Jan 1st
FFFFOUND!
Jan 1st
Lee Miller, shot by George Huene.  1930.  At the V&A,...
Jan 1st
“You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I...”
— Jim Rohn
Jan 1st
One of the best food blogs out there.  She is also one of...
Jan 1st
I love photo projects and this one is a goodie.  I hope to...
Jan 1st
One of my close friends from high school who is now off...
Jan 1st
Yawn (via roidrage)
Jan 1st
“Before familiarity can turn into awareness the...
Jan 1st
“In the absence of strong protections for employees, poorly...”
— How to Lose Your Job on Your...
Jan 1st
Trends We’ve Seen Enough Of - Where to Eat 2008 — New...
Jan 1st
This is too funny. merry christmas from sydney (via...
Dec 31st
I’d like to jump through this. - via wish jar —...
Dec 31st