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Chocolate-Pencils is the product of a collaboration pairing...
Mar 2nd
Kermit was my first frog crush.  ever.  ...
Mar 1st
Just about to go swimming. Not too hot, not too cold, but...
Mar 1st
BEST Christmas ever.  At Jerry’s in Soho 2001.  Kimmy...
Feb 29th
Now this is a beautiful dress.
Feb 29th
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Working Girl Original Theatrical Trailer (via )
Feb 29th
Beautiful works of typography from Reza Abedini
Feb 28th
Boys with dogs = WAY TOO HOT.  (via Hollister Hovey)
Feb 28th
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lights at the Maritime Hotel in NYC when I was there in November.  Still missing NYC a lot today....
Feb 28th
“It’s ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest...”
— Francis Ford Coppola - I...
Feb 28th
But he was beautiful. Beautiful without being effeminate,...
Feb 27th
I just found one of my illustrations… I don’t...
Feb 27th
I lived in soho for almost 5 years.  How I miss it today and...
Feb 27th
this photo makes me want to dust off my hasselblad…....
Feb 27th
“You can fool all of the people all of the time if the...”
— Joseph E Levine (via...
Feb 26th
To me it’s more about “how to feel miserable as...
Feb 26th
Trying on the clothes for the shoot.  That’s Paula and...
Feb 26th
How cute it this! Starting young in the front row.  via The...
Feb 26th
always beautiful from Habitually Chic
Feb 26th
I have to remind my self of this everyday.  This is going up...
Feb 26th
Molly, I wish you were here to talk to right now. (via...
Feb 25th
The British manufacturer of high performance speakers, KEF,...
Feb 25th
annapoet: Goodbye Sydney, hello Perth
Feb 25th
Hot off the press - will upload a better copy when I get...
Feb 25th
Kirrily Johnston is an amazing Australian designer that I...
Feb 25th
Waiting at the Qantas lounge in Sydney to fly back home.
Feb 25th
This reminds me of my mother and her sister’s hand...
Feb 25th
annapoet: Last day in Sydney.
Feb 24th
I absolutely know someone that will try and buy one of these...
Feb 22nd
Camilla Engman: Collaboration work in progress
Feb 22nd
fashion (via ANNA:poet)
Feb 22nd
Sandy and fifi
Feb 21st
My beautiful BFF on the way to dinner
Feb 21st
This is such a beautiful photograph.  Curvy girls TOTALLY...
Feb 21st

I just stumbled across my Tumblganger.

Wow this is so cool.  Thanks for your wonderful email.  It’s like I split myself when I left...
Feb 21st
waiting in for sandy to come back from getting a blow-out....
Feb 21st

thank you

for your email.  It meant a lot to me.  You rock.
Feb 21st
I am loving these new bottles from Pepsi. In an attempt to...
Feb 21st
Oh my, I do love me a Euro boy (and a Surfer Boy)…....
Feb 21st

style confused for design....

I’m a believer in what I like to call “hardcore” design. This is design focused on results. It can...
Feb 21st
I love them so much, my bedroom is black and white.  (via...
Feb 21st
I love black and white bedrooms…   Design*Sponge...
Feb 21st

working girl quotes for a working...

Tess McGill: Look, you, maybe you've got everyone around here fooled with this saint act you have going, but do not ever speak to me again like we don't know what really happened, you got me?
Katherine Parker: Tess, this is business. Let's just bury the hatchet, okay?
Tess McGill: You know where you can bury your hatchet? Now get your bony ass outta my sight!
Feb 21st
Spooky hotel in Sydney
Feb 20th
annapoet: Hello Sydney
Feb 20th
I am off to Sydney to spend the long weekend with Surfer Boy...
Feb 20th
annapoet: Goodbye Perth, hello Sydney
Feb 20th
“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place...”
— Amy Tan (author of the...
Feb 19th

more Working Girl...

Mick: Tess, will you marry me?
Tess McGill: Maybe.
Mick: Ya call that an answer?
Tess McGill: You want another answer, ask another girl.
Feb 19th
Beautiful delicate almost turn-of-the-century illustrations...
Feb 19th
“I’m not gonna spend the rest of my life working my ass off...”
— Yeah - bring it on.  LOVING...
Feb 19th
good night.  I leave you with Patsy in the tub (via dallee)
Feb 19th

on the back of the last Working Girl...

Tess McGill: What if he doesn't?... pop the question?
Katherine Parker: I really don't think that's a variable. We're in the same city now, I've indicated that I'm receptive to an offer, I've cleared the month of June... and I am, after all, me.
Feb 19th
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another...”
— Winston Churchill - this kind...
Feb 19th
When I first got back to Australia I went to my God...
Feb 19th
“O.M.G. I have been accepted into TED as a conference...”
— me, just now reading my...
Feb 18th
My new girl crush.  Thanks to Surfer Boy for introducing...
Feb 18th
What a great little blog.  Check out Holister Hovey here. ...
Feb 18th
Listen Listen
gauntlet: Just a girl, by No Doubt “Take this pink ribbon off my eyes I’m exposed And it’s no big...
Feb 18th
“You can bend the rules plenty once you get to the top, but...”
— Working Girl is my all time...
Feb 18th
Old school… How far we have come?  From the...
Feb 17th
i had this thing for pigeons for such a long time when i...
Feb 17th
At the TV shoot
Feb 17th
“The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed...”
— Willian Gibson
Feb 17th
This is such a brilliant idea.  For all my wonderful...
Feb 17th
my makeup artist for the shoot - the beautiful francesca.
Feb 17th
“…he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of,...”
— Wuthering Heights (via...
Feb 17th
I love this idea.  I am not sure what my favourite letter of...
Feb 17th

Instant camera brand ceases film...

This makes me so sad.  A great post from bigshinything. The history of invention is littered with...
Feb 17th
It’s easter soon.  dedo (via desprezo)
Feb 17th
You have to give it to her - the girl’s got taste. ...
Feb 17th
kathy (via ANNA:poet)
Feb 17th
From my buddy Skorj in Tokyo.  If you get a chance, go and...
Feb 16th

Summer at Yale. You bet.

So this is what I will go to this Summer.  It sounds just perfect for my development at work.  I am...
Feb 16th
Northern summer vacation plans still up in the air? How...
Feb 16th
This is so very European.  Today I am missing Europe (I...
Feb 16th
Rossella Jardini from the wonderful site Habitually Chic.  I...
Feb 16th
the dailies » Blog Archive » “born under a bad...
Feb 16th
Ray is making me a dress for the shoot - YAY.  You can see...
Feb 15th
I want this book.  If you have time take a look through her...
Feb 15th
I love this dress.  Not sure about the colour but I will...
Feb 15th
The cute mouse house is designed by Dorthe Mailil.  The...
Feb 15th
anneliese (via ANNA:poet)
Feb 15th
down low (via ANNA:poet)
Feb 15th

i read your post about your stylist...

and I was absolutely horrified! You pass your clothing down to me! Not poor people! … wait, I...
Feb 15th
Listen Listen
Trustworthy Little Sweethearts by Vince Jones.  This reminds me so much of my late teens early...
Feb 15th
I couldn’t agree more.  I have never seen it expressed...
Feb 15th
“Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their...”
— David Byrne. via scott...
Feb 15th
becky tillet rocks.
Feb 15th
Rarely do I come across a photographers work that really...
Feb 15th
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I want to see this at the cinema.  THIS is why I work in advertising.  That it produces beautiful,...
Feb 14th
 this is hottttttttttt  (via czuczy)
Feb 14th

Des is the one

I officially have my own stylist.  He has just been over and spent the past 2 hours in my closet...
Feb 14th
just beautiful….
Feb 14th
Allard Honigh
Feb 14th
i will miss polaroids (via ANNA:poet)
Feb 14th
waiting (via czuczy)
Feb 14th

regardless...

another beautiful snippet from Sarah Hatter.  Regardless of what we think of our present...
Feb 14th
if I am really good this year, and I know it’s kind of...
Feb 14th
45 iPod Cases are made from reclaimed music media rebuilt to...
Feb 14th
This made me laugh a lot.   Via swissmiss
Feb 14th
oliver says happy valentines day to all his new york...
Feb 13th
I really wish it was cold here - I love rugging up on...
Feb 13th
I am getting some publicity shots done in March and I soooo...
Feb 13th

stories

Sarah Hatter writes the most beautiful stories.  I encourage you to drop by and read some of them....
Feb 13th
let’s get phYsicaL (via kranberry)
Feb 13th
Today
Feb 12th
Suicide Blonde !!!!! (via rga_photo)
Feb 12th
Blackberry madness
Feb 11th
My view today.
Feb 11th
Susanna Majuri
Feb 11th
i love looking into bedrooms.  maybe that’s a photo...
Feb 11th
Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you...
Feb 11th
Ce que j’aime en toi « the paris apartment
Feb 10th
jamie campbell - self portrait
Feb 10th
“i really hope my wish comes true today.”
— me, just now.
Feb 10th
“Evening wind, morning frost: These things make solitude...”
— Yun Shouping, 1633-1690 (via...
Feb 10th
annapoet: sunday afternoons make me feel very...
Feb 9th
Warch Watch
This is a beautiful ad from Honda.  They are re-setting their brand as an innovator and I want in....
Feb 9th
This is what I wore last night. Pearls, silver and crystals....
Feb 9th
At my friend Patria’s.  She has a wonderful pool and I...
Feb 9th
Warch Watch
This is so pretty and fun.  I felt like the sun was shining on me when I watched this.  hrrrthrrr: ...
Feb 9th
Yes this is my double-fisting (to my American friends this...
Feb 9th
we are going old school today (via photo-geek)
Feb 9th
this is just too cute not to post. i hate that you cannot...
Feb 9th
I love the L Word.  This season is great, although I think...
Feb 9th
“If you are out shopping for superstar employees, the...”
— Bob Sutton: Steal Women...
Feb 9th
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Moleskine Paula Scher notebook @ Detour exhibition.
Feb 9th
Notebooks are a great way to look into someone’s life...
Feb 9th
Gio Ponti’s Domus flatware.  I want them so badly.  Ponti...
Feb 8th
A couple of days back I wrote about the furniture...
Feb 8th
Classic album title:  Music for big dame...
Feb 8th
delicate works by andrea aversa
Feb 8th

beautiful

gauntlet: Booty shaking, heart breaking, pain staking. Life in six words inspired by this (Also...
Feb 8th
oh please let me have a room like this when I grow up.  (via...
Feb 8th
i heart typography (via Outofprint)
Feb 8th
from habitually chic.  my dream bags.  *swoon*
Feb 8th
Design*Sponge  » Green Guru - an interview with Danny...
Feb 8th
“The mammoth of total and utter happiness wishes you a smiley...”
— Vimrod (via affremble)
Feb 8th

sorry

Today I had to cancel, at the last moment, drinks with my mentor who runs the largest radio station...
Feb 7th
Può un blog definirsi cool senza avere mai pubblicato le...
Feb 7th

for him, pt 5

(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the...
Feb 7th
I am a sucker for vintage advertising.  I love the first...
Feb 7th
I heart Edward Tufte. PowerPoint templates (ready-made...
Feb 7th
Warch Watch
more from our Roadside Assistance campaign.
Feb 7th
Warch Watch
Some of our new work for our Roadside Assistance product.  Very different from the usual work around...
Feb 7th
Last night I finally found the tea pot of my dreams.  The...
Feb 7th
I wear a lot of black.  I mean a lot.  I am trying to get a...
Feb 7th
“A blue whale’s aorta is big enough for a human to...”
— Holy Crap! Facts
Feb 7th
south street sea port (via ANNA:poet)
Feb 7th
This photo (by Clare Kelly) is from a wonderful project...
Feb 7th
Tonight was my BFF’s birthday.  We have been that way...
Feb 7th
me at school (via ANNA:poet)
Feb 6th

for him, pt 4

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility: whose...
Feb 6th
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you...”
— David Lynch: Catching the Big...
Feb 6th
Yes I am still missing New York.  This place looks amazing. ...
Feb 6th
I love Yojhi Yamamoto more than any other designer.  I loved...
Feb 6th
Mr Black (via Camilla E)
Feb 6th
It’s finally raining after 40 days or there abouts of...
Feb 6th
Furni is a killer furniture company started by two very...
Feb 6th
cute illustrations from julia rothman
Feb 6th
I am still on my quest for the perfect camera project.  I...
Feb 6th

for him, pt 3

or if your wish be to close me,i and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, as when the...
Feb 6th
this flickr id tickled me.  it’s interesting what...
Feb 6th
oh yeah.  this boy is good.  check him out.  venice beach...
Feb 6th
Jamie campbell is very talented and a lovely person as...
Feb 5th
more beautiful work from kapitza
Feb 5th
beautiful illustrations inspired by an 18th century...
Feb 5th
Jesse Kaczmarek is a seriously talented designer based in...
Feb 5th
I was so happy to have found this.  It’s what I have...
Feb 5th
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macHEADS.  The cult of MAC.  Can’t wait for this.
Feb 4th
city beach (via ANNA:poet)
Feb 4th
woman with dogs (via ANNA:poet)
Feb 4th

for him, pt 2

your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always...
Feb 4th

for him, pt 1

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in...
Feb 4th
Malwarez is a series of visualization of worms, viruses,...
Feb 4th
Be still my heart.  Found on Gizmodo.  Leica fanatics are...
Feb 4th
Malgorzata Jasinska
Feb 4th
you see what we were able to do together little lomo?  maine...
Feb 4th
Ned is brilliant.  I have posted him here before. I love the...
Feb 3rd

open letter to my missing lomo

Dear Lomo,  I know it’s been a while since we last worked together and that the reason you...
Feb 3rd
“when you really want to love you will find it waiting for...”
— oscar wilde
Feb 3rd
taken by surfer boy in the taxi on the way home from the...
Feb 3rd

get famous and make a difference

Sometimes I just love my job.  FAME is a programme for young people to create and produce...
Feb 3rd
Two years ago I launched a campaign for my company that used...
Feb 2nd
Bad Water Kills.  When I see great advertising, it makes my...
Feb 2nd
“Just paddling out in the blogosphere is total commitment....”
— Make the logo bigger.:...
Feb 2nd
“Welcome to life my darling girl – you will be fine and I am...”
— Read Molly’s...
Feb 2nd

Sonnet XVII

dearyvette: by Pablo Neruda, from One Hundred Love Sonnets I do not love you as if you were...
Feb 2nd
my mum was hot. My head was huge! (via ANNA:poet)
Feb 2nd
bleeker street.  it’s still there right outside marc...
Feb 2nd
girl in soho circa 2005 (via ANNA:poet)
Feb 2nd

wherealwaysit'sSpring

You just left and I am wondering how I feel.  I started reading some cumings, because, well, that...
Feb 2nd
Carlito Schiliro
Feb 2nd

Fraggle Rock, well rocks

I have always been a huge fan of the Fraggles and I just read this on tuaw.com: Starting today,...
Feb 2nd
for the longest time I have had an art crush on Anne Frith...
Feb 2nd
“I keep thinking I’m younger than I am. The other day, I was...”
— Brooke Shields to Parade...
Feb 2nd
  (via Noah K)
Jan 31st
In a past life, I use to run a small stationery company that...
Jan 31st
Sophie Griotto
Jan 31st
Nicole Tran Ba Vang
Jan 31st
james betley
Jan 31st
I would so love to go to this.  In a past life I dreamed of...
Jan 31st
“However, I almost never, ever type the word...”
— Alison Becker’s Blog: An...
Jan 31st
Waiting in first position at the airport. A lot of trips...
Jan 31st
They keep calling out to me, saying eat me, eat me.
Jan 31st
this was a book we produced to go with the overall...
Jan 30th