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Angela searches the world wide web - September 24, 2011
September 24, 2011
Blog of the week: Pennyweight
Pennyweight is a collection of inspiring, interesting or just plain lovely things by Elise Yetton. On her website you'll find a daily dose of design, fashion, interiors, music and more. Elise is a freelance writer and stylist living in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband.
She also writes posts for Kinfolk - (which you may know if one of my favs), has an Etsy shop called Troubadour Village, a few films on Vimeo.
I especially like this guest post by Mary Francis Foster from Catch Me if You Fran.
"We all pack certain belongings in preparation for travel, but our travels often give us things to hold onto. These things, though they may find their way into corners or become lost among our possessions, still retain a characteristic of the place from where they came. The characteristics are intangible – a feeling, a memory – often transporting you to that particular place where we first felt them. While I cannot help but collect all sorts of things from the places I go, I hold especially close the books."
Francis Alys is an artist from Belgium who is a formally trained architect living in Mexico City. His work encompasses many media often involving the participation and presence of the artist.
He has poured paint through Israeli border controls, leapt into tornadoes and attempted to move mountains. Is he brave or stupid?. Alÿs reenacts the social upheaval of 1968 in the Zocalo of Mexico City when bureaucrats were herded to demonstrate in favor of the government by walking in circles around a pole while sheep are added to a line that follows him one by one.
For nearly twenty years the Alÿs has been collecting images of Saint Fabiola, a fourth century patrician Roman woman who, despite divorce and remarriage, later did such fervent penance that she was welcomed back to the faith and, after her death, sainted. (Interesting saint...progessive in a way minus the penance)
images: Rex Features + Modern Tate
Tumblr of the week: egggg
Did you know you could buy these new? I did not - haven't seen them in stores for ages. trunksandfootlockers (top row) and campbound (bottom row).
Pennyweight is a collection of inspiring, interesting or just plain lovely things by Elise Yetton. On her website you'll find a daily dose of design, fashion, interiors, music and more. Elise is a freelance writer and stylist living in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband.
She also writes posts for Kinfolk - (which you may know if one of my favs), has an Etsy shop called Troubadour Village, a few films on Vimeo.
I especially like this guest post by Mary Francis Foster from Catch Me if You Fran.
"We all pack certain belongings in preparation for travel, but our travels often give us things to hold onto. These things, though they may find their way into corners or become lost among our possessions, still retain a characteristic of the place from where they came. The characteristics are intangible – a feeling, a memory – often transporting you to that particular place where we first felt them. While I cannot help but collect all sorts of things from the places I go, I hold especially close the books."
Francis Alys is an artist from Belgium who is a formally trained architect living in Mexico City. His work encompasses many media often involving the participation and presence of the artist.
He has poured paint through Israeli border controls, leapt into tornadoes and attempted to move mountains. Is he brave or stupid?. Alÿs reenacts the social upheaval of 1968 in the Zocalo of Mexico City when bureaucrats were herded to demonstrate in favor of the government by walking in circles around a pole while sheep are added to a line that follows him one by one.
For nearly twenty years the Alÿs has been collecting images of Saint Fabiola, a fourth century patrician Roman woman who, despite divorce and remarriage, later did such fervent penance that she was welcomed back to the faith and, after her death, sainted. (Interesting saint...progessive in a way minus the penance)
images: Rex Features + Modern Tate
Tumblr of the week: egggg
Did you know you could buy these new? I did not - haven't seen them in stores for ages. trunksandfootlockers (top row) and campbound (bottom row).
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