spelling bee jewelry

find more great spelling bee pendants here.

sortsolsum

fiona has taught me this word: sortsolsum. the danish word for the swarming of starlings. (you can see it happening in the fifth photograph.)


i love the synesthetic and sensuous quality of these six photographs. how they borrow sugar from each other. i also prefer these six ingredients: snow, paper, string, sticks, cloth, and ether.
1. Turfed Ducks in flight 鳳頭潛鴨, 2. myrtle, 3. un coin de ciel bleu, 4. 30810014, 5. sortsolsum, 6. natural history

save the date

the million little pictures show is going to be in san francisco.

out of all the adventures displayed there that night, mine will be among them.

"The magic that transforms stone into poetry nobody can explain. Even when you get there, the way remains mysterious..." ~Fernanda Gomez

"...This is not important, except that it is possible to continue. Writing about art seems to me more and more dangerous. There are too many words troubling the wonderful silence of the visual."


much more of this insightful interview between gomez and ernesto neto here.

chandelier made from things that washed up on the beach

stuart haygarth calls it his "tide chandelier".

early rollerskates

i want a pair. i want to stroll through the aisles of the grocery store in them. i would wear them waitressing, gliding through the restaurant with martinis on a tray, gracefully dodging the footwaiters and sommelier. i would juggle the wide white plates for sidework and no one would ever go hungry.



wonderful photo found on flickr here.

"birds don't pay the rent"

designer martín azúa (out of barcelona) on the concept behind his Nest House:

"The life in the city is complicated when thinking of the most basic necessity and sometimes absurd obligations. Freedom is reduced in what you have or need. Birds don’t pay the rent. They settle into a place and use the closest resources. Their nests form a part of nature. Learning form them, we came up with the idea to build the nest house of simple metal structure and some rope which are completed with natural materials like leaves, branches etc… It doesn’t take any space as it is hung on a tree with a thick tape not to damage it. Once installed it can serve as point of observation or an essential habitat in which you can spend a night. The nest house allows us a perception of the natural space of animal, plant and human life."

the rest of his inventions are equally whimsically beautiful. thanks to labour of heart for the link.