Oren Lavie "Her Morning Elegance"

I know I know I know I've been posting lots of videos as of late, but this one is really all together too good to omit in the name of post diversity. Stop motion has always fascinated me, but this music video has taken it to a new place - a captivating conversation between dimension. Surfaces become negative space, horizontal teases our brains into vertical. Like the floating of a great love among the clouds, this is the kind of video that you wish someone would make about you.

Oren Lavie "Her Morning Elegance"

If you fall as madly in love with this as I have, you will without a moment's hesitation love Michel Gondry. (If you've seen The Science of Sleep or Eternal Sunshine, you might know Michel better than you think.) 

The Sweet Smell of Old Dreams (and Pretty Soaps)

For a few short months during high school, I was desperate to go to school for Package Design. My dream was quickly replaced with my forever and always obsession with Public Relations. Still, I can't help but swoon when I stumble upon a beautiful packaging job. 

My newest crush is on Lollia, an absolutely gorgeous Beauty Goods and Handcrafts brand that sells with Anthropologie. I cannot stop obsessing with how beautiful their wine bottle bubble baths and quaint little perfumes are. (Not to mention, they all smell absolutely otherworldly.)

Sweet Bobby Zimmerman at His Most Charming

This is the most delightfully endearing video I've ever seen of my dear Bob Dylan. The world would be a much different place without him.

LED Sheep Art (Yes, you read that correctly)

I almost can't believe that this is real. But I'm so happy that it is. 

Les Hommes: Menswear Fall 2009

Men's fashion doesn't normally catch my serious interest because, all jokes aside, I'm captivated by skirts and shawls because I can dream of prancing around them. But, I'd hate to leave out the other half of the fashion world. Just as in the women's collections, menswear was dominated by black, especially paired with other dark neutrals. The range of styles was wide, with utilitarian zippers and heavy boots at Helmut Lang, to elegant vests and eggplant trousers at Robert Geller. Despite the diversity, the seriousness on all of the mens runways is consistent. Not foreboding, but certainly serious. Some of my favorites, below. 

Helmut Lang

Dunhill

Robert Geller

Viktor & Rolf

Facts

I've been working on a series of short memoirs and snippets of stories - you can find my earlier memoir piece here. Sometimes weeks go by and I'm wordless, and sometimes words pour from me like thick water. Last night was one of those times. 

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"I'm a fact collector," he said. "I understand," she said. 

Earlier that day, when the clouds had slipped between grey and white and sky, he pulled the last blank index card from the box. He wrote on it, "I've collected a life of facts. This is the last." Folding down the top left corner in case he needed to find it again, he filed it in the back of the drawer with the others, and closed the door. 

He would not need to find the fact again. 

One year later, when again the clouds had slipped between grey and white and sky, the wind was interrupted with smoke; dark, as though the earth had finally caught the shadow of itself. Pieces of facts danced over the flames -- flying from the empty skeleton of a house that was.  

Handfuls of words fell into ash that knew everything and meant nothing and could never be found again.