JOSH RITTER - LOVE IS MAKING ITS WAY BACK HOME

Found this lovely little stop motion music video via colossal blog.

Directed by Erez Horovitz. "A team of nearly twenty artists, editors, directors and product assistants ushered the video into being. The group started with storyboarding and computer animation before converting the digital graphics to paper cutouts (frame by frame), photographing those 12,000 cutouts and then stitching them together into four minutes of paper animation." from colossal.

learn more about the making of here!

be sure to watch the whole thing! it starts out slower, but the end is superb :)

Josh Ritter - Love Is Making Its Way Back Home from Josh Ritter on Vimeo.

SALMON NECKLACE

you can't tell, but it's salmon.

MAKING THINGS!

my first attempt at making knitted necklace for the shop. i'll have another version coming soon. please comment on your thoughts/suggestions/color requests!

:)

LORELAY BOVE

If you couldn't tell, I'm currently obsessed with this graphic/playful style of artwork. So following my Mary Blair post comes Lorelay Bove! Love the fantastical, whimsy charm in her paintings.

She currently works at Disney Animation Studios.

visit her etsy store!

Lorelay Bove

plated walls

So I haven't posted in quite some time...but I recently moved to LA and have been busy with moving across country and getting together the apartment.  So I will soon have some before and after pics to share of that transformation : )

But for now I'd like to share a little design idea that is well known, but often looked passed I believe, and that is hanging plates as decor!  While shopping around at stores for the past couple weeks I've found that there are so many cool looking/decorative dishes available that they really should be displayed as art and not kept staked up in the cabinet.  I hope you enjoy some of my finds...I love the dimension on this one, almost like it's growing out of the wall. found at nj.com



Here is an example of some modern looking plates that really give a bold statement against a white wall.  great for apartments, hence found on apartmenttherapy.com

Since halloween is coming up...thought this was kind of fun. found on countryliving.com









etsy.com

Eat 'em up.

color inspiration: red

Here are a few images showcasing the vibrancy of the color: red.  A lot were found on Glamour Daze's blog of vintage photographs.



A great contrast with this art direction. Found on Glamour Daze



Vogue, found on Vintage Vogue

From Glamour Daze.

Great uses of teal and red below

fabric flowers, from etsy.com

I love the color combination of red and purple together

From Vintage Vogue, 1960s

Gene Tierney, from Vintage Vogue, stars with style

Hope you enjoyed!

Cheers,

Laur

Thinking green

I've been thinking a lot about going green.  Not just the whole "clean up our world" green, but I've been reading more about putting green and brown together for living spaces and creating an "interior-outdoors" if you will.  I'm constantly inspired by etsy.com, and I found this image that really hit on my thoughts of foliage and bark.

http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-decor-show-your-true-colors-4409/





Image by: Sanna Annukka

http://www.bigactive.com/illustration/sanna-annukka/latest-work



I've also been loving the idea of using pillows to create the different patterns of a room.  I found this image and thought it would be a funny idea if a character in a film, perhaps, had "too many pillows."





I used this effect in my room back in college, and when people would ask "why aren't there any pictures in your frames?" I told them it was 'open to interpretation' for them to decide.  They might have thought I was crazy, but I wasn't the only one...



I'm also liking the confusion and clutter that is happening in these photos.  I once read that in order to design a room, you don't necessarily need a design plan on specific palette, but if you are one to simply collect "neat looking things", you'll be able to compile a stunningly crafty room with what you have gathered.







Marilyn Monroe

And I'm a firm believer of this...found on the blog site of http://smokeandochre.blogspot.com/