The image above is Ormond Gigli’s iconic photograph Girls in the Windows, which was shot in a condemned building the day before it was to be razed in 1960. According to Gigli, he had to work quickly to secure the proper permits and convince the demolition supervisor to allow him access. Granted, it probably helped that he used the supervisor’s wife as one of his models (third floor, third from left).
Via: Cube Me
Ernest Hemingway spent most of the 20s in Paris—eating, drinking and gathering with the community of American expats who called the city home. When he recalls the experience in his memoir A Moveable Feast, you get a sense that even after having left the picnic, it never quite left him:
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Via: BKK Books
This is the picNYC Table, an experiment in urban farming that combines an aluminum frame with a tabletop of grass, soil and moisture-draining stones. Remember, it’s a living thing capable of growing flora, herbs and veggies—irresponsible gardeners need not apply.
Via: Architizer
Start with some botanicals, anise and fennel; add herbs and wormwood; distill, then dilute. Hemingway preferred it topped with champagne. Van Gogh used it as the subject in many of his paintings. What is it about this elixir that so inspired artists? Absinthe is a curious mixture indeed.
Via: Lost Type
Beets are to Pennsylvania as oranges are to Florida, and since they’re so widely available, my wife and I are always looking for ways to incorporate them into a recipe. Enter this take on beet cake by Tiger In A Jar. I loved this line from their description:
Baking is a gathering of interesting materials, a mixed medium art piece of sorts, that ends in a cake instead of a canvas.
“A mixed medium art piece”—exactly.
Photographer Alberto Seveso’s series A Due Colori captures the brightly colored plumes that result from mixing ink into water. The result is a beautifully detailed exercise in underwater sculpture.
Whenever Michael Lebowitz’s grandfather would travel abroad, he would bring home the hotel door hanger as a keepsake. When he passed away, Michael gathered and organized them into this collection.
Via: Making More Dots
Great, if not daunting, advice. It reminds me of another great quote from Yvon Chouinard’s book Let My People Go Surfing:
“Don’t spend money on gear. Spend it on plane tickets.” – Audrey Sutherland
Via: Observando
I love artist Noemie Goudal’s interpretation of falling water. You can see more from her series Les Amants here.
I had always thought that watercolor was an antiquated medium. Stumbling upon Sasha Prood’s watercolor illustrations helped change my mind.
Via: Deron Bauman
I was raised on the shores of Lake Michigan. We experienced all the seasons, but my favorite moments were always in late Spring when the first big storms would make their march across the horizon, blurring the lines between wind, water and atmosphere.
Via: Push The Movement
But oh! Shipmates! On the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Via: The Berry
