So inspired by this Norwegian tumblr and particularly, these laid-back photos of their friends that I found there. It almost makes me want to go out and buy a nice digital (gasp!) camera! It would be nice to be able to shoot at a moments notice, instead of having to find and load film and figure out all of your settings... huh?

We'll see.

You know, I feel like maybe I'm experiencing a pattern where every year around this time, the change of seasons, I tend to get a pretty bad case of the wants. It must have to do with new fall lines coming out and Holiday advertising beginning to take hold, but for real guys. I want. Everything that local e-retailer Ship & Shape has to offer. I mean, seriously.

Like this nubby planter!

This funny little dish (actually, all the ceramics!)

Please somebody out there reading this, draw my name for secret santa this year! I want this one of a kind Mountain Ring.

Definitely go check 'em out! Fast!

My beautiful friend Carla Alexandra Rodriguez has been killing it lately. Check out some of her new photographs!

She's also been making some great work with another friend of mine, Zoey Melf, under the moniker Photo Projecto. Seriously, guys, these tintypes are not only a complicated and historically important art form, but they also have a particularly weird, dreamy quality that could only come out of their fingertips. You can see more of her work, here and here.

I've been adding quite fervently to my "incredible artists that I've just now learned about" list recently, so I think I'll be breaking up the house and trip posts with some random art and photography posts for the next few months. This first one is Charles Freger, who makes incredible portraits of beasts at cultural festivals around Europe (more here). They are so beautiful and unlike anything I've seen lately! Almost haunting dont you think? They almost remind me of being in Turkey... I'd love one of these hanging in a room where I'd stare it often, like in the bathroom, is that crazy??

PS: Speaking of portrait series, this one is pretty darn great too, by MCAD Alumni Joseph O'Leary, check it out!

You guys! I had the great pleasure recently of shooting an upcoming zine for collaborative partners Emma Trithart (images) and Lisa Ciccarello (words). Called It Will Be Known To Us, this zine is chalk-full of dark, spooky imagery and hauntingly beautiful words. It will be available at some point in the near future on its very own Big Cartel site, here. And dudes, even though it was April and SNOWING during our shoot, I am enormously happy with how the pictures turned out. I hope to work on more projects like this in the future.

Thanks you two for letting me photograph such a beautiful little piece of art! And peeps, get out there and pick up a copy before they're all gone!

here is a peek

Today, a gloomy and perfectly repulsive snowy day, called for another photobooth remix. See how I'm doing them more often now? Here's to hoping they don't begin to replace my usual outfit photos (because we all know what a slippery slope that could become)...

beanie: Target
frames: Warby Parker, Huxley
blouse: H&M
jacket: Polo Ralph Lauren, thrifted
gold bangle: Madewell, gift from Husband
jeans: random brand, found on the free shelf!
booties: Seychelles, from DSW

On a more positive note, my best buddy Emma and I were finally able to shoot her upcoming zine collaboration yesterday, and I am just too excited to get the film back! We also took nice digitals as a fall back, of course, but film is where it's at (at least for this girl). It was sleeting and cold and I had a hard time working with the cameras in plastic bags, but everything went very smoothly, especially Emma's expert styling, AND the husband made us hot cocoa when we were all done (thanks baby!).

Cant wait to show you the results! In the meantime, hop over to Emma's blog for a little peek at her exciting project!

I came across the work of this photographer Dayanita Singh recently, and I'm feeling really inspired by her work. I love the way she fills the frame (square format frame!) and the way she achieves such a lush, dense black and white quality.

It gets me thinking about two things: one, how I will go about photographing in Istanbul this summer. I know that I'll need something compact and light-weight if we're to be traipsing up and down steep, cobblestone streets all day long, and through dense, urban areas where pick-pocketing and purse-snatching is somewhat common. Although I'm tempted to take along my Rollei square format that I used in Hawaii and loved so much. I will also need to use a fast film speed most of the time (if not all of the time) I am there so that I can photograph in low-light situations at night and in the mosques. And two, a project I'm about to embark on that I wont be able to talk about quite yet, just because it hasnt fully materialized in my brain. But, suffice it to say that it involves significant past memories and explores how we remember imagery (at least, how I remember imagery) from moments in our past. Stay tuned on that one...

And now for something a little different. I was reading a bit about photographer Francesca Woodman the other night, and while I havent watched the documentary about her family "The Woodmans" yet (it's in my Netflix queue), I find the information about her (tragic) young life fascinating. I havent ever really looked hard at her work, and I find that I admire it much more now than when I was in school.

I wont go on too much more, but you can read more about her here and see more of her work here. She really was way before her time.