Tim Burton

    Tim Burton's Exhibit is coming to LA!!! It's going to be at the LACMA from late May till late October!! I CANNOT wait... Not only will it feature art associated with Burton's movies, but also his own private and original works.

     The pictures above were taken when the exhibit was at the Museum of Modern Art. The first is called Melancholy, and the second, featuring a monster of the land and a monster of the sea, is called Romeo and Juilet!!! It makes me so giddy...

P.S.- The event info is not on the LACMA pages yet, but you can find it here!!!

The Man Cave

(via art of manliness)

    

     Today, I came across a snapshot of Earnest Hemingway's writing studio, and it's brilliant!

     The Man Cave astounds me. We used to call them "studies", but the idea is still the same: a male sanctuary, where one could get away from the frou frou of life to be alone with their thoughts and ideas and bask in their sheer manliness.

     I’m not a man, but I really want one. I'm not talking about a transformed basements with vending machines and video games... A REAL man cave has loads of books, beautifully handcrafted tables, and perfectly placed taxidermy gazelle heads.

Sweaters ARE useful...

(via the trendy girl)

     I ALWAYS have a sweater handy, and I ALWAYS stuff my macbook in my oversized purse- why didn't I think of this before....

P.S. My favorite step is number eight.

Beauty and the Beast bookshelf....

(via bookshelfporn)

     I would really love for this to be in my house someday.....It reminds me of Beauty and the Beast, the part the Beast gives Belle his entire library (filled ceiling to floor with windows and books) to show her how much he loves her.

    In retrospect, it's NO WONDER I turned out the way I did. My favorite childhood movie had French speaking candelabras, little chipped vintage teacups, and beastly men who gave entire libraries as their proclamation of love...


P.S.- See the magical bookshelf scene here

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character...." Undoubtedly the most recognized sentence of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s terribly short life. Which always makes me wonder, year after year, who were those four children he mentioned in his infamous speech, and where are they now? How daunting a task if would be to fill the shoes of a revolutionary like MLKJ! But they grew up to do just that...motivational speakers, politicians, lawyers, ordained ministers, writers, and producers. How incredible is it to realize the difference in opportunity in just one generation! However one thing did not change, the tradition of peacemakers, lovers of humanity, of world- changers... but hey, that’s just a judge of character : )

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. " MLKJ

The truest love...

(Danny & Annie from StoryCorps on Vimeo.)

  This true story is the saddest and happiest thing I have ever seen. Though I can't see their real faces, it only takes their endearing voices to imagine how they looked at each other. It is nothing short of beautiful.

To the new year...

Dear 2011,

    While you're visiting for these next dozen months, we dare you to challenge us, to terrify us. We'll welcome irritation, inspiration, exasperation. We won't let fear paralyze us. We promise to follow our OWN instincts, rather than the instincts of others. We vow to break from what we feel most comfortable with, all for a chance to say to ourselves, "You know, that really wasn't for me after all.." We resolve to always do what we are most afraid of. We will overlook what we cannot love in others. We swear to never tell ourselves our lives are in shambles, when the train has not yet reached the broken track. And most of all we will never overlook a chance to start from scratch, because arrivals and departures aren't the only times to make new resolutions!



"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves: otherwise we harden"
                                                              -Johann von Goethe