color schemes

If anyone needs a great way to waste time on the web I would highly recommend visiting the website Kuler; set up an account, log in and play with colors. It’s also a great asset when you need to plan colors for a project, renovation or ah hem, a wedding. Julian and I are not [...]

wedding hair

Since i don’t have the dress yet I’m not sure about the hair, whether it will be up or down, bangs or no bangs. But I do know that there will be no veil and that I like the idea of flowers tucked in – like this gorgeous flower idea I gleaned from Sara & [...]

bike porn

It feels like August here in Boston (in the 90′s today) and I’m mourning the fact that I’m bike-less right now. I’ve been shopping for a bike for the past year but all the bikes I fall in love with end up being just beyond reach…I’m going to try a little harder this spring. In [...]

then & now

This very cool illustration of the island of Manhattan by Markley Boyer was used in a NY Times article about history and the future of Manhattan. The left side of the image represents what Manhattan looked like 400 years ago. My imagination reels when I think about the deep forest that once existed in the [...]

dolls. i know…

Okay, usually dolls freak me out, they fall into the same category as freaky clowns. Growing up I had a few dolls to play with but I’d get bored with them and eventually cut their hair off. So I found it funny when I saw these dolls made by simpli jessi over on LoveItAlot and [...]

day dreaming

It’s going to be in the 70′s today in Boston and it finally feels like spring is here. Me though, I’ll be in a darkened screening room  in the basement of the Carpenter Center for the rest of the day. So I thought I’d take a moment to share what I’m day dreaming about over [...]

honeymoon, part I

Julian and I have lots of international travel and adventures ahead of us but we’re thinking of sticking closer to home for our honeymoon. This keeps in step with our depression era wedding (Julian thinks we should decorate with and wear burlap – which I have one word for: Itchy.) The truth is with finishing [...]

a work of dissent

There’s an addiction in our household and it comes in the form of the television show The Wire.  We’re thick in season 4 right now. I’ll line up behind everyone else, ah hem Terry Gross, and say it’s a brilliant show and something incredibly rare. Is that why it did well with critics but not [...]

wedding dress ambivalence

I’ve been stricken with wedding dress ambivalence. This is so very wrong. I like to shop. I like to buy pretty things. And i don’t even have to pay for the dress. I should have a wedding dress by now. Part of the problem is that I don’t really know what I want. I go [...]

god bless philip glass

Julian has been composing the music for our iron curtain film and he has achived a beautiful curiuosly meditative range of themes that have been a joy to cut my images with. I’ve never had this luxury of working with original music and it will add a lot to our film. I first heard some [...]