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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

-Sir Winston Churchill-

Magazine Inspirations

Sylvia Ji

Sylvia Ji painted these... something about them I like....even though it isn't my kind of music.

"Sylvia Ji was born in 1982 in San Francisco to artistic parents. Ji’s interest in art was implanted at a very young age when she would look through her mother’s sketchbooks and watch her father paint. In her art, she explores themes of beauty, sexual provocation, and social notions of femininity juxtaposed against the dystopian reality of modern cities to create highly charged paintings of women. Some of her paintings are symbolic reflections of herself, portraits of people she knows or just nameless faces set in a landscape of fleeting beauty. She graduated with distinction in 2005 from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco with a Bachelors in illustration and already had her first ambitious and successful solo show while still in her last year of school. Since then she has been in high demand, keeping continuously engaged in an onslought of numerous shows on the West Coast. Currently, she has works on display in both San Francisco and Los Angeles galleries. Visit frequently to stay updated on future shows for this emerging and promising artist." From The Art Print.

Loyal Loot Collective Bowls

These Loyal Loot Collective bowls are just brilliant. I'm sure you've seen them on the pages of every other blog, but I just had to, they are too brilliant not to post.

LOG BOWLS

Log Bowls combine the incomparable beauty of trees in their natural state with a high-gloss vibrant finish. Each bowl is handmade using only locally reclaimed trees of all varieties (fallen or cut down due to infrastructure, re-landscaping, droughts, or stormy weather). The trees are hand selected, gathered, turned and finished by Loyal Loot Collective and local crafts people.  Log Bowls come in a large variety of colors and are completed by hand with a water-based, furniture grade finish.

Cowl

Check out this funky Chunky Seed Stitch Cowl by Cat Party. It's a lot like Yokoo's scarves and cowls, but has a flavor all it's own.