THINGS THAT MAKE ME SMILE

Brooklyn artist Mark Reigelman and San Francisco architect Jenny Chapman  installed a wooden hut on the side of a hotel in San Fransisco, to demonstrate the rights of the urban explorer to find an unoccupied parcel of space in which to make a city home.  (source)

The Purge by artist Chris Whiteburch is an art installation in a condemned house, where the house purges its contents, all manner of debris and structural material shooting violently through a window into a giant wooden splash.  (source)

Dutch design studio Tjep did a wonderful job in the Fabbrica pizzeria with these seating booths, they look really cosy!  (source)


Leandro Erlich‘s installation Bâtiment looks like a lot of fun: it ‘s a massive building facade, constructed on the floor near a towering mirror that makes it look like you’re weightless.  So cool!  (source)

Zurich designers Atelier Volvox rescued plush toys from the garbage and turned them inside out to give them a new life.  (source)

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PRETTY THINGS: the tattoo edition

 

Don’t let this post fool you, I’m not planning on getting a tattoo.  For me a tattoo is something that should have a meaning, remind you of something important or define something about yourself that you’d like to share with the world or remind yourself of.  So far, I haven’t felt the urge yet to eternalize something on my body, but I do appreciate tattoos on others.  Lately I’ve been coming across many beautiful tattoos, so I figured it was about time I shared them with you, especially with the fake tattoo trend in mind!  (I will let that trend pass though, as the beauty of a tattoo lies in it being permanent for me, although I have to admit there’s some amazing fake tattoos to be found on the internet!)  So tell me, which one’s are your favorites and do you have a tattoo yourself?

  1. Pamela Love‘s crossing arrows tattoo.  (source)
  2. Adeline Rapon‘s Haida bracelet tattoo.  (source)
  3. Ivania‘s boyfriend and the tattooed line on his back.  (source)
  4. Chevron tattoo. (source)
  5. Bracelets tattoo. (source)
  6. Pamela Love‘s seeing eye tattoo.  (source)
  7. Tony Stone‘s hand tattoo.  (source)

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THINGS THAT MAKE ME SMILE

Pretty illustrations by Amanda Mocci.  (source)

Very accurate weather forecast.  (source)

Fun typeface by Canadian design student, Julien Poisson.  (source)

No more sneaking into the house with this backpack!  (source)

For his project called Street Seats, Bade Stageberg Cox collected 50 abandoned chairs on the streets of New York, repaired them and painted them with a coat of taxi cab yellow paint. On the bottom of each chair, you find a with the date and location it was recovered.  (source)

 

 

Bloom Theory makes the most adorable camera straps.  (source)

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PRAIA GUINCHO

It took me two weeks before I finally had time to spend a day at the beach, but when I finally found an appartment and got settled, I enjoyed it even more.  With a few friends, we spent an entire day at praia guincho, one of the more beautiful beaches near Lisboa.  Despite the cold when it was getting later, we stayed there until sunset.  So worth it!

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THINGS THAT MAKE ME SMILE

I’m not entirely sold on the fake tattoo trend (for me the beauty of a tattoo lies mostly in the fact that it can be a permanent reminder of something worth remembering), but this design by un beau jour got me excited.  I love the triangles and those arrows!  Available here.

The dictionary of obscure sorrows is certainly a site worth visiting: they make up the most beautiful words to describe wonderful phenomenons.

Doggy is one of the most fun fonts I’ve come across in a while.  Not very readable, but so cool.  (source)

The Paint Pigment Photographs series by Rob and Nick Carter.  (source)

Rachel’s new bike make over.  When I get home, I’d love to do the same to my bike!  (source)

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LX FACTORY

Last Sunday, I made a trip to LX factory, an old industrial site which is now a creative island.  Here you can find wonderful shops, nice restaurants and bars, architects, fashion designers, advertising agencies, artists, photographers and so on.  And on top of that, each sunday the LX market takes place, where you can find both vintage and new treasures.

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