here is where you wait

The boy found this excellent Chris Milk project, The Wilderness Down Town: an interactive film clip to an Arcade Fire song; and a chance to go home and give your younger self some advice.

What would you tell yourself?

a plus, a bientot, au revoir, adieu.

Lately I've been feeling sad about all the "goodbyes" I've been saying, instead of seeing 'goodbye' as an opportunity for change, for more "hellos". Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher have a great project on Learning to Love You More for just this problem: Exercise 70. Say Goodbye. Here are some of mine:

What things have you said goodbye to recently? 

matryoshka

E went to St Petersberg & brought me back this adorable matryoshka set. So pretty. And ginger! Sometimes I wish I could squish my organs over to one side and carry my people around with me like a babushka. Don't you?

holy cute!

farewell transmission

Today is R's last day in Geneva. We will miss him so much! I made a playlist for one of the 28 hours of his plane ride home.

Make a mixtape for someone you love today!

Bears are not companions of men, but children of God, and his charity is broad enough for both

Paintings by Rory Dax Paton. I love his work.

10.15 on a saturday night

all delighted people

The new Sufjan Stevens EP is out and streaming for free on his website. So check it out & fall in love all over again!

kiki kaikai

Francesca Grilli takes such beautiful photographs. I love her work.

the great wave of kanagawa

songs:ohia, just because I'm thinking of you.

rip satoshi kon

don't it look like rain?

it's not yet september, but I am getting the sense that fall might be chasing summer out of town. Oh, sunhine; i'm not ready! there's so much left still to do together...

amicizia

Olivo Barbieri is love

ours the armada

A sunshiny geneva weekend with the parents: delicious food, mountain walks, arguments about french grammar, action movies and rip roaring screaming matches: perfect.

icona di stile: nancy cunard

the colours and the kids

i wonder if this is what we would look like if we woke up and had turned into cartoons in our sleep?

you can shake yourself here

don't you think it's a pity?

shiny. pretty. things.

bookhou 

this is how the heart works

that gum you like is going to come back in style

My sweetheart made me this mix. So lovely, I can't stop listening to it.

views from my bed, 9.40pm Monday night.

i remember that it was hard to look at it and hard not to look at it too