February 2010

Out of the Mainstream: Brooklyn meets Portland

kate bingaman-burt

If you have not yet come across it, Art Hound and Habit of Art are hosting a cool series including interviews and photos of twelve local, independent artists including (Kate Bingaman-Burt featured above). The series is meant to provoke a discussion around the cities’ thriving art communities. Check it out on their blogs.

Some posts on Kate Bingaman-Burt

Leigh Pennebaker: Wire dresses

Leigh Pennebaker
Now that I’m a mom I’m starting to discover the wonderful world of mom blogs, or rather blogs by moms who are also artists, designers and writers. A few of my favorites are Coquette Maman, Design Mom and Marvelous Kiddo.

Marvelous Kiddo is penned by the incredible Leigh Pennebaker whose amazing wire dress sculptures I recently discovered. They’ve been featured in the window at Saks, Barneys and more high end shops, studios and private collections.

I love what Leigh says about her own sculptures “My sculpture deals with a lifelong fascination with fashion, women, and beauty. I view my work as three-dimensional caricature through which I channel the spirits of southern belles, divas, vixens and ingenues.”

Each of Leigh’s wire dresses explores the female form and gesture. I love the energy and movement present. I hope someday Leigh will make a video of her working  with the wire to create these beautiful forms.

Leigh just posted my birth story on Marvelous Kiddo.

The Selby is in Your Place Book

The Selby Book

Todd Selby was just named one of the top Fashion/Style bloggers by this month’s Vogue magazine. His new book The Selby Is in Your Place is out April 1st.

The Selby Is in Your Place was conceived when fashion and interiors photographer Todd Selby began taking portraits of dynamic and creative people—authors, musicians, artists, and designers—in their home environments and posting them on his web site. Nosy by nature, he wanted to see how personal style was reflected in private spaces. Luckily for us, he found his answer in the color-rich and eclectic quarters of a diverse group of subjects, including Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler, Karl Lagerfeld, Andre Walker, and Olivier Zahm, in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, and London.

The Selby

Freckle Face

freckle girls

How amazingly beautiful are these bespotted ladies? I used to dislike my freckles growing up but now I’m rethinking things.

via The Joys of Life (a great tumblr I discovered from a Maquette commenter)

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