New things from Jeremy Laing at Maryam Nassir Zadeh.

I just realized that a big part of growing up means the people you love will live far away. A hand from O. that arrived today with a note:

“They say the heart muscle is about the size of a fist.”

BELOW: The rest of my fist collection. Reminds me of Buzz Spector’s Details: Closed to Open, grainy images of hands cropped from photographs taken at peace protests and marches.

Inspired by Tessellated Manifolds, a Washington University student project, spent a good chunk of the morning looking at pictures of muqarnas and mocárabes (honeycomb and stalactite domes in Islamic architecture). Images via llkhanid/dynamosquito/Girl Solo in Arabia/Kulture in Asien/MIT and this amazing site by Shiro Takahashi of Tama Art University.

From the “Action Hack” series by Michael Bell-Smith via VVORK/Foxy Production/Krannert Art Museum. ALSO: “Grid Panic”

I’ve been wanting an unpolished bloodstone ring for forever, you know, because I’m melodramatic like that. TeenAngster found the perfect one at jeanjeanvintage, and I can’t wait to rock it.

Dresses for flying (wing dress, kite dress) by Cocky Eek via life in the slow line. ALSO: Light dress.

By Richard Boulet via stopping off place.

Plaster bust of Eugene Debs, father of American socialism, which makes every other bust instantly less awesome. At Heir Antiques. ALSO: This bronze door pull.

Untitled Hideout (Ancient Colony of Horse-Thieves, Counterfeiters and Robbers) (2009), Untitled Hideout (Sam Kelly) (2009), Untitled Hideout (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) (2009) by Greg Stimac via i heart photography. BEFORE: Windshield after long drives.

Hair art by Hrafnhildur Arnardottir, better known as Shoplifter. Via Pattern People.

Frequency modulation series and print-out from a reader recorder tape. More examples from the art of memory via FFFFOUND!

Ruby and sapphire rings by Polly Wales via Hannes Grebin.

Oh, I’m consumed with desire for a digital Holga: “the photographs remain mysterious until you download the images.” Concept by Saikat Biswas, who needs to get cracking.

Sioux Falls (2010) and Black Moon (2010) by Michael Kreuger via Huh.

Godfinger 1 (2007) and Godfinger 2 (2007) by Justine Khamara via bumbumbum.

Via Daily Mail/Egodesign.

Cube and hanger earrings by Jiro Kamata at Ornamentum via chanelesque.

Wouldn’t these watercolors by drifted make awesome stationary? Via duskin.

Potatoes grown to sprout. Part of the “Everyday Growing” project by Juliette Warmenhoven via Sight Unseen.

Sometimes I just like something, and I don’t have a reason, which makes me a terrible critic, I know. By UiU via the science of design.

I’ve always felt a bit sad looking at Patrick Caulfield’s images of modern interiors, but this one in the Tate Collection, Found Objects (1968), is magnificent.

Deliberately unidentified locations from Outerland by Allison Davies, published by Charles Lane Press. Via but does it float.

A Maison Martin Margiela tie box, plucked from a storage room somewhere and lined with white nappa leather. Stills from the brilliant “Object Fetish” video series at SHOWstudio:

“. . . it relates to the desireability of a designer name alone. It doesn’t matter what the name is affixed to. . . . It’s all about packaging. There’s no product inside.”

Rust and navy, such a good color combination. Cacharel brushstrokes dress at La Garconne.

Audrey Corregan takes photographs of the covered. ALSO: Photographs of the backs of photographs, which reminds me of Jonathan Safran Foer’s must-read essay in Playboy about his collection of blank sheets of paper:

“A family friend had been helping to archive Isaac Bashevis Singer’s belongings for the university where his papers and artifacts were to be kept. Among the many items to be disposed of was a stack of Singer’s unused typewriter paper. . . . My friend sent the top page to me — the next sheet on which Singer would have written — suspecting that I might take some pleasure in the remnant of the great writer’s life.”

“I began writing letters to authors . . . asking for the next sheet of paper that he or she would have written on. Richard Powers was the first to respond. “The favor is indeed strange,” he wrote, “but wonderful. The more I think about it, the more resonance it gets: a museum of pure potential, the unfilled page!” He sent along the next sheet from the yellow legal pad on which he writes.”

Ships wallpaper drawn by 8-year-old Otto at Fine Little Day.

Kokon To Zai orthopedic heels with removable ankle brace available at Shop It Right Now.

“Published in 1881, Gustave Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas — a primer of clichés and a critique of bourgeois gullibility — defined photography: Will make painting obsolete.”

Paintings by Monique Prieto via Art Lies/artnet. ALSO: This painting by Laura Owens that dares you to dislike it and be the person you never wanted to grow up to become. (Her copy of Toulouse-Lautrec’s The Bed is brilliant too, though I can’t seem to remember where I saw it or to find it on the internet).

Icebergs (2006), edition of 35 at CRG Gallery.

“Pigeons in Arequipa” by Kevin Cooley with Bridget Batch.

Burnt furniture preserved in epoxy by Maarten Baas via sky le blog via the best time of the day.

I can’t remember the last time I saw anything in Vogue that I loved quite this much. Portrait of Mona Bismark by René Bouché that appeared in the magazine sometime in the last century via The Curated Object. ALSO: Photograph of Bouché by Richard Avedon.

Miao festival crown and 1st-century folding crown (for easier transport) from the “Bactrian hoard” discovered in modern day Afghanistan via National Gallery of Art/Unruly.

I’ve never met Abel Macias, but I have a feeling we’ll get along because I won’t have to lie to him about liking his work.

How many years has it been since we’ve been back to Philly? Murals between 63rd St. and 45th St. on Market by Love Letter, a public arts project funded by the awesome Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Via design is mine.

“Pictures of Clouds” series by Vik Muniz via Space Place/Granite Canyons via Kate Spade:

“. . . skywriting is an ideal medium to demonstrate the fleeting nature of images.”

“By drawing an image of a cloud in a place where we would expect to see a real cloud, Muniz underscores the difference between an object and the image of an object.”

ALSO: Handheld backlit box of clouds by Kim Laughton.

Super-rad nails by Abby Walton via Our Life in Common/Viva Vena Cava.

Photographs by Jochen Lempert that would be far less wonderful if they were framed instead of just taped to the wall. Via Endless Lowlands/Galerie Reinhard Hauff/Projecte SD/Sabine Schmidt Gallery. ALSO: Birds.

Embroidered tights by Bebaroque at Pixie Market via Mosey.

Swimmers (2009) and Fossils in the Wood (2009) by Olivia Wendel via Mociun. I love this line from her artist statement:

“I am interested in chance, in revisions and failures.”

New papers: 11 posters by 11 artists, printed on newsprint three times a year. Via voicer.

The older I get, the more I like mist. C-prints mounted on aluminum by Darren Almond via SCAI The Bathhouse/Saatchi Online.

A.K. and I snuck into the L.A. Arboretum over the weekend (which totally counts as budgeting, I saved $16).

Paper and glue stalactites and stalagmites by Jennifer Rose Sciarrino that reminds me of Abigail Reynold’s Mount Fear. Via The Rag & Bone via of paper and things.

Moccasins by Manimal, on sale, via To Ramona.

Antique 1800s Chang and Eng figurines from John Derian.

Squiggles of make-up cut out of magazines, collaged onto watercolor paper by Andy Holden.

Periods in different fonts by Fiona Banner at The Multiple Store:

“The act of arranging and rearranging them enacts a silent conversation.”

The most amazing writing desks by Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne via the great exposition. ALSO: Writing desk that belonged to Yves Saint Laurent via Christie’s. I’ve blogged about YSL’s Lalanne-designed dove chairs before.

Finally whittled down my glasses to: sunnies that make me look like I have big, clear cartoon eyebrows (vintage Korean), sparkly seafoam reading glasses (vintage German), super-flat cat eyes (from Japan). It’s all I need, for now.

There’s nothing prettier than not wanting to look pretty. Face distorting jewelry by Burcu Buyukunal via Arthur Hash.

Via artnet. ALSO: Speech bubble mylar balloons via Gramatologica.

By Joel Lardner via Postcard Exhibition.

Pencil drawings of the moon by Denice Bartels at PYO Gallery.

In my dreams, I look like this in baggy sweaters and not like a slob. Margaret Howell F/W 2010 – 2011 via Mary Caple via Anyone, Girl via Fashion Copious.

Bronze and resin sculptures by Carl D’Alvia at Katharine Mulherin Projects.

Silver and goat hair bracelets by Jacomijn van der donk via the best time of the day.

Parrot entrails necklace with stand by Tithi Kutchamuch (whose paper rings I’ve blogged about before) via Hannes Grebin. ALSO: Bunny bracelet.

Vintage Elgin side mount watch to wear with a stack of bracelets from ticktockpopsclocks.

Charcoals by Rinus Van de Velde. (Someday I will tire of explosions and the Hindenberg and balloons and the sea, but that day is not today.)

Exclamation points by Richard Artschwager via VVORK/artnet/Brooke Alexander Gallery.

The Snow, feather and air installation by Tokujin Yoshioka via Dezeen at Mori Art Museum.

Pages from Romeyn B. Hough’s The American Woods, Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory Text (1888-1910) with 75 sections of wood mounted on 25 plates via Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities via Beinecke.

Sky (Over Coney Island, November 26th, 2004, 12:47pm. Southwest view over the Cyclone), violet balloons inside cobalt ones to match the color of the sky over Coney Island at a precise moment; Ceiling (above Freud’s couch, 19 Berggasse, Vienna, noon effect), the color of the ceiling above the couch in Freud’s consulting room; Two Examples of Molecular Orbital Theory (Prussian Blue), one room painted blue with white light, the other painted white with blue light. By Spencer Finch:

“. . . color lies at the boundary of what we see and what we remember . . . [color] is a way to re-create an almost visceral experience of our impossible desire to name our perceptions.”

By Collina Strada at Mohawk General Store.

Boris Lacroix and Disderot double arm lamps, both from rewire.

By Matthew Feyld via StudioPatrick.

Cloud Box (1966) by Peter Alexander. UPDATE: Object (1959) by Enzo Mari via Old Chum via MoMA.

Forever ago, before all the drama went down, took off my shoes and stood with K. for a while in front of a Doug Wheeler piece. Via MOCA.

A little handmade jar for holding rainbows.

Skirting board sunset (2008) by Helmut Smits.

Leather bags by Alice Waese via Another Magazine. ALSO: Cocoon cast in silver.

Molly Smith’s work captures just enough. From top: Canyon, Nest, Lean, Puddle.

I’m generally a fan of incognito athletic gear, but this wetsuit by Cynthia Rowley for Roxy is surprisingly awesome. At 10 Corso Como.

MRI of an orange, an artichoke at Inside insides via Planetary Folklore.

Flying Graffiti by Moneyless via Le territoire des sens/ekosystem.

Via an ambitious project collapsing via goenetix.

Rope necklaces from Mon Amour Vintage.

“Object of co-dependency” by Keetra Dean Dixon via BOX and line. ALSO: Layered wax in collaboration with JK Keller that makes me think of Brook&Lyn’s stunning agate necklaces.

Furze Chan’s collection of pins is pure perfection. ALSO: Paper puppets, available on etsy.

Hand-drawn lines and edges from recent University of East London grad Johanna Greenish via jellybones. Inspired to break out a Sharpie.

White porcelain hand details from Hussein Chalayan S/S 2010 via Skelerope, on sale at Maryam Nassir Zadeh.

Ruled notebook at TMshop via Thinking for a Living via Swiss Miss.

“The primordial darkness of the universe at the moment before creation, as represented in a plate in Robert Fludd’s 1617 Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica, atque Technica Historia (The Metaphysical, Physical, and Technical History of the Two Worlds, Namely the Greater and the Lesser). The words Et sic in infinitum (“and like this to infinity”) are written on all four sides of the square.”

A great piece about the color black by Paul LaFarge (who shares a name with Marx’s son-in law, the author of my favorite book, The Right to Be Lazy). Via Granite Canyon via Cabinet Magazine.

Photographs by Maria Hahnenkamp via Mauve Deep via Landesgalerie/Paris Art.

Loving this hand-painted Secret Ceremony tee at Iko Iko via the treasure trove that is Intelligent Clashing.

Bead swing by Johanna Richter at Sleek Identity via ReadyMade.

Oh, yes. Via Pour Porter via VeridiAum.

Cornelius Völker studied with Gerhard Richter and paints the things ““no one else would want to paint.” Via Todd Hosfelt. ALSO: His studio.

Agreed, Todd Martens. I miss Justine Frischmann, too. I need a haircut.

I love that Kant used waterfalls to help explain the sublime. Les Amants (Cascade) (2009) by Noemie Goudal via Booooooom!

I didn’t know balloons could be so ominous, but now I’m convinced that the last thing you see before you die looks just like this. Canopy (2010) by Lee Boroson via Sara Meltzer Gallery.

Emblems by Deborah Boardman that are pretty remarkable for how they manage to look like so many things all at once.

Mobiles by Hanna Sandin via Sculpture Center/Dossier.

Rei Kawakubo’s designs for Scenario (1997) by Merce Cunningham via even*cleveland via ro/lu. ALSO: Comme des Garcons S/S 1997 via The Fashion Spot.

1960s backpack, new in my etsy shop. [SOLD]

My obsession with indoor rooftops continues. “A Cabin in a Loft” by Terri Chiao via even*cleveland.

I thought I blogged about Allison Schulnik before, but it’s also reasonable to venture that I’m losing my mind. In any case, I was reminded of her work by mociun.

ALSO ALSO: This beautiful video for Grizzly Bear via Harriet Slaughter.

Bodkin just keeps getting better and better. A/W 2010.

Last year, on New Year’s Eve, R.’s cousin ran into Cuba Gooding Jr. outside the building, and he said to her, “You look like you could be my future ex-wife.” Which is exactly how I feel about these underwears. By Henrik Vibskov via Vain and Vapid.