It can't hurt to dream, right?

Images: mark borthwick, yataro matsuura, muji, dreamcats, cultivate modesty, freunde von freunde, that girl lucy, and fewer shades.

I went to the Muji in Sendai last week and ahh, it got me house dreaming. I sat down on one of their ultra comfy couches and actually dozed off for about five minutes. I caught more than a few bemused Japanese people looking at me!

 I would love to be a purist and have a simple light dappled home with a few sparse but beautifully placed objects but alas, I am more of a hoarder and a thifter that leads to haphazard collections of bizarre things and a cluttering of my shelves. If I could have a dream house, I think it would look a little something like this (cats included!)

ps. I just booked tickets for Christmas. London, Pareeee, Amstredam, Singapore, here I come! I'm so excited.

Raven Haired {symbolic animals part II}

"Highly enthusiastic, and a natural entrepreneur, the Crow is quite a charmer. But he/she doesn't have to work at being charming – it comes easily. Everyone recognizes the Crow's easy energy, and everyone turns to the Crow for his/her ideas and opinions. This is because the Crow is both idealistic and diplomatic and is quite ingenious. In nurturing environments this Native American animal symbol is easy-going, can be romantic, and soft-spoken. Further, the crow can be quite patient, and intuitive in relationships. Left to his/her own devices, the Crow can be demanding, inconsistent, vindictive, and abrasive."

Lone Wolf {symbolic animals part I}

"Deeply emotional, and wholly passionate, the Wolf is a lover. The Wolf understands that all we need is love, and is fully capable of providing it. Juxtaposed with his/her fierce independence – this Native American animal symbol is a bit of a contradiction in terms. Needing his/her freedom, yet still being quite gentle and compassionate – we get the picture of the "lone wolf". In a nurturing environment the Wolf is intensely passionate, generous, deeply affectionate, and gentle. Left to his/her own devices the Wolf can become impractical, recalcitrant, obsessive, and vindictive."

PS "The wolf in the story of Little Red Riding Hood represents the frightening aspect of the male and the fear of sexual contact. Told at bedtime, the fairy story warned girls of the dangers of sex before marriage."

little room

“Everyone of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads—at least that’s where I imagine it—there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live forever in your own little private library.”

—	Haruki Murakami

Lynchian

writer, lyricist, director, feature films, independent films, short films, tv series, music videos, installation, sculpture, visual designer, set designer, furniture designer, website designer, transcendental meditator, weather reporter and avid coffee drinker.

David Lynch creates nightmarish, dreamlike work ... and I love it. I don't pretend to have understood Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead still terrifies me and he turned one of my all time favorite sci-fi novels into a really bad movie but regardless, I continue to re-watch these movies religiously, Lost Highway remains one of my all time favorite films to date, I'm addicted to his interview project and I can't help but so highly respect someone so unafraid to express themself through such unorthodox means.

I wish i was ...

... making daisy chains.

Simply delightful

Adorable. Amy over at One day creates these little treasures, I am super, super jealous.

Equally good

"Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all."

Gee, I love Woody Allan. There was immense glee when I found this illustration of him. Ricardo Fumanal uses only ink, marker and pencil to create images of the famous, obscure and everyday. His illustrations are something of an oxymoron looking simultaneously clean and simple/accurate and finely detailed.

David Benjamin Sherry is not so simple. His work reminds me of waking up after a confusing technicolour psychedelic dream wonderland, wishing intensely there was a way to record it. I admire anyone who can hold onto a fantastical imagination, but the ability to turn this into art is another thing all together.