needing to layer

it's cold
i'm into these layering items
better posts to come when not exhausted/real busy

meow

I'm drinking lemon tea, finish my photo imaging homework and online window shopping.

This top is fabulous.

Is it the weekend yet? Can I get my paycheck?

"never trust a man who looks like Omar Sharif"

It's about 42 degrees in Baltimore, and the middle of October? What is this?!
I'm completely unprepared- my coats are in Jersey. All I've got is this stylish fashion-cape, but it's warm so we good.

Fall break starts today, I'm staying around instead of heading back up north. Gotta get some work done and embark on some entrepreneurial ventures which will remain hush hush for the time being.

But anyway I had a (surprisingly) good crit in experimental type for my final cyrillic hang tags. Ken was really into them. I was unsure of the final product just because they felt a little too playful and a little too naive, you know? But Ken said that it worked and it was kind of reminiscent of J. Otto; which I could get down with- I liked Olive the Other Reindeer.

Here are jpgs of the tags before I printed and cut them out on fawn stonehenge. They fold down the middle. There is a string that ties around the folded center and then around the tag on the other end.


Plush - Holiday


Plush - Valentine


Plush- Spring

I presented the hang tags in three different colorways, with the intention for the boutique to change them with the season, look for that month; making the tags themselves feel like more of a covetable item than just an indicator

In other news: the Duck Sauce video for aNYway finally came out.
I AM OBSESSED. So amazing.
I'm so happy for the Fool's Gold Fam. Enjoy!

Duck Sauce "aNYway" (Surface To Air version) from A-Trak on Vimeo.

Where is the sun?

I'm so tired of this weather.
I need some warmth.
I need to sunbathe.
I need the ocean.

But anyway, aside from being really busy, I'm trying to get my resume all settled and continue applying for summer internships, as I really need to to get one.
My winter doldrums should be melting away by this point, but it's still cold, there is still ice everywhere, and I don't dig it.
I can't stop listening to sad, beautiful, somewhat soulfuly melodic pop songs that your mom and dad liked when they were in college.

For Your Listening Pleasure:








The real Rod Stewart video is better, but it wouldn't let me embed it.

I took these stills while the first batch was in the oven.
paper complete, cookies baked, time for sleep.

Neo Rauch, Not Neo Russia

I'm so bored by my paper for Sacred Russia and Eastern Europe, but I have to finish writing it within the next 5 hours. It'll get done, I just wish I was more compelled to focus on it. I'm also baking traditional slovak cookies as part of my final presentation and showing the opening funeral scene from Doctor Zhivago. 

That movie is so beautiful, I notice something new every time I watch it. 

For now, I just want to learn more about Neo Rauch. 

ellsworth kelly? ellsworth kelley?

Different sites have different spellings, either way, I just can't get enough.

images via ArtStor

I just want to go for a drive and listen to this.

no regrets?

I found this yesterday. The 90s. Wow.

But anyway, it's really cold here in Baltimore, I left all my sweaters in New Jersey. My house doesn't believe in regulating temperature so it's freeeezing. I'll be posting some design work soon, the crit is tomorrow.

I finally got to paint again over the weekend and do some sketch book work. Also bond with 13 of my closest friends.

It feels good.