Reinforce as needed

"You're a genius all the time."

-Jack Kerouac

Fit for a Monday!

photo via here

Lighthouse exoticism

via English Muse

I've always associated lighthouses with the craggy Atlantic Ocean coastline, or Pete's Dragon...

how naive I have been...

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Ewe should come!

I am so un-containably excited for Neverland...

that I make up Never-words like uncontainably!


look at the full Flickr photostream HERE.

via Cup of Jo

La città d'acqua

Right now, it's too windy to go boating, so I sit inside looking at fashion, travel and photography blogs.

Venice is one of my favorite places in the world. It's utterly intriguing...the water, the antiquity, the food, the itty little streets and alleyways that limit transport to walking and scooters.

I backpacked there a while back with a friend, and while I was there I swore I could never go back until I was with my husband...it's just too romantic! hehe.

And so naturally I loved what the Sartorialist said about this dashing bel uomo:

(via Sartorialist)

'It seems every time I return from Italy I want to watch "The Talented Mr. Ripley" to see if my Italy was as beautiful as the Italy in that movie. In one of the final scenes of the movie Marge has coffee with Dickie's Dad at Caffe Florian on San Marco Square in Venice. That spot is still so beautiful (if you can block out the tourists).
This young waiter was standing at the cafe and instantly I thought of the movie and how this "type" of young man has probably been working the Cafe Florian for the last 100 years.'

Now please read further about what his girlfriend Garance Dore said about Venice, cozying up at the Piazza San Marco (link here).

Come romantica, no?!

Oh, and on a funnier note...since 'getting photographed by the Sartorialist' is quite literally on my own '30 before 30' list...I realize this could very well be a reality.

Just read HERE on what The Pipeline by Refinery 29 puzzled together...

hilarious!
xoxo

Princesses' realities

I want to say Happy Fathers' Day to my dad, for always making me feel like a princess, but also putting me in my place when it was needed.

(And also fostering the tomboy-ism of my youth, where we'd spend countless hours watching football, basketball and baseball together.)

Here's some photos from an exhibition called "Fallen Princesses".

Says Goldstein, the photographer:

"I began to imagine Disney's perfect princesses juxtaposed with real issues that were affecting women around me such as illness, addiction and self-image."

(Pictures: Dina Goldstein via Cup of Jo)

Career change

Just kidding!!!!!

My latest obsession/dream is to write for the TMagazine, the Travel Mag of the NY Times' Style Mag.

Check out at all the breathtaking sumptuous photography!

Chicago has never looked so chic (clever title too).

Slovenia: who knew?!

Can I please re-locate to Liechtenstein. Now. Well, not really...but freakishly gorgeous countryside.

Oh to be a Missoni...(so jeal of Margherita)...

Breathtaking Bali...



Take me away!!!

Stranger Photos

THIS is quite possibly one of the coolest social experiments to date.

So cool, that Joanna did it in NYC!

(I love how I've taken the initiative to refer to Joanna Goddard on a first-name basis, but I feel so akin to her I can't resist.)

I think I'm going to do this at BYU one of these days...stay tuned.
I really hope the rent-a-cops on their bikes don't take them, but that would be a really huge metaphorical social statement in and of itself, wouldn't it!

Leave a comment for where you think I should leave two disposable cameras (on BYU campus) to do this...

Fire escapes

I've always been intrigued with the irony of fire escapes.

They're morbid for making you think about potential emergency situations, yet scream romance (cue 'Moon River' and other fire escape movie scenes).

Archaically antique, yet practical even in the most progressive of places.

I know it's already been done, but one day when I get really good at photography I want to walk around various cities and photograph fire escapes.

If only I were as enlightened as Will in his study break, where he waxed poetic about these urban wonders (yeah, I know, that's what he writes on a study break...I should really just quit).