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Do You Dream About Having a Selby-Worthy Apartment (Like Me)?

Tricia — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:00:28 +0000

A month ago, my friend Kristen mentioned meeting Todd Selby at Colette (The Selby book came out last month and to promote it, Todd hung out in a Colette store window.) I’ve been an avid follower of The Selby ever since. Driven by curiosity, I flip through pictures with wide-eyed interest, and live vicariously through the homes of people with seemingly more exotic lives. Unquestionably more exciting surroundings. However, it’s not just the apartments-full-of-weird-shit that captivate me…

from Elli Rose and Gui at home

…look at that precious face.

While I dream about one day having a Selby-worthy apartment, I can take comfort in knowing that there’s a guide that can help me:

via Refinery29

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O-M-G!

Maria — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:43:39 +0000

Yasmine just put up the newest issue of Parasol Magazine. I liked #1 but with #2… I am really in love. Honestly. THERE ARE CUPCAKES ON THE COVER (see picture below).

Consider this. It is 5:30 am and I am writing a post on this even though I have a combination of a headache & insomnia & the magazine was issued less than two hours ago.

It’s up in both an online Issuu version and a downloadable pdf. Download the pdf, yo. Above are some of the highlights, a little taster-sample so you will think, my god!!!!!!!, I need one of these myself! You WILL need one — it will inspire you to be creative, eat cupcakes, wear vintage jewelry, cute shoes, and paint pictures with rainbows. Bestest of all, it’s so ridiculously free there is no reason not to get it!

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Unemployment Project: Swatchbook Scrapbook

Maria — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:50:47 +0000

(1) Get a free sample of a swatchbook (a paper sample book from a paper company). The crazier the swatchbook, the more creative you need to be with your photos. I got my swatchbook free from Mohawk papers (paper -> order samples).

(2) Order your pictures. I use winkflash. Pictures are only 12 cents a piece, and usually there is a coupon code on the front page for 6 cent photos. That’s a lot of photos!

(4) Gather other supplies. Besides pictures you might want to use scraps like programs, tickets, labels of favorite foods, the weirdest thing you drew in Pictionary that night, etc. You’ll also want to see what scrap-ish supplies you have, ie: pens, markers, stickers, tape or glue (I do use scrapbooking glue), colored or printed paper, scissors, rulers, etc.

(3) GET CREATIVE!!! Since my sample book had tabs, I split my photos into piles that could work in each tab (so, some pre-planning is beneficial). Your final product will be a bit bulky & flimsy, but pretty much the coolest, cheapest scrapbook ever. I like the cascading pages the best (see a sample of my scrapbook below using my new favorite magazine-making source, Issuu).

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These photos are from my last semester at college (SAD FACE). Also: this is less than one-third of the entire swatchbook, but it gives you a good idea of how the cascading swatches work! Also two: I am not good at scanning obviously, and the distracting stuff in the background of the left-hand page is just paperswatch info that I didn’t cover up.

Check out our other Unemployment Projects here!

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Thomas Allen Update

Maria — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:26:56 +0000

As you might remember, I love Thomas Allen, the super-unique, crafty, and creative photographer whose work seems to be everywhere nowadays from art galleries to magazine racks (from Oprah to Men’s Health, as a matter of fact). I loved him even more after he was very kind to a very new Stickers & Donuts, and let me show some wonderful images that hadn’t been used in his Oprah magazine spreads. (Still one of the most fantastically exciting things to happen to me on S&D!)

The above image, though in the style of Thomas Allen (and featuring his name…), is actually by David Copeland of Ogilvy New York used to promote Allen’s show at Ogilvy New York (World Wide Plaza, 7th Floor).

The two images above are from Harper’s magazine (there’s even more in there, the March 2009 issue). (Goddd! Isn’t that arrow so cool?!)

The image above is from Men’s Health, for an article about the release of an update Joy of Sex. Thomas Allen used images from the old book and the new book (ooh, color!) to create the photo above.

Check out Thomas Allen’s blog for more updates on his work, higher quality copies of the above images, or just go buy his photography book, Thomas Allen: Uncovered.

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D.C. Pattern Inspiration

Lorraine — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:57:31 +0000

I’m on a pattern kick and have been for a while now. So while wandering around D.C. during my trip a couple weeks back, I couldn’t help but notice all of the cool patterns around the city. Here are just a few of the many that caught my eye:

Ceiling of the rotunda in the National Archives
Brass grate in the National Archives (in the hallway across from the rotunda)
Wrought iron gate on building near National Mall
Malachite sample in Natural History Museum
Pattern on painting (sorry: can’t tell which one!) in the National Gallery
Wine bottles in Berliner Bar: I thought these looked kind of like cross-stitching or pixel art
Granite sample in Natural History Museum

I’m not sure yet how these will influence my work, but at the very least I’d like them to influence my fashion sense. Maria’s post on Ugly/Pretty got me thinking that most of these could make for some pretty cool tights or maybe a skirt…

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN from Stickers & Donuts!

Maria — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:15:14 +0000

Tricia doesn’t like Halloween, but I like it to the point where others get annoyed. I have been known to play Elvira’s Haunted Hits on repeat for HOURS, force friends to carve pumpkins, hand-out Halloween stickers with great cheer, eat chocolate to the point of exhaustion, and even make Halloween gingerbread houses (toasted coconut makes for excellent fall leaves).

For Halloween I have been costumed as: The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, a piece of a graffiti wall (with friends), cowgirl, witch, The Green Goblin (yes, the pumpkin-throwing villain from Spiderman), a zebra, a blind mouse (one of three), a Trick-or-Treat bag. ALL HOMEMADE (mostly by my excellent-sewing mother).

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Friday Polaroids

Maria — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:53:40 +0000

Highlights of this week include a dynamite interview with Dyna Moe (yay Mad Men!) and an exclusive Stickers & Donuts contest (click here to go directly to the entry form!)

Usually I don’t re-post directly from SwissMiss, since that means pretty much the whole interweb has seen it already, but my favorite-favorite thing from the blogs this week is the Poladroid. Download it, and turn your photos into greeny-yellow, polaroid-edged photos. The program is super-fun, and, believe it or not, I’ve been waiting, waiting, waiting for something exactly like it!

Remember when I went to the New York’s World’s Fair Grounds? Well, I knew those pictures would be perfect in Polaroid. Don’t you think?

What I Love @ eeBoo Next week,

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Flying Kids!

Maria — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:42:10 +0000

I’ll be back in full-force soon! In the meantime…

The photos in the “Dreams of Flying” series by Jan von Holleben are creative & fun. (They remind me of Yeondoo Jung’s work.)

The kids all look like they are doing super-cool things (like flying in outerspace) but they’re actually laying on the floor with common household items!

Go to the web-site to see all of the photos (there’s a lot more, and they’re fun to flip through).

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Critters and Pills: Stickers and Donuts Gets Snuggly with L. Bates Jaffe

Tricia — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:12:58 +0000

Note from Maria: This is another post (with an interview!) from Tricia, who recently (yesterday!) did her ultra-successful first S&D post about pencil cases. I *love* question five!

FACT! I am obsessed with critters, which is probably one of the reasons why I absolutely adore L. Bates Jaffe’s photography!

Her animal mask photos remind me of my favorite scene in Breakfast at Tiffany’s when Holly and Fred steal animal masks from the five and dime store. The above photo is from her “animal masks” collection.

I love how she plays on proportions in her “one pill makes you smaller” and “animal crackers” collections. The naked woman is literally on the brink of being consumed by a mysterious black hole!

…and her other non-critter photographs are utterly beautiful as well. The top is a sample of her “decades” project, which features a series of 18 epoch (which sounds like EPIC..har har…) inspired photos. The bottom is a portrait of a little weeee.

And now for a special Stickers and Donuts sprinkley treat: a little Mad Libish interview with L. Bates Jaffe. (JUMP TO IT!)

Image courtesy of Meryl Swiatek

1. I am currently…

finishing up at NYU; I’m about to defend my thesis project. I’ve been restoring photos spanning the lifetime of my 90 year old grandmother. She was given a Kodak Brownie as a child and took photos all throughout the Great Depression in her small town in Indiana. I’m working with these and some later photographs to create a photo-biography. It’s really amazing to have these pictures of the Depression from the perspective of a ten-year-old girl and her siblings.

2. I would describe my style as…

a pretty dramatic split between vintage inspired classic black and white portraiture and some more surreal, childhood nostalgia inspired work. With your standard travel-the-world nonsense tossed in for good measure.

3. I’m inspired by…

plastic animal masks. When I see them this whole story about them just pops into my mind and I want to act it out. My current animal crackers project is going sort of like this. It’s starting out as a little animal crackers box and instead of cookies coming out, it’s going to be these little plastic guys and from there they turn into these human-animal figures- people in masks that look like what I think those little animals would be like. I picture the rabbit as this dreamy girl and the fox as this total hipster jerk. Something like that. I think they’ll turn back into toys at the end. I am also really inspired by stills from silent films, and photographic interpretations of classic paintings. I’m really loving Yeondoo Jung’s work, creating kids drawings as photographs, I wish I’d thought of it!

4. My personal favorite photograph or project is…

I really, really love the decades project. I used my personal collection of vintage clothing and it gave me this whole feel of living through past lives. I shot it on a large format camera and developed the film sheet by sheet. It was definitely a labor of love. During and after the project I said it was the biggest commitment to anything I’d ever made in my life. Sorry boyfriends.

5. The little girl portrait. On a sassy-scale, how sassy is she in real life?

Biggest sassbasket under 40 lbs I’ve ever met.

6. I support…

independent designers, I LOVE Etsy.

7. I’m against…

bats. They’re unnecessarily scary and sometimes when I write my name in a hurry I leave out the “e” and write “bats.” I really hate that.

8. My best recent purchase was…

the two-tone Built by Wendy dress. I love this dress, I just want to share it with the world.

9. I am currently obsessed with…

little plastic animals and old campaign buttons. Rabbits, rabbits, rabbits. Any small plastic things I can fit in my pockets

Be sure to explore her website for more prints! Her photos are also available for purchase on her Etsy page.

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Obsession Cont.

Maria — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:32:59 +0000

To continue my obsession with photographer Thomas Allen, I’d like to point out two things:

1. Thomas Allen put all his pictures from Oprah magazine on his web-page, including some more photos that didn’t make the cut (I spilled the beans on some of these a few weeks ago with this post, but he put up even more on his blog, so I recommend stopping over and taking a look).

2. I was recently informed that TA did a photo exclusively for the Aperture Foundation. The photo (as seen below) is on sale now in limited edition quantities, and apparently they’re going like hotcakes (contact Kellie McLaughlin Kmclaughlin@aperture.org, Manger of Limited-Edition Photographs if you’re thinking about making a purchase!).

“Inspired by a love of the pop-up books of his childhood, Allen revels in creating his scenarios from vintage pulp fiction novels” (Aperture Foundation).

If fine art is out of your price range, you can at least admire the photo and read Allen’s comments about the photo and artistic inspirations on the bottom of the page.

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