Yes, it’s different! I dyed it red and got bangs. Ohhh… you mean with Stickers & Donuts, well, yes, that has changed a little, too. We now have MORE SPACE thanks to my friend and co-adventurer Misa. I realize that now all of my other pages, formatted perfectly to the smaller width, are a little funny now. Also, I now have to blow dry and straighten my bangs. Change always comes with its share of problems.

As for this week’s current obsessions (for other weeks, click here)…

1. The lyrics to Gravity Rides Everything by Modest Mouse. Listen to the song (a random youtube version), read the lyrics, and then analyze them. It’s fun! If you need help, I’m willing to cheat.
2. Then, listen to Story by Brandi Carlile (if you are pressed for time, 2:52ish is my favorite part!). The lyrics to this one are a little more obtainable. I’ve also been thinking it would be a good wedding song. Not that I’m getting married. I’m just saying.
3. I am in love with Forever 21. It’s inexpensive, but also classy. One of my favorite finds were these black leggings (which actually come in other colors, too) that have little buttons at the ankle! Only $6.50!
4. As you may know, one of my favorite stores is H&M. I am in love with their pointy-black heels ($30) and have worn them every day this week with outfits from skirts to dresses to jeans (to black leggings from Forever 21). Basically, they make any outfit a little classier.
5. Gingerbears! They are like gummi bears, but a little harder and made with the added bite of ginger. I got mine from a mysterious co-worker, but apparently you can find them at Trader Joe’s.
6. Healthy dessert! Greek Yogurt (also called Drained Yogurt), is thick yogurt, drained of most of its water. If you need to make yourself, NYTimes will tell you how. If you can buy it at the grocery store (I can) I recommend the 2% variety (tasty and saves fat, but the no-fat is not as tasty or vitamin-y). You can use this yogurt as cracker dip, for example, but you can also eat it plain, or ADD HONEY. I recommend about a tablespoon of honey for a half cup of yogurt, but you can adjust to your sweet tooth. Mix it in and enjoy!
7. SPACE! As stated in the opening paragraph, I’m excited about our extra-blogging-wiggle-room.
8. If you are wondering about the unicorns, I may or may not have added one to a document at work, just to find out if my document was actually being read (negative!). Sneaky, sneaky.

H-A-P-P-Y F-R-I-D-A-Y!

It has been a busy week here at Stickers & Donuts. We interviewed Ian Dingman. And we LOVED IT. Go take a look if you haven’t yet. (The interview seems long, but when you get right down to it, you’ll wish it were longer!)

We’ve had the pleasure of interviewing many cool people here at S&D, which brings me back to this Yellow Zilla Monster Print by Tad Carpenter who we interviewed for Tricia’s “Poster Party.” (more…)

The title of this post is pretty awesome because I AM currently obsessed with Ian Dingman (check out my interview with him, or some selections of his work), but this is a Currently Obsessed post BY Ian Dingman, a Stickers & Donuts first, because so far only Tricia & I have disclosed our current obsessions.

While making the image to go along with Ian Dingman’s obsessions, I signed up for the Social Music Revolution (that’s Last FM’s tagline). I haven’t quite mastered it yet, but so far it seems like a combination of Facebook, Pandora, & iTunes Genius. Moral: With a little practice, things other people are obsessed with, you can become obsessed with, too.

Anyway, you aren’t here to learn about me! Here are Ian’s obsessions, written from his very own fingertips:

1. I’m definitely obsessed with last.fm and Facebook. For the longest time I tried to avoid social networking and to remain cryptic and enigmatic, but I eventually broke.
2. I can’t work without listening to music, so I take in records in a large volume. I’ve been listening to a lot of OMD, Clientele, Clinic, and Underworld lately.
3. Just finished Marjane Satrapi’s “Embroideries” and enjoyed it.
4. I just got back from visiting Vancouver where they’re preparing for the 2010 Winter Olympics, so I’ve been digging all the mascot art.
5. Lastly, I guess anything orange and black has caught my eye lately… it is that month of the year.

From Maria, a note about the fonts I used in the above picture: These are two of my favorite fonts, and I found them free at dafont.com! The handwriting font is Jellyka – Estrya’s Handwriting by Jellyka Nerevan who runs cuttyfruty.com and the header font is Barnes Erc by Eric Wiryanata who runs thunderpanda.com.

Happy Friday! Posts are going to be light and/or non-existent through Tuesday (LSATs / GREs!!!!)! This post is long. Save half of it for Monday? xo

I blame Tricia & Bobby Solomon for the messiness of this post.

First of all, Tricia’s study-supply-heavy currently obsessed post prompted me to write my own study-supply heavy currently obsessed post. (Hopefully, between the two of us, your next study session will be super-productive (and you will gain five pounds).)

Bobby Solomon doesn’t know who I am, but I read his blog & am really obsessed with his desktop wallpaper project. He has twitter (so does Stickers & Donuts!) and commented on Ben Fold’s new album with a song featuring Regina Spektor, which I also love, and in usual internet-fashion I now feel really connected and really creepy.

ANYWAY, right after laying out the images for this post, I discovered this week’s desktop wallpaper featuring Billy Murray on Bobby’s blog, and (instant obsession!) had to squeeze it into my post. Due to a layer error and time constraints, I had only so many choices in reorganization. Alas. Messy.

Anyway, after the jump, long descriptions (procrastination) of the things in the picture. Also, links.

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As you can see from my recent (semi-recent) Currently Obsessed, I’ve been reading (slash looking at with love and devotion) my nine recently-acquired back-issues of McSweeney’s. The beautifully designed literary magazine is edited by Dave Eggers himself (the whole shebang was created by him, in fact).

Dave Eggers also wrote a ton of books. And edited tons of other things. And runs fabulously funny writing centers for kids (that are adjacent to fabulously funny stores, which I plan to post about more in-depth), and — apparently this is old news — Eggers is now working in the film industry!

After a little wikipediaing and googling, I found some interesting connections between Dave Eggers and other awesome people:

1. Eggers is the co-screenwriter for the upcoming (2009) movie Where the Wild Things Are (based on the children’s book). (Wikipedia says Eggers is also writing a novel based on the children’s book?!)
2. He also wrote a screenplay with his wife, This Must Be The Place, which is currently in production with director Sam Mendes (American Beauty). (This is super-exciting because I love American Beauty!)
3. Sufjan Stevens, a singer-songwriter I love, wrote the introduction for the 2007 Best American Non-Required Reading, which was edited by Eggers. Stevens also appeared in the Revenge of the Book–Eaters tour to help raise money for the student writing centers.
4. Eggers wrote the autobiography (is it still called that when someone else writes it for you? it’s in the first-person), What is the What, of the Sudanese Valentino Achak Deng. The money from the sales of this book go to help Sudan.
5. Dave Eggers apparently whistled in the background of Aimee Mann’s song “Little Tornado”.
6. Eggers’ wikipedia page offers a few more examples of star-connections: Nick Hornby, Joyce Carol Oates, Zadie Smith, Beck, and more!

I don’t know how the man does it! He writes novels, edits books, runs his literary magazine, and works on movies all at the same time? Then he raises money for tons of causes and throws in some whistling to-boot?! Sigh. Love.

Above: A visual composite of this week’s posts. And the reason I’m not a poster artist.

Happy Friday! (YESSSSSS finally! My to-do list this weekend is hugely long, but that is not going to deter me from my excitement over the day of the week.)

This week was pretty much filled with more fabulousness than I can easily manage in one week. First, check out our interviews with awesome poster artists (here’s the intro page, which will link you to all of the artist interviews posted thus-far).

Then, as a little in-between treat, there’s a review of ANORAK: The Happy Magazine for Kids (and possibly adults who wish they were kids). There were also some posts on Monday, but that seems so far away now, I won’t even bother to mention them (although that rice was spectacular).

Have a great weekend!

First of all, NEXT WEEK you are in for a treat because our favorite contributer (okay, fine, only contributer besides me, but favorite nonetheless), Tricia, is back with more than a week of interviews with fabulous poster artists at the top of their game. (Remember her wildly successful school supply posts? Yeah, we couldn’t forget either.)

Tricia gave me a sneak peek of some of these artists’ posters, and I was floored. I can’t wait to read the interviews and see more pictures!

Anyway, as not to get ahead of ourselves (to get behind ourselves, in fact), a recap of this week’s Stickers & Donuts highlights:

• an interview with graphic artist Luke Williams
• kitchenware that’s too fun for words (hence all the pictures)
• Things I’m currently obsessed with
• Wes Anderson’s new DVD with cool artwork by Ian Digman
• Annual Reports & Datyum

And, as you can see from above, I got the Daytum invite I was hoping for (yay!) and promptly recorded the  titles of books (and their accompanying page counts) I’ve read this past year. Doesn’t the layout look cool? And it was really easy to enter the data!

So have a wonderful Friday, a great weekend (rain here in New York!). We’ll meet here on Monday, okay? Okay!

This week’s issue of currently obsessed features more fabulous things that I can’t get enough of this week… but will possibly be tired of next week (or not).

• Simple Harvest Oatmeal. I like the “maple brown sugar with pecans” flavor. This oatmeal is healthier, more filling, and tastier than their other stuff, or at least I think so!
• Since I’m really obsessed with graphs this week (see post about annual reports coming today or tomorrow), I am also really obsessed with list-making. This isn’t really new. But I re-discovered Listography, a super-fabulous list-prompt book with hysterical watercolor doodles.
• Perhaps I love my new Stovetop Espresso maker simply because it’s better than my French Press, the only other coffee maker I have, but I do love it. I got mine for $10 at The Christmas Tree Shop, but you can order a whole variety from here.
• Matilda! I recently re-watched the movie starring Mara Wilson, but the book is also super-fabulous (like my doodle? It’s a Roald Dahl rip-off!).
• Wacom tablets make writing over my “currently obsessed” posts so much easier!
• Yes, when there was a brief McSweeney’s sale ($5 PER ISSUE!!!) I bought nine issues. Now, they sleep in a box next to my bed and I take them out and look at them and read the copyright section (which is really the editor’s note, kind of, but hysterical). I love them. I wish I had purchased more. (By the way, that fabulous image featuring McSweeney’s books in all of their openable glory is from The Sydney Morning Herald.)

Some blog favorites from last week!

1. Rachel Papo’s photographs of eighteen year old women serving their mandatory two years in the Israeli army. (via NotCot.org)
2. The hysterical 1920s version of GPS. (from Mail Online as found on NotCot.org)
3. Print-a-Day is a great blog to subscribe to! So many fun prints every week. You just wish you could get them on to your T-shirt or into a frame! (Dolls print from Print-A-Day)
4. Sony headphones creating a NYC subway map. (from Saatchi & Saatchi ad agency, via Cool Hunter)
5. Smashing Magazine created a really fun collection of creative time-telling devices.
6. Castle graffiti, need I say more to entice your interest? (via KitsuneNoir)
7. Mini-books made out of tags. So cute and Etsy-ish. (via Happy Cavalier as found on SwissMiss and sold-out on Etsy — that’s a mouthful!)
8. That house is made of TOWELS and everything at this neon-colored event is similarly not quite what it seems (for The Robin Hood Foundation via Design*Sponge)
9. These little crayon carvings (WHAT?! How cute!) are all over the blogs because they are so cool! (most recently found on Veer: The Fat)
10. These Be Baroque stockings are so cool because they look like tattoos! Can I have a pair please? (via Nylon which also explains how to make a tattoo-tight DIY)
11. A spoon created specially so you can WRITE with your coffee! (via Serious Eats, available at Vincon)

Want past weeks’ blog favorites? They’re still fun to look at!

I think this was a good week in Stickers & Donuts land, with lots of fun posts (well, I had fun at least) and sets. How about a round of applause for Tricia who did two spectacular posts this week? I thought her posts were awesome and from the looks of things, so did you! Anyway, here is another small edition of “Currently Obsessed” for your Friday. Have a spectacular weekend!

I’m currently obsessed with the Olympics, among other things:

• This “League of Cliche Evil Supervillans” graphic from threadless now comes in a large print version in addition to the T-shirt version.
• Pizza. Yes, just plain old pizza. It’s so good. I had forgotten.
• The Christmas Tree Shop (especially the stores on Cape Cod). Cute home goods (and more) for ridiculously cheap. A super-bargain shoppers dreamland!
• Olympics gymnastics. So dramatic. So much flipping! Aren’t you sad it’s over?
• I watched all of the Michael Phelps’ Olympic races. EIGHT golds in ONE Olympics?! Close, nail biting races — some of the best Olympic moments I’ve ever seen. (See the now famous “miracle finish” in Phelps’ second to last race.)
• Yesterday, I bought a five pack of really BRIGHT colored socks for $10. I also bought delightfully opaque, and actually comfortable, tights in purple and in green. They have so much footwear this season (at least at the NYC H&M near Penn Station). If you need to re-wardrobe your feet, this is the place to go.