I will see you at the Dodos’ show at The Biltmore. Can’t wait!
Til then, I’ll leave you with a link to their song Fools. And no, that’s not because I think you are one.
Since you were wondering, I found this lovely photo here.
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Kelsey Dundon
I bit my tongue for weeks (felt like eons) but now that the 1st anniversary issue of Contra Magazine has been published, I can finally tell you it features Vancouver’s style set (and me! Without my head cropped out of the photos!).
I dare you to scroll through the issue and tell me Vancouver doesn’t outshine the other cities. It’s all thanks to Paul Melo of StyleQuotient whose gorgeous photos made our city sparkle (get it? I’m wearing sequins!).
I’m also wearing a custom t-shirt by super cool cat Michael Doehle, whose original illustration you can find here.
I cannot thank you enough, Paul. The whole spread looks incredible.
For two reasons:
1. I’d spend the day reading (because I am a nerd and also because I’d spend this perfect day on the beach in Croatia)
2. I’d wear that necklace dancing at night in Barcelona (which means this perfect day would also involve teleporting. Oh dear. My nerd really is showing, isn’t it?)
This photo is from Garance Dore’s beeeautiful post on Anna Dello Russo.
Which is where I bought it.
It works just as beautifully as a dress as it does as a shirt.
And for that, I love it.
Leroy’s happy place? The dog park. Which is where we took him for his first birthday last week. Happy birthday, baby beast!
Never cease to inspire me. Take Danny Roberts, for example. The 23 year old illustrator from California makes me wish and hope and pray I could actually draw.
His blog is packed full of dreamy eye candy, but my favourite piece?
The Doe and Her Fawn, signed prints of which are available on his online store.
‘Tis vintage, this dress.
And I’m going to bet it’s from the ’60s.
And I’m also going to bet it was worn by a flight attendant (can’t you just imagine the matching hat?).
And also, that she flew to Rome a lot. Because it just seems like something she would do.
I knew quite a few people involved in the film – the co-director Phil Lyall, the animators at Sequence, the composer Adam Locke-Norton. And it was through the film that I felt like I got to know Eva Markvoort. Or at least, I got to know her battle with Cystic Fibrosis.
And it was very, very hard to watch.
It was hard to watch her drowning in her own mucus, it was hard to watch her surgeon pray before performing her double lung transplant, it was hard to watch her speak after the screening at VIFF.
I cannot even imagine how difficult it is for her.
Yet she remained such a bright and charismatic and positive person through the good, the bad and the painful. Which made it the most powerful film I’ve seen.
I’m just thankful I knew so many people involved (y’all did such a good job!) because I would have never had the fortitude to see it if I didn’t. Eva is a warrior. I am a wuss.
65_RedRoses airs on November 16th on CBC’s Passionate Eye (10pm Pacific). Watch it. If only because it will compel you to sign that donor registration card and change BC’s status as the province with the lowest number of organ donors in Canada.
UPDATE: 65_RedRoses won more awards than any other film at the VIFF Closing Gala awards presentation. Congratulations, mes amis! Well deserved.
I met up with Paul Melo of Style Quotient yesterday for a project he’s working on. I’ve been sworn to secrecy but because I’m the worst secret-keeper in history (seriously — ask me what I’m getting you for your birthday), I thought a little sneak peek wouldn’t hurt:
On my wrist are my pirate bracelet, my husband’s vintage Omega watch and two beaded necklaces that I bought (from the cutest kid) in Turkey.
As soon as the project’s unveiled, I’ll let you know.
No, not that Hermès, but the Swiss-made typewriter: the Hermes Baby.
I’ve never used it — in fact, I’m not even sure the ribbon has ink — but I find the idea of a typewriter so romantic.
The best novels, after all, were written on one.