etsy art: mina georgescu

New art for the apartment always cheers me up. I especially love these bright new prints by Mina Georgescu, bought from her etsy shop, after seeing her on the Urban Outfitters website:

Carnivale

Beach

I think a huge Beach print would be awesome, but wasn't ready to commit to that. I'm glad, too, because although I love the prints and the little pops of color they give, a big one as a focal point really wouldn't fit all that well with the theme of our apartment.

camera love

I got my new lens in the mail, and, boy, do I love it! It's made my dslr into the camera I wanted (and just sort of expected it to be when I bought it). Now, it's like using my old Nikon FA film slr with the 50 mm lens. It actually takes the photographs that I want to take! I wish I would've skipped out on the two lenses that I bought bundled with the camera and picked this one up in the beginning. Here's a few quick shots, I love it:

And just for fun:

I'm so loving having a real depth of field again!

Happy birthday

Eight years go by so fast.

Rough Beauty - Dave Anderson

Gotta get this out the way: I bought this book (used) for $3.19! I'm so excited about that! I've been wanting it for years...

Anyway, it's by a photographer named Dave Anderson. Right now he is exhibiting photos taken in New Orleans during the Katrina rebuilding, but this book is of his last exhibition, Rough Beauty.

I don't know why these photos speak so much to me; I've seen variations of them all my life. They are simultaneously so familiar and heartbreaking and repulsive and innocent. They were actually taken somewhere called Vidor, Texas, which I've never been, but they feel like my home.

I found him, by chance, when I had to do a presentation of a modern photographer who was inspiring to me for a photo class a while back. And then right after that, got to see his exhibit, by chance, after wandering into a small museum next to our hotel on a trip to Chicago. I've wanted the book ever since, and I'm so glad to have it.

Wild Orchid by Revlon

I picked up a new lipstick on a whim and I find myself grabbing it all of the time. It's sort of a bold, bright, iridescent/neon purple... very '80s. But somehow, I love it for the summer and it feels much more fun (right now) than bright red.