"I painted it for my son"

"Can you imagine me painting a nude?! I painted it for my son Tom, I love to paint. I did not know Sandra took my picture. The angle makes the nude ALL legs — She has flowing red hair." July 28, 1970


Photo found by elizabeth_huey (via instagram)

Brotherly Love —

Predicting (or imagining) the future is the realm of the ideal. It can inform your present for sure, but you’ll spin your wheels endlessly if you spend too much time with those thoughts (I should take my own advice here). Mucking about in your past, revising its notable events, can seem equally fruitless...

Read: Philadelphia, PA by Your old pal, Jim

POLKA DOT CLUB

If you're in NYC for Playtime this weekend, you would regret not heading over to visit the Polka Dot Club. PDC will be showing new stuff and having a sample sale with Misha and Puff, Manimal and Goat-Milk --- March 9-11 at the Four Points Sheraton in SoHo (66 Charlton St., NYC).

polkadotclub.com

:-)

The way they roll —

EA

By Evelyn Ackerman (at Sam Kaufman)

Radiance and Rosebud

¶ When the girls go on trips, they write reports on what they have seen, even if their school does not require it. 

¶ Technology is for weekends. Malia can use her cellphone only then, and she and her sister cannot watch television or use a computer for anything but homework during the week. 

¶ Malia and Sasha had to take up two sports: one they chose and one selected by their mother. “I want them to understand what it feels like to do something you don’t like and to improve,” the first lady has said. 

¶ Malia must learn to do laundry before she leaves for college. 

¶ The girls have to eat their vegetables, and if they say that they are not hungry, they cannot ask for cookies or chips later. “If you’re full, you’re full,” Mrs. Obama said in an interview with Ladies’ Home Journal. “I don’t want to see you in the kitchen after that.” 


Obama Girls (NY Times)

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Tasha Tilberg. Photograph by Cass Bird.

Alone Together

Pottery Will Get You Nowhere

There and Now —

Linus Bill, 2007
Please Merry Me
Published by Nieves



Linus Bill, 2011
Portrait of the Artist
Silkscreen on paper


linusbill.com
nieves.ch

THE BOOB (TOP)

Wearing and weaning at Gravel & Gold.

via myself (Reference Library)

WORKING (TOGETHER) —

We visited Lucas and Kaori at Knee High's office located in a converted house in Shibuya as they were winding down for the new year holiday. They have the rare good fortune to possess a garden where they cultivate herbs and vegetables and relax under maple and persimmon trees where the noisy mejiro, a lovely white-eyed green bird, feasts off the last of the year's fruits. We were especially interested in listening to their experiences as partners running a small business in Japan.

We met up with Mike and Yuri at their shop in Kyobashi, a sober, no-funny business neighborhood wedged in the shadow of Ginza, Tokyo's commercial bright star. The shop is a fully-realized distillation of Postalco's elegantly utilitarian sensibility... The contrast in settings between shop and studio seems to highlight a good balance in their approach to work: their ability to unify what they want with what they do and to craft a lifestyle that works. It's nice.


Watch and read more about the husband-and-wife teams of Knee High Media and Postalco: here (Tramnesia)

Links: Knee High Media and Postalco

CAN'T LOSE

It's about time.

IF MAMA AIN'T HAPPY, AIN'T NOBODY HAPPY. ---- ALSO ---- IF DADDY AIN'T HAPPY, AIN'T NOBODY HAPPY.

FREE all ages dance party, rock show and soiree!

Debut event, featuring: Lucky Dragons, DJ Jimi Hey and savory and sweet melon snacks and drinks from Eden Bakti’s Herbal Eden. Conveniently scheduled between afternoon nap and bathtime, this intergenerational mixer aims to let moms, dads and friends get loose, and for baby to do her thing!

More/facebook: I.M.A.H.A.N.H.

Sunday, July 3, 3-7pm
Human Resources
410 Cottage Home St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Margaret Kilgallen: Summer/Selections
June 23–August 5, 2011
Ratio 3, 1447 Stevenson Street, San Francisco





Barry McGee and Asha Kilgallen-McGee
Photo by Ari Marcopolous (via Jennilee)

Junior Gaultier Maternity Top

via UO Blog

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

By/about Shel Silverstein (1972)

BUMP

"...what I really love is how you can tell its the streets of NYFW when you see both birds shoes behind him. That woman in the grey jersey dress that looks like its stretched to its fullest was purdy sexy busting out of that dress. She is/was? pregnant. Hope she is and her baby (to be?) are healthy and happy!" —says/via Mister Mort

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Hey Beatnik, This is the Farm Book!

More/download: here. (Public Collectors; heads up via AAPC)