A new fashion blog about friends mixing up similar clothing pieces in different, awesome ways? We love it! And we love it even more because the adorable Eyvette, one of the co-founders of One Thing Two Ways, is a dear friend of mine and Kim’s. She always looks chic and cute when we see her, so it’s only fitting the rest of the world gets to see her outfits, too! Yay.
How cool is this? Photographer Andreas Frankes constructed his latest exhibit entirely underwater, within the remains of a shipwreck. And the best part is you get to go underwater yourself to experience it. Dive off the coast of Key West and swim down to see his collection of photographs, all depicting normal people doing everyday activities, from laundry to watching television–except they’re doing all of these things on the very ship you’re diving down to. Crazy and awesome? Yess.
Update: Curiosity landed safely (and beautifully, I might add) on the surface of Mars at 10:32 p.m. PDT! Read more here. Check out the amazing team who got her to the surface, here.
Tonight’s a big night for one amazing little lady who also happens to be my coworker. Her name is Curiosity. Eight years in the making, Curiosity is NASA’s most technically advanced Mars rover ever and she’ll be only the fourth rover to ever explore the Red Planet. Essentially a laboratory on wheels, Curiosity’s mission is to explore her landing site in Mars’ Gale Crater to determine whether Mars has or ever had the ingredients for life. Since November, she’s been making her way to Mars and tonight is the defining moment when she makes a treacherous descent to the Martian surface using methods never before attempted. In a way, she’s competing in her own Olympic sport and like proud parents, we’re all biting our nails in the stands hoping she sticks the landing.
Even though we can’t watch the events of her landing (scheduled for 10:31 PDT) unfold on Mars, there will be plenty to see from the mission control room at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will be featured in live landing night broadcasts on USTREAM and NASA TV starting at 8:30 p.m. PDT. (I won’t be in mission control, but I’ll be watching the live events from my cubicle and posting updates to the NASA website – including Curiosity’s first images from on the ground!) Here’s how to follow the excitement and geek out with Curiosity – and me — tonight:
Here’s to wishing Curiosity a safe landing and an amazing adventure on Mars!
I just discovered Lisa’s blog and her wonderful penchant for hand-lettering quotes, and I just love all the ones she’s created so far. Beautiful words, beautiful artwork.
One of my favorite things about walking around Downtown L.A is eyeing all the impressive and often really beautiful street art. Here are a few murals in particular that I never seem to get tired of and wish I could somehow shrink to a size that might fit in my apartment.
Spring Street between 6th and 7th:
After doing a little investigative work, I discovered a nice piece in Curbed Los Angeles about this street artist, JR. There’s a great video to go along with the article and it managed to make me even more enamored of his beautiful artwork and project, called “Wrinkles of the City,” which highlights the often overlooked beauty that comes with age. The mural in the first image was actually a collaboration between JR and another street artist, VHILS, whose work can be found here. {Photos by Julie Faith via Flickr}
Main Street between 4th and 5th:
While there’s plenty to appreciate about the murals downtown, this one has always struck a chord with me more than any other. It’s sad and beautiful all at the same time and it makes me want to just sit and stare at it for hours. It took some searching, but I finally found its creator, Brazilian artist Claudio Ethos, whose artwork and murals can be found on his website, here. {Photo via Love and Hate Los Angeles blog}
Broadway between new 4th and 3rd (new location TBD):
I took this photo during one of my first real walks around downtown a couple years ago and it was one of my favorites of the bunch. I just love the way the hands on the mural – called “Calle de la Eternidad” and created by artist and muralist Johanna Poethig — reach up to the sky, mirroring the buildings behind them and giving onlookers a wonderful sense of pride and optimism. BlogDowntown has an interesting article about how this mural is actually being moved and reconstructed piece by piece nearby to allow its current home to be restored. {Photo by me}
So, LIFE magazine did a photo spread back in the day on a family that actually kept a real-life, Narnia-looking lion as a pet. In their house, nonetheless! How insane is that? And hilarious, too, when you see him tucked into bed with the kids or just taking a lazy nap on the kitchen floor.
I tried to do some digging around for the original article, but no such luck (just the pictures, courtesy of Joanna). Some sites say the lion’s owners were Melanie Griffith’s parents(?). If any of you guys have more information on this, I’d love to know! The photos are crazy enough on their own, though… after looking through them, I think you’ll find this lion as charming and cuddly as a teddy bear. Maybe. :)
{photos via}
I counted yesterday. I’ve technically been to London at least six times. “Been to” is a relative term, though. So far my longest stint in London was 13 hours … overnight … during a layover on my return from Egypt. I’ve even done some sightseeing. Once on a bus from London City Airport to Kings Cross tube station, I passed by Big Ben and the Eye of London — but it was more like a scene from the Griswalds’ European Vacation than an actual tour.
That said, during my last layover there, I had just enough time to see my sister’s new apartment, grab a pastry and a coffee and discover this amazing idea: top hat lighting fixtures! How adorable are these? I spotted them at this yummy little pastry shop in London’s Angel neighborhood. So naturally, I had to find a DIY. Here’s one from blog Mr. Kate that sounds pretty easy.
A perfect souvenir from another layover in London.
These images are actual movie theater etiquette announcements from the early 1900s! Isn’t that insane? And aren’t they hilarious? The hats kill me. :)
{via Gems & Old Hollywood}
I missed last month’s Rose Bowl Flea Market, but I have just the thing in mind to pick up next month: A cute little suitcase like the one in this adorable DIY from Design Sponge. My bathroom is tragically short on space — and decorations — so I think this would be just the thing to spruce it up!
{Photo via Design Sponge}
When Titanic came out in 1997, I was 13 years old and completely obsessed with the film; it helped that I had already gone through a ton of reading material on the ship in the 6th grade (yes, huge geek here) and it’s still the only movie I’ve gone to see three times in theaters. TIME magazine recently released an amazing collection of the only photos of the Titanic at sea to survive the shipwreck, all taken by an Irish Jesuit priest named Francis Browne, who by chance decided to disembark from the ship after the first leg of its trip. The photos are a fascinating–and eerie–glimpse into life on the ship before the crash, and what things and people looked like during that time period. (Of course, director James Cameron really got all of those details spot-on in his film.)
Here are some photos from the slideshow…
Do you guys think you’ll see the movie in theaters? I’m not really a fan of 3-D, but I do love the idea of experiencing it on the big screen once again–it was seriously such a thrill to watch when I was a kid.
To see the entire Titanic slideshow, go here.
Celeste
Kim
