I thought you weren’t supposed to smile in passport photos…already mocking authority.

Sometimes Ben at The Mandate Press has room on print jobs to add an extra card. The specs were black, plus a blind deboss, but I only had 15 minutes to send him artwork. What I’m going to do with 500 cards I’m not sure, but they always do a great job printing.

And the always awesome, American Psycho Business card scene.

24 HOURS IN 19500 FRAMES from tim hahne on Vimeo.

For me, this is incredibly inspiring. Whether it’s the content, the Sigur Ros soundtrack, editing or color filters, I’m moved. I don’t know if I should start racing cars, filming stuff, become a mechanic or just move to France.

Here’s a gallery of vintage posters from the 24 Hours of le Mans.

I’m finishing up landscaping our backyard and took a slight detour to work on the deck area. I had always wanted to paint the white wall on one side of the deck that is blinding in direct sunlight, the idea was to paint individual bricks in a graduated color pattern. Of course I thought it’d only take a few hours. Fortunately, I invited my friends Joe and Jessica over for a “small painting project.” 8 hours later we were finished.

Acting has nothing to do with making faces or poses. It has to do with your taking the character’s place in the story.

Since I started throwing pots about 12 years ago I’ve always admired Heath Ceramics. Heath Ceramics is one of the few remaining mid-century American potteries still in existence today, founded by Edith Heath in the mid-forties. They have been making tableware and tile for over a half-century in their Sausalito, California factory.

About 6 months ago I decided to swap out our just OK Crate and Barrel dishes Brenna and I received as a wedding present for Heathware. The pattern I like the most, Sea and Sand, is ubiquitous to lots of design blogs. It’s probably the most desirable, and of course the color is discontinued. I was hoping I could find some locally at thrift stores and supplement my finds with ebay purchases. After 6 months of looking all I had to show was some coffee mugs, a couple of plates, tea and saucer sets, salt and pepper shakers and an ashtray. But this weekend at a Savers I DID find a set of large salt and pepper shakers. They are more of a bub vase size and fairly rare.

Does this mean things are looking up? Not really. Ask me in 5 years how my collection is going.

1961 Playboy photo featuring left to right - George Nelson, Edward Wormley, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Charles Eames and Jens Risom

Unfettered by dogma, the creators of contemporary American furniture have a flair for combining functionalism with aesthetic enjoyment.

Exuberance, finesse, and high imagination characterize U.S. furniture design today. For the crusading era of modern is over. In the early years of Twentieth Century design, a chair – to its creator, at least – was very much more than something pleasant to look at. An early modern chair was a resoundingly significant expression of the age, a concrete rendition of abstract structural principles, an almost belligerent assemblage of mechanical parts in which every bolt was paraded with all the bravado of Erich von Stroheim’s monocle. Early modern thrived on dogma “Form Follows Function!” “Less is More!” “Structure is Beauty!” that rivaled Milton in Puritan passion; it paid deepest obeisance to the machine and let the softer human sensibilities accommodate themselves as best they could; and it dwelt, along with pre-Bach and post-Bartok, strictly among the intelligentsia.

Continue reading article at Lushpad.

I have 2 sets of these chairs and I decided to part with one. I got them both reupholstered after waiting for someone to sell this fabric on ebay for a long time. It retails for $125 a yard!
Ebay listing.

People who know me, know I love to spend time at Joann Fabrics.

Well actually I just went there for the first time, but what the hell, sewing is kind of fun. I had a bunch of fabric left-over from various upholstery projects and decided to make some pillows. I decided to hire someone to teach me how to sew. We couldn’t work out a time and I thought maybe I could figure it out on my own. 15 minutes later I said to myself, “Holy shit using a sewing machine to make a pillow is ridiculously easy.”

I don’t know how to do the closing hidden stitch, luckily Brenna knows how. Now everyone gets a late Xmas present and I can say I was planning on giving them one all along!

My attempt at a gingerbread Farnsworth house using a gingerbread kit during our company Christmas party. It took about 30 minutes using whatever we could find in our photo room. Sadly, no one really got it, although the best comment I heard was, “that’s a really cool double-wide.” Maybe they did get it after all.