army

de niro gets it

desk / window

ken burns gets it

monet

monet

these boots are amazing

that autumn look

opening ceremony does where the wild things are with spike jonze

kate

tallest man on earth

listen to the tallest man on earth

mmm

tampico

take a job where you can go home for lunch and do this

via nytimes

my other new jacket

get it at oipolloi

we are the children!

compliments of 149 sullivan street and scout holiday

oh man oh man oh man

be there

my other store storefront

the (2nd) prettiest girl

HAHAHA! so hip.

truck furniture

my girlfriend has just the finest taste!!!

my new jacket

my new blazer which ill wear with a shirt more like this

karen walker eyewear

karen walker eyewear

ansel adams

to my girlfriend sarah: xoxoxoxo!!!

when will it start to look like this again?

pillows

pretty plants

buy me this

take II

this is what i want the front of my store to look like some day - HUGE glass front

breaking bread

i bought this book with my girlfriend and started baking and breaking bread with her. first loaf: not well received by eaters, but the practice is terribly fun and easy and (eventually) tasty. the bread bible is comprehensive, easy and carries some very beautiful pictures of bread. buy this.

the most ruggedest boys chair

my mom used to own a retail interiors store and sold these canvas chairs - much less rugged than this ralph lauren version made of serious canvas and leather. either way, very cosy.

our legacy

my favorite thing about finding super nice clothes like this that i can't find in new york is that i can be the first to sell it here when i open MY store (very slowly in process at goodshoppe.wordpress.com - keep your eyes out!)! sneak peek their autumn / winter stuff below

schubLaden is drawers in german

schubLaden

pendleton woolen mills

pendelton woolen mills has the COOLEST things, including this national park series blankets. consider buying this one and then taking yourself to it's home of inspiration.

duck duck goose goose

duck duck goose goose

our earth

there are some really beautiful pictures of the earth and its parts on national geographic's website. please get me a subscription to national geographic for my birthday.

bless charley harper

bless charley harper

OH MY GOD! i was not expecting this today.

check out the cherry blossom map at the brooklyn botanical gardens! peak bloom! leave work! get there now! or maybe this weekend.

buy this cd

first heard shirley bassey in bblessing in new york on orchard street. one of the nicest parts of that store is that they sell the movies and music they dig - i.e. shirley bassey (or godard - bought band of outsiders at bblessing). it made a good amount of sense to hear bassey at blessing, i thought. the really rich tones, the somewhat quirky subjects, the covers!!! i don't know it just made sense and i dig it a lot. you should buy it.

my goodness, i'm jealous.

check this link, because many other beautiful homes follow suit.

people who drool the good look vibe...

found this site through a continuous lean. miss meyer takes the cake, i'd say. thank you, mr. gentle.

get me a falcon for my birthday

i saw moto guzzi is updating a classic bike, running the new 2009 moto guzzi v7 classic. cool and all. matter of fact, real cool, one of the cooler bikes i've seen. inspired me to want to get a bike. but now that i'm looking, where do i get my hands on one of these??!!

the old moto guzzi falcon looks like something paul newman would burn up, and i like paul newman

vintage porsche

vintage beauty.

MARGARET HOWELL

check this link from notes by naive. this book looks amazing! i'm particularly into the process of making a shirt.

happy easter!

eggs

the $ summer tie

steven alan is teaming up with liberty prints to make this really good looking ties, same folks who teamed up with nike to put of some very pretty dunks.

my girlfriend and i picked up some prints in the garment district similar to these liberty print ties. sent them to hong kong and had ties made of them much like this for dirt dirt cheap. i'll claim to have set the trend for skinny floral neck ties. post to follow with pic of my killer tie.

the $ summer shoe

check these out on j. crew, which just continues to sell the nicest clothes, maybe period, but definitely for a large retailer. the high top sperry is $.

BLANK

was introduced to this yesterday. who's going to start carrying this in new york??

RFK Funeral Train

i bought this book for my older brother for christmas. it's a series of photos shot by paul fusco from the train carrying robert kennedy's coffin from new york to washington - an incredible capture of a very tragic day, and confirmation of a hero. and the aesthetic of the shot is beautiful, along with (to be vain) the clothes of all those captured.

great multimedia piece here from the nytimes.

copyright: paul fusco

for all the props this man gets, he deserves more

i was in cambridge, mass some time back with my girlfriend when she got asked to show her collection at a fashion show put on by some harvard kid (project east 2009) when i came across the andover shop - bought there this incredible knit belt.

then just last week i come across this photo of miles davis on polo's website. they've got this whole piece on davis, chet baker, jj thomas, all these heavy hitting jazz musicians who totally reinterpreted preppy style.

nearly everything of miles' i have - with particular attraction to birth of the cool or miles smiles (footprints!!) or a tribute to jack johnson - and seeing him in these goods makes me laugh its so good. he's just so good at it all.

just read through the grapevine that KAWS is going to make a stop in ridgefield, ct, my hometown??!! the aldirch museum of contemporary art is just getting crazy cool and making me proud proud proud to be coming out of that town. one of the top KAWS pieces on my list above.

bought these about two years ago from paul stuart in new york. done - best shoe i have or will ever purchase. have been wearing them five days a week now for two years (less summers) and they only look better. paul stuart never gets credits like alden or church's but they're definetely making some smart shoes.

a place i'd like to return

spring break of my senior year of college me and four friends packed into my subaru and drove from portland, oregon to joshua tree, california, straight through the night. at one point during that blissful week we ended up here, in a bunch of sand dunes in death valley national park. you've got to hike about two miles from a dirt road to make it out here, and aren't supposed to camp in the dunes once you're out there, but we couldn't resist.

get yourself here.

ebay search: military watches

i've seen lena corwin (~>O<~) do ebay searches and post results - recently turkish or native american inspired rugs, which are nice.

here's my first go at it. thought of this after seeing the relaunch of a certain timex watch that j. crew is (exclusively?) selling. and from my girlfriend telling me we should check out military watches and see what we find. so nice.

here's a link to this specific watch

the jewels of new york seem to be both very talented cooks and photographers. check out their recipes here:
jewels of new york

next vacation.

georgia!

something that i'd like to have

design within reach is running out of it's old wooster street store its new Tools for Living store - things that make life arguably easier but definitely prettier. like this pink himalayan salt rock, for instance. in this case, harder (carving salt), tastier (himalayan salt rock) and prettier (pink himalayan salt rock) life.

buy it here:
salty rock

this wonderfully talented woman named lena corwin was kind enough to post images of my girlfriend's accessories. check out sarah's stuff here:

sarahmlaw at lenacorwin

but also make sure to check out lena's blog more generally. sarah took a class at lena's studio in brooklyn on print making. wander for a while and find some of her pictures of brooklyn and then consider moving here to see what she does everyday.

sarah's portfolio is here if you'd like to see more:

sarahmlaw at sarahmlaw

also, forgive formatting on this blog - i'm just getting started and have nearly no clue what i'm doing, mainly how to make fonts the same size!

lo-fi pdx

i don't know tommy, but she has taken some very nice pictures of portland, oregon (among other cities). i went to lewis & clark college in portland and am now desperately wanting to go back.

thank you, tommy.
pdx

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i've decided to start this blog to collect in one place the number of inspiring things i come across everyday. i hope that someone finds this enjoyable or inspiring themself.

here is a start. thanks for looking.