She's up all night for good fun

Midterms are stressful.  Coffee is beautiful. Get Lucky by Daft Punk is glorious.

Can I get a minute of not being nervous

I love this. One lady put up a wall where folks can write down what they want to accomplish before they die. It started in New Orleans and has been continuing in other cities and countries. I need to find the one in Chicago!

"It was an experiment and I didn’t know what to expect. By the next day, the wall was bursting with handwritten responses and it kept growing: Before I die I want to… sing for millions, hold her one more time, eat a salad with an alien, see my daughter graduate, abandon all insecurities, plant a tree, straddle the International Date Line, get clean, live off the grid, build a school, be someone’s cavalry, be completely myself…  People’s responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I’m not alone as I try to make sense of my life."

Berlin

Chicago

Johannesburg

Brooklyn

Post title from Slow Show by The National.

You go bon iver

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Ok she was 6 months pregnant in this video? Just stop Beyonce. Also this music video is amazing, gotta love all those cultural references.


I was casually pinteresting, and I am obsessed with this fashionable couple. 


Check out this amazing graduate design project.


These tumblrs are lovely: here and here. I spend way too much time on tumblr and pinterest :)

English, motherfucker, do you speak it?!

Yes I watched Pulp Fiction last night for the first time. Dang. It was brilliant, but to be honest, I was hiding behind the pillow for most of the scenes. (To my sister who could hardly handle Drive, don't ever watch this...) But at least I understand so many more references... like the post title.

Since we are on the subject of movies, I found these beautiful remakes of movie posters. All of these are really more my kind of movies.

Let me be and let me live

I just snatched the window seats at Noble Tree, my favorite coffee shop in Chicago :)  Success.  The view is beautiful... I would much rather look out at snow covered streets then walk through it.

Anywhoo I've started reading Ulysses by James Joyce for one of my classes... and dang that book is dense. I feel like I'm reading an encyclopedia, but without the explanations.  But I get so much satisfaction in reading not because of Joyce's brilliance, but really because my copy of the book is so lovely.  It is a light blue hard cover with simple font.

Before you laugh at how silly I am for being obsessed with a book's appearance, check this girl out. She dressed up as her Ulysses book.  I admire her :)

That cover page is amazing. No one can argue with that.  Speaking of beautiful and simple graphic design, check out this movie poster for Never Let Me Go.  I love.

Everybody seems to be staring in one direction

This is such a cool video and song.  The woman who made this taught my sister art at Wash U.  (Que Sera, Sera (Is Print Dead?) from ksup22 on Vimeo)