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I'm an old fashioned girl that doesn't mind occasionally getting caught on fire. So the fire-safety features of these flickering LED candles are lost on me-- but they are still pretty cool. (Kinda like the little fireflies in the bushes of Pirates of the Carribean...)
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Apartment Therapy is having a contest, whereby folks submit entries of artwork adorning the walls of their humble abode. This entry was a deviation from the norm, I think, but it's my favorite-- enough that I encourage all of you to steal it. A riff on international clock displays, this cute setup features clocks with times for "outside", "inside", and "at the park."
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Ever since my house burned down, I see the moon more clearly...
This may be, hands down, the most beautiful thing I've seen in my life. Jason of Preshrunk and I wandered over to the Ashes and Snow exhibit this weekend, expecting to find a normal art gallery. This was anything but.
Ashes and Snow is a nomadic exhibit, assembled of old packing crates-- the kind on train cars. Architected by Shigeru Ban, it houses the photography of Gregory Colbert, taken in India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tonga, Namibia and Antarctica. The images are graceful, magical, and evoke a world that doesn't seem to occupy the same space as the one I know. Men swimming with elephants, chimpanzees praying over women in canoes, children sleeping among wild-eyed cheetahs. The structure feels like a temple, propped by metal pillars that look like steel bamboo, each painting floating above a pool of gray pebbles. Music sways beneath the whole experience, reinforcing the feeling that you are now in some otherworldy elsewhere.
More amazing than the photographs are the video screens playing the same imagery-- the moment you realize that this is not staged or manipulated, the subjects really are as they appear, dancing like demons in a ring of excited hyenas.
I was awestruck. If you are near Santa Monica, the show runs till May 14, and you should definitely check it out. Already hitting Venice and NYC, the next stop appears to be Bejing. If you can't make it, check out the store for some of the prints and the DVD. (You can see more pictures of the exhibit here.)
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I found out about Lesley Reppeteaux at the thinkspace gallery off Melrose. The paintings are tweaked cartoon fairytales, filled with pirate ships and half-girl, half-animal monsters-- her stuff makes me want to paint.
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I love these little candle pods. I'm a big fan of hanging lanterns of all sorts-- Japanese paper lanterns, Morrocan gypsy glass lanterns (which currenly hang in my apartment) but these seem organic and strange.. like odd fruit. It's from Wrapables-- also check out their Tracy Porter Collectible Trays and Bedside Carafe.
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Buy Olympia is your everyday online store, except they seem to specialize in selling products by really cool artists. Like Nikki McClure.
The Lorraine Lunch Bag is Dos Chicas' take on brown-bagging it. Handcrafted and made of waterproof oilcloth, this makes me want to start bringing sandwiches to.. well, everywhere.
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There is a special circle of my heart reserved for squishy felt button-eyed dolls. My boyfriend Mr. Kat (created by the lovely Anh Tran) travels with me everywhere, and watches over me when I sleep. The Dirties dolls at the Digital Snow Shop are the same kind of haphazard little felt monsters, and therefore I heart them. (They really should come in sets... they're so cute as a family.)
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I was at Happy Six with Sarah last night on Sawtelle, and they just have too much good stuff. (By the by, Happy Six now has an online store which you should definitely check out.
I fell in love with one of their Tokidoki shirts, but it was so violently cute they only had one shirt left, and it was the wrong size. Industrious cute-hungry girl that I am, I found the Tokidoki online store to pick one up. They carry way more shirts on their website, as well as candy, skate decks, pins and belt buckles-- also check out their design on Threadless.
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My favorite word this week: tarantism. A disorder characterized by an uncontrollable urge to dance, especially prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century and popularly attributed to the bite of a tarantula. Which leads me to tarantella, a lively, whirling southern Italian dance once thought to be a remedy for tarantism.
Oh yes. Today, boys and girls, we have dancing music for spider bites.
There's a song from Over The Rhine's concept album, a Drunkard's Prayer, one from The Lounge Lizard's Voice of Chunk, and my favorite, a live version of Tom Waits' Tango Till They're Sore. Go forth into the world. Dance uncontrollably.
Hush Now (Stella's Tarantella) - Over The Rhine
Tango Till They're Sore (Live) - Tom Waits
Tarantella - The Lounge Lizards
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I need a few dozen of these, for my apartment, for when I house-sit, and as make-up presents for the owners of all those plants I have killed in the past. You know who you are. And I'm sorry.
This pot sold by Wrapables has nylon threads that hang down into a reservoir, pulling up water into the plant. Also check out the whole Wrapables store on Amazon; they've got some cute stuff-- like their Love Sick Confetti.
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Londoner Anne Kyyrö Quinn is texture-crazy. She designs various products made of industrial felt, from bags to cushions to throws.. and I want to rub my face on all of them.
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Okay, the tea may or may not be great. I've never tried it personally. But it comes in tubes! Tubes!! Any company that packages their tea to look like a paint set has to be awesome. And on top of that, they are sold as the Introduction to the Cultures of the World box set, highlighting exotic teas from various exotic locales.
So I'm a sucker. But Le Palais Des Thes deserves it. I mean, come on. Tubes!!!
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Dean on 
