I Whip My Hair Back and Forth!

Willow Smith is SO cute!!!!

Interview with Justin Fantl

POP blog recently asked Justin Fantl a few questions, and it ended up being quite an interesting interview. Check it out here.

Justin Fantl

Copyright Justin Fantl.

Check out this guy's work.

Brooks Introduces: Michael Darough

A friend of mine, Michael, has a solo show at the Brooks Museum that runs through January 11, 2011. He gave a talk last week and I checked it out - it's really great! You should go see it over the holidays.

I'm back!

School is out, and I have officially resurfaced! Here's a little of what I've been up to.

Chicago

I recently visited my awesome BFF, Tony, in Chicago and we had a little party at Dan's chic pad in Chicago. $3/box appetizers + 12 bottles of wine = hijinks.

Most Beautiful Libraries in the U.S.

Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

How did I miss #8 in Philly??? Wow!

Robert and Shana Parke Harrison

Awesome husband/wife collaboration.

Check out Architect's Brother.

Artists

#7 from The Skateboarders Project by Nikki Lee

I have been working on school stuff lately and have totally neglected my blog. Since that's all that seems to be on my mind, I'll share some links to a few artists I've been looking at lately.

Nikki Lee

Alessandra Sanguinetti

Carrie Mae Weems

Nick Waplington

Bill Owens

Tina Barney

These are a tad more obvious, but:

Diane Arbus

Sally Mann

Julia Margaret Cameron

Garry Winogrand

Cupcake frenzy

My niece and nephew hate cupcakes. They despise them. Really. Can't you tell?

To their parents, Ben & Melissa, I apologize again for the 20 pounds of sugar they each ingested on Sunday. I get to do this kind of fun stuff with them, and then it is oh-so-convenient that I get to pass them off to you immediately after. Sleep tight.

Sincerely,

Katie

PS - There was seriously NO color coordination between clothing and icing. Totally their call. And I'm pretty impressed.

Southaven Circle West

This was the house I lived in until fourth grade. So teeny!

Tilt shift

At some point in my adult life - a few years ago, maybe - I drove by my elementary school in Southaven and was shocked at how small it looked. When I was young it seemed so huge and imposing. Thinking back on it, my sixth grade teacher seemed inhuman or immortal or...I don't know, definitely not a real person...but in reality she was probably a girl in her early twenties that just got out of college. She would've been 10 to 15 years younger than I am now. Perspective can really blow your mind.

Anyway, my older brother played baseball at Cherry Valley in Southaven just down the road from the house we grew up in. I employed a tilt shift technique with the photo below using my large format camera. The point is to reduce a life-sized object so that it looks like a toy-sized version of the real thing. Particularly appropriate when trying to visually describe this phenomenon, I think.

Summer...

...will be over before we know it, so I took a moment today to snap a few pics of the yard while everything is blooming.

If my camera is on at home Gus always makes the cut.

Surprise visitor!

Crepe myrtle out back.

I'd just gotten finished watering the flowers.

I have no idea what this is, but I obviously need to water it more.

Summer!!

I honestly don't think I'm at all biased when I say that my niece and two nephews are unusually good looking.

OK, I was holding back a bit on that last comment. They are drop dead gorgeous!!!