come together

Etudes from the Sounds Between Us
by Corey Lico Wolffs
from his BFA Thesis Show at the California College of the Arts




images via AJF


video via CCA

captured

Second time watches by Itay Noy.

weather permitting

Local yellow peaches are best enjoyed on a lanai with a best friend.

angles of time

I was instantly intrigued by this sideways Elgin watch that I'M REVOLTING won on eBay, and have honestly not stopped thinking about it since. I had never seen anything like it before and thought it was such an unusual design, given that it wasn't a style typical of this watch company.


Just the other day, I had to pull some definitions from this book, and got super excited when I came across a teeny section on these offset watches that were only produced from around 1915-1925. Much to my disappointment, but utter delight, the design has nothing to do with aesthetics, but is actually a result of the transition from pocket watch to wristwatch!

image via eBay listing, image via eBay listing

Pocket watches are built with the crown at 12:00, so as the wristwatch started gaining popularity around the time of WWI, lugs were just soldered on the sides of pocket watches at 3:00 and 9:00, or at a diagonal at 5:00 and 11:00, thus, contributing to this awesomely awkward dial orientation.

image via eBay listing

Another intriguing design element that you rarely see now are these little cage-looking shields. Pocket watches were not meant to endure long periods of exposure to external elements, so there were early concerns about the vulnerability of the crystal face when worn as a wristwatch. Thus, pierced covers were used on WWI military watches to protect the face, while still allowing soldiers to easily check the time.

images via bigbusiness: time-keeping

I absolutely love coming across information like this.

image via Timely Classics

fragile

Moonyean McNeillage, Soft Rocks, 1976

via Craft Australia's Flickr

order

I'm intrigued by the various ways in which Allyson Gee displays butterflies. The geometric forms that mimic a standard display case really play off of the abstract patterns that are featured on each pair of symmetrical wings.

preservation

Sometimes I wish I could capture entire moments, with all five senses intact. I would especially like to remember how (naïvely?) optimistic I was about moving here. I need that wide-eyed feeling again! Anika Smulovitz interprets this "human desire to label and collect all aspects of our surroundings" through her herbarium specimen rings that encase an element of nature in glass to preserve its qualities... though the feeling is short lived. I guess I'm better off with present moments, anyway. Time for me to move on forward!

Oh, and this won't be the last time I'm posting the work of the talented Anika Smulovitz -- she executes her thought-provoking concepts extremely well!

aliyah gold

Boa Constructed and Defense Mechanism from her MFA Thesis for SUNY New Paltz Graduate Metal program

via AJF

tied up

Just spent about an hour going through the old posts of a favorite tumblr of mine, ՇᏂᏋ אᏫՊᎪᎠᏐᏣ ᎦᏌՌ ◉. And I have come to the conclusion that I MUST find a hammock this summer to nap in.

pal kepenyes

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i'll be back in two ticks

1, 2, 3 via Aaron Faber Gallery

shovel

Paul McCobb chair, circa 1950's

fifth of july

It's not too late for this, right?

P.S. This is NOT me.

vested

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