Attaining Affluence Through Simplicity
As we begin readying to move from our home of the last four years in Silver Lake to a new abobe just a few miles away at the start of next month,… Read More
An Earthen Awakening
We hiked this weekend lured by the smell of damp soil after the epic Southern California rainstorms, hoping to find fruiting chanterelles. We didn’t find those golden Cantharellus californicus in my secret… Read More
In His Footsteps
My father was an avid runner for most of his life. During his lifetime our Venn diagram of activities never quite overlapped, as I avoided running regardless of incentive or threat. Alone… Read More
The Poetry of Silence: The Redwood Forests of Santa Cruz
some ask praise of their fellows but i being otherwise made compose curves and yellows, angles or silences to a less erring end -e.e. cummings Photos taken at Henry Cowell Redwoods State… Read More
Busting Out
Hungry like the wolf…hungry like the wolf. I’ve been on a rabid hunt to find a bust statue for a reasonable price and I finally found one at the Melrose Trading Post… Read More
Designed For Desire: Lilitu
It’s been awhile now since I dropped from collecting vinyl collectible toys and figures, partially because I ran out of displayable space at our previous studio apartment, but probably more due to… Read More
Puff Daddy: Foraging and Cooking My 1st Puffball Mushroom
I had just wrapped up a 6 mile hike near Wrightwood this afternoon, traversing from Vincent’s Gulch past Big Horn Mine and back, when I decided I want to investigate another path… Read More
Give My Regards to Broadway
For years now I’ve been making the eastward journey to New York for an annual company retreat, which also happens to coincide with the International Furniture Fair. It’s a trip I look… Read More
In Love With the Process: Managing a Blog Is a Fucking Awesome Handful
Let me offer you Todd McLellan’s Old Typewriter from his series Disassembly as a visual representation of what I’m given each morning as a managing editor of a team-content website. In its… Read More
LA/Creative Mornings: Michelle Mcilroy of Lomography
Up early today to travel down to West Hollywood for our first Creative Mornings, a series of a monthly breakfast lectures focusing on design-centric topics over coffee and donuts (and started by… Read More