Garfunkel and Oates

I found out about Kate Micucci through one of my favourite TV shows Scubs and this is one of her collaborations.  Very Cute!

Life Drawing

My awesome sister put me on to these two sites for life drawing by pixelovely.com.  One is for Humans the other for Animals.  You choose what you would like to view (male/female, dog/cat etc) and then the length of time (30 seconds/5 mins/1 hour etc) and then it just cycles through photos for you to practice your sketching/painting/whatever.  Cool hey?

I {heart} Group Love

Here's a clip of my latest favourite band - Group Love - performing 'Colours'.  Their EP only has 6 songs but I love every one!  Hope they tour Aus soon...

The things I've found recently

So, how do I begin to catch up on 6 months of blogging?  Well I could post many many photos of my kitty-kats which I find hilarious but you may not (the Chrsitmas tree went up yesterday and now the game is apparently to remove as many ornaments as possible - they got 6 overnight but none broken).  But, instead, here are some web-based things I've found that might interest you a little more:
-high school graduation speech that speaks out against schooling (amazingly articulate for a high school speech) and corresponding YouTube clip
-Nerd Boyfriend
-typography for your home via design*sponge
-Crumpled City Maps (Must get one of these next time I travel - how can you resist things that are made to be scrunched up and shoved in your bag?)

-Sugar Paper Stationery - can't resist anything nautical!

-COATT jewelry - Morse Code Necklaces (I really want one of these - the one below says 'dandy')

-KOOSTICK speakers - natural amplification - no batteries required!

-Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar - This one kills two birds with one stone for me - my love of space and all things space related and the absence of an advent calendar in our house this year.  Found a really cool one to make at design*sponge but went to a few crafty/sewing stores and no-one had little paper bags! How disappointing :( But I am loving these images :) (this one looks like a panther about to eat a star for me)

-ASOS red suede satchel

-COWL from thehouseofhemp Etsy store

-Wings for my shoes from smallfly Etsy store (don't care if they're meant for kids - I want them!!)

-Badge by kokorobee on Etsy

also:

-COWL from SprattersandJayne Etsy store

-Leggings by cotylee on Etsy, and 

-Beardcap (coveted by steve for many many months) by Birkiland

Whew! That list was long!  More to come in the next little bit, hopefully my blogs will be more regular in the next few months.  Merry Christmas!

Paris Vs New York

While looking for poster inspiration, I came across this lovely series called Paris vs New York.  A self-described "friendly visual match between two cities",  it seeks to compare not to compete.

Paris vs New York

Oh, it's been a while, hasn't it?

So it looks like it's almost been 6 months between blogs, how tardy of me!  My second semester of studies proved much busier than I thought and just for the fun of it I took on some extra work as well.  Now, however, the academic year is done and I am back! (at least till semester starts in March 2011 :)) I've been having problems viewing my blog at home but not anywhere else so I hope that I'm the only one having issues - it seems that sometimes when I go to the home page it brings up another company's website - oh dear, I've already hit panic stations but managed to calm myself and fire off a help email.  Have also tried googling the problem but to no avail.  Hopefully it will be sorted soon and I look forward to blogging heaps more this weekend!!