I love her outfit, especially the flowers in her hair!

Yeah, these photos are two months overdue. Back in Feburary, the Met had an exhibit called "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy", but like most special art exhibits, there was no photography allowed. I wish I had photos though, because there was some beautiful stuff!

Anyway, I don't think I've ever posted photos of the Met museum before (I've covered MoMA at least twice). I thought I'd share with you some works that I found lovely/inspiring in one way or another. I feel really lucky to be only a subway ride away from all these wonderful works of art. This reminds me, I need to go again before school ends this year.

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So for my Art Humanities class, I had to formally analyze any piece in a New York gallery. I ended up going to MoMA last weekend, because I thought it'd be neat to try dissecting a Picasso piece. And plus, there was a really cool Painting and Anti-Painting exhibit on Joan Miro and a Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night exhibit. I did get to check out the former, which was absolutely awesome (despite the prohibited photography rule), but for the latter, you actually had to get tickets that were free but timed. I got to MoMa early in the morning hoping to get a ticket but the next possible ticket was for 3pm! D:

Anywho. My photos, let me show you them. There's a lot of Picassos; I kid you not. And a couple recognizable pieces.





( let me count the ways )

Okay! Two more papers and I am DONE ... with just the papers, that is. I've still got exams to study for. Reading week starts next week! Expect either a giant hiatus or a massive outpouring of posts in the name of procrastination. Or maybe just somewhere in between.

P.S. I read Tales of Beedle the Bard yesterday and I LOVED IT. My favorite is "The Fountain of Fair Fortune", what about you?

P.P.S. wishlist and keep me updated on card/wishlist posts of yours!

PMA photos, part one.
( ... and now, part two. )


Spicy hot chocolate is the perfect drink after walking halfway across town in 30 degree weather.

I'm not looking forward to tonight/tomorrow because I have to do all the work that I put off this break. I've got problem sets, applications, labs, papers, proposals, and odds-and-ends to do within the next two weeks. And gift shopping / card giving. (wishlist!)

RECENT BOOKMARKS:
¤ 300 love letters. A really lovely (er, no pun intended) project where 300 letters were written to 300 different people in the author's life. "So: what is this project really about? Of course, it's about love, and relationships, which anyone who knows me can tell you are about the only things that I'm interested in. Well, not the only things, but two of the main ones. At the start I had one very simple goal: by the end of this project I wanted to be able to write a love letter to anyone, a stranger on the street, or someone that I have nothing but scorn for. I wanted to be able to pull out and vocalize the small thread connecting me to them, them to me, the something in them that I found beautiful or real and the something between us that existed beneath everything, acknowledged or unacknowledged, forgotten gestures and moments, strange and rare affinities."

¤ Multicolr Search Lab. Recommended for anybody who loves color, photography, Flickr, random amusement, or e. all of the above! Pick up to 10 colors and it'll show you photos of that color scheme, no matter how putrid.

¤ de 10 à 60 ans. A recent Vogue Paris editorial that portrays a model as a 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 year old. It's interesting how they use makeup and camera angles to create that age difference.

¤ MUJI Chronotebook -- I want this SO bad. I plan on buying one once I get back.

¤ Calendar made of matches, for the inner pyro.

¤ digital polaroids -- NOT the photo filter, but the camera!

¤ McDonald's Japan Goes No-Brand

¤ Fifty Years of Popular Songs Condensed into Single Sentences -- ah, McSweeney's. :)

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don’t fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.

( just-woke-up look, presented by yours truly. )

Here's a new addition to the list of things capable of melting cold, cold hearts: Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. I saw the original over the weekend (no subtitles, sadly), and I absolutely loved it. It's got the same Miyazaki charm but the background is actually done in watercolor. I can't wait until it actually gets released this side of the Pacific so I can see it in theatres.







Can't believe it's already autumn (!). Things look promising, I think:
9/24: Weezer
10/4: the Kills, depending if I can get anybody to go with
10/31 - 11/4: Election Day break! I'm thinking San Diego, maybe.
11/5: Decemberists! They canceled last year, and I'd love to go this time around.
11/15: Kaiser Chiefs
11/27 - 11/30: Thanksgiving Day break. Arrgh, so this is where I'm not really sure where to go. I've got family friends in NJ or Boston (via train), friends in Indy (via plane), or I could kick it back in NY and spend Thanksgiving like a hermit.
12/19 - 1/19: Winter break -- flying to Shanghai, then Singapore/Malaysia/Thailand or Australia/NZ, pending.
3/13 - 3/22: Spring break. I have lots of frequent flier miles saved up, mostly from China trips, and I'm thinking of redeeming some miles for a ticket to Europe, though I'm not sure which city/cities I'd want to visit in the span of a week and a half. I have much planning to do!

Today: blog.mode: addressing fashion exhibit at the Met and eating at Le Pain Quotidien (basil chicken pesto tartine and raspberry tart!), so yeah, a good day for me.




Oh, if only you understood the inhumane lengths I would go in order to have, no, just simply wear this oyster dress. Just once. (Yes, this does include donating my organs, my firstborn, and my soul. A 3-for-1 deal, how could one refuse?!)

( some photographic evidence. )

Wow, talk about death by eye candy. :) The last two weeks = seeing Cascada live amid a series of confusions at Webster, midterms, LADIES' NIGHT at Webster (look it up at your own discretion), meeting up with a friend from high school, discovering the greatness that is Chickpea (think Chipotle, but replace burritos with falafel, with the pitas and hummus), Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim, the crack that is NEOPETS (yeah yeah, I'm playing Neopets again.), and whatever else. And whaddyaknow, March is here aka almost-SPRINGTIME, hello.