Norma Jeane Baker aka Marilyn Monroe| June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962
I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.
Happy Birthday Marilyn!
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I recently discovered London-based illustrator Emily Robertson and instantly fell in love with the soft edges, hand-lettering and color washes used in her work. I can rarely resist a hand-drawn map, so I was particularly drawn to her recent work for La Cucina Italiana Magazine, an Italian food publication. The project entailed creating a series of maps for featured regions over a 12-month period — take a look through the rest of the series right here.
I’m just like,
it was one of those days…thanks to all the people who didn’t look too closely at the paper.
Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.
Chuck Palahniuk (via bows-and-belles)
it’s summer, which means i need another Chuck Palahniuk novel to read…after my other giant stack of books is completed.
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Avengers at the Diner
My background at work…wonder if any folks who’ve wandered on to the design computer have noticed…
At Comics: Philosophy and Practice this weekend in Chicago, Chris Ware revealed more details about his highly-anticipated latest project, Building Stories, coming from Pantheon this October. As attendee Kathleen Dunley put it, Building Stories is “many little books in a beautiful box.”
Stay tuned, we can’t wait to share more of this exciting new graphic novel with you.
“Chris Ware’s BUILDING STORIES is the rarest kind of brilliance; it is simultaneously heartbreaking, hilarious, shockingly intimate and deeply insightful. There isn’t a graphic artist alive or dead who has used the form this wonderfully to convey the passage of time, loneliness, longing, frustration or bliss. It is the reader’s choice where and how to begin this monumental work — the only regret you will have in starting it is knowing that it will end.”
- J.J. Abrams
It’s so pretty…
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probably the 5th time I’ve watched this trailer today. Definitely going to reread this one next.
Today’s a day of being reminded why I love films, I suppose.
