Thank you Improve Everywhere!

I haven’t seen Herb & Dorothy yet, but I am already inspired to begin my own domestic art collection. The movie is about how a postal clerk and a librarian who “build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means”. They collected what they loved and never spent more than they could afford. 30 years after they started they had accumulated over 2,000 works and had filled their little apartment to  the brim.

If I love it, I should buy it, if I can afford it, I will keep it, it will be awesome. I guess I am in the stage where things can be framed and hung instead of push-pinned and taped to the walls.

Anyway, thinking about these pieces to be the first of what I hope will be a gorgeous collection of humble prints (and some originals from friends)!

Portrait of Mina Cvetkovic by Danny Roberts of Igor + Andre

Spaceship Diagram from Jonathan Rowell

Sketches from Laura Laine, oh I wish she had a shop of prints!

I couldn’t help myself! So please, indulge in these pictures I have found on Adriano Brodbeck’s flickr. Pretty pictures with pretty copy stolen from pretty neat songs… And the rest of his photography isn’t so bad either.

The open areas of negative space and colour scheme reminds me of work done my my good friend Belinda Carmen Love Lee. Check it out, she is super passionate about design and a sweet person to know.

Not only is this an amazing concept, it is also a cry-your-face-off-good movie. So, in the theme of paying it forward and bringing more positivity to the world, and Random Act of Kindness Day… here is a list from The Halfway Point (choosing positivity) about 50 Simple Ways to pay it forward. If you don’t know what paying it forward means: You help three people. You help them in a significant way, in a way that they can’t even help themselves. In return, you ask only for them to pay it forward and have them help 3 other people, etc, etc. Pictures via weheartit.

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” -Dalai Lama

Upon request of a friend, I was watching the first episode of Californication. No comment, except to say that I loved the soundtrack, especially the My Morning Jacket cover of Rocket Man. I didn’t realize how sad that song could be. I love covers.

Anyway, listen to, but don’t watch this youtube video because it’s boring.

I miss the earth so much, I miss my wife… And I think it’s gonna be a long long time, ‘Till touch down brings me round again to find, I’m not the man they think I am at home…

Check it out, it’s a Kitchener-Waterloo kind of thing. Make it your thing too? WHAT A GOOD IDEA. FRIG.

image found via weheartit, day found through Pink Elephant

… hanging in my apartment, in the hallway, so I can see it accidentally on purpose everyday.

Ocean Shores, WA, Acrylic on wood panel, from Tyson Anthony Roberts. Found via Booooooom.

A blog that celebrates how awesome and cool our parents were (and are) back in their day. These are a few I particularly loved. My Parents Were Awesome is awesome. In a way, it celebrates love stories and youth and appreciation and I love it, it makes me feel good inside. Wonderfully, enchantingly romantic. Love stories shared are my favorite, even if it is only a little piece.

Ken and Susan. Best.

Bob and Diane, so sexy and summer. Gingham and Plaid!

Dusan and Milk, subtle and cute and passionate.

Joe and Lois (and Erik), love the lawn portrait! (Does anyone know what kind of dog this is?)

Jerry and Dora. My favorite. Love the expressions and how everything is perfectly exploding from the starburst in the backdrop. I think this most reminds me of now.

Above from Strawberry Laces. Below from random tumblr, sorry I forgot from where!

So pretty and practical. Berto makes amazing portraits with bright colours and cute muses. Stalk his blog and tear sheets here.