what did we miss: LA

i recently returned from LA this past sunday evening and i still miss it.
partially, thanksgiving break was amazing simply because it was a break away from school, having to work, being on the computer, getting no sleep...stressing out...
but thanksgiving break was also amazing because i was in LA. and because of who i was in LA with.

it was great to get away from NYC. i love new york and i love manhattan still and i think i'm still a city girl - but i have to say that my three semesters at parsons in the city have worn away some of the love for new york. maybe it's just that right now in my life the city is associated with stress. and unending movement.

and LA is only associated with holiday. and good food. and sunny sunny warm weather. (and disneyland, go karting, more good food, dogs, video games, ben and his family...)

so yes. i miss LA and i mostly wish i wasn't here in NY right now. but that's okay. i believe it's alright for me to be in love with more than one city even if it does mean that my heart belongs in some way to four.

images my own - it was also nice to pull out the dslr

what did we derive inspiration from: THE SELBY

(krysten ritter)




(peaches, bunny and lily)

all of this post's images come from
the selby
which is a website that "features photos, paintings, and videos by todd selby of interesting people and their creative spaces"
the people and places featured and photographed mostly come from new york, london, paris, milan, sydney...and a range of other places as well

each photoshoot is unique - gorgeous, aesthetic, perfectly shot, countless images; each person is different - intriguing, inspring, talented; each studio, store, apartment, area, space...is amazing and makes you wish you could visit each of them, that it might be yours for a day or a week or that you could live there, work there, share the space with the creative genius who inhabits it.

i have a desktop full of saved images to stare at and stare at and flip through and the site is worth daily clicking and perusal. the photos here are a fragment! i loved bella howard and rosa connell's place especially. (people are often photographed a lot but i felt it appropriate somehow to include mostly non-people images here in this post (cept one))

oh to know these people, to create my own such space, to be as inspired.




(julia roitfeld)


(bella howard and rosa connell)

cute

DOROTHY JOY PAGUYO

(joy - i hope you don't find this really odd if you ever see this)

you're so cute and dress so well. oh and happy birthday!

her twitter in case you were interested

two and four

the past two and a half days and three nights really passed me by. i wouldn't mind living them again. actually. the last five nights and four and half days flew over me. and though i know time will always have to move on, change will always come and nothing is ever at a standstill, i like to think that i could live the past five days on a loop if i wanted to.

i have a list of things in my life i think i desire. we won't go into that list but now i'm realizing what a person really needs in life is good company. good company makes great situations, time, places, food and exploration even more enjoyable and bad things more bearable.

i'm sure i'm not the first to come to this conclusion but this is the first i'm truly consciously acknowledging and reflecting upon it. i can't stomach or imagine being alone.

thank God for providing the people in my life.