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Forage Bow Ties
Can any guy wear a bow tie? Hard to say. Let’s do our best to encourage more of them (and men in capris, while we’re at this hint-hinting thing). These new charmers are from Something’s Hiding in Here, seen first via Oh Joy!
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A Farm Wedding
Like many of you, I spent last weekend at a wedding. Fortunately for me, the wedding was in the Midwest and I got to rent a speedy car to drive speedily around turns and through beautiful fields, all at Midwest prices (Mazda Miata = $15/day). At said wedding, my mom told my aunt that it should really be featured in a magazine. To which my aunt said:
“or maybe just on Rachael’s blog?”
Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, fame has come a knockin’.
So here are a few photos from this farm wedding, which it truly was in the most relaxed and well-loved way possible. One of those where the wine is serve-yourself, the lemonade is conveniently close to the keg of beer, the bride & groom decide to catch a ride to the hotel with their cousins, and everything relies on weather. Herein is included, of course, a photo of the outdoor bathroom that used a tree stump as its base and my other favorite innovation of theirs: linoleum dance floor (for just the right clickty-clack of the heels).
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Miranda July’s Cut Outs
Lately I’ve really wanted to have a touristy photo-op cut-out at the market. Me really wanting something I could never do by myself means I hassle Joe on a semi-regular basis, and make comments that make my idea sound really cool, like “I think Marc Jacobs just did this exact thing in Paris,” or “Doesn’t this seem very Christo and Jeanne-Claude to you?” Touristy photo-op cut-outs are actually very hard to google properly, but I mean something along the lines of this:
I’m imagining something more family friendly, obviously (is that a demon casually resting between them?). Maybe it could have a shark, a ship caption, a mermaid swimming below, Pop Eye peeking around the corner…
All that to say, I thought of my genius idea again when I saw Miranda July’s new interactive art in Union Square Park.
In typical July fashion, it’s very personal and involved and somehow both cute and disturbing:
For most of the exhibit, I think the real genius is: You get to stand on something. If there’s one thing we’ve established about the human race, it’s that we love to stand on stuff.
You can read an interview with her about the project at Artinfo, see a few more pictures here, I first saw it on the indefatigable Chris Glass.
(Apologies to the dear couple in the top picture, I have no idea who you are, or where I got that photo. Thanks for sharing your experience with the www.)
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Pinterest
New visual-cataloging and sharing site, Pinterest (of the likes of fffound). Lovely palette, smoothly organized, snaps your mess of “inspiration, I’m sure I’ll do something with this someday” images right into place. Currently it’s invite only, which is why I’m not sharing already changed my life. But the sight of my computer’s desktop tells me I could really use something like this.
Seen on Oh Joy!
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Happy Birthday Dad!
Today I’d like to say Happy Birthday to my dad, who taught me how to rock climb, make friends with strangers, downhill ski, win road races, make jokes even when everyone’s in a bad mood, think like a board of directors, and remain calm even when things look very grim. He and my mom raised seven kids to find their own adventures in life and try to be nice to everyone along the way. Happy Birthday Dad!
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Market Launch! (Friends & Family)
Good news! Our shower drain is backed up and we haven’t showered for days!
Oops, wrong post. Save that good news for the new-ways-to-avoid-shampoo post.
The other good news: I am delighted to announce that the Market now has its own website! No more leeching off my website, no sir. I’ve been fiddling with it for far too long to have any objective opinion anymore, so check it out and give me your thoughts! We are headed to Nantucket officially in about two weeks, at which point we will really have some news and photos to post, so officially add the Market blog to your subscriptions! Customer profiles, ocean photos, cocktail recipes, island gossip, and oh-so humorous anecdotes are sure to follow!
Something I’m particularly excited about is our newsletter. I am a big fan of email-newsletters, they make me feel marginally better about the demise of print. (My favorites are from Zingerman’s and Present & Correct.) If you like to receive well designed, nicely written newsletters with curios, tidbits, and the occasional small cartoon, sign up here! After we have collected enough email addresses, not only will we send out a newsletter, but we will sell all the addresses to a struggling pharmaceutical company looking for a few friendly supporters!
Okay friends, I’m off to lure an innocent plumber into our apartment. xoxo.
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The Professionals
Like nearly every blog reader out there, I am a regular reader of Joanna Goddard’s Cup of Jo. (I’m not kidding, her fan base is unbelievable.) As a former aspiring writer myself, I often wonder how she balances her blogging life with her writing life, and how she got there in the first place. So I was delighted to find this fantastic interview with her, and other professionals, about the way they got their jobs. For your aspiring journalist friends, Joanna’s responses are very enlightening as the lifestyle-approach of a writer. You can read her interview here, and see them all here. Below I’ve quoted one my favorite parts from Joanna’s interview:
Does magazine writing really take over your life? In other words: If it is your job to write about an exciting life, do you find it necessary to live that life? Absolutely. Absolutely. A thousand percent. I am ALWAYS thinking of story ideas. When I meet new people, or am talking to old friends, I’m always, always, always staying aware of potential stories in the back of my mind. (Oh? You said you’re moving into a houseboat? Oh? You were a bridesmaid 20 times? Oh? Your brother left his finance job to be a farmer upstate?) You have to constantly be on the lookout.
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No Impact Man
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We watched this last night and I thought it was great. The wife is the quiet hero-partner to her more philosophical and idealist husband, and puts up with a lot to see his experiment through to the end. Because I like to learn about things in very practical terms, the movie made me engage with eco-consciousness much more than other projects I’ve encountered. Recommend. (If you have Netflix, it’s available as watch instantly.)
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Goopy Books
In 2008 when I initially saw Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop newsletter, I was very skeptical. Skip to 2010, and I have since curmudgeonly agreed that she’s done a darn fine job publishing unique material with a reliable perspective. I really like her editorial voice which seems to love brevity and common good cheer.
Recently Goop asked a several people what their favorite children’s books were–which is not a unique idea for an article. However, the article is full of images from said favorite books–many of which were obscure to me–and they asked people like genius illustrator Julie Rothman. Check it out right here.
Image from Rothman favorite, A Very Awesome World.
