Studio Tour: Cursive Design + Up In The Air Somewhere

As someone who loves to look at things, and obsessively partakes in internet-window shopping, I subscribe to a lot of blogs, tumblrs, pinterests, and the like. I go through so much visual candy everyday and it gets to a point where you like a lot of whats going on but its also a lot of the same things and its easy to just skim through much of it. But when I discovered Susan's ceramics and Sarah's jewelry, it was a kind of revelation because they showed me something I hadn't seen before, ideas that I haven't thought of before. Airy, dreamy, almost-way-too-delicate, gold accented vessels that straddle the line between art and functionality? Also some of it looked like water towers? Balls-y and playful collage based jewelry in a weird but perfect mix of disparate materials? AWESOME. 

At some point, I realized that the two share a studio together in Chicago's West Town neighborhood (coincidentally, adjacent to Laura Lombardi's space which I shot that same day). They have always been at the top of my list when I started this studio tour series and thought it was a great opportunity to meet and hang out with two people I've always wanted to meet and hang out with! Their studio is, of course, beautiful and dreamy just like their work. As I snooped around with my camera, it was cool to see how two artists working in different areas, that don't really make the same work aesthetically, can also play off each other in small ways. I hope this comes through in the images. 

Enjoy !

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2013 To Do

A reasonable list of to do's for this year:


1. Get a driver's license. I'm turning 34 this year. Its time.

2. Make a photo zine every month. To be published monthly. Or if not financially possible, whenever financially possible.

3. I don't want to Instagram less, I just want to use my real camera as much as a I Instagram ~ OR MORE .

4. Save some dang money.

5. Go home to the Philippines and to Taiwan. Its almost been five years and I miss my parents.

NY • NJ • PA

Currently it is cold and raining here in Michigan, and so I thought I would search through my backlog of images from this past summer to see if there might be anything nice to show you.

If you've been following this blog for some months, you might remember my mentioning a harrowing time in June when BFGF, Daniel, Devin and I kept having car troubles trying to get back to Chicago from New York which extended our trip by several days. We hung out, we wandered around, we found free pizza, we thrifted while we waited for the car to get fixed. Here are some pictures from that trip.

It wasn't a totally fun time but now it is a fond memory and maybe a funny story.

Digital Gift Certificates

Just a little note to say that even though I can no longer take orders for posters/prints/postcards, I can still take orders for digital gift certificates. 

I will continue to send these out until Christmas day and after if you are a little bit late. (Totally normal! You're a busy person!)

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Holiday Shopping & Shipping FYI !

Studio Tour: Dante Carlos

I've posted about Dante before on this blog so you all know how great my brother's work is and how proud of him I am.  He has this natural ability to take something you never knew you would like and use it to make something you love. It is as if his ideas come out of nowhere but now will be on your radar forever.  There is such a strong sense of play and yet it feels somehow perfectly restrained. It would be remiss of me not to say that so much of his taste and his work has informed so much of mine. 

 Dante describes his process as: "I read a bunch of things online or in books, and then start generating ideas while watching a ton of really bad television, like murder she wrote, or 24. There's a pizza in there somewhere." But that is his practice at its simplest iteration. 

When you walk through his home/studio, you can see his inspiration, reference materials and interests everywhere in stacks of books, prints taped to the wall, his music collection, little interesting arrangements tucked into corners. Everything is surprising, lovely. His collection is of the high and the low -- gay and straight erotica to maps to car engine diagrams to various other cultural debris.  A mixture both strange and informed, just like his work. 








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$5 off at HOLIDOSE !

I love the holidays and I love Dose Market! 

We are very excited to be one of the vendors at this Sunday's upcoming HOLIDOSE! 

How excited? $5 off excited. 

Download, print out, or just show me the *this coupon* on your computer phone and I'll give you $5 off purchases $40 or more. With these savings + that free cocktail you get when get in to the market, its like you've more than made back the entrance fee. A surplus of holiday cheer! Pretty good deal, right?

Hope to see you all there!

XO

DHC