I love this room to a scary degree, because it combines both my love of rustic, woodsy simplicity and my love of rich boho colors and ethnic textiles. Adore. (There’s also a Greco-Roman look underlying, with its stone walls and ceiling, wooden door, and floor candles).
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Caffeinated Links: Books and You, Everything You Need to Know about Guardians of the Galaxy
Gorgeous, gorgeous piece from ThoughtCatalog on the love of reading. “When others are drawn to selfishness and cruelty, and everything seems bathed in shades of vapid grays, I hope you grab for a book. Find the color, find the light, and remember what it means to be right, what it means to be real, what it means to be you.” RT
io9 has absolutely everything you need to know about the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer (and by extension, film). RT
Hitfix’s Alan Sepinwall reviews NBC’s ‘About A Boy’ and calls it a watered-down take on on the Hornby book and film RT
And NPR’s Linda Holmes turns in her usual nuanced, thoughtful review and comes to the same conclusion as Sepinwall. “The least helpful thing you can do with an adaptation of a book (or film) made by intelligent, capable people is to sniff, “Not as good as the original.” After all, when a property is as adored as About A Boy, it can take a while for anything else to feel quite as good, and presumptive skepticism is a regrettably simple opening gambit. But what’s problematic in this adaptation is not that the TV show has not brought along the quality of the book and film, but that it has not brought along the qualities of the book and film.” RT
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Creative Jobs: Head of Publicity and Events, Editorial Intern at Food52
Food52, my favorite food website, is hiring! Of their open positions, these two stick out (both in New York City):
Head of Publicity and Events
In this role, you will help our company grow by expanding our media coverage and helping people learn about Food52 and Provisions. You’ll create a strategy for telling our story across tech, advertising, food and lifestyle media, and you’ll work directly with co-founder Amanda Hesser to execute this plan. You’ll also come up with a slate of events that will engage our community and draw in new followers. This role requires an uncommon blend of creativity, exceptional communication skills, networking savvy, and a passion for details. We see it as vital to the future of our brand.
Editorial Intern
Food52, a fast-growing, James Beard Award-winning online food community and crowd-sourced and curated recipe hub, is currently interviewing full- and part-time unpaid interns to work in a small team of editors, executives, and developers in its New York City headquarters. This will involve plenty of writing and editing, good but not necessarily healthy food, unruly behind-the-scenes website functions, a deepening relationship with your laptop, and coffee. We’re currently accepting applications for fall interns.
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Claudio Bravo
Claudio Bravo was a Chilean painter mostly known for his hyperrealist paintings of still lives, portraits, and packages. I am deeply in love with his colors and use of perspective.
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Intentions (1)
In the beginning was the hand, and the hand was good
Celan says there’s no difference between a handshake and a poem
The hand has a tendency to close around the palm,
flatbread and goat cheese, prayer beads extracted at the checkpoint
The mouth may say, What am 1 doing here what am I doing here
but the hand is curious, it learns with the fingertips
My hand remembers fingering the rosary, frisson of apostasy,
enchanted circuit of witless penance
At this moment, everywhere, the hand is touching the forbidden
The head shies off but five witnesses compel the hand to tell
-Lee Sharkey, The Seattle Review
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If wishes do really come true, can love be forever?
Back when I was having a love affair with Asian dramas, I thought this song was the most wistful I’d ever heard. (I was a teenager, y’all). But I still have a fondness for it. The melody is evocative of loss somehow.
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You’re Quite Cute But Infinitely Forgettable: All the Videos You Need Today
Think Frozen crossed with Lion King. Let It Go – Frozen – Alex Boyé (Africanized Tribal Cover) Ft. One
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Winter’s Tale: A Flawed Fairy Tale
I took myself off on impulse to see Winter’s Tale this weekend, and it was both better and worse than I expected, in, as I said on Twitter, Brown-Findlay and Farrell have some of the best onscreen chemistry I’ve ever seen, but the otherwordly plot was entirely nonsensical.
Slashfilm’s Angie Han wrote my favorite review –
“Winter’s Tale doesn’t lack for sincerity. It’s genuinely invested in the idea of eternal love, and the notion that everything happens for a reason, and the possibility that miracles are happening around us every day, and it tries its very hardest to sell us on these pleasant beliefs. What Winter’s Tale lacks is sense.” RT
HitFix’s Drew McWeeny also wrote a fantastic review, and though it’s (deservedly) negative this part was my favorite –
“Jessica Findley Brown plays Beverly, and speaking as someone who has never seen “Downton Abbey,” I think the film makes a strong case for her as an actor directors are rightfully going to freak out for and who will make about a dozen movies in the next two years. She’s great. The camera positively loves her, and she is almost able to make this threadbare character idea genuinely charming and vulnerable. Farrell treats her in all of their scenes together like a bear who is afraid of spooking a baby deer. She brings out this very tender Farrell, and if this film works at all for audiences, it will be because these two have great energy together.” RT
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Interior Love
What do you think of this Michael Bastian interior? Oddly enough, I’d never personally go for the look of pictures and paintings covering the walls, but I always enjoy it when I see other people do it. This richly decorated Victorian-esque room gracefully balances on the line between overly ornate and coherent. I particularly love the colors.
Coffee and Irony 