Ms. Jen Bekman

Actress Diane Keaton, from “Another Woman,” by Tierney Gearon 

Robert Frank’s shoes. Sharp.

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Love, love, love our @20x200 Artist Fund series of @NASA archive images. 

This gorgeous photo, AS07-08-1933, was taken in 1968 from the Apollo 7 spacecraft. Read more or buy a limited-edition print benefiting the 20x200 artist fund on 20x200.com here.

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If Everybody Likes What You Are Doing You’re Doing it Wrong

Something I said during my Design Matters interview, immortalized in hand-drawn lettering. (I’ve actually said it a zillion times, one of those times being earlier tonight in fact! Because it’s true.)

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The world’s tiniest violin is playing just for you.

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Alfred Hitchcock on the set of The Birds.

From an excellent array of on set photos discovered here.

Ugly lamp 2 by Samantha Groenestyn (aka The Duchess)

Came across this lovely image and blog post via a vanity Google alert. (The writer listened to my recent interview for Debbie Millman’s Design Matters podcast.)

What I discovered was some refreshingly long-form (the anti-Twitter?) writing along with this (and many other) charming illustrations.

I particularly like what the author/illustrator — Samantha Groenestyn — had to say about the whole idea of what you want to be when you grow up and how one might lose one’s way from it:

When your small, past self was asked what it intended to do once it was a fully-fledged rational being, I’m sure it had a clear idea. It may not have had a title for it, but your child-self… quite probably imagined spending the day in one or several particular ways…

Somewhere on our path to rational-beinghood, we learn to quantify occupations differently, and to the detriment of our own clear thinking…

What we really want to ask ourselves is this: ‘Hey, future self, how do you want to spend each day?’

Thank you, Duchess!

(via Qu’est-ce que vous faites dans la vie? « The Duchess)

Everything, But It’s Not Enough

Uhuh.