The Wonderlust Journal

Lavin for H&M

30 seconds that will make you think Alber Elbaz is adorable.

Love this video of him as well, done by T Magazine.

I love that he says his mom talked to his teacher when he was young because she was concerned that he was drawing pictures of ladies and not of things like “tanks,” and that the teacher just said to wait and see where it would go… how wise she was to let him do his thing!

November 2, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Style Files

Labels:
video

Project7 Coffee: “Brew for a Better World”

“How can a cup of coffee change the world?” For each cup of coffee you buy from Project7, you contribute to one of seven causes. Just by buying what you already buy, from a different company, you can make a difference. Check out the video, it’s awesomely done.

LOVE this concept. In fact, we’re in the process of working on something like this ourselves, but I can’t give anything away yet… pretty exciting!

October 28, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Masters and Their Crafts

Labels:
animation, cause-related, must-see, video

Classics: Robert Indiana

Love these iconic photos from the catalog for the Robert Indiana show at Paul Kasmin Gallery in 2008.

October 27, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Arts Visuels

Labels:
americana, classics, installation

Bar Carts Pt III

As I’ve discussed before, I really love a good bar cart or tray in a home. They just give the feeling that you’re always ready for company and a good time. Here, four examples of really lovely styling mixing the bar elements with art, both propped, for a more ad hoc look, and properly hung, for a more formal effect.

October 26, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
LustList

Labels:
Bar carts

Must See: Andy Goldsworthy documentary Rivers and Tides

If you’re an Andy Goldsworthy fan, I’d highly recommend this documentary on him. If you’re not a Goldsworthy fan, I bet you’ll become one really quickly if you watch this film. His work is pure wonderment.

Seeing Goldsworthy at work on his ephemeral pieces, made completely of found materials, is almost meditative just to watch. I don’t know what I expected him to be like as a person, but I was enchanted in the documentary to see that he is so much a part of his work, and vice versa. You can’t imagine him doing anything else with his life, and it seems to completely consume him, so that he is completely at peace while he’s working.

October 25, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Arts Visuels, Must See

Labels:
documentary, earth art, film, installation, wonderment

Art For a Cause: Re:Form School

Last week, redu, a movement aimed at rebuilding America’s public school system, sponsored a huge collaborative arts show, called Re:Form School, aimed at raising public awareness about the need to reform our school system.

WK, one of the participating artists, created this awesome installation at a New York City public school playground using photos he took of kids at the school and drawings he collected from them.

Check out this time-lapse video to see how it was created…

Love that even the art world is helping focus attention on our public schools right now!

[Re:Form]

[Kitsune Noir]

October 21, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Arts Visuels

Labels:
education, installation, video

Vanessa Traina’s Living Room

Vanessa Traina, brand ambassador for Chanel, daughter of Danielle Steele, and model for Louis Vuitton.

Love: the simple palette, LV trunk as coffee table, camel velvet sofa, gallery wall.

You can see the rest of the apartment here, although this was by far my favorite pic. The rest is a little overboard for me…

[Shot for Harper's Bazaar]

October 20, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Interiors

Labels:
tastemakers, yes to all

Dear reader…

Dear reader,

You have reached the end of the “freshest” archives that are formatted for this new site layout, so things beyond here get a little less pretty. I hope you don’t mind.

Or, if you care to browse according to specific archive topics, the old posts appear much nicer within their specific categories, like listening to, style files, etc., because of the way those pages are formatted. You can click on the category archives at the top of the page.

Happy browsing!

October 20, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
A Teachable Moment

Labels:

It’s Never Too Late

…to be what you want to be.

When I first saw this print, I thought it was a movie poster, like the “unsheets” I’ve been posting. Doesn’t the format, with the line along the bottom and what looks like tiny credits underneath, lead you to think so? And for a French film, the design would be perfectly suitable. It kind of looks like it could be for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, no?

And it turns out it’s just a lovely print with a lovely meaning by an artist, and unlike the general genre of “inspirational posters,” not cheesy at all. I particularly love the (unsentimental) typeface.

Here.

["Unsheet" movie poster

posts here, here, here.]

October 20, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Graphic Fix

Labels:
Graphic Design, posters, prints

Listening To >> The Black Keys

Having listened to this song plenty of times on the album, I sort of had an idea in my head of what I imagined the video might be like. Well, this is not what I would’ve guessed in a million years. It’s pretty cute/funny, just not at all what I imagined. To start with, I didn’t picture something that could be described as cute/funny. Would you? I’ll let you judge for yourself.

October 20, 2010

Curated by:
Eliza Coleman

Section:
Listening To

Labels:

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