Midori Snyder's Blog, page 69

Food and Fashion Together: Ah Italia!

So here is the delicious work of award winning Italian photographer Fulvio Bonavia combing Italy's two best exports -- fashion and food -- in his gorgeous book "A Matter of Taste." Who would not love a bag of sweet berries?...

The Fashionable Man Carries a Skull Bag

I have to say I am gobsmacked by these Shiva Skull Bags, haute couture man-purses in the shape of a tweedy skull with zippered lips. These scary and extremely cool skulls are the work of Brazilian born Aitor Throup --...

Monsoons in the Desert

Many people flee Tucson in the summer, unwilling to remain for those blistering 107 degree days. And even when I give the standard answer, "but it's a dry heat," the reply is usually something like "yeah, like standing in a...

Interviews with Kickstarter Co-Founder Perry Chen

It's no secret how much I love Kickstarter -- and the power behind this new economic model of having a worldwide internet opportunity to take a creative project to the people and let them decide how much love and money...

Working on the New Design

This is a work in progress--it takes me forever frankly and yet I still get impatient. So I am pretty content to put the first version out here and we will see what it will look like a week from...

Steampunk Insects By Lindsey Bessanon

Lindsey Bessanon is an Arizona artist who creates beautiful and intricate pieces of art combining the delicacy of insect carapaces with the delicacy of mechanical gears. They look like random bits of CGI in a Steampunk movie where the universe...

Fairy Tales and Disco Balls: Emilie Simon's "Franky's Princess"

Have a look at this charming fairy tale stop-animation music video from French electro-pop singer Emilie Simon. The band of knights is wonderful and who knew disco balls could be so magical? You an cread more about the singer and...

Coming Up For Air...and Coffee

So I have been more than a little absent from the blog lately. And while I have a lot of future posts kicking in my head, I am in the middle of a number of re-organizations -- including an overhaul...

Kickstarter Project: Amanda Palmer: Combining Music and Art and Books

I am fascinated by the way in which Kickstarter can make life for artists possible. Worthy projects receive the support of the public -- willing to invest a little or a lot in art, in music, in almost any kind...

The Two Most Powerful Warriors

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." Tolstoy While this quote from Tolstoy seems to contradict our conventional idea of the warrior -- all speed and action --it does makes a certain sense for the mothers of warriors....