Bird Watching.

Bird Watching by Paula McCarthy

Princeton Architectural Press, 2010

This book is kind of similar to the Jean-Luc Mylane book I posted about a while ago, except, these birds aren't real!!! Paula McCarthy fills her landscapes with artificial birds she buys at craft stores and on ebay. I was fooled for a while. Tricksy Paula McCarthy.

Unseen Vogue.

Unseen Vogue

Little Brown, 2002

This book has been out for a while but is new to me. It's dreamy.

Purdy.

I am having a book-cover-obsessed week apparently. These arrived in store today! I don't often carry fictional titles but like the Ruben Toledo designed classics I carried over the holidays, these seemed too good to pass up.

I have a new favourite joke.

"What do you call an ape in a minefield?"

"A baboom."

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA. It makes me laugh everytime.

Window Book Window Sculptures Window.

Sharlene-The-Wunder-Photographer came by the store yesterday and took some proper pictures of my book sculpture window installation. She's a genius! You can see more on her blog and her website!

Other Favourites.

My car has died. It is in the shop until further notice because my tranny transmission broke. I have been walking to work and I consequently have blisters. Oh woe is me. On the upside, yesterday I learnt about a drink called a Pickleback. This consists of cheap bourbon with dill pickle brine. OH HAPPY DAY. Considering my love of frickles, pickles and all things gherkin related, this is indeed a joyous discovery.

This has nothing to do with my images, because I explained where they came from in the post below. The Iris Murdoch cover is deliciously terrifying.

The Case Of The Dangerous Dowager.

I got a box-set of postcards of classic Penguin book-covers. These 3 have the best titles EVER and make me want to read Erie Stanley Gardner. I would not want to meet the Dangerous Dowager in a dark alley late at night. No sir.

Gentry Collection Continues To Grow!

Gentry Number 15 Summer 1955

So excited about my growing collection of Gentry magazines. They are a constant source of wonder and hilarity. This one has a guide to "cooling beverages, and food that can be cooked out of doors in the warm, lazy days of summer ahead". My favourite is the Romanoff Rouser which is described as "not only good before, during and after meals but is also a very handy hangover remedy". It's basically a Bloody Mary but I prefer Romanoff Rouser. Other articles include: Delauney: Pioneer in Abstract Art; Summer on Horseback and The Formal Raincoat.

Window.

I have been planning my new window display this weekend - I think I'm going to do a meadow. Here's the current one, it's still undergoing additions and tweaks. It's much calmer than most of my windows, so it makes a nice change. I wasn't aware of it but I think I was inspired by the sculptures of Ruth Asawa. This is something that Sharlene pointed out to me a couple of days ago. Sharp as a whip that one.

Fanny.

Found a blog called F.B's Diary. It's delicious. All these images come from it. I love the bottom one of Tony Duquette.

Debs.

Love D-Turbs. Wish I lived New York, New York.

Hiroshi Sugimoto.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Nature of Light

Ram, 2010

These stunning photographs are very quiet. I loves them.

I got a bad review on Yelp today. Yelp is the devil's spawn. I looked at the rest of my reviewer's reviews and they were mostly angry. He yelped our local Sear's so I am obviously in marvellous company. He called my hair dishwater blonde which is a bit rude because anyone can see it's a strawberry hue. Ha. He said I never say hello and am prejudiced against bicycles - which are clearly fibs because I say hello to everyone and often cycle to work myself. Blurgh. I responded and defended myself which I don't think is the point of YELP but I had to defend my family honour. Harold would be proud.

Wystan.

Horst Portraits: 60 Years of Style

Abrams, 2001

I love this picture of W. H. Auden. He was a grand poet. His W. stood for Wystan which is an unusual and magnificent name. It means battlestone in old English.

Prada.

Prada

Abrams, 2010

Hi There New Friend!

New-Expensive-Friend-I-Can't-Afford- To-Hang-Out-With!

You sure are pretty.

Woodbutcher!

Handmade Houses: A Guide To The Woodbutcher's Art

The Scrimshaw Press, 1973

One word. Woodbutcher. Love.

It's my new curse of choice.

"SHUT UP, YOU'RE SUCH A WOODBUTCHER!!!!"

Gentry.

Gentry Magazine Holiday Issue 1952

I only manage to get these in a few times a year because they never appear for sale. It's kind of like a male version of Flair Magazine. This issue includes articles on: The Fine Art of Drinking, Charles Spencer Chaplin and "How The Brigadier Slew The Fox" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. BANANAS.

Mick.

Great tumblr site devoted to Mick

I've always had a thing for Keith but I appreciate Mick - 'specially his young Mick fashion. Now he looks a bit like a tortoise, albeit a handsome tortoise.

Comme Des Garcons! What?!?!?

Unlimited: Comme des Garcons

Heibonsha, 2005

You can't tell but this front cover WOBBLES when you touch it! It should do something amazing because it's $100. I didn't quite know it would be this much when I ordered it. I get them from IDEA BOOKS which are based in the Netherlands so the catalogues are in EUROS which make no sense to me because I am slow-witted. Books on Comme des Garcons and Rei Kawakubo are pretty hard to find though - so I think they will sell like hot cakes.

Aggie.

Illumination:

The Painting of Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin and Florence Miller Pierce.

OCMA, 2010

Both the works above are by Agnes Martin. I love the name Agnes. Not because of Aggie Deyn, but because I think it's a lovely looking word. I like the A next to the g and the nes. If I ever have a small girl I would consider Agnes - Agnes Spriggs - that's a good name. Although I have said in the past that if I did birth a girl I would try and give it back. I know little boys can smell funny but big boys seem like they would cause less worry than big girls. I know I was a horror and single-handedly sent my mother grey.

Shoes.

Shoes by Colin McDowell

Thames & Hudson, 1989

Happily merging my love for shoes and my love for Colin McDowell - here is "Shoes" by Colin McDowell!!! It's full of facts and figures and fabulous pictures of shoes - but this one of dearly beloved Elton, clearly off his tits, was the one that won my heart.