ugly or awesome: this one is easy edition

Thursday, September 1st, 2011 at 9:00 am in access-o-rizin, shoes, so this exists, tell me what you really mean, ugly or awesome

Erica: need supply is hosting the ugly shoe parade
Erica: you have to look
Erica: jeffery campbell  has lost his freaking mind

Jeffrey Campbell Lita Patchwork

Jeffrey Campbell Zup Laced Up Wedge

Jeffrey Campbell Natalie Corset Platform

Senso Giraffe Heel

Jeffrey Campbell Represent Fringe Platform

Won Hundred Hand

Erica: those look like dog poo
Erica: what the hell
me: shut up erica they have been dubbed the ‘it’ shoe of 2011
me: a perfect mix of buffalo shoes and ballet pumps
Erica: im so confused
Erica: this is lady gaga’s fault

logan baldwin will be your friend

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 at 4:35 pm in i made this

I’m not dead! Just the worst at blogging. I recently finished this illustration of my friend Logan’s head – I haven’t worked in Illustrator for awhile, so that was fun. Vectors! Logan is a drummer who recently launched his website, and wants to be friends with you  - just be cool, okay? Be cool.

Also, my friend Mark recently cleaned up my hacky WordPress theme code for this blog, fixed up the commenting section, added facebook/twitter share buttons, and generally just improved everything, which I am quite excited about. Thanks so much, Mark!!

you don’t need a penny just to hang around

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 at 1:27 am in americana, amusement parks, linkage, summertime > internet time

I’ve been bummed about the ratio of (boring) work to summer activities recently, but this weekend I spent some quality time on the Cyclone and Wonder Wheel, and my friend showed me the former bar (now a church) where the Gambino crime family used to chop up bodies before dumping them in the river, then also the river body-dumping spot. And I had ice cream.

The best flavors of ice cream:

  • mint chocolate chip
  • key lime
  • chocolate when something else salty is mixed in

Good stuff on the internet:

wrap bracelet, pt. II

Sunday, July 10th, 2011 at 11:12 pm in access-o-rizin, family, green is the best color, i made this, jewelz

My cousin Carrie of the aforementioned bridal shower sent me this photo of herself today (ok like 1/5 of herself) wearing a wrap bracelet I gave her, coordinated perfectly with her chevron-print skirt. I remade this wrap bracelet a few times til I was happy with it and here’s where we ended up – it can also be worn as a long necklace, but I like it best this way.

My cousin’s family (comprised of mostly ladies) has spot-on taste in textile prints – I’d go on facebook and make a collage of wardrobe photos to prove it if I had time, and that sure would be riveting blog content for you, wouldn’t it. Go look at this instead: Gunshow webcomics via Caragh who has the best taste of things on the internet.

how I’ve been wasting my time recently

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 at 5:31 pm in best thing of the month, comedy, excellence in personality, famous weirdos, huh, information all the time, tell me what you really mean, what i'm googling now

“Sir Ian McKellen does a dramatic interpretation of Ducktales.” This is the best thing of the month. But also!

• This GQ profile of Chris Evans by Edith Zimmerman (editor of The Hairpin):

But in the days since my first interview with Chris Evans, I’d drunk myself under the table, snuck out of his house at five thirty in the morning, bummed a ride home off a transsexual, been teased mercilessly in front of his mother, and now—this bit in the paper.

• This interview with Courtney Love from The Fix is like a month old but you should definitely read it if you haven’t already, because it’s gold. Part 1 & Part 2.

The police got a warrant and just crashed into my house. When they turned up at my door I was a real smart-ass, I refused to let them in, so then they came back with a warrant. At the time I was I living at Dr. Phil’s house on Alpine. It was an awful place. I was intending to flip it, but it was decorated exactly like you’d think Dr. Phil would decorate his house.

• Wyatt Cenac’s New York Diet for NYMag’s Grub Street is also both a month old and also something you shouldn’t miss.

Lunch was at work at The Daily Show. Normally we have a catered lunch, where our caterers find every single way to make tilapia horrible. You might say, “How can you do that? Tilapia is already horrible.” But they find a way.