Photography

Another light artist: In this piece Worthington takes your shadow and embellishes as it is projected (using some sort of computer technology, I think). Anyway, I’m totally in to this. NOTE: THE VOLUME ON THIS CLIP IS LOUD AND NOT SAFE FOR WORK.

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In a continuing attempt to find hope in the dark depths of winter, this week I’m posting a number of artists who work with light, glorious light. This project is from design team Nuage Vertand.  They worked with the local community to cut power consumption (turn out the lights when you leave the house, lower the thermostat type conservation) and over the course of the project, the more power that was being conserved, the longer the green light on the smoke stack became. 

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Loving this post over at Even Cleveland

you will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of

- Albert Camus

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In the course of some other research today I came across this image from the Yale University Art Gallery.  Evidently Monet was influenced by this photographer’s work and I can see it — the luminous quality of this photograph.  I’ve been obsessed with trees recently — I devoured The Wild Trees by Richard Preston.  It is a non-fiction book about the life of redwood trees. I highly, highly recommend it.

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My mother is mine!  See all of them over at Smitten.

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So we know that I love photo booth projects like blogger HulaSeventy‘s Photobooth Friday project, that I had a photo booth brought from NYC to the wilds of New Hampshire for my wedding and really, I can never get enough of them. Check out this wonderful wedding invite found via Smitten. To locate the nearest photo booth to you, check out the site Photobooth.net and get snappin’!

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and my new favorite song: “It’s Only Love” found here.

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It’s a busy day here, running around the brick and morter world.  I’ll leave you this lovely from the Porter Polaroid Project.  Delicious!

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One of my favorite things in the world is auction house catalogs.

More here.

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According to the back of this photo, this is “Charles in robe with cup he won in Beautiful Baby Contest.”  We’re headed to Maine for a wedding and I’m hoping I’ll have at least one lobster roll.  PS, sign up for the Vintage Swap (and thanks to everyone who has already sent me email!)

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I’m in Boston today doing research at the R. G. Dun & Co. Collection at Harvard. Dun & Co. was the first commercial credit reporting agency in America and the collection consists of 2,580 volumes of handwritten credit reports on individuals and firms from the United States, Canada, and the West Indies, dating from 1841–1892. The information included in the reports includes the duration of the business, net worth, sources of wealth, and the character and reputation of the owners, their partners, and successors. I’m looking up a business in Troy, NY from the 1860s — let’s hope he was scandalous!

Vintage snapshot is one more of my haul from last weekend.

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I’ve gotten two marketing emails touting fall fashion styles! No! No! No! It’s not even July 15th.  I’m hanging on the summer for dear life.  (Evidently it’s going to be a “romantic, resplendent fall….”)

Vintage photograph is one of my finds from this weekend — let’s talk about how fashionable these sweet ladies are!

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How insanely awesome is this wedding photograph? Found at The Year in Pictures (found via Cup of Jo).

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