a like and dislike list with one of my favorite artists, the serbian designer/furniture maker/photographer/general babe ana kras. very exciting and fun to correspond with her! read it below or on the synonym site here!

i like

when someone scratches my back and arms, cream spinach, colour navy, gasoline smell, 90′s toyota corola sedan, nissan pick up trucks, old land rover defenders, old dodge chargers, aerodynamic hybrid bicycle helmets, sporty bicycles, gentle manners, when someone brushes my hair, to swim, to dive, tall beds, flying on an aeroplain, poppy flowers in fields or isolated, dill, ice cream, coconut fragrance summer lotions, mojitos, rice pudding, mashed potatoes, kimichi, sauerkraut, fine hair in a small bun, very white hair on old people, paragliding, interacting with a dog, holding a sloth, holding a koala, surfing, ceviche, cherries, ancient aliens, choreographies, massages, hot waxing, wasabi, almond croissants, quince smell, burek, to take a bath, to cut my own and other people hairs

i don’t like

loud restaurants, metro, hard boiled eggs, soy sauce, loud taking people, violence, festivals, the smell of lamb, incense, african masks, cats, coffee, bear, cartoons, polyester, shopping malls

*image by ana kras.

briocolage, bricolage, bricolage.

do you have any earthly idea how young i am?

“At seventy-five, Rorem has the sort of looks men used to try for with injections of animal glands. He’s trim, handsome, energetic, voluble. The slight trace of puffiness in his face was probably the result of his insomnia and of his anxiety about Jim Holmes. We spoke on a gray winter afternoon. He had brought in a tray with teapot and cups, and a little plastic carton of tapioca for himself.”
via the paris review, art of the diary #1

forgot about this, ca. 2007, from mcsweeney’s reviews of new foods:

interviewer: that reminds me of something lucian freud said, that sometimes the most rewarding kind of travel is downward travel, getting deeper into something you already know. getting to know where you are, better, and exploring feelings tat you know more deeply.

my friends are cool!
excited to share the new web shop for SAM HILL that i built with the one and only kyle muller. you can see and buy from the web shop here, but for now here are some images from the lookbook michael shot (featuring willing friends/models paul and gideon). see the whole lookbook here! i love it.

yvonne ranier

partial synonym issue 2 inspiration board.
one. two. three.

recent trajectory:
watching the presidential inauguration > beyoncé > googling “national anthem” > watching whitney houston’s version at the ’91 superbowl in tampa > watching old whitney houston live performances > bobby brown’s wikipedia page > earnestly googling “being bobby brown reality show” > OY.