Present Joys

• Sunday night, happened to check the syllabus for my “internship class” and realized a heavily-weighted research paper was due the next day! So I stayed up late to write it. Late.
• Dove downtown monday morning for package design at 8am, talked to my friends and realized that I had a ton of homework to do, and went back home at 9:20am. (Nobody minded.)
• Did lots of homework for Burleigh. Lots and lots. Every waking minute.
• Ran into Marcia Tabler on Cleveland Ave. Her bright red raincoat was the happiest chroma I saw all week.
• In draping, had my first time back in the studio in three weeks. Started draping a dress of my own design out of cheapo knit fabric.
• Stayed up until at least 1am every night this week working on my big cooking project for Burleigh. I have probably slept less this week than any other week of school, but it’s okay because I really am having fun with this stuff.
• Matched Amanda, half-deliberately and half-accidentally; took lots of silly photos during class.
• Went to CSCA to hear Stephen Coles give a talk about typography. It was my first time, and a very nice time indeed—schmoozy social-hour notwithstanding!

Here might I stay and sing,
no story so divine;
never was love, dear King!
never was grief like Thine.
    This is my Friend,
    in Whose sweet praise
    I all my days
    could gladly spend.

Samuel Crossman, My song is love unknown, 1664

amnhnyc:

It’s Tuesday’s peek into the archives: Mr. Neimeyer colors grasses for use in a diorama, 1934.

For more, check out the Picturing the Museum collection.

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I am a connoisseur of golden-era painting smocks. This one looks like it’s got a sailor’s collar. Fantastic.

heavytweedjacket:

The old L.L. Bean - Hunting, Fishing and Camping.