A barn that became a House...

While perusing a lovely blog that I found - thanks to a friend - called Being Brazen I found a post on a barn to house conversion. Feeling the need to share it I went on over to the site A Barn that became a House and grabbed a few more pics to post.

Royal Wedding Day...

So.... who cares that it is the Royal Wedding today? Honestly, two days ago I thought I had missed it. I got back from a road trip (post & photos to come) and I assumed it had happened while I was in the middle of nowhere, drinking tea in a mountain pass with no reception.



I was wrong. Its today. And the hype here in SA has been well, hyper since yesterday afternoon. I listened to everything regarding royal weddings on the radio all day yesterday, and all day today in the run up to the impending nuptials.


Agh, bless. Just look at them.

The girly fairytale believing part of me - which I have suppressed deep, deep inside - can't help by rear its dreamy, optimistic little head and I am finding myself more and more bitter that I am not planted on the couch, in front of the TV watching the ceremony and eating cucumber sammies and drinking tea like most people on my Facebook newsfeed are doing. Actually make the high tea!



No, I'm going to go ask for the afternoon off. Wish me luck. (The answer will without a doubt be no.)

Mark Laita...

These are amazing photos by Mark Laita, whom I had never heard of until about an hour ago. The collection is called Created Equal.

ROA, Street Artisit...

Visit this site:


This dude is awesome!!

Guangzhou Opera House, Zaha Hadid

From mymodernmet.com:

This past weekend, Zaha Hadid celebrated the completion of Guangzhou Opera House, the architect’s first completed project in China. Shaped to resemble two pebbles on the bank of the Pearl River, the design was influenced by river valleys and the way they are transformed by erosion.

See more about it here.

When I turned 21, Mom took me to London. When I was there I happened upon the Design Museum at the time they were exhibiting Zaha Hadid's work (obviously not the actual buildings, but models, concepts and virtual tours). It was entirely by chance, and very relevant to me at the time as we'd been looking at her work in college just before I left. I will find the photos and post them sometime.

The Book Surgeon...

Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.

Check this out:






More at about The Book Surgeon.

Read Create Dream...

I love that people have the desire to do things like this:







More at Today and Tomorrow.