Posts tagged inspirational
Talk about determination! So inspiring!
9-year-old’s DIY cardboard arcade gets flashmobbed
Caine Monroy is a 9-year old boy who spent his summer vacation building an elaborate DIY cardboard arcade in his dad’s used auto parts store.
Caine dreamed of the day he would have lots of customers visit his arcade, and he spent months preparing everything, perfecting the game design, making displays for the prizes, designing elaborate security systems, and hand labeling paper-lunch-gift-bags. However, his dad’s autoparts store (located in an industrial part of East LA) gets almost zero foot traffic, so Caine’s chances of getting a customer were very small, and the few walk in customers that came through were always in too much of a hurry to get their auto part to play Caine’s Arcade. But Caine never gave up.
One day, by chance, I walked into Smart Parts Auto looking for a used door handle for my ’96 Corolla. What I found was an elaborate handmade cardboard arcade manned by a young boy who asked if I would like to play. I asked Caine how it worked and he told me that for $1 I could get two turns, or for $2 I could get a Fun Pass with 500 turns. I got the Fun Pass.
So wonderful.
(via: thatkindofwoman)
Oh, I just love everything about this weaving Beatrice Valenzuela just posted, what she says about it is super sweet too.
Such a good visit last week to the brick & mortar atelier of an on-line shop I’ve loved for the last while…Castor & Pollux.
What a cozy wonderful spot and Kerrilynn is a dream shop-keeper, just oozing approachability and nonchalant elegance, all the while offering too many treasures to responsibly take home in one trip.
Check out the sites collection of C&P Ladies here; each one sharing secrets and being lovely.
At a holiday dinner party over on Mayfair near New Years, I had chance to be introduced to the beautiful work of Arne Quinze by a visiting old friend of the host who is an architect and was flipping through pictures on his phone, but even there you could see the beauty. I’ve since done a little research and have fallen deeper in the AQ hole. Just look at these pictures and see for yourself. Just amazing.
Plus, I love that when you search his name there are all these great pictures of his beautiful wife and him; sweet.
Talk about a Grande Dame.
via daintyanddangerous:
“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave’s a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that’s what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.”
Joan Didion
via andreainspired (who is v.much on my wavelength today):
Between Music and Sound Design: An Interview with Composer Cliff Martinez | MUBI
“Financially, it’s a horrible time to be involved in any aspect of the music business. Artistically, it’s a very exciting time. The technology that has made music making unprofitable is also helping us to create and think about music in new and exciting ways. As for soundtrack music, we film composers are the last of the Mohicans. In the wake of the demise of the record industry, we are the last of a dying breed that still receive a paycheck for making music.”Cliff Martinez is the composer behind one of my favorite movie scores, Soderbergh’s Solaris. Most recently, his work can be heard in Nicholas Refn’s Drive. In this interview, MUBI.com talks to Martinez about his background, his longtime collaboration with Soderberg, and the current state of movie soundtracks.
Morgan over at The Brick House, posted this on twitter last night and I just re-watched.
I like what he has to say and the idea of a story board for each project; the notion that projects start as flashes and then he aligns the flashes to start the story of each project. My favorite part is at the end, and JJ would chuckle because it has to do with the idea of community and communal project building; something I am always on a soap-box about. Anyhow, he says he likes his work because, “it is the work of a collective of hard-working people and that in the end it is best to have the job you want that allows you to do the things you want and then having a group of people to share that experience.”
Love it.
P.S. The Friends of Friends project is worth a spot on your bookmarked pages. Constantly inspiring.
P.S.S. Love the Parisian man hair and layered look.
I am so smitten with Heather’s new web-series from her home and kitchen. It’s straight forward and demystified. Impressive to say the least.
Check out Episode II on canning.
I really like the feel of the More & Co. studio blog. Creative inspiration and pretty pictures.
It is what it is, but it will become what you make of it.
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