shoe shine

I find it odd that out of the hundreds of little cute kitten or puppy videos I've watched in my entire life on youtube, this shoe-shining tutorial still manages to be my favorite. When my brother first showed it to me, I at first thought it was going to be some boring video that I didn't really have the patience for, but it put me in some kind of trance that was actually quite soothing. The fact that nobody is speaking and the only thing you can hear is the sound of a brush rubbing against the leather, makes it even better than just a regular tutorial. I don't know if this will sound strange in any way shape or form, but I felt a suspense every-time the camera would zoom out and he would pick up a new polishing utensil. My favorite part would had to have been the ending, where he ties the laces effortlessly then shows off the final product. Not one word spoken throughout the entire word makes it awesome! Who knew that something so simple as a shoe shine can be so relaxing?

comment below your thoughts!

by the way....are any of you still experiencing blogger issues? My posts somehow magically doubled and a bunch of comments got deleted. Sorry if you left a comment and it got erased!! Love you all and I can't wait until this issue gets resolved!

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Wildfox Couture Spring 2011

i love wildfox!!

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Post it Note Series: Last Words

So I didn't realize until yesterday that the Starlee and Arthur Review Series that the darling Starlee Kine and the dapper Arthur Jones have been diligently working on for so long launched quietly on the L STUDIO site in September.
These are some of my favorites:

Last Words
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Lost
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Disaster Films**

Procrastination:

This is awesome. Procrastination by John Kelly.**I was almost able to watch the whole thing with out getting distracted. O.K. not at all. But it is still amazing. I love the time lapse color coding of bookshelves.

I got soaked in freezing rain tonight.

I used to love this when I was a kid.
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Rainy Day Song from Sesame Street. Oddly I remember it being a man's voice and I remember the tempo being a lot faster.

Sweet Christmas Videos

I dunno what's going on here, but this is really cute.
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I like when he cries blue M&Ms
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I actually LOLed. effe you veggies.

See the rest at Emme's Weblog.

You know I love stop motion animation involving food, remember that video that illustrated all the major American armed conflicts using snack foods? Food Fight

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Everything With You

OMG. Cute video alert! Check out Peggy Wang East and Carlen Altman starring in the new video for Peggy's band The Pains of Being Pure at Heart.

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I DIE.
So jelz I didn't go on this ultimate bff girl date. The pains are on tour in the U.K. right now, go see them! I miss you Peggarita!

I Heart Bart

Started this post about Bart Davenport a while back but for various reasons I never got around to posting it. Do you know about how much I love Bart Davenport? You probably do, but still.

These photos are from a show in August at Piano's. Chris has a really cool peace sign tattoo.

I am actually not naked in this photo but whateves.

This is not a new song but listen to Miami Afternoon.
"Subtlety is gonna be my best friend, gotta big fetish for tiny things."

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The video is sorta new.

Valentine For A Perfect Stranger

Thank you Keren.



Dedicated to the Hive Mind of San Francisco.

Who's Gonna Save My Soul Video

I can't get off this TV tip this week .
Aasha Davis aka Waverly from Friday Night Lights in this Gnarls Barkley video.

It's about break ups and an anthropomorphic heart sings using broccoli as a microphone. Just sayin'

Rebecca Turbow Safe Video

Since I am posting videos by friends this week let us not forget Turbow.


This video shows the Safe Spring/Summer 2008 collection all modeled by Rebecca.

Richter Sister's Video

Keren and Julie Richter (Big Sis/lil sis respectively) collaborated on a little video. Click here to view. The drawing ended up on a certain sneaker you may or may not of heard about.

Get a pair right here.

King of Sorrow: Sade

King of Sorrow is my favorite Sade song and as I am sure you know Sade has a lot of good songs and Smooth Operator is no joke. I was totally obsessed with this video in 2001 and I used to describe it to people in detail at the slightest provocation. Today I realized that with the wonders of teh innerweb I could find it on YouTube.


This video pulls on every last one my heart strings. Its got everything: cute babies, a location that looks like Cuba, a single mom, Sade looking like a total fox, pretty dresses, white pants, sadness. The part at the end when she washes the baby's shoes. *sniff* gets. me. every. time.





Seriously is there anyone is the world more glamorous than Sade. I remember hearing a long time ago that she never does interviews and is super shy and private. I remember Chris Rock talking about how he had her on his show and she wouldn't speak and he was so intimidated by her that he just stared at her in awe.