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Category Archives: BEAUTIFUL LIFE
DAYS WITH MY FATHER
March 10, 2009
Thank you to Gilberto Albuquerque for sending the link to this extraordinary work from Phillip Toledano: www.dayswithmyfather.com
TEXTILE DESIGNERS AT THE CUTTING EDGE
February 17, 2009
Everyone is raving about Bradley Quinn’s new book Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge.
Congrats for this great review @ JC Report.
And THANK YOU to Bradley for including our work at Alabama Chanin.
WEEKEND MUSIC
February 16, 2009
It was a great weekend for music in the Shoals…
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit launched their CD – Seven Mile Island - at the newly remodeled Shoals Theatre in downtown Florence. It was staggering to see this iconic venue from my childhood develop to fantastic music venue.
The place was packed with friends, family, fans. Fame Studio, Muscle Shoals Sound, music giants Dick Cooper, Spooner Oldham and others watched as the theatre transformed.
CONGRATULATIONS go out to Spooner Oldham, and his wife Karen, for Spooner’s recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. What a great, and well deserved, honor. All of us in the Shoals are proud to call Spooner friend and hero.
Also, a GIANT shout-out to Shonna Tucker (more amazing than everyone raves) of the Drive-By Truckers for stories, laughter, good food and company… we can’t wait to photograph Shonna for the upcoming Songbirds catalog.
And we are all looking forward to seeing the Truckers @ the Shoals Theatre in the near future..
Thanks to Traci @ Thirty Tigers and Logan @ Lightening Records for making it all happen…
AN END TO WINTER
January 23, 2009
It is just been so COLD outside. All the southerners are complaining so I can’t imagine what it is like to be up north at the moment. It seems that the weather has made the transition from the holidays back to work especially difficult this year (almost impossible) and the grey landscape could definitely use a bit of color right now. Does everyone feel that way?
My seeds came in this week: Seed Savers Exchange
I love the names: Dwarf Gray Sugar and Blue Podded Shelling Peas, Lacinato Kale. Chives, Lettuce Leaf Basil, Florence Fennel, Calabrese Broccoli, Summer Crookneck Squash, Pingtung Long Eggplant, Spinach and Smoke Signals Corn.
And, I received my worms: Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm
This weekend I am going to clean up my beds around the house, plant Snow Peas, and prepare the compost pile that is going to be my summer garden. Posted at 6:01 am
A BUREAU OF FRIENDS
December 28, 2008
As I sit in my winter living room and look out the window, I think about what an amazingly full, rich, intense year it has been. I recently made the joke that I sometimes I feel like Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner… when I am lying on my death bed, I will say, “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain….”
I feel lucky, blessed, and grounded to have recently met so many new acquaintances to add to the dear old friends who fill my cup with inspiration. While sitting on a couch late one afternoon in South Africa, I decided that I want to take a moment each month to talk about one of these rich, rich souls who has enriched my life.
From painter Judith Eisler, woman extraordinaire Marsha Guerrero, documentarian Davia Nelson, woman of style Julie Gilhart, film maker Jennifer Venditti, writer/stylist/foodie Angie Mosier, and hero Alice Waters, to designer Christina Kim, I want to highlight work that I find world changing, heartfelt and inspirational.
So is born “A Bureau of Friends.” Stay tuned for monthly stories.
Here’s a wish that 2009 may continue to be a great adventure…
VIEW ON COLOR
December 5, 2008
“As we abandon long-established notions of the past and truly embrace this young century, the agricultural community will become the planet’s new elite, dominating our essential needs and inspiring years of farmer styles. After all, the farmers of the future will clothe us, house us, feed us, fuel us and hopefully even heal us. Ultimately they will be able to engineer design and grow furniture in a symbiosis of technology and biology, and therefore rural and urban lifestyles will merge and become one; resulting in an inversed social landscape with a greener city and a more contemporary countryside.
We will see vertical farming in the inner cities and the return of smaller luxury farms in the countryside to handle the market for fresh niche products, while arid areas of the globe will be used to power solar plants and farm new kinds of bio fuels. The farm will even become a destination for beauty and learning as well as a cradle for new retail strategies and marketplaces for the future.
This rural revival will sustain far into the future, influencing our habitations and interiors….” Li Edelkoort – an excerpt from View on Color – A World of Folk, page 67
Copies of The World of Folk issue can be purchased by contacting Tel: 212 420 7622 Edelkoort, Inc.- $95.00 + $ 7 shipping
CHEZ PANISSE FOUNDATION
November 11, 2008
On Saturday afternoon, I had the honor of touring the Edible Schoolyard and having lunch in the new Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School Dining Commons. Alice Waters, the Chez Panisse Foundation and a team of others are working towards changing the way we see the school lunch program in America.
The program was inspiring, delicious and beautiful and I am committed to bringing this philosophy into the life of my own daughter.
Here is an overview of the work being accomplished by the Chez Panisse Foundation:
THE COLORS OF SOUTH AFRICA
October 20, 2008
Blue skies, rolling lands, rich fabrics and faces, recycling – using what you have available to the best advantage. Ingenious. Colorful. Respectful and full of joy…
These beautiful photographs from Shack Chic by Craig Fraser and a lovely collection of books by Quivertree Publications from a collection of South African artists, foodies and designers.
THE MOTH
September 20, 2008
“The Moth, a not-for-profit storytelling organization, was founded in New York in 1997 by poet and novelist George Dawes Green, who wanted to recreate in New York the feeling of sultry summer evenings on his native St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, where he and a small circle of friends would gather to spin spellbinding tales on his friend Wanda’s porch.”
I am not a great sports fan but I am a lover of storytelling; this weeks podcast from The Moth is a fantastic tale. Don’t miss Matthew McCaughey telling, “My First Day with the Yankees.”
Subscribe to The Moth weekly podcast through iTunes.
And visit their website: www.themoth.org
Enjoy!