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aging with grace and panache | beatrix ost

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Personal style and choosing an outfit for one's day or for an event completely changes one's attitude. It is also determined by one's attitude. The circle of life. You know. That said, I find it quite distressing that people resign themselves to adopting a generationally-dictated style when they reach middle-age. Some even give up their stylistic preferences at the age of 26, citing "practicality" and "grown-up-ness". Outrageous. Also note: Comfort/movability and swimmingly good style are not mutually exclusive, despite all the evidence to the contrary on our sidewalks today. Here I am to dash those standards to smithereens, and affirm my decision to take my own personality-reflective style to my grave. I'll also offer some inspiration for those who are discouraged by the societal norms for day-to-day senior-wear. Today's topic is Beatrix Ost: author / visual artist / actress / film and theatre producer / designer. She is snazzy and wears

artists whose work currently fascinates me :: vivienne strauss

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vivienne strauss // oil paintings poise. relationships. high society. inner musings. french faces. mythology. encounters with animals.   Beatnik girls in NYC 1959 Muriel thought herself the glamourous type George Méliès   The young bohemians Vera with a northern pygmy owl Jacques Cousteau Pidgeon The uninvited guest

awakened by color

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Color is affecting me in large ways, and giving me ideas of art and music and travel. Distinct combinations and contrasting pairs are making me ponder, daydream, and build castles in the sky. Enrapturing discovery. Eloi Gimeno (source unknown) Sheila Hicks via The Latest Story Roost Blog 1807  h ouse paint colors. (source unknown) Mark Rothko Emma Leonard (source unknown) Walter Giordano

cliffside view | 04.15.2013

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The White Cliffs of Dover (image via The Family of Paul Gass ) Credit: ©between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900 Detroit Publishing Company. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction number LC-DIG-ppmsc-08355]

cliffside view | 04.08.2013

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Today's black beauty of Scotland brought to you by Harry Cory Wright from his 'Place in Mind' series, via Condé Nast Traveller .  Choose your own adventure.

what i saw on route 9

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In riding the 9 to the art supply store on Saturday, I came across a great many things which all deserve a spot of light, in their own unique, yet somehow related, ways. When life forces you out of your habitual car and into public transit, you see things with a new set of eyes. Here are the wonders I beheld on a 6-mile bus ride down Reno: -A squiggly stream running down and through an uneven, grassy green lot. The stream ran under a bridge, which we crossed. There were tiny flowers all around. It looked like I could have been in Narnia, flying over in a biplane. I imagined it so.  -A round, rusted-over metal plate in the ground with “INFO” painted on it in white paint. I wondered what information would be so over-conspicuously placed that it seemed, in fact, inconspicuous. Mysterious.  -A great many piles of retired cars in front of a powder-blue garage. I wished I could learn auto mechanics from those dark men with even darker hands. Or at least ask for their leftover blue paint

cliffside view | 04.01.2013

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I'll be doing this thing where I show you a cliff on each Monday. Cliffs are beautiful, breathtaking, hope-spurring, and dream-inspiring. Here is today's specimen. Lizard Pointe, Cornwall, U.K. (photograph via Old Pictures ) Enjoy.