#108 Minus 4 = Today's Temperature (104!)

Today's high is a record breaking 104 degrees.  The last time it was this hot in New York City was 1957.  It's just too darn hot to think about much of anything right now except for swimming pools & popsicles...

Marilyn Monroe's 50's version of fun in the sun

via pinterest

Dior's 2011 version of summer style

via R29

yummmmmy!

via {this is glamorous}

#77 Summer Sunsets

I'm currently obsessed with sunsets.  Their magic is hard to fully describe with a photograph because the feeling you get of being a minuscule part of the universe when you look into the sky doesn't really come across.  I'm obsessed to a point where I want to try and paint an entire room the colors of the sky at dusk (or maybe start out with one wall).  Sunsets make me happy.  

Happy, happy, happy...

The sky from my new Brooklyn hood...

photos via oh joy! by Johnny Miller

 The sky from my old Manhattan hood...

#58 "Helloooooooo!"

I can't wait to have a window so I can do this:

via sophisticated simplicities

Rebecca Lepkoff photo of the Lower East Side

via sophisticated simplicities

#48 I'm Bored

I'm daydreaming the days away... wishing I could make a fort, steal the fake skis from my parents once-existent Nordic Track, don a fur coat & gloves, and pretend to cross-country ski around the house and retreat into an igloo made of couch pillows taking my little sister with me, wrapped in blankets, to cuddle and give Eskimo kisses to.  Oh, to be a kid again...

photo by Tim McPherson =Amazing!

#47 Dancing in Black, White & Grey

Sometimes I just feel like dancing.  There's no reason for it, just an innate need to move to the music playing in my head.  I have no shame.  Nobody should when it comes to dancing because then there's no fun in it.  Just grab a partner & let loose, it's Friday!

photo by Helen Levitt

 

photo via la douleur exquise

#39 Photography... Feat. the iPhone

Today I'm featuring a few of my friends' photos they took with their phones.  I'm always amazed at how a little phone can get the job done.

via Diane Penacerrada's iPhone in Paris:

via Sloan Flournoy's iPhone in Georgia:

via Marie-T Franke's iPhone at Coney Island & on the Subway:

via Christophe Jammet's droid in the NYC harbor:

via my iPhone in Chinatown, NYC:

#38 Missing Home

Sometimes I miss the strangest things about home.  Today it's  storms.  Amanda Friedman's photography perfectly represents that eerie feeling of misty nights and half-light days.  The first photo reminds me of exactly what it feels like outside right before a bad storm hits- too still, too green, too light & dark at the same time...

Be sure to check out the rest of her work & her Etsy shop for cool prints.

all photos via Amanda Friedman Photography

#37 Virtual Sugar High

I've been staring at this photo for weeks now.  Every time I'm feeling down, I look at this photo and magically am much happier... and hungrier.  Check out the photographer's work here: http://www.bethgalton.com/ 

 Happy Friday!!

#9 Magic - Example 1: Photography

I like magic.  Not the card game or anything to do with creepy witches.   Just ordinary magic that catches you off guard and distracts you for a good half an hour.  

MAGIC- Example #1:

West Nineteenth Street (Yellow Dress)
by Joseph O. Holmes via Print Society