Tag: weekend pairing

  • Weekend Pairing: Women in Media

    Have you seen that #NotBuyingIt hashtag flying around on Twitter, especially during high profile events like the Super Bowl? That campaign came out of Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s 2011 film Miss Representation, which profiles just how disturbing women’s representation in the media really is. The film includes perspectives from high profile media personalities (everyone from Katie Couric to…

  • Weekend Pairing: A Snowy Pennsylvania

    The snow started in Pennsylvania around Thanksgiving, and we’ve had a decently steady supply of it since, so it seems appropriate to feature snowy photos for this weekend’s pairing. Lucky for me, I’m holed up on my parents’ farm this weekend getting a ton of work done and visiting with old friends. It seems a…

  • Weekend Pairing: DIY Holiday Edition

    I had seen this gold leaf pinecone garland weeks ago & decided I needed to make one. Except I skipped the whole gold-leaf process & took a pile of pinecones out back and spray painted them. There. The lazy girl’s guide to DIY Christmas cheer! What’s that? Oh, you’re right. Lazy girls don’t spray paint…

  • Weekend Pairing: Design Edition

    Many of the best examples of industrial design are things that people don’t think were designed at all. Take the Post-It note. It’s something we take for granted that people don’t think of it as being designed. And what they don’t realize, is that from the moment they wake up almost everything that fills their…

  • Weekend Pairing: Elizabeth and the Catapult & Kishi Bashi

    We were first introduced to K. Ishibashi’s special brand of genius when we saw of Montreal at Union Transfer about a year and a half ago. I was blown away. He was the star of the show for me, even though he wasn’t who we’d come out to hear. He plays under the name Kishi…

  • Weekend Pairing: Wanderlust

    This Weekend Pairing is brought to you by my wanderlust. In honor of our travels (to Baltimore for a wedding, and then onto San Francisco for a fun anniversary trip) this week, enjoy the following. I love the second one especially. MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo. ” Traveling Denim ” Recording color fade for…