VIP-X

My grandmother just had her estate sale, and I had my eye on her magnificant baby grand.

Low and behold, her baby grand piano was one of the few items that didn't sell...I came back from school and was notified that my parents were going to refurnish and fix the piano for me and then store it nearby. 

Until I get a house or apartment, my grandmother's baby grand will be patiently waiting for me.

Thus, my VIP is my grandma.  I send her letters when I am at school, and she says she re-reads them everyday.

 What a sweetheart.

Keela




Sorry. So late. 


Lily

VIP-IX

Kwangho Lee and his "Touch" exhibit at the Kukje Gallery in Seoul.

Keela

Let's see, I have been trying to think of someone all day and I have had no luck. 

Actually I had some luck but then I forgot what I thought of. 

So I will say The Grinch. 

I just love his furry feet.

 Plus he feels the way I do about togetherness. 

I wouldn't touch him with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole. 

Lily

VIP-VIII

Cai Guo-Qiang,

a contemporary artist.

His medium for many of his pieces? GUNPOWDER.



29-95

His brilliant piece Head On, possibly depicting Hitler and his soldiers and more deeply, the path of human tragedy towards complete blindness.

What a guy.

Keela

Wolfgang Laib, 

Works a lot with hazelnut pollen.

Pretty sweet.

Lily

VIP-VII

The Mast Brothers from The Scout on Vimeo.



Check out the other videos by The Scout.

Keela

JK Rowling. 

For bringing us Harry Potter, and all his magical friends. 


Lily

VIP-VI

The genius, Grace Coddington.

Former model for British Vogue, and currently the Creative Director for U.S. Vogue.

The underrated powerhouse behind Vogue.

The mastermind of it all.

Featured in The September Issue.

LOVE IT. WATCH IT. She will humor you. 

Noise Loop

Huffington Post

Grace makes the world go 'round.

Keela

Very Important People are hard to come by.

This week my VIP is Sophie Moore, from drawing 1. 

She is my friend and she is driving me to the airport on saturday so I can get the heck back to Minnesota. 

I COULDN'T DO IT WITH OUT HER. 

Actually I could, but I would have to take the light rail.

Lily

Published a tiny bit early because we are so on top of things.

VIP-V

Marissa Textor ROCKS!

Malachite

Sand Grain



Azurite

All graphite on paper.

Astounding, really.

Keela

I have a thing for Shia LaBeouf.


Which is weird. 

Lily

VIP-IV

Jenna Lyons, the executive creative director of J.Crew.

Elle Decor

Huffington Post

She graduated from Parsons and has worked for J. Crew for 20 years.  She interned for Donna Karan and then started working for J. Crew in the men's knits department.

Her favorites

WORD: Someone used the word heinous-ity. It made me laugh.
MAGAZINE: Cabinet or World of Interiors

BOOK: Anything by Cy Twombly

FOOD: My husband’s BBQ ribs

DRINK: I don’t discriminate.
COLOR: Bone

MODEL: Isabella Rossellini

DESIGNER: Can’t do it

 A day in her life.
Keela


Okay, 
Keela is way better at this feature than I am.
either I don't know about as many people as she does, or I don't admire that many,
but you will just have to deal with my sub-par VIPs.


Sorry.


Today my VIP is Todd Lamb, creator of Notes from Chris.

Makes me laugh.

Lily

VIP-III

Very Important People.

My parents in Rosebud, Montana ca. 1990.

I found this picture at home in a box and stole it.

It now hangs in my dorm.

My dad and I took this exact same hike last summer took a photo on this same bridge.

My dad makes the best breakfast, his dream is to open up a local breakfast place.

My mom is the most thoughtful person I know and knows how to brighten any day.

My parents rock. I don't know how else to put it.

They are best support system and the best people to hangout with.

Pretty much my best friends.

Keela

One of my favorite sculptors.

Antione Luis Barye.

Lily

VIP-II

The French photographer and artist Christian Chaize.

"The results of my slight obsession have evolved into two distinct series. Here are two images from Praia Piquinia, a body of work focusing on a singular, secluded beach front in which all of the pictures are taken from essentially the same elevated angle. The images are shot vertically, a departure from the traditional, horizontal format in landscape photography. It puts my subject matter in the form of a portrait - an ongoing record of this ethereal yet playful nook in nature over the minutes, the days, the years. Ultimately, I try to instill an element of time within these captured moments... visceral time, elastic from one image to another. And always, I seek to have new eyes."

SO COOL.

Keela

My VIP is Ira Glass. 
I love love love radio shows like This American Life and Ira is the king of that domain. 
The stuff you can learn from those shows is so cool.

There is so much out there to ponder, 
and Ira brings it all together. 


Lily

VIP-I

A Very Important Person. The newest feature.

I had a person I really wanted to do but I forgot who it was.
And so, I give you
Sebastien Preschoux


These string things are awesome.
I have been a little more open to installation and 3D stuff since having to take as sculpture class.
And these are really nice. 

Lily

I want to be Quy Nguyen.

He works at Martha Stewart Magazine as one of two collecting editors. This is another of my dream jobs.

Quy basically visits flea markets and antique shows all over the country, collecting objects for his own collection, Bower Antiques, and for the magazine.

What an ideal lifestyle.

Keela