On Your Sleeve

Being a girl who counts art and music as absolute lifelines, I just couldn't be happier than in those magical instances when the two coincide - which is just one of the many reasons I love vinyl so much: that marriage is everywhere! All praises can be sung to the big, beautiful covers of the LP, but the possibility for visual creativity in this medium is endless - in this case, it's found on the small sleeves of the humble 45.

Illustrator Kavel Rafferty has an amazing blog called Record Envelope dedicated to her collection of just such a thing, and here are some of my favorites.

Summer Blur

I'll tell you what:
It's Friday again and it feels like it was just Friday the last time I turned around, and all the days have been whirring right on by almost before I realize they're gone.

What's happening?




Life is good and full!
Regularly scheduled picture-posts soon soon soon.
Lots of love from here,
s

Living in a Fantasy

Long ago and far away...
fantasy paperback novels were adorned with the most beautiful and interesting hand-drawn covers. Here are some of the best I've seen, all published by Ballantine Books in the late '60s and early '70s, sure to whisk you away to magical places:

































images from skwishmi, via so much pileup

Tuesday Parade

via but does it float : Claude-Nicolas Ledoux








via so much pileup


via ce soir ce soir





Ruth Asawa:























via so much pileup






via BibliOdyssey


via English Russia: Soviet Mayan Playing Cards










via so much pileup




via =Andrea Posada=




via all the mountains






René Daumal


Melanie Bonajo




via remodelista














from my friend Tennessee B, who wrote:
"Please hold on to love, because people leave love in the wind instead of standing together in it."





via ce soir ce soir


Always on the look-out, and ready...


...for brave new worlds.