Franklin Be Present Necklace, by Jess LC

love.

here.  (via dailycandy)

SOCO is back!

Someone please buy me this shirt.

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Dream Camera

Canon EOS Rebel XS

Digital SLR for beginners... Wonder if I can manage to sock away $500 (+ tax + memory card + replacement plan) before Australia?

On the corner of E. Houston...

I love this new artwork from my favorite blog find of 2009. Does anyone want to give me a gift?

Earlier, this book caught my eye...

Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press

From Publishers Weekly
In this uneven yet illuminating anthology, editor Borjesson succinctly explains the journalist's predicament: "The buzzsaw is what can rip through you when you try to investigate or expose anything this country's large institutions be they corporate or government want kept under wraps." Indeed, if members of the general public read this book, or even portions of it, they will be appalled. To the uninitiated reader, the accounts of what goes on behind the scenes at major news organizations are shocking. Executives regularly squelch legitimate stories that will lower their ratings, upset their advertisers or miff their investors. Unfortunately, this dirt is unlikely to reach unknowing news audiences, as this volume's likely readership is already familiar with the current state of journalism. Here, Murrow Award-winning reporter Borjesson edits essays by journalists from the Associated Press to CBS News to the New York Times. Each tells of their difficulties with news higher-ups as they tried to publish or air controversial stories relating to everything from toxic dump sites and civilian casualties to police brutality and dangerous hospitals. Some, like BBC reporter Greg Palast's, are merely rants against "corporate" journalism, but others, like New York Observer columnist Philip Weiss's, will serve as meaningful lessons to nascent and veteran writers alike. Most of the sentiments here are especially relevant given the current reports of the war in Afghanistan and questions of their validity, making this timely and essential reading for students and scholars of journalism. (Mar.)Forecast: With Bernard Goldberg's Bias riding high on bestseller lists, Borjesson's offering on news media manipulation is bound to attract serious attention and sales.

Print Gocco!

The crafty me seriously desires a Gocco printer....  Printing was one of my favorite things in art class in high school and whatever form we did (filling in the screen and inking ourselves) was a little too much work, but I would definitely use something like this.  I will add it to my wishlist...

I've started thinking about a lot of ideas for prints and cards lately, so maybe I can compile the ideas and hopefully sell cards and prints in the future.  That would be so amazing.