happy weekend + goodbye to may

Enchanted Forest by Elsa Mora

Happy weekend, friends!

Vegan Mint Brownie Ice Cream

London Growing. This is FASCINATING. (Maserati's "Cities" is a lovely accompaniment)

The star recipe this week

Chic Fille

Men Who Drink Breast Milk

Elsa Mora's awesome papercuttings

Hachette vs. Amazon

The movie version of Jonathan Tropper's This is Where I Leave You looks funny

Hershey Felder does Leonard Bernstein at Berkeley Rep

pizza friday + links

Elise Joy's The Best is Yet to Come

It's Friday which means it is homemade pizza night at our house; the pizza dough is rising as I write this. Stella loves "Pizza Friday" as she gets to help assemble the pizzas, meaning she usually eats more pieces of cheese and olives than actually make it on her pizza. Tonight I'm making a pizza bianco (without the Parmesan) for myself with prosciutto, and arugula from our garden. Yum.

Happy weekend, lovelies.

North Korea is really dark.

Is Work Your Happy Place?

Freeing the Gluten-Free.

Cute swimsuit.

Proper sushi etiquette.

New Tana French on the horizon.

Rhubarb.

Orange is the New Black. Season 2. June 6th.

Speed for Sarah.

happy friday links

Sheeps by Meagan Donegan

I can't wait to read the new Donna Tartt.

Cookies! Shayna texted me about these yesterday and Stella and I promptly set to work making them.  We put in half the curry recommended but added cardamom and chocolate chips as we didn't have shredded coconut. They're so good!

On the topic of cookies... How Oreos Work Like Cocaine.

Ads use Real Google Searches to Show the Scope of Sexism Worldwide.

Are you watching the new season of Homeland? I'm continually impressed by how the creators of this show make each character's point of view so very believable. And the acting! 

Abandoned: Mark Twain Branch Detroit Public Library.

Hurray for a new Wes Anderson film.

Ace Hotel now in Shoreditch.

Banksy NYC.

a few friday links

Beatrice Valenzuela, maker of lovely handmade moccasins and sandals, is just too cool. I enjoyed this interview and slideshow.

I brought up this important post in conversation with my friend Shayna today. The idea (a common one, I believe) that it's a woman's salary (in heterosexual parental situations) that pays for childcare is a troubling one on so many levels. I've been thinking about the post for a few months without realizing it until bringing it up today. Shayna and I have had so many YES! moments recently in talks about parenting and books and life and Anne of Green Gables. I am thankful for her.

These summer sandals have been calling my name for awhile and Ashley's post back in April back reminded me about them. I'm still on the fence as I have too many sandals already. BUT these can go in the water! And they're so cute.

Brined pork chops with grilled stone fruit is on the menu for Father's Day on Sunday.

As someone who has issues with people who are so attached to their electronic devices that one-on-one interactions suffer, I liked Mary's post about being mindful of cell phones at the dinner table (a serious pet peeve).

Joanna Goddard posted about this movie today and it piqued my interest. There's something about Case Affleck in that movie still that reminds me of Jordan. Also, I can't tell if this movie is going to be fun or horrible because, you know, *magic.*

I'm still loving chambray.

Yes to picnics.

Yes to strawberry coconut chia seed banana bread.

(photograph by Nicole Franzen)

birth story: ina may gaskin and the farm midwives

Last night I finished watching Birth Story, the documentary about midwife Ina May Gaskin (I mentioned her in my post on labor) and The Farm Midwifery Center in Tennessee. I enjoyed the fascinating look back at how The Farm came into being, how Ina May found her calling as a midwife, and all of the footage (old and new) of women giving birth naturally and without medical intervention. I went to bed feeling inspired (yes, I can do this again) and empowered (my body has the amazing capacity to stretch and expand, to open, and to heal), which is exactly what I was hoping for...

steven soderbergh on the state of cinema

From Steven Soderbergh's State of Cinema keynote at the 56th San Francisco International Film Festival:

But before we talk about movies we should talk about art in general, if that's possible. Given all the incredible suffering in the world I wonder, what is art for, really? If the collected works of Shakespeare can't prevent genocide then really, what is it for? Shouldn't we be spending the time and resources alleviating suffering and helping other people instead of going to the movies and plays and art installations? When we did Ocean's Thirteen the casino set used $60,000 of electricity every week. How do you justify that? Do you justify that by saying, the people who could've had that electricity are going to watch the movie for two hours and be entertained - except they probably can't, because they don't have any electricity, because we used it. Then I think, what about all the resources spent on all the pieces of entertainment? What about the carbon footprint of getting me here? Then I think, why are you even thinking that way and worrying about how many miles per gallon my car gets, when we have NASCAR, and monster truck pulls on TV? So what I finally decided was, art is simply inevitable. It was on the wall of a cave in France 30,000 years ago, and it's because we are a species that's driven by narrative. Art is storytelling, and we need to tell stories to pass along ideas and information, and to try and make sense out of all this chaos. And sometimes when you get a really good artist and a compelling story, you can almost achieve that thing that's impossible which is entering the consciousness of another human being - literally seeing the world the way they see it. Then, if you have a really good piece of art and a really good artist, you are altered in some way, and so the experience is transformative and in the minute you're experiencing that piece of art, you're not alone. You're connected to the arts. So I feel like that can't be too bad.

[via Kottke]

jiro dreams of sushi

You guys. Have you seen Jiro Dreams of Sushi? I've been blabbing about it to anyone who will listen since we watched it the other night. I went to bed dreaming about sushi, and a trip to Tokyo. Seriously, so good.

christoph waltz on fresh air

Did you listen to Terry Gross' Fresh Air interview with Christoph Waltz that aired yesterday? I was totally entertained. In Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, Waltz played SS officer Hans Landa (conversant in German, French and English) with exacting and frightening aplomb. What a performance. I'm looking forward to seeing Tarantino's next, Django Unchained in which Waltz plays a German bounty hunter. No doubt his performance will be just as electrifying.

[image: The Weinstein Company]

cinema center matadero

Cinema Center Matadero

Madrid, Spain

by ch + qs

[via of paper and things]

hotel chevalier

[via Caroline Duke]

lotte from zero to 12

Check out this time lapse film showing Frans Hofmeester's daughter, Lotte, grow from zero to 12 in a matter of minutes. He filmed her once a week for twelve years. I so enjoyed watching her expressions change, her hair grown, and her face morph into that of a 12-year-old girl. 

[via Kottke]

moonrise kingdom

Yes. Yes. Yes.

upstairs downstairs

The drama, the intrigue, the costumes... I'm loving the revival of Upstairs Downstairs. Plus it features a few favorites: Keeley Hawes (MI-5/Spooks, Wives and Daughters, married to Matthew Macfayden), Claire Foy (the perfect Amy Dorrit), Dame Eileen Atkins, and Jean Marsh.

paris on my mind

This Brian Ferry photo gives me a case of the Paris wants.

Speaking of Paris...

J and I went on a date (our second night out without Stella since she was born in December) Saturday night to Boot & Shoe Service. And then we saw the amusing new Woody Allen flick, Midnight in Paris. All the shots of Paris were dreamy.

Today my parents and I took Stella to SFMoma to see the Stein's Collection show and then to the Jewish Museum for Seeing Gertrude Stein. Stella enjoyed Matisse's splashes of color, but was mainly a wiggly cranky pants so I didn't get to see much of either exhibit...

salma in paris

I am enchanted by this little film of Salma Hayek and her 3-year-old daughter, Valentina, over on the New York Times T Magazine blog.


It was shot by Cass Bird.

mash-up movie posters

Also featured on Flavorwire, these brilliant mash-up movie posters by Sean Hartter.

how to be alone

"Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless,
and lonely is healing if you make it."

coppola's somewhere

Have you seen this trailer for the new Sofia Coppola movie?
I pretty much love it already. And how cute is the littlest Fanning?



And, hello new Phoenix song! I love you too.

[via Coudal]

criterion art

More examples of awesome Criterion Collection box art are over on Unstage.

(via Kottke)

my body is a cage western

This edit of Arcade Fire's My Body is a Cage played over scenes from Once Upon a Time in the Old West is awesome.



By J Tyler Helms.

(Via We Made This)