Pretty

handmade mandolin from Etsy

Pretty: Handmade love makes the finest music

January 31, 2012, by happykatie in Music, Pretty

There’s something about seeing and being near beauty that inspires awesomeness.  Have you ever checked out some of the amazing handcrafted instruments to be found on Etsy?  They make my eyes happy and my fingers itch to tickle some strings. Just looking at this Ganesh mandolin above is like music.  It’s delicate, original, a touch playful [...]

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Christmas explosions by Alan Sailer

Christmas explosions of glitter and happy

December 26, 2011, by happykatie in Art

I love these fun photos from photographer Allen Sailer on ‘The War Against Christmas’ – a look at exploding Christmas ornaments filled with random substances. A nice break from your typical red and green ornamentation, right?  If only putting away Christmas decorations were half as much fun as these!

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Murmuration

Mumuration – the dance of a thousand starlings

December 3, 2011, by happykatie in Environment, Happy, Pretty, Video

From the FinerMinds blog – watch and get goose bumps from this gorgeous video of two Irish girls in a canoe caught in a dance of a thousand starlings.  Gorgeous.

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El Jefe concert posters

Move fast for El Jefe concert prints

November 2, 2011, by happykatie in Art, Design, Happy, Pretty

If you’re a fan of lovely concert poster design, move quickly on the latest Fab.com deal featuring Jeffrey Everett of El Jefe Design‘s great rock posters and art prints. Have you visited Fab.com before?  You must sign up for a free ‘membership’, which involves giving them your email.  From there, you get alerted about cool [...]

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No Self Respect

Venn diagrams with important life lessons

July 22, 2011, by happykatie in Art, Design, Totally random

Today’s inspirational content from happykatie is brought to you by a bunch of sarcastic logicians with perveted senses of diagrammaticism.  In a word:  awesome.   The graphic design client conundrum by Colin Harman Everyone has a friend that should wear this shirt from Diesel Sweeties, right? Tokyo Mango identifies 3 personal loves of mine in [...]

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To my Adam:

February 14, 2011, by happykatie in Design

Great Valentine’s Day card from Oh Joy

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Actors Acting – a NY Times video gallery

December 8, 2010, by happykatie in Art, Video

There is an exquisite video collection on the NY TImes called ‘Fourteen Actors Acting‘ – brief black and white snippets of famous faces playing different minute roles with a classy string soundtrack. Is it just me, or could you just watch these over and over all day?  Hands down favorites – James Franco chatting himself [...]

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Lights, camera, action

December 3, 2010, by happykatie in Art, Photography

Had a wonderful time learning more about lighting and shooting models at a recent lighting workshop at Houston Skyline Studios (thanks Ed). If you ever need to rent out space for a photo shoot or film screening, it's really great. Here are a few of my shots of our super fab model Virginia, we celebrated [...]

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The Beauty of Different, the beauty of Chookooloonks

December 2, 2010, by happykatie in Art, Personal, Photography

Anytime I mention Karen Walrond’s name in our house, Adam and Ella immediately *scream* CHOOKOOLOOOOOONKS!!!  She’s kind of a big deal in the happyfamily, I’m not sure if she knows that she has a happykatie, a hippie Latino and 4 year old as groupies. So it should come as no surprise then that I am [...]

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Ephemicropolis – a city of staples

May 20, 2010, by happykatie in Art, Video

The making of Ephemicropolis from Peter Root on Vimeo. 40 hours later… a city of staples.  Holy Moses.  

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