Well

Happy Valentine's Day!
Now go and listen to some Weepies.

via sfbygirl

Jackie Moon Old Spice

Deodorant commercials have never been so entertaining.

SWEET!

Mel, Sam, Schwartz and I attended a really Sweet poster exhibit at the University of Maryland over the weekend. It was entitled "Sweet: The Graphic Beauty of the Contemporary Rock Poster". It was completely worth the hours in the car, and reinforced my love of the Small Stakes.

You should go too.

Extreme Home Makeover

Photo from the Newsjournal.

Extreme home makeover is filming a mile away from my house.
Crazy right?

It's official

I sold my first Etsy bag today! To someone I don't even know, someone in Chicago, someone who's probably really awesome. Yay!

If you want to have a cool Haley bag get one here.

Lumberjack Siting

You too can look like a lumberjack with vik prjonsdottir's sweet knitted ski mask.

First Urban stuff

The first Urban print is online.

Catskills

Here are some photos that I took on a walk while nursing my wounds from the snowboarding adventures up at Hunter Mountain. It was glorious to get away.

Herman Dune

I'm going snowboarding for the weekend with some cool kids, so I'll leave you with this ridiculous video from Herman Dune.

"I wish that I could see you soon."

Keren Ann

I am refalling in love with Keren Ann after accidently introducing her music to Brad. I'm not one of those people who romanticizes France, but she makes me want to be Parisian so flipping bad.

There's something about that quasi emaciated, black wearing, brooding Paris thing that is so ridiculously gorgeous.

Lists

I like this woman's lists. She makes me want to move to Portland.

via poppytalk

Sustainable Bags

I can mark one of my New Year's resolutions off of my resolution list because I started an etsy shop! I made a bunch of bags that would be perfect to take to the grocery store instead of wasting all of those plastic bags. All of the bags are made of re-purposed materials, so they are truly sustainable.

CHECK OUT MY STORE!
thisishaleysworld.etsy.com

Nina Simone

I asked my coworker and resident music addict, Jeff, for some Nina Simone. Being the reliable guy that he is I was greeted this morning with a CD with over 10 hours of Nina Simone music, I guess I'll be "Feeling Good" for days to come.

Hey look I'm famous

So the check out how the whole Sufjan photo debacle ended up getting us on NPR.
So ridiculous.

Lumberjack Sighting

My love of lumberjacks has led me to the Timber shop on etsy. These shirts are magical.

Miranda July

I love the artist Miranda July. Her work just makes me happy. One of her projects Learning to Love You More was just made into a book. The project is a compiled list of assignments like take a flash photo under your bed, or ask your parents to describe what you do. It sounds super.

Boston

It's always lonely when Kenj goes away. I miss our intellectual talks, her cookies, and watching trashy TV together. The only good thing is that I get to spend quality time with Boston, Kenj's adorable dog. Have fun in Georgia Kenj!

More Prints

I was searching through the new Shoshanna line since I knew that they had purchased a print in the spring, and found another print from printfresh that I designed. It's under galleries:swimsuits: and then numbers 108-110. The line is carried by bloomingdales, neiman marcus, and nordstroms as well as a few other retailers, but none of these appear on any of their sites.




Photos are from shoshanna.com

Chuck Norris for Huckabee

Most ridiculous thing I've seen in a while. PLEASE watch this.

Thanks to Weegie for exposing me to this.

No more bags

China banned plastic bags saving an estimated 37 million barrels of crude oil every year. Uganda and Ireland have banned them also. I celebrated today by taking my reusable bags to target. I love it.

I also saw "What Would Jesus Buy" on friday with Joel which was made by the guy from supersize me, and listened to a great sermon on consumerism from the imago dei podcast. All of that has enforced my desire to tithe and find ways to use my money more wisely.

Starting with monthly loans to kiva.
This month it's Anna Zhuravleva from the Ukraine to purchase raw fish to marinate for re-sale.

Nerdy Post

I love good magazine for a number of reasons, but one really big one is the way that they choose to display information. They make graphs into an artform. It makes me really interested in the information they are presenting, and they make that information easy to understand. Check out these examples. Just click the photo to see the larger full scale image.

An abridged history of marches on washington:


Where our vampire energy goes:


How our mail gets to us:

The four hour work week

I just ordered The Four Hour Work Week after reading the authors blog. It's all about experiments in lifestyle change and making the most out of technology and time.

Oh Snap!

A print that I designed and then was sold to anthropologie is on a raincoat...and featured in the Anthro Catalogue!

Craziness people!

Loving

I am in Love with Urban Renewal's Chantilly Dress.
This dress started out as pieces of antique lace- deconstructed and reinvented. It's made in the USA from recycled fabrics.

I love Ashley Goldberg's Bearded Men paintings.

And Julia Rothman's new WALLPAPER!!!

Favorites of 2007

This is what me and Matt King did on New Years



Best of '07

Book: The Road

Album(s): Feist- The Reminder

Moment: Getting Hired at UO while driving down 95

Milestone: Graduating College

Meal: Taco's at the renfrews

Adventure: New England Road trip with Carolyn

Concert: Rosie Thomas

Mistake: Thinking people would give me and Joel $100,000 to start a coffee shop/laundromat

Aspirations for the New Year

I don't really do resolutions, they're too much pressure. I prefer aspirations.

Put together a budget
Run a Half Marathon
Start an Etsy Shop

Those are the aspirations I need some accountability for. Feel free to call me out if I don't do it.

Polaroid 420

This is my new obsession. I found this old polaroid camera for $3.50 at my local thrift store. I've been wanting a polaroid camera that took the kind of film that you peel apart for some time, but just hadn't found the right one yet. I happened to have the film for the camera at my house leftover from some polaroid transfer experiments. I can't stop playing with it! I can't wait for more film to come from Amazon. Here are some photos from the where I work that I took on my lunch break.

Christmas!

These are my favorite presents I received for christmas. A chia herb garden, giada cookbook, salad spinner, sweet tube socks, and OPI nail polish. And the gifts to myself included a polaroid 420 camera from who knows when, and a nerdy nooka watch.

Talented Friends

My fried Joel is super talented at lots of things, so when he entered Sufjan's Christmas song contest and came in 35 out of over 650 and got his song played on the asthmatic kitty website I was not surprised. Click here to read about the contest and listen to Joel's song "No Mo' HoHoHo".

Color of the Year

Pantone just announced it's color of the year for 2008; Iris Blue. That's PANTONE 18-3943 TCX for all you color nerds out there. Leatrice Eiseman, the executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, said: “Blue Iris brings together the dependable aspects of blue, underscored by a strong, soul-searching purple cast. Emotionally, it is anchoring and meditative with a touch of magic.”


Bah! I love it. Read the Times article here.

Cookies!

Last night was a cookie party at Lana's with Lindsey and Jess. Super ridiculously awesome. Mine is the purple ninja at the bottom.

Sufjan

We were so the annoying kids after the Sufjan concert, but when else do you have the chance to be captured with your favorite musician.

Us and Sufjan Stevens

Nativity

For the Christian modernist.

Made by Massimo Giacon & Alessi.

Sick!

I love taking paper objects and making them ceramic; making disposable objects into something to be treasured. These ceramic air sickness bags from Mano are the coolest.
as seen on notcot.

Feeling like

I want to be Mary Tyler Moore.

Juno

Please go see Juno it was glorious.

Lana Tuesdays

Tuesday is Haley Lana day and it is glorious. I look forward to it. I get to hang with my super cool coworker Lana who makes me eat weird things like tofurkey sausage since she is a vegetarian. It's actually pretty good. I've also had teriyaki tofu, and lemon grass "chicken" at our stellar dinner and small group nights. She's pretty much my favorite!

Random Rant

Has anyone else noticed the way that MTV is trying to shove independent artists down their viewers throats? I was watching the Hills (guilty pleasure) when who comes on at the end but Against Me! !!! I can understand MIA and Rilo Kiley, but baby if your an anarchist then appearing on MTV is a very poor move.

County Fair

We had our company Christmas party last week and the theme was county fair. There were corn dogs, a mechanical bull, skee-ball, karaoke, and a ferris wheel. Not to mention free photo booths! Coolest ever. Here are me and my coworkers.

Jeni, Bryana, Me, and Jeff

Lunch Break

On my lunch break today I got to see a free Ingrid Michaelson (a la old navy commercials and grey's anatomy soundtrack) concert at world cafe. Absolutely glorious thanks to Kenj and her last minute tip about the show! You'll be able to listen to the concert on the world cafe website. Listen for my clapping!

The Ultimate Sushi Buffet

Last night was my boss's mom's birthday and she invited us to go to an all you can eat sushi buffet. So we went to Minado and were welcomed by rows upon rows of the most incredible sushi, sashimi, tempura, and other deliciousness. They are constantly making rolls, and never put too much out at one time so there's a big turnover and the fish is always fresh. It was a totally bizarre/glorious experience.

It's only 20 minutes outside Philly, and completely worth the trip. Oh yeah and it's only $26 for infinite sushi rolls. BRILLIANT!

Sometimes you just need to hear

from Matirose via decor8.

Type

After watching the documentary on the typeface Helvetica on Saturday with my cool designer friends I'm in a total typography mood...and I never say things like typography mood. The movie was just so informative and entertaining. It made me want to say something...in Type. It made me miss communicating through design rather than the decorative drawing I've been doing lately, though I love that too.

Here's a sweet site found on veer with the top 9 moving type videos. Maybe they will help you appreciate what I'm talking about a little more.

This is a sample of what they have on there.

Dynamic

Howies always makes me think.

Muji

On my to do list for my Saturday with designer friends in NYC is to go to the new Muji store that just opened. It appears to be an ikea/container store with emphasis on clean functional design. I just read this article in the NY times about the opening in which a couple who is being interviewed states that they are selling all of their possessions on e-bay until they only have the things they use on a daily basis. I like the idea of minimalism, but the creative lifestyle is kind of inherently filled with inspiration...better known as clutter.

I also love how the article calls Ikea a "gateway drug" for good design.

And you know how I love a good manifesto.

Because there is complexity in purity.

Elegance in plainness.

Intricacy in streamlining.

Richness in reduction.

Depth in minimalism.

Surprise in uniformity.

Innovation in re-use.

Cool in the avoidance of cool.

And there is true
sophistication in simplicity.

Talented Friends

One of my college graphic friends, Nikki, is a designer for the window displays for the flagship Anthropologie store in rockafeller center. She periodically e-mails sweet photo updates of her work. The windows are absolutely gorgeous! They make me want cocoa.

PLEASE look at her slideshow!

Wishlist

Adding to your amazon wishlist is one of life's greatest simple pleasures.
Here's mine.

I also just bought this book at the Urban Sample sale called Listography: Your Life in Lists.


you get to compile all of your favorite things in lists in this book. Super cool.

How to be an Artist

I would love to check out this little zine about what it takes to be an artist.

Apparently being an artist has something to do with getting no sleep and fleetwoodmac. I have to tell you that I am intrigued.

Christmas list!

You only have to look through previous posts to figure out what I want for Christmas. So I figured I'd give a list of resources to find the coolest most thoughtful gift ever.

1. Ebay
I could only hope to receive a lot of vintage polaroid cameras.
2. Etsy
Just search for screenprints and you'll get a host of beautiful posters, gifts, clothes etc.
3. Amazon
Magazine subscriptions are the coolest.
4. Kiva
Make a loan to a small business owner in someone special's name.
5. Tastespotting
Find the perfect recipe for some Eggnog latte cupcakes that you can give to you coworkers.

What do you want for Christmas?

Ben the Dinosaur

Ben texted me a joke today at work, and it was so good I had to share.
-Be warned I love cheesey jokes-

What's black and white and black and white and green?
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A penguin and a skunk fighting over a pickle.
HAHAHA

Where I work

Philadelphia magazine had an article this week with the best places to work in Philly. They had a nice spread on Urban. The image shows our coffee bar and newstand. It's pretty much amazing.

Click the photo below to see the larger image.

Guitar Hero

Joel and I rocking out. I think this photo says it all.

Non Planner Datebook

Have I blogged about this yet? It's a planner for the creative unorganized types...right people like me. It has fun creative exercises and kind of embraces the fact that you will never be organized.

Rob Ryan's Cut Paper

This man is brilliant.

Good Reading

An article on Sufjan's BQE project
"It’s not easy being 2007’s wacko cultural wonder boy."
Courtesy of Joel.

David Sedaris's favorite books.

Philly is Ugly

According to Travel and Leisure Magazine:

Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States, a survey of visitors and residents showed on Friday.

The city of more than 1.5 million people was also found to be among the least stylish, least active, least friendly and least worldly, according to the "America's Favorite Cities" survey by Travel & Leisure magazine and CNN Headline News.

This makes me happy to still be living in Wilmington...it also ups your chances of being the cutest girl in the room when you go out. Pretty much hilarious.

Nickel Creek

I saw Nickel Creek perform last night at The Delaware Opera House with some friends. They put on a phenomonal show. They are to bluegrass what Iron and Wine is to folk. Chris Thile plays a mean mandolin.

How I feel today

I found this on Rachel's Blog and decided to post it in honor of another rainy day.

The Best American Non-Required Reading

I'm loving this book of the best American short stories of 2007 (edited by Dave Eggers from McSweeney's). I picked it up because the cover looked interesting, and then when it said "Intro by Sufjan Stevens" I was sold.


The intro starts out like this:

"There are some things you tell no one, secrets packed and folded away in the far reaches of your mind - admissions of mouth herpes, for example, or athlete's foot, or a night spent in jail for drunk driving. These irreversible facts, like birth certificates and blood donor cards, we keep under cover in the fireproof safe-deposite box hidden in the closet, under the Ouija board and Christmas-tree stand and the packs of Nicorette gum."