on waiting.

How can we learn to value the concept of waiting for anything?

"The notion of value depends on our own investment in an object. If an object is to be valuable, we have to invest ourselves in it. There is no better investment than to give one's time, to wait for something. Most often, if one gets a desired object immediately, one's own being is not involved in that object, and the object remains impersonal, exchangeable, dispensable. It has nothing of ourselves in it."

- Harold Schweizer. On Waiting. 2011. 

"Went to see a movie show
Found myself an empty row
Thought the show was just alright
Same old Saturday night

Then I made the usual stop
Coffee at the coffee shop
Friendly face nowhere in sight
Same old Saturday night"

- Same Old Saturday Night, Frank Sinatra. 

written by Sammy Cahn and Frank Reardon.

autumn bucket list.

1. read. a lot. maybe: Siri Hustvedt, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith; definitely: "Autumn" by Ali Smith
2. bake. at least 3 times. a birthday cake, a homely bake, an apple pie or tart
3. go for walks. often. listen to podcasts or to the leaves crunching under your feet.
4. discover new coffeehouses. read or relocate your office.
5. listen to my fave "autumn albums", eg. this, this and this one.

autumn playlist.

"Ich bin nicht Siddhartha, ich bin nur immer wieder auf dem Wege zu ihm [...] Man darf sich nie auf eine gefundene Wahrheit versteifen, auch nicht auf die eines Buches, denn das Suchen kann wohl gelernt werden, das Finden nicht. Aber jeden Augenblick steht dieses Wunder uns offen."

- Hermann  Hesse. Brief an Bruno Randusus, ca. 1922

sounds of summer.

...as we transition into autumn at the end of this week, I conclude:

sounds of summer:

the little girl two doors down singing a melody from "swan lake"

polish workers chatting and laughing away while refurbishing the house next door

bees buzzing mistaking the flowery table cloth for real poppies

little birdies chirping under rooftops

woodpecker on apricot tree

the soundscape of the lido

the crunch when biting into an ice-cream cone

paper - flipping the page of your summer read

water splashing - everywhere

conversations al fresco

always leave space for the divine

Photo: Jan Versweyveld

|| notes on Studio360 - TAVI GEVINSON interviews BEN WISHAW:

"your intuition is quicker than your intelligence"

"your job is not to judge your work, your job is to make it" 

"always leave space for the divine" 

orlando.

bloomsbury. androgynous creatures floating through green patterns. fairy like in earthly surroundings. out of bed. hair. slumber fashion. walking though the labyrinth at dawn. PJs all day. shabby richness. layers on layers. curly locks. brideshead. casual extravaganza. dandy delight. piercing. soothing. violins. visceral sounds. heavenly. drunk. toast. and milky tea. brownish alcohol in small glasses. abandoned mansions. early. but. late. 

orlando and virginia. 

sagmeister sagt.

Coffee Stain by Roger Karlsson

"Even though I'm not a very secretive person, I try not to talk about future projects, simply because I've learned that if I do, I live so much through them that I lose the desire to do them - it's a very Viennese trait. So many people sit in cafés in Vienna and talk about the things they want to do and lose desire to do them."

- Stefan Sagmeister. The Great Discontent. 2014.

yes , there are moments when you shouldn't embrace your inner child

|| Phoebe Prentice Terry on Emotional Spending

"a great deal of your impulses are not based on logic, but rather a very deep-rooted urge for instant gratification"

"inside all of us there is a needy, red-cheeked toddler who wants to throw herself on the floor and have a massive hissy fit because she wants something you don't actually need" 

procrastinate until you are sick of yourself. until then, enjoy the perks of procrastination.

what inspires me today.

writer MOLLY YOUNG. on instagram. her blog. her into the gloss profile.

the sound of BLOSSOM DEARIE while working. feels like i'm transported back in time. somehow sophisticated.

fellow austrian STEFAN SAGMEISTER. new yorker. graphic designer. lover of beauty. discover: TED #1 - happiness by design & TED #2 - 7 rules for making more happiness.



pic via.

paris is always a good idea.

i am not throwing away my shot.

#amen

how to be both.

this book grew on me. i now have a very personal relationship with it but i cannot pinpoint exactly why. the trick with this novel is that you don't know with which story you are about to start, but i'm glad my book began with george's tale. had it been the other way round i don't know if i would have loved it that much. george's story. she. gets close to you. the atmosphere that ali smith created with her writing is one of warmth and desperation. one of tears. one of the heart. one of family and sadness. one of happiness through a filter of melancholia. smith translates the picture on the cover in words and tells you about womanhood in a different and refreshing way. i see and feel colour when i think of this book. most of all a deep yellow and ochre. i see it through this filter of colour that created itself while reading these stories. i couldn't grasp everything in francescho's part of the story, but maybe you don't have to. you get the gist of it. and you get the colours. these recurring vivid colours. francescho adds the blue to this palette. almost like the girls on the picture. george and francescho. united. 
a clever thing this peculiar book. a dear thing. 

"I will not be 'famous' 'great'. I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped."

- Virginia Woolf, Diary, October 1933

carey.

carey mulligan 

for vogue us, may 2015.

#loveher

video by cass bird.

how to be a woman.

currently reading how to be a woman by caitlin moran. 

she rocks.

#feminism 

the happy reader.

the happy reader.

bookish quarterly published by Penguin Books and Fantastic Man

#lovelovelove

#gogetit

#now

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"So could the search for a lasting style be a hymn to life, I ask. 'Yes', he says, 'a hymn to life, but accompanied by the huge difficulties of finding your way in a world that forces you to face reality."

- Giorgio Armani, Harper's Bazaar UK, March 2015.