sisters: rose colored glasses

For the past three months I've been working on keeping a hefty inspiration file on my desktop. Every time I see something really beautiful or inspiring as I'm blogging around, I save it to this file. The first month I had about fifty images in the file. This month is only half way over and I have almost two hundred. As it grows and grows I'm finding myself really interested in revisiting these files and searching for links in how my tastes may change or how my style is shifting. It's also been really helpful in terms of trying to define project ideas or just avenues that I'd like to pursue more in depth.

Overall I've found some really amazing images and discovered some really unique new artists. Each time I find something exciting I'll call Brendan over to share some of these treasures with him. Every time he tells me that I should be sharing these finds with more people and that they would be great posts for this blog. I'd thought about doing this a few times while I've been collecting and always brushed it off, thinking that I'd just be ripping off other blogs that had posted some of these images before me, and worrying about giving them proper credit.

*rosie hardy

*illustrated in full color throughout

The more I thought about this, though, I started to realize that the whole blogging, sharing thing is about just that. Posting and maybe re-posting so that the end result would be the maximum number of people being exposed to an idea or image. I'm just so conflicted about posting something that's been posted already a million times over - and also hyper-paranoid about doing something purely original and true to me...

*sofia coppola (virgin suicides)

*photo by matt erwin

Well. This time I gave in a little and decided to show a few. I guess in the end (even if some of these are shown over and over and over) the combination of these things is assembled by me. Which maybe is OK? I dunno. But here it is anyway...