tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516323919188457432024-03-12T23:16:44.589-04:00Belles ChosesInternet sketchbookAnna-Lyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759471319965744388noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451632391918845743.post-88409793618744154382011-07-27T10:33:00.002-04:002011-07-27T10:34:42.520-04:00Back to my old tricks after a three-month long hiatus. 1st Dibs never changes and never disappoints.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=542118">Marc du Plantier lamp, 1960s, France</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>Anna-Lyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759471319965744388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451632391918845743.post-34634584634764093032011-05-02T16:29:00.001-04:002011-05-02T16:45:53.026-04:001stDibs-ingThere's something about this writing table... <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=512918&cur_tab=">Napoleon III Ladies' Writing Table, Provence, 19thc.</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=516921&cur_tab=">Painting by Jim Oliveira, 2002</a> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=515696&cur_tab=">Mario Dal Fabbro Occasional Table, Italy, 1979</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=48193&cur_tab=">Louis XV chestnut writing table, Provence, 18thc.</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=515618">Oversized Venetian glass lamp, c. 1940s</a></td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Anna-Lyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759471319965744388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451632391918845743.post-23958629878213303492011-05-01T11:44:00.001-04:002011-05-01T11:48:12.875-04:00ArtWhile cleaning out some files I found this bedroom design:<br />
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I can see it now. Primal.Anna-Lyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759471319965744388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451632391918845743.post-23169259300538772532011-04-30T12:30:00.003-04:002011-04-30T12:40:26.829-04:001stDibs-ing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=515584&cur_tab=">Louis XVI Carved & Painted Table, France, 19thc.</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=512698&cur_tab=">Josef Frank Flora Cabinet, Austria, 1937</a></td></tr>
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In less than a month I'll be on my way.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In the meantime, there's a new love in my life: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Anyway, suddenly, I looked up and noticed this disturbing scene:<br />
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It seems the one in the dumpster was shot in the forehead. Very unsettling. And here is Isaac being alert:<br />
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*After a total of <u>two</u> sessions walking off-leash down this horrifying bike path, Isaac is now <u>100%</u> in a follower state off-leash (i.e. walking nicely behind me, never in front, never helter-skelter). Miracle. The trick was using a stick to block him and making the "shh" sound, you know - the Dog Whisperer sound.Anna-Lyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759471319965744388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451632391918845743.post-27487022977434989542011-03-07T22:47:00.001-05:002011-03-08T08:38:38.251-05:00Fashion Week: ESP at Emanuel Ungaro?Is it just me or....<br />
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</tbody></table>Anna-Lyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759471319965744388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451632391918845743.post-7993303878004369222011-03-05T18:09:00.006-05:002011-03-06T17:32:59.233-05:00Home (troisième partie)<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It would take the likes of <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/421/the-art-of-translation-no-3-william-weaver">William Weaver</a> to properly translate these ultra-simple stanzas. <em>L'Hiver Québécois</em> by Jim Corcoran & Bertrand Gosselin:</span></span><br />
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<span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">J’ai envie d’sortir à soir, c’est l’hiver</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">J’veux voir tomber tous les flocons de neige</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">J’ai besoin d’entendre chanter le ruisseau</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sentir le froid pénétrer dans ma peau</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Na-na-na-na-na-na</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">J’arrive du Mexique </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Y’a fait chaud là bas</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Na-na-na-na-na-na</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"></span><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Maintenant j’veux goûter l’hiver Québécois</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">J’mets manteau d’fourrure, foulard et mitaines</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">J’men vais dehors jouer avec mes deux chiens</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On va courir et lancer (dancer?) en forêt</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On va r’venir ben gelés mais satisfaits</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Na-na-na-na-na-na</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">J’arrive du Mexique </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Y’a fait chaud là bas</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Na-na-na-na-na-na</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Maintenant j’veux goûter l’hiver Québécois</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Maintenant j’veux goûter l’hiver Québécois</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Maintenant j’veux goûter l’hiver Québécois</span></span></div><br />
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Jim Corcoran & Bertrand GosselinAnna-Lyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759471319965744388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451632391918845743.post-38666217666520814712011-03-05T11:02:00.002-05:002011-03-05T11:23:15.096-05:00Fashion Week: Paris the savageIf Milan was cheery and full of exuberant and sophisticated colour, Paris is dark and pagan, a wild beast in the night.<br />
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(my mother's records, sitting in a chair in the sunshine, picnics in the park, the east coast wind, grass in the springtime, the streets of montreal...)</div>Anna-Lyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759471319965744388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451632391918845743.post-21074417323808870292011-02-24T10:11:00.001-05:002011-02-24T10:12:56.034-05:001stDibs-ingShoot. Someone bought this table already. It would have been <em>such</em> a nice birthday gift for my friend Gregory:<br />
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This I want. In front of a window, laden with plants (scented geraniums among them, the spicy kind) with baskets underneath.</td></tr>
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</div>Malcolm Gladwell wrote a <a href="http://www.gladwell.com/2006/2006_05_22_a_dog.html">riveting essay</a> for the New Yorker about the Dog Whisperer ("Cesar Millan and the movements of mastery"). I think this essay is what launched my obsession with CM. Here is an excerpt from somewhere in the middle. JonBee is a dog. Suzi Tortora is a dance-movement psychotherapist.<br />
<blockquote>JonBee was investigating Cesar, squirming nervously. When JonBee got too jumpy, Cesar would correct him, with a tug on the leash. Because Cesar was talking and the correction was so subtle, it was easy to miss. Stop. Rewind. Play. "Do you see how rhythmic it is?" Tortora said. "He pulls. He waits. He pulls. He waits. He pulls. He waits. The phrasing is so lovely. It's predictable. To a dog that is all over the place, he's bringing a rhythm. But it isn't a panicked rhythm. It has a moderate tempo to it. There was room to wander. And it's not attack, attack. It wasn't long and sustained. It was quick and light. I would bet that with dogs like this, where people are so afraid of them being aggressive and so defensive around them, that there is a lot of aggressive strength directed at them. There is no aggression here. He's using strength without it being aggressive."<br />
[...]</blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>"Timing is a big part of Cesar's repertoire," Tortora went on. "His movements right now aren't complex. There aren't a lot of efforts together at one time. His range of movement qualities is limited. Look at how he's narrowing. Now he's enclosing." As JonBee calmed down, Cesar began caressing him. His touch was firm but not aggressive; not so strong as to be abusive and not so light as to be insubstantial and irritating. Using the language of movement—the plainest and most transparent of all languages—Cesar was telling JonBee that he was safe. Now JonBee was lying on his side, mouth relaxed, tongue out. "Look at that, look at the dog's face," Tortora said. This was not defeat; this was relief.</blockquote><br />
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More travel adventures with Larry David <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBlRmAAp6J8">here</a>.Anna-Lyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759471319965744388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451632391918845743.post-21347317813251033222011-02-20T11:02:00.005-05:002011-02-23T00:05:12.103-05:00Resolution + Fashion WeekI made a minor resolution to wear ONLY colour for the next month. No neturals. No black, no brown, no grey, no beige. And the brighter the better. It turns out this is a really hard thing to do, but totally worth the effort. <br />
Speaking of which, it's Fashion Week and I hate to say it, but New York is a total drag. Like this:<br />
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The models look dead, the clothes are mostly boring and there is barely a non-neutral in sight. Of course there are exceptions but the exceptions are getting lost in the piles and piles of boring. The list of New York shows is now enormous and by the time you've hit Marc Jacobs, you're thinking <em>can we just fast-forward to Milan already?</em><br />
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Here is an exception (thank god for Isaac Mizrahi and poodles):<br />
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</tbody></table> Anna-Lyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759471319965744388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451632391918845743.post-21745767982375823482011-02-17T18:25:00.014-05:002011-02-17T23:01:25.195-05:00L'Air de RienWinter appears to be relinquishing its hold. This morning, in celebration of the warm-ish air and dripping eaves, I rummaged through my fragrance samples for something exciting to wear. Miller Harris' <a href="http://www.luckyscent.com/shop/detail.asp?itemid=11214">L'Air de Rien</a> turned out to be a perfect match for a day of melty walks in tall boots.<br />
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The backstory is that the fragrance was created for perfume-hating Jane Birkin by reinterpreting the scents of her childhood (father's pipe, floor polish, empty drawers, whatnot) and turning them into a non-fragrance with a certain edgy je-ne-sais-quoi. But what's more fun are the hilarious reviews that have sprung up around it. Like this one from a certain <a href="http://www.luckyscent.com/shop/detail.asp?itemid=11214">Cillar, Recluse</a> on luckyscent:<br />
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<blockquote>"All right, who put the old lady in the oven - heavily peppered and dusted with foot powder? Allow me to cyberslap you, Miller Harris. How dare you let loose such a fetid stench on this good green earth. How dare you, Sirs. What did Jane Birken [sic] ever do to you? Did she describe to you a geriatric hospice with the thermostat set at a steady 84 degrees, rife with the reek and fog of Shower to Shower and the hope that you would capture that, in her memory, to her honor, for all the world's horror? Beasts."</blockquote>Who then proceeded to give it five stars (maybe that was an accident).<br />
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And of course, <a href="http://www.perfumestheguide.com/Perfumes_The_A-Z_Guide_-_Luca_Turin_and_Tania_Sanchez/Home.html">Luca Turin's</a> glib "If, having lived the late sixties to the full, you cannot remember a thing about them, this will jog your memory. It smells of boozy kisses, stale joss sticks, rising damp, and soiled underwear. I love it."<br />
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Anyway, this is a fun fragrance for days like today, and a sample costs three dollars, so why not.<br />
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They were beautiful and such an immediate expression of <em>delight</em>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.fromkeetra.com/">Keetra Dean Dixon</a> makes beautiful melted wax things.<br />
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