Illuminated in Illustration: Daren Newman

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Theme Magazine

A lifestyle magazine with an Asian focus including amazing fashion editorials

XO Flux
making blog posts short and sweet
since 2008

Polaroid Notes

Hello everyone...Thank you for the birthday greetings! For my birthday dinner tonight, we had nachos and Helados Mexico popsicles and watched Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday.  Overall, a lovely time. One of my favorite gifts was this set of  Polaroid Notes, 20 notecards featuring -- well -- Polaroids. The red balloons are especially wonderful, I think...

The set was curated by Jenifer Altman  and printed by Chronicle Books, which produces very cool stuff. ...

Fashion Foods

Do you think certain foods are more fashionable than others?

I was in Urban Outfitters the other day and they had a shelf of cupcake cookbooks, cards, mugs, etc..etc...

So for today, I would like to proclaim that cupcakes are the perfect food...

It's also my birthday, so I would like one with pink sprinkles!! hah! Have a happy Thursday everyone!...


Photos from We Heart It, where there are 45 pages of cupcake pictures.

xoxo

almost famous

barbara fiahlo
doutzen
erin wasson

shannon click

For more polaroids of models before they hit it big, look here

xo, Flux

Crafter, Photographer, Artist Extraordinare: Meet Livy

Meet Livy, an art student and truly extraordinary blogger. Her blog is one of the most beautiful, unique (everything is created by Livy herself) inspirational and practical I have found. Not only does she supply beautiful photos and collages like the one below, of my town San Diego....
or here, the Santa Monica pier....
or here, a flower field....
but she is also a complete artist, tremendously talented with line drawing and illustration, as here...

AND! she also offers step by step instructions on many of her beautiful creations, like the lanterns above, and the seed kit below. The steps are illustrated with photos and careful instruction.

visit her at A Field Journal

xo, Flux

Tod Brilliant and the End of Polaroid

see his work here: Tod Brilliant
maggie may ethridge
making blog posts short and sweet
since 2008

Meet Fashion Blogger and Author: Andrea Eames

Meet Andrea Eames, blogger, thrifter, fashionista and novelist. Andrea blogs her daily fashion

choices at her blog, A Cat of Impossible Color - most pieces she wears are cleverly thrifted by Andrea herself. Andrea has one published YA book and now her first novel has been purchased by a Random House branch, due to be published in 2011, and entitled Ngozi, meaning ' venegful ghosts' in zimbabwe (sorry the capital z is broken on my keyboard!)

Andrea has a light hearted writing style while addressing working from home, writing ideas and discussions, and fashion. As you can see she prefers a very feminine, old school vintage look. I've been reading her blog for over a year and love her daily updated photos of outfits and the writing life.

Here is the blurb of her novel, Ngozi :

Being a white Zimbabwean in the 1990s is a near-perfect life. Your clothes are always clean and ironed, there is always tea in the silver teapot, gins and tonics are served on the verandah, and, in theory at least, black and white live in harmony. As Mugabe’s presidency turns sour, however, this idyllic and privileged world begins to crumble into anarchy. Told through the eyes of a young girl, Ngozi follows the struggle of one troubled white family to stay afloat in the collapsing economy and escalating horror of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. When the farm invasions begin, the violence threatens to destroy their way of life forever, and escaping the vengeful ghosts (‘ngozi’) of their past seems impossible. Can they stay, or must they go?

Humanizing the Devil?

Are you going to see The September Issue, the documentary about Anna Wintour and Vogue?

I can't wait to see it. My friend Mary Pols reviewed the documentary for Time Magazine last month. She wrote: "The Wintour we meet is still capable of the kind of arbitrary intimidations that might inspire a damning best seller. But this empress definitely is wearing clothes. Flattering ones."

Lula

Have you seen Lula Magazine? It's my new favorite. The magazine's website is still under construction, but there's a fantastic Lula fan site on Facebook -- with lots of pictures. I especially love the photo of the girl with the polka-dot tears. (The photos of Kirsten Dunst and Keira Knightley are pretty wonderful too.)

xo