Our Wedding Video

Elsie&Sergio Wedding Film Documentary by Giulia Selvaggini from Giulia Selvaggini Wedding Films on Vimeo.

Giulia really did capture how the day felt to us so perfectly.

Goats Yelling Like Humans

Our Project

Hello there! I would be really appreciative if you took a bit of time to view this little project Sergio and I have been working on. It's less than 60 seconds and there's music so turn on your sound/headphones. Still a rough cut but please watch and let us know what you think!



Thank you for watching! :)

Happy Belated Valentines Day

Pretend that it's a week ago today, and then watch this. Enjoy!

Sofia Coppola's Marni for H&M Commercial

Did you spy my girl? The one from the Madewell catalog I obsessed over in the Fall of last year?

Sunday Smiles

Found via Apartment Therapy.

Alabama Shakes

Really, really diggin' this. Soulful Alabama Shakes. They're blowin' up. Gonna be everywhere in a second.

Groove:


K. Off to buy ALL their music.

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Clare and the Kartell Ghost Chair

Clare's voice is magical, isn't it? So clear, focused, quiet.

The Ghost Project - Clare Vivier from Kartell LA on Vimeo.

more info: Kartell Los Angeles, The Ghost Chair Project.

Rad.

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Growing is forever

Growing is Forever from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

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Sharkpig

Have you heard of Sharkpig? The best videographer ever. He is part of The Flashdance, "a collective of artists who think you deserve a rad wedding."

Here is one of the best wedding party videos ever. It's a total Flashdance wedding and it makes me want to boogie down like Jennifer Beals.

Max, Margaux, & The Marvelows from Shark Pig on Vimeo.

Nina Zilli

Just got back from a relaxing couple of nights in Vegas. Can't believe it had been so long since we've been back there. It has changed so much already!

While I catch up from our little trip, upload photos etc., please gaze at my new style muse: Nina Zilli.


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The following three photos are fan photos from her facebook page.




She looks tough and sweet at the same time. Like hard candy.

Now listen to her amazing voice in this gorgeous song (50mila). I kind of want to be her right now. Turn on your sound and click on the image below to link out to YouTube.



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I heart LA - Save the Date Video

Was wandering the interwebs and stumbled upon one of the cutest Save the Dates ever.

http://www.rocknrollbride.com/2010/08/i-love-la-angel-lillys-save-the-date-video/

They are also maybe the cutest couple ever.

Searcing for Dinosaurs

Our backyard has become an archaeological dig site. Sergio has unearthed a smattering of interesting objects, including shards of vintage Corona bottles, massive chunks of cement, giant old tree roots, what looks like an old structural foundation and bones! Not human, we don't think.

We keep finding things that need to be excavated before we can continue leveling the area. The process is taking a lot longer than we expected. We keep finding concrete and cinder blocks buried a few feet in the dirt that need to be sledgehammered and removed. It's really slowing us down. If only we were unearthing big bags of money instead of this stuff:





Sergio is pretty tired right now. He was supposed to work tonight but ended up falling asleep on the couch. And it's supposed to rain tomorrow. Dang it.

iphone craziness

I do not have an iPhone. Even if I did, I doubt I would ever be as amazing with one as this girl is.





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Feeling Golden

It was a gold kind of weekend. Woke up ridiculously early on Saturday morning and caught a bit of the sunrise from our front yard. It was very pretty and the birds were just chirping hello to the morning light.

Please use the Italian Cypress as a reference point of where the image overlaps. I did a quick search for image stitching software but got lazy. Y'all will just have to fire up the ol' imagination synapses.

Bringing the BLING:

Earrings are from a yard sale a few weekends ago; Rings from another yard sale just last weekend. The sweet little swallow charm is from Sergio! He purchased it from a jewelry shop in town when we were last in Sutri. It dangles from two different chains I connected to make one long one, both gifted to me by my mom from years past. I was extremely tempted to tap into my inner Mr. T by wearing both rings at once. But I ain't tough enough.

Check out this nugget of shortbus awesomeness:

I wanted to put it into my pocket and take it home for Micio to drive. If only she weren't such a spaz.

Here she is bathing in sunlight, sitting dignified as Dr. Jekyll one second and then twisting like crazy Ms. Hyde quite literally, the next. Why are you so spazzy Micio? Spaz.


We are lucky to call the owner of this golden voice our neighbor and frequent visitor:

I did manage to stitch 3 videos here -- all recorded while Sergio was working on the credenza I had mentioned in my recent Living Room post. I'm saving those pics for my next post.

We ended the weekend with Avatar. Don't my moms and I look hott in our golden 3D glasses?

Jeff & Erin's EPIC Wedding Trailer

I don't know these people, but I kind of wish I did:

(make sure you have your sound on -- the narration is pitch perfect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqLyCTESjg

A Proper York Blvd Welcome

We had kept Micheal's arrival a surprise. Jenny and Chi were speechless. It was funny. My mom certainly acted surprised when she came through the door. But then, she let us know that the surprise was ruined right before she walked out the door of her house. Steve, Mike's brother, called, looking for him. Dang it. Oh well. It was still fun!

I had fleeting fancies of cooking dinner but it was just not realistic. I've been so busy, there just hasn't been time to plan or shop. Our fridge was so sadly empty. I joked about it and Mike graciously said, "No, I saw you have eggs." Thai Eagle Rox (on york) and Sergio to the rescue! He picked up the giant order. When he got to the restaurant and asked for our order, they said, "Oh, the expensive one?" Funny. It was A LOT of food. It was tasty and dinner turned out to be quite fun. The bottle of wine we opened up was especially wonderful. At least the fridge wasn't empty anymore after dinner.




After dinner, we sat around the living room chatting. We YouTubed a few videos -- Lady Gaga acoustic, Michael Jackson...it was a bit incongruous yet so very now to be gathered with my family around my laptop and surfing YouTube. I suppose if we had cable TV or suitable unwatched DVD we would have watched a movie. I think though, they ended up popping in Fearless, a Jet Li movie. Surprisingly, one or both of my parents hadn't seen it yet -- the DVD belongs to them. Thinking back, it's probably because I snuck off with the movie before they got a chance to watch.

We decided to take a jaunt down to The York after Mom and Dad went home. We met some fun people. There was an extraordinarily drunk Scotsman named Scott who was celebrating this birthday with his wife, Priscilla -- also very drunk. We sat and chatted loudly with them for while. Also met very drunk girl named Ana who works at Roy's downtown. She grew up in the area and we reminisced. Her buddies had left her at The York and went to Marty's up the street. I was kind of worried for her because they had her money, but she said she just needed to go to Marty's and she'd be fine. It's only a couple blocks. As we were leaving, we did walk with her a little since we were hittin' up Estrella too...


Before Estrella though, Mike tried his first bacon-wrapped hot dog. They had a great location right outside the bar. There was this guy sitting with them whose face was all beat up. You can sort of see the cuts on his face in the picture (left). The vendors didn't know who he was or why his face was messed up. He looked amiable enough though.

At this point, all my pics are pretty blurry to match my blurry voice recorded for posterity on the videos at the bottom of the post.

La Estrella came through as always. Mike and I tried El Pique too. I think the al pastor is better marinated there (ack, I know! blasphemy!) but the red sauce is unparalleled at Estrella. Yeah, I'm a little obsessed with it - as evident by my video commentary.




Most of Mike's stay was about the eating. I have a few more posts worth of meals. Poor guy. He's on a diet too.

:)

Videos: Mike tasting 1) bacon-wrapped hot dog; 2) la estrella al pastor taco

IKEA Heights - burbank

Check out IKEA Heights -- a soap opera secretly shot at the Burbank IKEA. I can't say the show is all that compelling, but the concept is pretty funny. And I always like recognizing show locations -- and boy am I familiar with this one.

Funniest moment is them getting caught in episode 3.

www.IKEAHeights.com