By Emily on May 21, 2013
Yesterday, I was uploading and tagging some photos on Flickr when all of a sudden the site reloaded, and POOF! There was a message on the top telling me to smile, which I always find a little creepy, and the site looked so unfamiliar that I thought it was a virus of some kind. Cue [...]
Posted in photography, rants | Tagged acquisition, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Marissa Mayer, photographer, photography, redesign, social media, SXSW, Tumblr, Yahoo!
By Emily on November 13, 2012
Hard to believe I’ve been in Austin over three months. Things have been pretty quiet around here, largely because being back in school turns out to be pretty time consuming. I’m so busy printing (and, ahem, reading) endless PDFs, teaching classes, writing papers, and generally doing the student thing that I haven’t been much of [...]
Posted in Austin, moving, photography | Tagged ATX, Austin, Flickr, photowalk, Texas
By Emily on June 1, 2011
Hello, June! This may be a fool’s errand, but I’ve decided to try 30 Days of Creativity, starting today. The whole idea is to make something, anything, every day for the month of June. And since it’s still rainy here and not especially summer-y, I thought I might give it a go. In March 2009, [...]
Posted in blog, getting crafty, photography, things that make me smile, writing | Tagged 30 days of creativity, another project, Flickr, Pinterest
By Emily on May 31, 2011
Sometimes it takes a deadline. Once I got almost five months behind on Flickr uploading, I started to get so overwhelmed that I wondered if I would always be posting photos of snow when the flowers are blooming, whether my farmer’s market and green grass photos would need sorting as the leaves were falling. But [...]
Posted in adventures in cooking, blog, getting crafty, photography, seasons, things that make me smile, working | Tagged 30 days of creativity, catch up, Flickr, June, uploading
By Emily on April 8, 2011
At first glance, white does not seem like a spring color. It seems to belong to spring’s predecessor, no question. But white really is the color of spring cleaning. I’ve come to realize in recent years that, for the home, I do not like beige – I like the crisp, clean modernity of white. It’s [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, blogs I read and like, colors, new house, photography, rants, seasons | Tagged Flickr, poppytalk, Scandinavian, spring colors week, white
By Emily on April 6, 2011
When I saw that pink was one of the colors this week, it almost caused me to opt out. Pink…is not my signature color. I’m not sure if it’s the girly-ness or the fact that it totally clashes with my hair (the horror!) but it’s just never really been my deal. All that being said, [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, blogs I read and like, colors, photography, seasons | Tagged Flickr, girly, not my fave, pink, poppytalk, spring colors week
By Emily on April 5, 2011
Back in business for day 2 of the Poppytalk Spring Colors Week. Today’s color? Yellow – I’m not sure there’s a more spring color, especially after so many months of gray, gray, gray. (photos from dawn521, amy~ homegrown, only because mushroom asked me to, simply stardust, loveitaly, Die Frau im Haus, bonjour celine!, and KatjaR.)
Posted in a few of my favorite things, blogs I read and like, colors, photography, seasons | Tagged favorites, Flickr, poppytalk, spring color week, yellow
By Emily on April 4, 2011
For most of the people I know, this week is spring break. For a few, spring break was two weeks ago or is around the corner. Sadly, despite working at a university, this break of which they speak is not for me. And yes, I’m feeling very, very sorry for myself. Actually, although I can’t [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, blogs I read and like, colors, photography, seasons | Tagged design is mine, favorites, Flickr, green, poppytalk, spring colors week
By Emily on November 10, 2010
Saw this post on Flickr about today being the 41st anniversary of Sesame Street and it kinda sent me down memory lane. I LOVED Sesame Street. My parents are convinced that Sesame Street taught me how to read. We had these VHS tapes recorded from the TV, all with the same white cases with multi-colored [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, blogs I read and like | Tagged Flickr, my childhood is apparently vintage, My So-Called Life, Sesame Street
By Emily on September 6, 2010
I spend a lot of time online, and before I know it, I’ve got 25 tabs open in Firefox. I rarely have time to get through all of those links by the time I need to move on, and so I am constantly trying to figure out how to organize all of that newfound information. [...]
Posted in blog, photographer crush, things that make me smile | Tagged Blogging Your Way, Flickr, online portfolios, photographer crush, photography, series
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a language and culture assistant through the Spanish government, traveling, and writing about it here. After a few years back in my home state of Montana, I moved to Austin, Texas, where I like to go exploring, take pictures of my food, write letters, dream of far-off places, and think about concepts of home.
