Modest Operandi

. in loving memory .

awesome (via Wooster Collective). A city worker laughs at an spontaneous art installation of wilting flowers and messages topped with a plaque reading ‘in loving memory of the boom economy’ in the City of London October 13, 2008. The piece is stamped with the monogram K.GUY and appeared [...]

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. priscilla ahn .

I don’t know why but listening to this almost made me cry. This is the intro text from La Blogotheque. We took to the streets around Little Tokyo as darkness rolled in. The shopping district was buzzing with people walking and laughing and waving down the street to friends. Priscilla and I watched a man playing [...]

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. paper cranes .

I remember being so proud of the miniature paper cranes I could make. They were itty bitty and I’d spend a full hour at church every Sunday making them as small as possible and lining them up on the bench in front of me.  I’d like to think that if my mom had let me focus [...]

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. made you look .

I love these photos from performance artist Li Wei (I’d link you to his site but for some reason, it’s not opening). I’m reading conflicting comments on whether or not the images are photoshopped, but either way, they’re pretty amazing. The first image is my favorite — there’s something very innocent and dreamy about it. Doesn’t [...]

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. women are heroes .

So cool. I haven’t found anything that clearly explains the story behind these, but from what I can gather, they’re from a French photographer named JR who creates large scale versions of his photos and pastes them in public spaces. Women are Heroes is part of a project he started where he shoots women from post-conflict [...]

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