Kristen

tershtan:

i want this

Welcome to the "utmost desirable town home in Beverly Hills": a dentist's office. At least, that's the vibe we're getting from the flat-faced, fortress-like facade and the weird, double-decker door that welcome you into this place. And yet, once you get inside, it becomes clear that you are definitely not in a dentist's office. You are in an over-stimulating, ruffled nightmare. "Tastefully redone from top to bottom in 2011," in the style of a 12-year-old girl given free reign at a TJ Maxx, noteworthy features of this three-bedroom, three-bathroom house include marble floors everywhere, at least four chandeliers (that we can see), a fully-mirrored bathroom (ew), a kitchen covered with one-inch metallic tiles, and an Escalade. They are asking $1.25 million.

· 9321 Burton Way Unit A, Beverly Hills, CA [Estately]

It's always nice to see a house on Highland Park's Professors Row (so-called for its popularity among Occidental College profs back in the 1900s; now a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone chock-full of Craftsmans) up for sale. This turn-of the-century number has been "expertly restored and updated from the studs up," and a 2006 renovation added new plumbing, heating/air conditioning, and electrical into the two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath. The seller is "an award winning designer" who inserted modern conveniences (a centrally-controlled speaker system), but left all the original architectural features. Have your own piece of LA history for $699,000.

· 4929 Sycamore Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90042 [Redfin]

There are two sides to everything – welcome to the Toesday Underworld. You are now in another dimension; where shadowy reflections in surreal nether regions bear a vague resemblance to free floating cat’s paws that don’t obey laws of physics – oh wait …

Via Twenty Two Words and  The Cat Scan.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Kittens, Toesday

Thanks to the tipster who called our attention to a listing they described as "The Madonna Inn of Eagle Rock." While the south-of-Colorado-Boulevard residence only has four bedrooms, as opposed to the Madonna's 110, we can definitely see the resemblance—a touch of Mountain Cabin here, a dash of Currier & Ives there, plus a dollop of Caveman. Per the listing, the house was originally built in 1947 and measures 2,850 square feet, including its later, unpermitted add-ons. Features include three fireplaces, a wetbar, at least one indoor hot tub, a swimming pool, and panoramic views. Sited on a .26-acre lot with some lovely trees, it's asking $499,000.

· 1411 Linda Rosa Ave [Estately]

New Spring – Italian fashion house Prada taps a large cast of new faces for its spring-summer 2014 campaign. Models Ola Rudnicka, Sabrina Ioffreda, Julia Bergshoeff, Maarjan Ridalaan, Anna Ewers (who appeared in the resort advertisements) and Cindy Bruna pose for Steven Meisel in a colorful portrait featuring furs, knit legwarmers and embellished tops from the spring collection.

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A Work of Art – Swedish artist Mats Gustafson reinterprets Dior’s latest collections designed by Raf Simons in a recent series of illustrations commissioned by the fashion house. We see pieces from the fall-winter 2013 and cruise 2013 collections in the elegant works. Gustafson’s use of watercolors, pastels and paper treatment brings an interesting take to the Dior creations.

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Kate’s Documentary – In celebration of Kate Moss’ upcoming 40th birthday on January 16th, French television station Paris Premiere will air an exclusive documentary about the British supermodel on January 12th. “Looking for Kate” is directed by Dominique Miceli and while highlighting the almost unparalleled greatness of her career, it will also feature some of the more unsavory aspects of her life such as the mid-2000s cocaine scandal. David Ross, who photographed Moss’ first ever test shots, as well as Paolo Roversi, Peter Lindbergh and designer Isabel Marant will make an appearance in the documentary.

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Mmmnnn, yesssss. And when you boys are done here, one of you can mix me an appletini before I go in for my pedicure.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: GIF of the Week, Kittens

はなサンタさんは――
This is Hana Santa.


はな：「こんなの――」



はな：「趣味じゃない！」
Hana:[It's not for me!]

Congratulations to Glendale, the winner of the 2013 Curbed Cup for LA's Neighborhood of the Year, and the accompanying, highly-prestigious golden jpeg. With a little professional public relations help, paid for by Americana at Brand-owner Caruso Affiliated, the city destroyed its first-seeded opponent—the Arts District—in the final voting (along with every other opponent it met in the CC). Even with an asterisk attached to its title, we all must admit the city was a development hot zone this year, with several-hundred new apartments opening and thousands more on the way. Plus a bunch of mall renovations. It also runs along a natural-bottomed portion of the LA River, which had the best year ever.

And for the first time ever this year, we also rounded up Curbed LA editors' picks for their 2013 Neighborhoods of the Year:

Bianca Barragan: The Financial District is making Downtown seem like a neighborhood, largely in part because it brought that Target complex into the mix. I was excited to see it sort of set the tone for Downtown in 2013 as a more livable, walkable, enjoyable space.

Neal Broverman: It's a tiny little enclave, but Little Osaka—sometimes simply called Sawtelle—is lately packing a lot into its dozen or so blocks. Crammed with new restaurants like Plan Check and Tsujita Annex, the neighborhood is an eater's paradise, with a growing roster of sidewalk dining. Centered around narrow Sawtelle, the sidewalks of Little Osaka are increasingly thronged, thanks to nurseries, apartment buildings, office buildings, and Japanese curio shops. It's also a half-mile from the forthcoming Sepulveda station on the Expo Line, which should introduce more people to its pleasures.

Adrian Glick Kudler: It's always a good year for being bullish on Hollywood: We tend to see the bad (the swarming tourists, the club douches), but the neighborhood is central, transit-accessible, urban, historic, and iconic (and not insanely unaffordable). In 2013, people finally started to pay attention to the long-neglected southern Vine Street zone; in the heart of things, Emerson College's just-about-finished Morphosis building is going to be one of LA's new architectural high points. (And for 2014: I'm rooting for Boyle Heights.)

Pauline O'Connor: I've become more of a fan of Glendale over the past year. Not so much the conspicuous-consumption, Americana-fication of it—the bucolic, Meatball the Bear-type aspects of it. Plus it's got a pretty decent stock of architecturally significant homes (e.g., Lautner's Schaffer House; Lloyd Wright's Derby House) that would be way more expensive if they were located farther west.

Josh Williams: The La Brea Corridor, which runs through several neighborhoods and the city of West Hollywood, is going through a rapid transformation from Hollywood to Wilshire with new mixed-use buildings, rehabs, an OSH Hardware, the new most-hated building in LA, and streetscape improvements.
· Curbed Cup 2013 [Curbed LA]

July 19, 2013

This A list celebrity/singer made her dancers and backup singers strip to nothing because she said that a bunch of coke was missing and that one of them must have taken it. There they were, all of them in a group naked while she quizzed them and went through their clothes. After two hours, her assistant showed up and reminded the singer that the singer had used it all earlier.

Rihanna

July 23, 2013

This horrible mother of a former almost A list mostly movie actress who is now a C+ with A list name recognition once crashed her daughter's sex party. Her daughter was having sex with this A+ list mostly movie actor who deserves to be about a C with his talent and the mom wanted to be part of the action. Not with the daughter, because even she is not that creepy, but wanted the A+ lister to alternate so to speak. He refused. He also left.

Dina Lohan/Lindsay Lohan/Gerard Butler

July 23, 2013

In the past I have written about some television shows that were high profile and the incidents that happened on set. Most of those shows did not have the run this show did. Most shows did not have the stars this show did. Most of those other shows did not have stars who are still huge stars.

This show was on the air a long time. The blind takes place as the show was in its final season of production. Everyone was making lots of money and everyone had their own little place on the show. There was the male lead. He was a nobody before the show started and was a nobody after the show ended until he struck gold again. Two hit shows in a lifetime is pretty good for this actor. He was married while he was on the show, but that did not stop him from having sex with whatever guests were willing to have sex with him. He and one of the other male stars of the show made a deal. The younger star would get to have sex with everyone under the age of 25, and the older star took the women that were over 25. It worked out great for them. They never fought about anyone. They simply asked women how old they were at the beginning of the week, and acted accordingly. The younger actor also had a girlfriend at the time, but she only counted when the actor was away from work. He has not really done anything since the end of the show and is the only main cast member to not do well since the show ended.

One of the female regulars on the show clashed a lot with the male lead I mentioned earlier. It was awful. They hated each other. There was a time during the final season where the cast was debating whether to come back for another season. It would involve pay cuts. Our male lead was with the female lead who has also been blessed with two huge television shows in her career and they came up with a plan to rid themselves of the female regular they both hated and eliminate her salary and then they would not have to take a pay cut. The regular had heard every word because the actors had forgotten they were wearing live microphones.

Another female lead on the show has had a stellar career and probably is the most well known of all the cast. At the time she was still in her teens who was followed around by her boyfriend everyday. One day, the actress showed up for her 20 hour workweek at 1030 in the morning after her regular three day weekend. She was met at her car by a production assistant who was on hour 5 of his day and about hour 80 of his workweek and the actress sat down in the golf cart and sighed. The assistant asked what was wrong and the actress said work sucked and that she was just so tired of working and the long hours, but the production assistant would just not understand. Uh huh.

Oh, as a final crew gift to everyone who worked on the show, the cast, who was making a combined $2M a week, gave out a gift that cost them $50 each. Nice. This will be revealed.

Show: "Married With Children"
Older Male Lead: Ed O'Neill ("Modern Family")
Younger Male Lead: David Faustino
Female regular that clashed: Amanda Bearse
Female Lead: Katey Sagal ("8 Simples Rules" or "Sons of Anarchy")
Brat: Christina Applegate

July 29, 2013

This B- list television and movie actor who is on a roll right now as he shoots to the A list does not try and use his fame to pick up women. He prefers cash instead and says it is so much easier than actually having to care. He has spent $25K in the past week on escorts during his vacation.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Monday it just rained all day I went out to check the mail and I got wet doing that so I just took some photos inside, Angus went home on Sunday, he is adjusting to his new home it won't take him long lots of exciting new smells and things to explore. I was just checking out his picture in the craft room, guess I was missing him a bit too.  
And missing my daughter and her fellow too as they have moved further away, there is glass on this painting and you can see me taking the photo.

I don't think I have ever shown this painting before it was never right and now these two have separated so I don't think it will ever get finished.













This was once a clock but for some reason I think the hands fell off so I painted a picture in the frame.


Angus and Drumstick met in the backyard on Saturday afternoon.
Not to much of a problem Angus was interested and Drumstick just ignored him.
She just went about her business
but did follow him around a bit

I did paint this chair for my daughter with some oil and varnish and make a seat pillow.
Angus and Drumstick
I was cleaning the loo and was going to add some smelly stuff but this little spider had moved in and I left the top off so he could climb out but he was not in a hurry it took a couple of days, I have all sorts of reading material in my toilet.

More rain.
But today was sunny and Leroy was sun baking most of the day, she even has a teapot in case she wants a cuppa.
The beer fairy suggested we leave a egg in the area where she is laying so she doesn't change the nest area, that was a good idea because she kept changing and we had to find the new area all the time, we have now had 9 eggs in so many days .

My bathroom had a bit of a change around and new purple towels.



And the guest bedroom too had the bed moved I found a pair of sunglasses and a dollar, it's always good when the maid gets paid.

I have to get help to hang this picture up it's very heavy but the beer fairy is still asleep.

Lovely Linda – Venezuelan label Patric Love taps supermodel Linda Evangelista for its spring 2014 campaign. Photographed in black and white, the Canadian beauty dons a slick platinum blonde coif and the designs of the label’s founder Prince Julio Cesar in the shoot. Looking the height of Old Hollywood glam, Linda wears looks from the label’s evening wear and prêt-à-porter collections.

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July 2, 2013

This B list celebrity turned B-/C+ list mostly movie actress has been on a rampage the past two months. She is convinced her A- list mostly movie actor boyfriend cheated on her and has been letting him know it everyday. The clothes he had at her place have been burned and the ashes sent back to him in the mail. She also texted all his friends to tell them what her thoughts were on the situation. She is not happy and when she gets wind of his current girlfriend, I hope she is ready for some of the same.

Gina Carano /Henry Cavill/Kaley Cuoco

[Still via Warner Bros. Pictures]

In the not too distant future, the skyline of Los Angeles will be full of 80-story high-rise towers. The air will be clean, the traffic nonexistent. Parks will thrive on rooftops. It will be a simple bullet train ride to the sea or the mountains. At least that's the LA writer/director Spike Jonze envisions in his new film Her, a Twenty-First Century love story about a man named Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls into a romantic relationship with his computer operating system, Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson).

"The future LA is convenient, comfortable, and bespoke," says production designer KK Barrett, who has collaborated with Jonze on four films. "We cleaned up the city—we took away things that weren't of interest—and celebrated buildings and architecture that were of interest to us. In Her it's a new city with curvaceous buildings and things that amuse us rather than things that felt brute."

[Still via Warner Bros. Pictures]

Their Los Angeles is a clever amalgam of locations in the real LA and in the Pudong business district of Shanghai, famous for its futuristic skyscrapers and raised walkways. If you look closely, you can see Chinese signage throughout the film. "We didn't hide it," says Barrett. "It's part of what LA is and what LA will become. We embrace the signage."

Barrett says he had a lot of questions when he first read Jonze's script because it lacked "visual exactness. So we collaged buildings together—we found buildings we liked—Pudong had the best visuals we could find—and it didn't matter that it was China. We selectively edited our collection of buildings into our film to make our new world—and we took out things we didn't want to show. And it becomes a new whole."

[Still via Warner Bros. Pictures]

Barrett and Jonze's vision of Downtown Los Angeles is filled with curves and fabrics, beautiful lighting, and soft textures. It is a look, weirdly enough, inspired by Jamba Juice: "It's convenient, comfortable, healthy, and available. That's the world we wanted to make," says Barrett.

[Still via Warner Bros. Pictures]

Joaquin Phoenix's character lives in a high-rise (location: the WaterMarke at Ninth and Flower) that perhaps appropriately overlooks One Wilshire—considered the most wired telecommunications building in the world.

But Barrett wanted the skyscraper-filled future LA to have open space too—"even in [Theodore's] apartment with the big windows we wanted to give the illusion he was floating—surrounded by the density of the big city but not claustrophobic."

[Still via Warner Bros. Pictures]

Her is not only a movie about how we might find love in the future, but also how we might live there. "Hopefully the look of the movie shows things that can't be heard through dialogue," says Barett. "It gives more information about the characters and the world around them without being intrusive. The production design is wrapped around him and becomes part of his character—and the bubble he lives in."

[Still via Warner Bros. Pictures]
Her will have a limited release starting today, December 18, and a wide release beginning January 10. --Andrew Epstein

Start your morning with a pick-me-up — a piping hot cup of corgi pup! Also available in lemon beagle and chipotle chihuahua.

Via Reddit.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Pups

May 8, 2013

This A+ list mostly movie actor who is about to take a break was on the receiving end of attention from a SI Swimsuit model not named Kate Upton. The model, who was wearing a top that was kept closed by one simple button at the bottom told the actor that she had worn the top just for him and invited him to reach inside and see if he liked what she had to offer. He took her up on the touching, but that was about it and moved on with his friends like what had happened was a normal occurrence.

Leonardo DiCaprio

October 3, 2011

This one is painful to write. It happens all the time though so I guess should not be surprised. This couple seems like they have the perfect marriage. Everything is always so great to the outside world, but inside, the couple is having some serious issues. Our actor is very good looking. B- list. Does television and movies and modeling. Always a smile on the face. Our actress does a little bit of everything. She actually has a chance at some point of pulling off an EGOT. They are married and have child/ren, however, our actor has been sleeping with a production assistant on his show and his wife has no clue. This would absolutely crush her and will make huge headlines if this comes out, no so much because of the level of their fame, but just because of the perfect couple image that is always presented to the world.

Taye Diggs/Idina Menzel

drtyhousewife:

“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”

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phaiery:

I NEED THIS SHIRT

Brewster by Heather Mattoon

Art collectors and cat ladies will be pleased to know that on Saturday, January 25th, a massive art show dedicated entirely to felines will debut in LA. Coined as "the largest exhibition of cat-inspired artwork for sale ever exhibited," Cat Art Show Los Angeles will feature the works of more than fifty artists from across the globe, including locals like Shepard Fairey, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Natalia Fabia and Racked friend Langley Fox.

Learn all about the free event here and follow Cat Art Show LA's Instagram for a peek at some of the kitties to expect.
· Cat Art Show [Official Site]
· Brian Lichtenberg's Sweatshirt Salutes Celine and Cat Ladies [Racked]