Kristin Cofer - Design That Kills

Again, it’s that American holiday, where people across the country eat and drink large quantities of food and think about those things we are thankful for. I enjoyed reading what the modcloth kids are thankful for, as well as the responses posted. It’s what got Richard Wayne and I thinking about those things in life we appreciate too.

1. Coming together after being thousands of miles apart.
2. blue bottle coffee, which is how we start off our mornings together.
3. Fun, crafty and artistic people who inspire us with their wares, writings, music, and all other endeavors, such as Heartbreaker Fashion, Sweetie Pie Press, the Misanthrope Specialty Co., our friend and hairmaster Amithyst, the outlaw Americana music of Hang Jones, the vintage savvy of our dear Olivia at Bows & Arrows Vintage, and so many others.
4. The invention of the camera.
5. Online streaming of NFL games so that Richard Wayne can still watch his beloved Pittsburgh Steelers when the west coast stations aren’t showing their games.
6. Amazing family and friends on both coasts and several points in between.
7. New shoes.
8. Puppies.
9. New adventures in southern California sight-seeing.
10. Having rejuvenated hope for our country under the compassionate, calm, and intelligent leadership of our next President of the United States, Barack Obama.

What are you thankful for today?

“We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but too afraid to become it ourselves. We are a defeated generation, resigned to the hypocrisy of those before us, who once sang songs of rebellion and now sell them back to us. We are the last generation, a culmination of all previous things, destroyed by the vapidity that surrounds us. The hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture so detached and disconnected that it has stopped giving birth to anything new. ”

From Adbusters, Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

tonight my fifteen year old brother asked me, “kristin, what are you?” and i said, “i am not anything-” and he said, “then you’re kristin? kristin style?” and i nodded, “yep, a little bit of a lot rolled into one.”

recently i found out my generation is labeled as “Y”- what does that really mean?

this week i have been thinking a lot about perception. and how i take in images, life, faces, trees and process them into thoughts or art, sentences, and new ideas- the colors and information my eye takes in might look completely different than what you see- how would we know?

i wish my eyeball was a miniature camera and that i could take pictures of life exactly how i see it and then process these images for others. what do you think about perception? how do you take it in? what do you see?