Merry Christmas from the Athays! 2013

Hi All,

I thought I'd share this year's Christmas video with you and wish you a felicitous yuletide season!

xo Heidi

Walking in Memphis

Finally got around to finishing the video my husband and I came up with on our last trip to Memphis. He really nailed this one. Best. Air piano. Ever.  Enjoy!

Movin' Right Along...

I think it might be time to admit that the likeliness of me returning to regular posting here is beginning to dwindle.  there's always a chance i'll jump right back into blogging, but for the moment i would like to thank everyone who has ever visited me, and to encourage anyone who has enjoyed their time here to check out my photography site and to follow me on instagram and/or twitter (@PokeSalad). hope to run into you there! xo

Heidi

A Christmas Message

Hello all,

It's been so long since I have written here.  This year has been a busy one, full of events both fortunate and not.  I hope to come here more often in 2013, but for now, I'll leave you with this Christmas message from my husband and I, along with our very best wishes for the holiday season.

Much love to you and yours
xo

R.I.P. Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012)

abstract universe

these beautiful images wer captured by the Landsat 7 Satellite. see more here.

teenage wasteland: japanese youth in revolt 1964

i highly recommend checking out the rest of these awesome photos from Life magazine photographer Michael Rougier.  find out more about this photo essay here.

anny wong

 

i love these little swimmers by illustrator Anny Wong. see more of her work here.

swedish hasbeens

Stockholm footwear label Swedish Hasbeens' spring/summer 2012 collection takes it's inspiration from the 1940's and 50's.  i love this campaign. so fun!

R.I.P. Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012)

R.I.P. Adam Yauch (August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012)

were was monstrum when i was wee?!

check out these wonderfully imaginative playgrounds by Monstrum. the following is from their website:

MONSTRUM believes that playground design should be a reflection of the world surrounding us. We see the world as a place full of colour. We meet boys that like pink and girls that likes trees, so why only play on a monky frame and a sandbox, when you can play in a moon crater or a submarine or a giant spider or an enormous snail or a Trojans horse or a rocket or an ant or a princess castle. The fantasy is infinite.

how awesome is that?! see more here.

colby college mountain day

k, so I live in Toronto, Canada. no mountains here and no such awesome tradition as 'mountain day' - a student celebration in the north eastern U.S. where classes are cancelled without prior notice and the whole student body heads to the freakin mountains. apparently this has been going on since 1838. this is first i've heard of it and i think it's pretty darn rad. the photos you see here are from a Life magazine feature on Colby College Mountain Day in October of 1950. so very charming. more here.

R.I.P. Dick Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)