Stairs

While most of you are familiar with my door obsession I do have another guilty pleasure: stairs. Apparently, I'm not alone in my stair fascination - the first two images are from one of my new favorite sites stairporn.org.

We're Back! And hungry for more great finds..

After a too-long "brief" hiatus, the ladies of the Light are back in the blogosphere, with an amped-up appetite for the undiscovered good things that are all around us!

Jumping right in...

This new find got me really excited: For the epicurean with a taste for the ephemeral, there is the brand-new Kitchenette SF.  From 11:30 to 1:30 Monday through Friday, stop by the pop-up kitchen at 958 Illinois St in the Dogpatch to pick up your lunch.  It's cash only, and the menu changes every day (check their website the night before), featuring amazing and innovative lunches made from all organic and sustainably farmed ingredients from local farms.

The chefs are a group of friends with an impressive pedigree: veterans of Chez Panisse, Foreign Cinema, Betelnut, all coming together to create a project that really puts the "here today, gone tomorrow" ethos of seasonal eating in the spotlight.

Happy on-the-go munching...

--Gillian

Daily Door

Time for class

I stumbled upon this vintage school desk while perusing the ever so magical Factory 20 website and got instant goose bumps. I had one just like it in the 1st grade where I would store my pencils and reading workbooks. I was going to post a bunch of school house nostalgia pics but decided I liked the simplicity of these shots instead…

Daily Door

Textures

Anyone who has wandered the streets of San Francisco with me can attest that I tend to dawdle behind, taking snapshots of any little sight that might tickle my fancy.  Lately, I’ve been obsessed with textures and geometric architectural details.   Below are just a few of my most recent finds...  I’d love to take about 15-20 of the best ones and frame them in my entryway eventually but for now I thought I'd just share them with you, my observant readers, in the hopes that doing so will inspire future projects...

--Whitney

No photos, no photos

Happy Birthday to me!  That's right, and this year was a big birthday too, though I'm not telling you which one.  A lady never tells.

The greatest gift of all was, of course, sipping French 75s with friends and family, and shooting many games of billiards, during which the skill level exhibited did nothing to justify the level of photographic documentation that followed.

That being said, one of my other favorite gifts of the night was a book of Ron Galella's photographs.  Galella was one of the most famous paparrazi photographers of the last half of the century, and his photos stand alone as art as well as documentation of the celebrity culture of the 60s and 70s.  He shot many photos of icons such as Jackie Onassis, Marlon Brando and Andy Warhol, as well as incredibly evocative portraits from the disco scene.

His photographic style has come to be so inextricably linked to the scene he inhabited, that it becomes hard to tell where the journalism ends and the history-making begins.

cheers!

Gillian