Kyaraben

My bff lives in Japan, and so I get to learn about all sorts of cool and fun Japanese culture. When I saw her in February, she was telling me all about "Bento", which is simply a single portion meal. Kids take bento for lunch. Bento is normally arranged in a cute way, and there is even an art form, called Kyaraben which is very elaboratly decorated Bento. Here are some of my favorites:

fav friday

So in case you all are completely oblivious- i love cupcakes. I love eating them, making them, looking at them, drawing them, getting a tattoo of them...etc etc. I have this handy dandy cupcake courier that everytime I use, I get a million questions and compliments about. I figured I would share it here, so that you too can have your very own cupcake courier!

Cupcake Life Saver!

dear God

There is a new website, Dear God, that encourages and welcomes people of all faiths and religions to share their hopes, concerns, frustrations, joys and confessions. Its non-denominational, and you reveal these things in the form of a prayer to whatever your "god" may be. I like the togetherness of it all.

puccho cupcakes!

Oh my, these are too cute! Flickr Tuesdays, how about that? Its now a thing.

puccho (japanese candy) cupcakes!!!
Originally uploaded by hello naomi

Murakami

So I've posted before about one of my favorite artists, Takashi Murakami. (That is who my dog is named after!) He had an exhibit out in LA for a while, and it is now on the East coast! The exhibit is @ the Brooklyn Museum . Here are a few of my favorite images from Murakami/Kaikai Kiki. (His art production company)





And remember when Marc Jacobs worked for Louis Vuitton? He did a collaboration with Murakami, to which you might remember these:

bearded..children?

If only..I would have been crushing on boys way sooner! I'm sure glad my b has a beard still..most adorable of them all!



This is a campaign for a new exhibit @ the Natural History Museum in London. Somewhat creepy, all the way awesome.