summer10

a short film I put together from my summer 2010 trip to Utah and Colorado.
please excuse the rough edit, this is my first try at film editing

music:
casino versus japan
summer clip

summer.10 from Jacqueline Stringham on Vimeo.

greetings from the west

hello from Utah!
Been taking care of my three nephews for a week...completely fun and completely exhausting.

In other news...

Poketo launches its Target line August 10th! Excited to see their latest offerings. I am disappointed with them sometimes...I've seen the exact smae items they've sold online for $5-$10 that I could have picked up at the $1 in Japan. I see this far too often.

Will be taking the AmTrak California Zephyr from Provo, UT to Denver, CO next week. I am excited about the beautiful sights to see crossing the Rockies.



Just found out about this fashion, food, culture site NOWNESS, definitely worth a glance. Love the article on LCD Soundsystem.

Douglas Friedman's architecture shots are stunning.

best.gift.ever

I just received the best surprise present ever/



a French Yves Saint Laurant coloring book from my dear friend in France


The Petite Palais in Paris pays tribute to Yves Saint Laurant with over 400 couture outfits dating from his first Cristian Dior collection in spring 1958 through to his last collection for YSL in 2002.

To accompany the exhibition the Berge/Saint-Laurent foundation has released a picture perfect coloring book. I think it is adorable and completely sums up the YSL brand.

If you don't know, then don't

tuxedo moon day





what an outpouring of bisous for mister oscar wilde; spotted at the Père Lachaise Cemetery




jacqueline:: version paris.france


words to live by - 2010
found at the centre pompidou

And you, you knew the hand of a devil/ And you kept us awake with wolves teeth/ Sharing different heartbeats in one night

two greats so far of paris


INSTANT CHAVIRES


point ephemere


god people are so great here




stupendous
why dont people use this word anymore?



spent some of the loveliest evenings here


shakespeare and company

playmobil

view on my 2nd day in the city from the grand centre pompidou





Il était une fois Playmobil
the toy of my childhood, saw the exhibit at Les Arts Décoratifs






native

the house I always wanted, but never got...

je ne veux jamais partir

//I wake up every morning staring at la Tour Eiffel//

I never.ever.ever.
want to leave

さようなら

almost gone

bye.bye Japan. How you have changed me so, there are no words.
I have always and will always love you.

Forbidden fruit, hidden eyes | Curtises that I despise in me

had a total throw back day yesterday, exploring my total non-existent 1970s roots

watched Dazed and Confused


♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ lots of Heart - Dreamboat Annie ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥


and almost bought a brown suede fringe bag like this




around my birthday for the past few years, I always end up listening to Portishead's debut work over and over, call it my birthday tradition

oh my...25

with my quarter life birthday less than one week away, 25 has been on my mind


these are they at 25 years of age

Queen Elizabeth I became Queen of England at 25


Famous 1960s mod designer, Mary Quant, opens her second Bazaar boutique in Knightsbridge; designs very short childlike dresses at 25.


The most popular single in 1960 was Elvis Presley's It's Now or Never, which spent eight weeks at No 1 in the charts when he was 25.


Madonna released her debut, self-titled album at 25years.


Joan Miro created this at 25


Sir William Henry Bragg, won the Nobel prize in Physics for his work with X-ray spectra, X-ray diffraction, and crystal structure at 25.


Andy Warhol (seated on the right) gained fame for his whimsical ink drawings of shoe advertisements in NYC at 25 during a successful career in magazine illustration and advertising.


Wes Anderson writes and directs his short film Bottle Rockets at 25, entered the short at Sundance and secure funding for a feature-length Bottle Rocket.


At 25, Amelia Earhart flew to an altitude of 14,000 feet), setting a world record for female pilots. Earhart became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license

my tv

what's on NHK tonight?

Mario DS


EDWIN Jeans
Levis were king of denim here in Japan for the past decade, but a recent Japanese company is taking them on...the name EDWIN is short for EDO (the original name for Tokyo) and then the English word WIN, meaning "Tokyo Wins", meaning they will outsell Levis with a Japanese made jean//
but then they go and pay Brad Pitt to do this...


Car repair shop


hungry?



Really interesting google auto-complete comparison between Japan/China/American/Canada




If you're looking to improve your Japanese, Ive found this website to be extremely helpful.
頑張ってください! gambatte!

happy weekend

Books of my childhood. The topic came up in one of my classes and got me thinking










learned how to make sushi! ate it before I thought to take a picture - tuna, avocado and carrot.

French yé-yé singer Sylvie Vartan