Take 5

Fragments of antique book bindings, TITA candy wrapper from Argentina, match book from Cafe Loup, card from Jenny Holtzer retrospective at the Whitney "GOOD DEEDS EVENTUALLY ARE REWARDED", diploma seal, ethnic textile, found word "take", found number "5", Japanese cookbook, postcard of Gaudi staircase, vintage fabric, 3-d puzzle pieces illustration, wrought iron gate, Agam silk screen.

Borrowed Books

Bindings from the archive of the New York Public Library

State of Staircase

Certificate from State of New York, woven belt, photo of Giovanelli residence staircase, Mercer Island, Washington, 1959, Wendell Lovett architect. Photo from MSCUA, University of Washington Libraries.

Random Scan: idid

Medals & Minerals

Rock specimen box and box cover, auction listing for American Indian artifacts, assorted medals on ribbons.

Wrestling Santos

Navajo weaving, horse bit, cover of a wrestling video, antique santos hands, pressed flower from 1897.

Venus & Dansk

Once again, as soon as I scanned a page from an old collage journal (lower left quadrant: red foil, Venus de Milo), I just had to start combining it with other images--like the Dansk candelabra which is just so graphic and graceful, and the rust cover of an old Russian book with such an lovely little silhouette. The vertical striped image on the upper left is from a photo of old painted paper--such a serene, and peaceful palette.

Surrogates & Rays

Yellow coaster on top of NY Times photo of Allan McCollum's "Collection of Forty Plaster Surrogates", Rays Pizza sign, Metro North tracks.

Blue Hearts of Glass, TOO MUCH AIR AIN'T ENUF!

OJ II ELITES Skateboard sticker: "SPEED WHEELS SANTA CRUZ - METHODAIR ON A DARE- OJ II - TOO MUCH AIR AIN'T ENUF! - FLY TILL YA DIE - OLLIE ON A DIME!- OJ II ELITES" ; Navajo rug; vintage blue glass hearts, infographic about consumer markets in China.

Needles & Cheese

Covered cheese dish, vintage needle package, desktop.

Rainbow & String

Clay rainbow from an art piece at the Wassaic Project, part of an installation of ceiling to floor string "cones" also at Wassaic.

Horse Fever

I loved the well-worn look of this vintage straw bag with leather trim. My friend was absolutely right that I would want to photograph 'Horse Fever' before she gave it as a birthday gift to a horse-loving 10-year old girl.
Gorgeous blue molding from one of the many Swedish antique pieces that fill their beautiful home.

4X4+BeefeaterX2

Marytroshka, old Beefeater Gin bottle and a newer bottle of the 2007 redesign, parking lot.

Moth on White Shoulders

I mercifully got a few days respite from the stinky streets of NYC in the heat! This week's photocollages will include images captured during my delightful weekend visit with friends in the country.

Vintage box of White Shoulders, moth on the screen at night, gorgeous fresh-picked wild roses in my room, vintage vase.

Darling & Babies

Pages from a German art calendar; package of plastic toy babies; title sequence from Darling, the 1965 John Schlesinger film with Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey; incredible ring with a flower of gemstones including turquoise, pearl, amethyst, and onyx.

Albino & Up

Albino peacock (truly awesome), Victorian picture-brooches, metal arrow with bulbs, from an old sign.

Piece full & Amethyst

So this is where it all began. The very first Desktop Diaries entry. I just happened to have a few of these images on my desktop at the same time and I found myself layering and sizing the various windows and thinking that it all looked so cool together. That's when I decided to do a screen grab before I moved any of the windows. The rest is history.

Antique color chart, marbled endpaper of an old book, mod fabric, vintage textile swatch book, gorgeous black and red scarf, combs, "Piece Full", about japanese Boro textiles, vintage mushroom textile, photo of a vintage Vanity Fair slip, antique swatch book, print of an amethyst crystal.

Pleasure la Silki

Vintage fleur-de-lis fabric design, menu, street sign for Pleasure Ave., Pittsfield, Massachusetts, logo for Silki la Silki.

Wall & Dumpster

NYC wall, W. 129th St. Dumpster, W. 40s near 12th Ave.

Lip Stool & Backstamps

Pottery backstamps, mosaic trivet, Curwen Press decorative papers, marcasite ring, articulated hands, fornasetti lip stool.

Tyrk & Chairs

Mode 1970

Book of hairstyles from France "Mode 1970", vintage portrait, quilt, two-tone ring.

Oo La La

vintage grosgrain sash, frame molding fragments, Oo La La Middle Neck Rd.

Pyrite Eyes

Eye studies by Carrache, pyrite, vintage paper lining a drawer of an antique dresser.

Dutch Boy

Valextrabad

Valextra wallet from Barneys, found "bad", enlarged pixels, gold-rimmed plates.

"Is My Turban Disturbin'?"

Ethnic woven textile, vintage blocks quilt, pin-up sketch calendar page, chemistry set,
graffitied priority mail sticker.

Lady Bayard, 1897

It was bound to happen. I finally started scanning some of the physical collages I've been creating for years, so now they are on my desktop too and exist as one more random image to digitally combine with others.

Paper candy cup, chewing gum foil, rose petal, add accessories postcard, graffitied "Hello my name is" sticker, Lady Bayard label on printed fabric, protractors, Victorian arrow brooch, kokeshi, gaming chips, spine of 1897 bound French fabric archive, a sliver of a bookcase.

Hammered & Hairnet

Vestry seal of the Parish of St. Pancras, hairnet envelope, hammered silver modernist ashtray.

CMYK & Feather

Color test from printer, mushroom fabric, abalone sea horses, faded pink feather.

Huber & Boots

Max Huber Progetti Grafici 1936-1981, nature print, riding boots

Butterfly & Rain

Antique endpapers, 'Existentialism and Human Emotions', 'An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law', vintage butterfly-wing pendant, vintage camera, rain outside the Barclay Bank building NYC.

Malachite & Coral

Malachite, foreign cigarette graphics, Fornasetti plate, designer logo, antique coral brooch, old blocks, silver ring, pattern sketch.