Beautipul Plower

What?! Haha. Gorgeous floral paintings by female artist Vie Dunn-Harr, San Antonio, Texas.

 Hibiscus, star-gazer lilies, magnolias and water lilies are actually my favorite flowers.

Today is...?!

I love you, period.
Do you love me question mark?
Please, please, exclamation point!
(I want to hold you, parentheses.)

Do those lyrics ring a bell? Well, even if you didn’t learn that song in elementary school as I did, you can still go gaga for those grammatical symbols, because today is —wait for it— National Punctuation Day! To honor this deliriously delightful day, we set out to explore a few of these marvelous marks!

Ready to find out some fab facts? On your punctuation mark, get set, go!

5. Semicolon — Despite what its name seems to imply, this mark works full-time! It was first put into use by Italian printer Aldus Manutius the Elder to function as its modern usage dictates, but also as a mark between words with conflicting meanings.

4. Period — This mark’s history goes like this:  Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, a gent named Aristophanes of Byzantium devised a punctuation system using dots arranged at high, middle, or low points, with the low dots indicating the end of a whole thought. Aristophanes actually called those last dots “kommas,” but somewhere along the line, the komma switched its name to “period.”

3. Exclamation Mark — Some say the exclamation mark came from the Latin word for “joy” (lo) being scripted with the ‘l’ over the ‘o’! However, even with its early origins, this totally awesome mark didn’t even get its own typewriter key until the 1970s. Crazy!

2. Interpunct — The interpunct was used in ancient Latin writing to separate words. Now, it can be commonly found in dictionaries to separate syllables for pronunciation.

1. Interrobang — This unconventional mark is kind of like your crazy next door neighbor, à la Kramer — quirky, dramatic, and always surprising.The interrobang was invented in 1962 by ad man Martin Speckter, who thought this funky mark would help ad copy that conveyed questioning surprise look better.

Learn anything new? What’s your favorite punctuation mark?

(via ModClothBlog by Hannah)

Quoted

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.  

-Jean-Louis Barrault

Drew

Just got my October Harper's Bazaar in the mail.

Simply stunning.

Rubies and Pearls

"You can watch her strut
But keep your mouth shut"

Loooovveeee The Black Keys

Art by Mohac

Passion Tamed

Slow down just a bit there...


Three Legged Fox

L.A. Love

Had cocktails with my friends at WP24 at the Ritz-Carlton in Downtown Los Angeles. The drinks weren't very good but the ambiance made for great photos.

This is a Song for No One

Miike Snow

Quoted

Julia Wang

Take Me for a Ride, Baby

Went to Cruz'n for Roses, South Pasadena's annual hot rod/classic car show on Mission Street yesterday. There was over 400 really cool cars in the show and it totally made me want to get one myself.

KITT actually talked.

Let's time travel!

Holy haberdashery, Batman! - Robin

Holy atomic pile, Batman! - Robin

Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods! - Robin

Holey rusted metal, Batman! The ground. It's all metal. It's full of holes. You know, holey. - Robin

F*ck the PO-lice! -J9

No idea what kind of car this was but it was money!

Its actually a mirror on the dash and the speedometer is recessed below.

I love Tom Selleck. Seriously.

This Continental was my fave. Its so pretty!

Phoenix 18.9.10

Saw Girls/ Grizzly Bear/ Phoenix last night at the Hollywood Bowl and it was absolutely lovely.

Towards the end, Phoenix threw in a little French classic "La Fille Aux Cheveux Clairs" by Johnny Hallyday.