Love the Green Dress!

Le Tour du Chocolat… Bicycle your way to Heaven

This is a dream come true! I found this in the New York Times,
And here’s the excerpt:

“So, on my last visit to Paris, I took to the city’s Vélib’ bike system and mastered a two-wheeled circuit of eight of the chocolatiers that had the best reputations and most glowing reviews in city guidebooks and online message boards. It was exhilarating and exhausting, not to mention decadent. It was a chocoholic’s dream ride..”

Want to cut to the chase? Here is the interactive map and here is the downloadable map

Read the full story: “Le Tour du Chocolat” by Amy Thomas.

Far From, Close: by Helena Christensen...Opening Reception @ Dactyl Foundation, SoHo

12/16/08

Supermodel, photographer and overall do-gooder Helena Christensen hosted the opening reception of her new photo exhibition "far from, close" Monday night at Dactyl in SoHo. The exhibit is a series of images that include "environments, characters, objects and somber abstractions," and for every work sold the Dactyl Foundation will give a kid at ICP at The Point in the south Bronx a camera to pursue his or her own creative vision (I love that). Profits will be donated to The Point and to CPI Chernobyl organization.
The exhibit runs till Jan. 10.


Artist/founder of the Dactyl Foundation Neil Grayson, ?, Vogue's European editor-at-large Hamish Bowles, Helena Christensen and legendary b-boy Crazy Legs

Helena looking absolutely stunning (like that's a big surprise...) with Crazy Legs

Photographer Jeremy Kost

PR extraordinaire Kelly Cutrone (and her fabulous Rick Owens jacket)

Actor/comedian Judah Friedlander


And fashionable guests...


Few people can get away with an orange bob...She wears hers very well.

I just liked the way his tie popped

Flapper-chic


Rocking the bangs

Classic and Vintage in Fashion

Photocredit/source:Cyclotoine/Anthony (bicycle owner & male model);

Matty Conrad (photographer);

Leah Orton (art director & hair stylist from ‘the fix’ Hair Salon, Victoria, BC)

The photos came from Anthony. He is also the male model…along with his two girlfriends.

"The bicycles are my own personal collection. That's me with my track bike and the other two are my girlfriend's rides. The raleigh I no longer own. Both the marinoni I am posing with and the GIOS are bikes I have built/refurbished to nearly show like condition. They are ridden occassionally for their original intended purpose. In other words, the GIOS is used only for recreational road riding (not commuting or any such thing) and the Marinoni is only ridden in velodromes."

You have to admit these photos can brighten up a winter day!!!

***** correction: Neither of these two women are the girlfriend of Cyclotoine (Anthony) They are models chosen to model with bicycles belonging to Cyclotoine and ridden by his girlfriend.

Glenn Belverio Christmas Party...East Village

12/14/08

My good friend Glenn Belverio threw his annual holiday fete Saturday night and, needless to say, it was a jolly good time. While the place was too packed to take many pictures, I did manage to get some shots of Glenn's politically-themed Christmas tree, which, p.s., I loved.

Since I missed Glenn's tree-trimming party the weekend prior, I brought him a late politically-themed ornament: a pickle. It's a symbol of the state Bush and his administration has left our country in.

Glenn chose a Barack Obama finger puppet as the 'star' to top off his tree. A shining star indeed...

Of course it wasn't all politics. There were disco balls...

Ahhh...It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

December Bicycle Basket Bazaar

photcredit/source:Hoolala /Sugar Sculls Cycles/BicycleBasket Bazaar

NorthHampton / England……A muppet Christmas Dickens is the current theme for the Bicycle Basket Bazaar, which is taking place 2 more times this December 13th and 20^th.

Homemade and vintage goods are sold from bicycle baskets…

This looks to be the loveliest bicycle event! I just love it, and please visit the website. The whole concept is just so charming.

Moms on Bicycles...Kids included.. Part II

Moms on Bicycles...Kids included

Details...

Birthday Balloons

Every day it's someone's birthday somewhere! I snapped this photo this morning... somebody loved receiving those balloons I'm sure!

shelly | posted | Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 |

Bicycle Wall Art

shelly | posted | Monday, December 1st, 2008 |