Warby Parker x Vision Spring

As if you couldn't tell from my previous post, I am a ride or die fan for WarbyParker eyewear. Regardless of the fact that I only own one pair (I'm not made out of diamonds) I've been hooked from day one, and it seems as if it's the combination of low price-high quality frames and their wholehearted belief in bettering our communities that keeps me unquestionably captivated by their business model. 
Just recently they partnered up with VisionSpring in order to provide both eyewear and entrepreneurial opportunities for women living in low income countries. Now I don't know about you, but as far as I'm concerned there aren't very many businesses that I can list who's goal is to both make profit AND change the world for the better, and I appreciate that. 
While we're on the topic of Warby Parker, their 2011 collection was released quite recently, and even though I've only owned my frames for just a little under six months, I'm already ready to call it quits and upgrade to a new pair. I'll take two, heavy on the swag please.

Preston

Begley

Winston

Sinclair

(All frames seen here are of the unisex variety. Winning)

If you're at all interested in the specifics of the 

Warby Parker x Vision Spring partnership, be sure to check out more information right HERE, and while I've still got your attention, head over to the WP FACEBOOK page and for every 10 likes an extra pair of glasses is donated to the VP cause.

I know I've probably already given out too many links but peep the rest of the 2011 collection right HERE and shout outs to the big homie TrentTrizzy for listening to my opinions and deciding to buy a pair. I think we might of just overdosed on swag.

Trip Downtown: Museum of Fine Arts

Work won't start for hopefully another few days and I've been out for summer break for about a week and a half, so as you can guess, I've got loads of free time on my hands. Legally, I'm not quite old enough to partake in Thirsty Thursdays, however, I'm more than happy to participate in free admission to The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston of course). I don't think I've set foot into a state funded gallery since I was a child, and since I love to make myself seem way more intellectual than I actually am, I figured this'd be a good a time as any to actually turn myself into that cultured young soul that I strive to be (aN pLu$, d@ gUrLz luV 1+). 

Honestly, I wish you were there to see some of these paintings, because I don't think any camera is capable of doing any of these depictions justice. To be able to see the brushstrokes and the color of the paint as it ages due to time is just mind boggling, and to see the size, and how massive some of the works ended up being in real life is just...intense. There were a few times that I actually ended up getting "reprimanded," and I even snagged a few shot of some works that I wasn't supposed to (PRIVATE COLLECTIONS), but it's all in the name of art right? Ironic enough, the final time I get caught doing something I'm not supposed to be doing, just so happens to be the one time a picture is taken with me in the frame and I have no clue what the title of the painting is, it's my favorite. If anyone has any idea, feel free to let me know, I'm dying over here.
   

Fernand Leger - Man with a Cane

Pablo Picasso - Two Women in Front of a Window

Emile Schuffenecker - Portrait of Emile Bernard

Charles Angrand - The Harvesters

Paul Signac - The Bonaventure Pine

Felix Vallotton - Woman Writing in an Interior

Roger de La Fresnaye - The Fourteenth of July

Henri Rousseau - The Eiffel Tower

Gustave Caillebotte - The Orange Trees

Jan van Huysam - Still Life of Flowers and Fruit

Cristoforo Munari - Still Life with Musical Instruments

Alessandro Magnasco/Antonio Francesco Peruzzini - Workshippers at a Shrine in a Mountainous Landscape

Claudio Coello - Saint Michael the Archangel

Ernst Matthai - Venus

Anton Raphael Mengs - Truth

Canaletto - The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice

Simon Vouet - Saint Sebastian 

Since there are a number of museums who serve the general public with free Thursday admission, I figured it'd be nice to visit a gallery once a week, or at least twice a month. No harm in that now is it. Swag.

Finals Week: Image Dump

Monday, today, was probably one of my more stressful days of finals week, so now I've already been beginning to relax a bit, but still, priorities. must. focus. on. priorities. must... lecture notes... powerpoints... Yeah, that's a no. My mind is already on summer mode and I can barely fathom walking into a computer lab, let alone pull an all nighter memorizing list of political subsidies.

In general, I'm just too done with Huntsville. I mean, I love my school, and I really do enjoy being with [some of] the people here, but damn broseph, why do most, if not all of my ride or dies choose to attend universities on the opposite ends of the cosmos? I just don't understand why they choose to be so far away from me. It makes me sad... On a more positive note, this summer shall be an epic one. I'm not even out of school yet and I'm already getting hit up to go do fun stuff with the bros [and the ladies as well]. This rarely happens, I'm excited, and if you're one of the people that I plan on spending my time with, then IT IS ABOUT TO GO DOWN.

  

Also, as you can see, the fro is doing well. I decided to give the whole side part thing a go and so far things are going fairly well. Swag.

Good luck on those finals guys, and if you're done, well then you're already off to a great start.

James Vincent McMorrow

Few times have I heard a voice so sincere that it actually stops me in my tracks and forces me to listen to whatever the hell it is that they're trying to tell me, and this, actually happend a few weeks ago. As usual, I'm doing my daily internet crawl, browsing through dozens of new records and artist, attempting to sift the miracles from the mundane and there was it was, the opening record to his debut album, and also the moment that I gently cried into the arms of my pillow and comforter [it was just...beautiful].

If I had to pigeon hole Mr. McMorrow in comparison to other musicians, I'd go ahead and say he's a mixture between James Blake, Mumford & Sons and I've even heard Bon Iver thrown in a few times. He's definitely got that hardcore indie/folk singer vibe going on but also makes use of more traditional instruments such as the banjo and sliding guitar. I seem to enjoy most of the songs included on the record, and honestly I can't wait till August 'cause the is going to be the PERFECT autumn album. I've compiled a list of some of my favorite songs from the album so please enjoy if you're in the mood.

Album: Early in the Morning by James Vincent McMorrow

Suggestions? Recommendations? I'm all ears.