A few months ago, Michelle Adams, Editor of Lonny Magazine reached out and asked me if I'd like to be interviewed by the magazine, a few emails later and lots of patience on her end, I finally finished it and am excited to share the final spread! Michelle also decided to by a print of one of my images that now hangs on her BEAUTIFUL bedroom wall pictured below..

Click here to read the full interview.

When I was a little girl my parents sent me to a pre school on the North Shore called "Rainbow School." I remember Ms. Jane and the "Buddha Hunt" song she taught us all along with the scratch and sniff wall paper, nap time, and eating cereal out of little cardboard boxes.

One of my most vivid memories is waiting for my dad's black car after school. I waited and waited. It seemed like forever. Little did I know, my dad traded in his BMW for a brand new, "doo doo brown"  El Camino. So as I sat puzzled, he sat in the car, waiting for me to recognize him and get excited, instead, he came running out when I started crying cause I couldn't find him... When he asked me if I liked the new car I asked him why he got one the color of doo doo instead of red.

Guess almost everything is better in red.

Image of Tami and I by Monika Kratochvil painting by Tami Snodgrass …the important point here is not that you have—or don’t have—what other artists have, but rather that it doesn’t matter. whatever they have is something needed to do their work—it wouldn’t help you in your work even if you had it. their magic is theirs. you don’t lack it. you don’t need it. it has nothing to do with you. period. VIA A Photo Editor  Quote from Art and Fear

Michelle in Brooklyn  2009

Sidewalk Heart in Manhattan 2009

Over Thanksgiving I decided to forgo the turkey and spend the holiday tucked away with loved ones in a quiet cafe hidden on Rue Vavin in Paris' Monparnasse district. Behind the glimmering lights of La Coupole and Le Select that dominate both sides of Avenue Montparnasse you'd never even know the tiny Rue Vavin was there... unless you happened to have lived there several years ago as I did. As we walked back from Montparnasse through the Luxembourg gardens, with the Eiffel Tower on our left and the Hotel De Ville on our right, the city glimmered and shined as Im sure it always has capturing the hearts of so many photographers over the decades.
When we strolled over the Seine I recalled Brassai's "Paris At Night" collection and the famous "Kiss of Hotel De Ville" by Doisneau.. even the steps of the Pantheon ring with Avedon's famous photos. I walked around for 3 days without making a single photograph. On every corner flashed images taken by the late, great, masters. I was not there to reinvent the wheel, but I was never going to live up to Brassai's "Paris at Night" series in one short week... so I walked on.. and I noticed that the area I was in, the Marais, lacked all of the young people that used to thrive there between the slightly " dare- I- say-ghetto- at-the-time" 11th and the too posh to afford 1st.. Where had they all gone? I kept walking east toward my old never finished, hardly started, graduate school "Spéos" off of Rue Charonne in the 11th and all of a sudden, there they were and all of a sudden, Paris was new again.

Pretty little day dream I directed with the talented Kristen Hook as our DP for Gypsy Hawaii!

Last Friday morning as the first Fall chill hit New York, Jessa and I headed out to meet directors, T&T of EVIL TWIN and crew for the filming of Peanut Butter Lovesicle's new video "Black Eyed Blues." The song is still in my head 3 days later! Have a listen here and check out who else was on set below!

An idea

it can be infectious.

it can take over everything in your body like a ton of bricks until you don’t know where it ends and you start.

An Idea.

It can be infectious and that’s exactly how this little blog started.

we love fashion

we love photography

we love art

we love our friends (even the ones we don’t know yet!!)

we love food

and we love the idea of putting them all together in a nice little spot

to inspire

to be inspired

to bring the messy couture of everyday life from our table to yours

XOXO!

Cassandra & Daeja

www.mirthanddaughters.com