x-pollinate studio's cardboard lamps

This past October, the architectural collaborative I am a part of, X-Pollinate Studio, had its first soft photoshoot. We wanted to test out our latest design, a lamp shade made of laser cut cardboard. We shot the lamps above my bed, in the bedroom space of my live/work loft. So with Neutral Milk Hotel playing off my laptop in the background and my pup Hadley attempting to destroy as many cardboard lamp shades as she could get her eager paws on, we hung a few lamps and took some photos of the corrugate light play on the walls. Photos of lamp shades to follow.

I like to think that on good days, my apartment resembles an Anthropologie store. I could just be reassuring myself that it doesn't need to be properly simplified and organized. Because at times it does look much like a warehouse with much stuff thrown about all willy-nilly. More and more days I wake up thinking, 'I've had it,' and make vigorous plans to live a more minimalist lifestyle, which includes throwing away half of the eclectic things I own, stopping my sentimental habit of keeping random items that move me or allow me to reminisce, and taking everything off of horizontal surfaces. Then I remember that this is how I feel most comfortable, with things somewhat cluttered yet creatively put away around me, like a perpetual studio space. My opinions on the topic of how my living environment ought to be organized change day to day. There's something charming about a book of matches from a NYC pub, an architectural model, random books, a pair of boots and printed out recipes all occupying the same 1 ft surface. Not sure either way... you be the judge.