Feb 26, 2016

A paperclip for giants



Today's Friday's Detail features a brass paperclip from the studio of Carl Auböck. I've been eying this guy forever and finally bought one at The Line as a pick-me-up. It gleams so beautifully in the light; though, I've learned the hard way that it can cause scratches or leave black marks if you actually use it as a paperclip! So I'll just rest it on the page as more of a paperweight instead.



I've also included this in my swoon worthy list for the lovely Athena's site, Eye Swoon. There's a little fun q+a with me in there too!

9 comments :

  1. Such a cool item! Simple yet fancy at the same time <3

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  2. Hi incredibly beautiful! x

    http://www.wllwproject.com

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  3. omg i've seen this at the line before and loved it! thats unfortunate that it marks the page though - i am anal about keeping my books really pristine ha.

    i noticed your site loads extremely fast, despite being an image heavy photography site. i was wondering if you do anything to compress your images or optimize them? i'm trying to figure out how i can still have retina quality images but not bog down my page loading time. would appreciate if you had any insight!

    Sher
    www.shershegoes.com

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    1. hey! i don't think i do anything special actually. i don't even use the save for web in photoshop haha. maybe it helps that i host images separately from blogger? or maybe you have a really fast internet connection ;)

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  4. oh wow that makes me wonder what i am doing wrong bc my site takes like 20 seconds to load vs 1-5 sec (where i think ppl start to lose interest waiting) ha.

    who do you host with? i just switched to a traffic planet and saw a huge immediate difference but now im kind of stuck about what else to do and i figured it could be image size.

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    1. i use 1and1 for my hosting. i don't know if they're great, but i've just been using them forever so too lazy to switch. it's weird that your site takes so long to load!!

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    2. Hi Sher, great to hear about the performance increase with us at Traffic Planet Hosting. Any site that uses high quality images should be using a CDN (Content Delivery Network) like Amazon Cloudfront or MaxCDN. We can definitely help with the configuration and setup of a CDN with any Traffic Planet Hosting account.

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  5. This is just so cool - beyond words - need me one.
    Love this type of posts also, keep them up xx.

    Amy
    thenoiseinwonderland.blogspot.com.au

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