A composition freak and an all around creative geek, LACT is a designer, photographer and an avid coffee consumer. She likes ten dollar words, speaking nerd on Twitter, overcast days, socializing and has quite the experience. A strong dislike of ketchup, she very much loves fluffy dogs.Tumblr (3.0; @lauraashbrookcompton)http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv2rkwmhbg1r4xmq8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/24021237230http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/24021237230Tue, 29 May 2012 15:18:11 -0700<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/37214968" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://retina.smithsonianmag.com/post/24014595573/smithsonian-magazine-stereographic-road-trip" target="_blank">smithsonianmag</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span class="lm-tweetBody" data-tweet-body="Take a stereographic road trip at supersonic speed across 5 continents. Watch:"> </span></p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/37214968" title="Chemin Vert" target="_blank"><strong>Stereographic Road Trip</strong></a></p> <blockquote> <p>A trip on the road at supersonic speed spanning across five continents and four seasons. The video was made using panoramic frames from Google Street View from different parts of the world mapped as stereographic projections.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Video: <a href="http://vimeo.com/giacomomiceli" title="Giacomo Miceli" target="_blank">Giacomo Miceli</a></em></p> <p><em>Ed note: Does that video have you wanting to travel? Check out our list of <a href="http://microsite.smithsonianmag.com/content/lifelist/?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=20120529&utm_content=lifelist" title="Life List" target="_blank">43 places to see before you die</a>.</em></p> </blockquote>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/24020358325http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/24020358325Tue, 29 May 2012 15:05:09 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0340wMJcQ1r1l3yzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/23045125108http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/23045125108Mon, 14 May 2012 10:27:13 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3rxq8eN2x1qzd729o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://www.carrieschneider.net/work/dazzle.html" target="_blank">Carrie Schneider</a>)</p>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22734723992http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22734723992Wed, 09 May 2012 14:15:44 -0700photography<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3l5qdKEAu1rsqyo5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22590860789http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22590860789Mon, 07 May 2012 09:03:49 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0sxy3agMV1qzhokmo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22477983379http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22477983379Sat, 05 May 2012 16:17:36 -0700homenestingbedroom<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2zkfgUlXL1r96weoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22477812420http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22477812420Sat, 05 May 2012 16:14:41 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3g7r3F36u1qzd729o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>A lovely dream home on WSJ <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304050304577378320386063522.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_realestate#%2F12" target="_blank">House of the Day</a> today. </p>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22318743752http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22318743752Thu, 03 May 2012 06:21:03 -0700real estatehome<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyyb43O3PB1qcp6eco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><small>Andre Kohn</small></p> </blockquote>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22299510783http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22299510783Wed, 02 May 2012 19:42:51 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3e5gpNoPz1r9wyj4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22282627428http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22282627428Wed, 02 May 2012 16:07:16 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3eu71cytr1qzd729o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Picture © Eugene Richards/Reportage by Getty Images</p>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22268032914http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22268032914Wed, 02 May 2012 12:30:37 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3eieqSAXC1qepnvio1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.onecupofsugar.com/post/22257210041" target="_blank">lacross</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>How wonderful it was to see our wedding featured in <a href="http://theneotraditionalist.com/" target="_blank">Katherine Armour’s</a> <a href="http://matchbookmag.com/" target="_blank">Matchbook Magazine</a> this month. Thank you Katherine, and way to go <a href="http://www.seastudio.us/" target="_blank">Sea Studio</a> for taking such wonderful photos.</p> </blockquote>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22257223365http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22257223365Wed, 02 May 2012 08:16:32 -0700<span id="video_player_22008522231">[<a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" target="_blank">Flash 10</a> is required to watch video.]</span><script type="text/javascript">renderVideo("video_player_22008522231",'http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/video_file/22008522231/tumblr_m37oy0v7341qzd729',400,706,'orientation=portrait\x26amp;portrait=true\x26amp;w={400}\x26amp;poster=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_m37oy0v7341qzd729_r1_frame1.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_m37oy0v7341qzd729_r1_frame2.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_m37oy0v7341qzd729_r1_frame3.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_m37oy0v7341qzd729_r1_frame4.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_m37oy0v7341qzd729_r1_frame5.jpg')</script><br/><br/><p>The Cups at Disneyland. This pretty much sums up our morning there.</p>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22008522231http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/22008522231Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:54:00 -0700disneylandvideo<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m34cysHcz41qz77pho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://suza.tumblr.com/post/21895524976/seattle-sitting-pretty-sunset-taken-with" target="_blank">suza</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Seattle sitting pretty. #sunset (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at Dr. Jose Rizal Park)</p> </blockquote>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21896964436http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21896964436Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:12:06 -0700<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/d9NF2edxy-M?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Somebody That I Used To Know, amazing display.</p>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21782661531http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21782661531Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:20:20 -0700acustic<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aZ5ZclZTeTU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a href="http://newyorker.tumblr.com/post/21715974965/radioheads-creep-sung-by-prince-and-carrie" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">newyorker</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/04/creep-radiohead-prince-and-manolakos.html" target="_blank"><strong>Radiohead’s “Creep,” Sung by Prince and Carrie Manolakos</strong></a></p> <blockquote> <p>But the song was suddenly rehabilitated when, over the weekend, a video of a singer named Carrie Manolakos singing “Creep” at small concert in New York went viral.</p> <p>Manolakos, whose background is in musical theatre, performs the song with perfect earnestness, closing her eyes and choking back tears. She floats lightly over the soft notes and reaches up to a stringent wail towards the middle of the song. She takes all the qualities that made “Creep” moving in 1992—what Nick Hornby, <a href="http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2000-10-30#folio=104" target="_blank">writing in this magazine in 2000</a>, called the song’s “unnerving sincerity,” its “mournful anguish,” and “the brilliance of [its] conceit”—and repackages them in an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcHSMxnH_V8" target="_blank">old-fashioned night-club singer’s torch song</a>.</p> <p>Manolakos’s version does what covers ought to do; it picks up a song that has sunken into throwback territory, dusts it off, and treats it like a classic.</p> </blockquote> <p>- Andrea DenHoed writes about the arc of Radiohead’s “Creep”: <span><u><a href="http://nyr.kr/IbOg2h" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://nyr.kr/IbOg2h" target="_blank"><a href="http://nyr.kr/IbOg2h" target="_blank">http://nyr.kr/IbOg2h</a></a></u></span></p></blockquote>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21753762485http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21753762485Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:14:06 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpedvxltMu1qj2u1wo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21718883074http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21718883074Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:14:32 -0700bunnyhomepillow<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ydrtlcN51qzd729o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Paris, then and now. (<a href="http://www.amazingonly.com/amazing/paris-now-and-then-1940s-classic-photography/" target="_blank">via</a>)</p>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21671617630http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21671617630Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:14:17 -0700parisbeforenowjuxtaposition<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2y90oHYy51qzd729o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>French Gangsters. More <a href="http://www.shoandtellblog.com/2012/04/very-french-gangsters.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21664048881http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21664048881Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:31:36 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2woi0xBld1qzd729o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21612977505http://www.lauraashbrookcompton.com/post/21612977505Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:10:48 -0700cowsfieldopen sky