{ christian kolos // design blog }

Just in time for Mothers Day, we went around New York City asking real people on the street to say thank you to their mothers. So many terrific responses, some unexpected, some adorable, all brought a huge smile to my face.

"You make that choice every day. Every day, you wake up, and you roll over to look at the stranger next to you, and you say, “Yeah, I choose you again.” Some days, that makes you happy. Some days, it makes you sad. Some days, you’re just resigned to it all.

But you keep making that choice because you have to and you have faith the stranger is making that choice too, is your partner in arms against everything the world has to throw at you.

Until they’re not. And you wonder what the fuck happened.

"The gunman is useless."

"Ein menschlicher Körper beginnt fünf Minuten nach dem Tod zu verwesen."

"SOAP&SKIN
Weihrauch, Rotwein, Blut & Kornblume"

That certain kind of melancholy you can only find in America…

"Im achtzehnten Jahrhundert lebte in Frankreich ein Mann, der zu den genialsten und abscheulichsten Gestalten dieser an genialen und abscheulichen Gestalten nicht armen Epoche gehörte."

"Vierundzwanzig braune Sklaven ruderten die prächtige Galeere, die den Prinzen Amgiad zu dem Palast des Kalifen bringen sollte."