postcards from paradise

I received a postcard today from a good friend who is working at a museum in Vanuatu in the South Pacific. From the picture, it looks very lovely and I too wish I was living in a hut on beach, snorkeling and swimming my free time away. Ah well, who needs Vitamin D anyway, its [...]

you are my own invention

things i did this evening:
manage to cover myself in photo emulsion.
discover Hersey kisses with caramel inside – amazing.
construct a light box.
went for a walk.
help write a cover letter for a friend who needed help – badly.
watched 15 minutes of Hell’s Kitchen.
now, i am tired.
and you, how has your day been?

dirty old town, in a dirty old, town

I have a penchant for lithographs.
And Dutch artists.

Hand with Reflecting Sphere (also known as Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror), 1935

Ant, 1943
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Curl-up, 1951
I always wondered what the text in this piece said.
According to Wikipedia…” The text, which is written in Dutch, describes an imaginary species called Pedalternorotandomovens centroculatus articulosus, also known as “wentelteefje” or “rolpens”. He says [...]

the art of a trailer

I cannot recall what class it was in, but sometime throughout my film and media studies we discussed “the art of making a trailer.”
In some cases its what you base seeing a picture on, right?
Now there are different trailers for different countries, of course. One has to cater to the market. So I was intrigued [...]

ladder to the moon

This song makes me smile.
Nyatiti – Andrew Bird

jam life into death

A snapshot of my week in Toronto.
Oh, I didn’t mention that I was able to get my computer fixed. Yay! It was the third party power cord that I bought (yes only a week old), and the battery in my laptop (almost three years old) that died. Both at the same time. Anyway, I was [...]

stencil me this

A few random photos I took in Newcastle…

I love these guys…find more of their stuff here.

This one is not mine, but right next to the previous picture. Perhaps done by the same guys?

And Audrey is from Sunderland, which is technically not Newcastle.

This was in the skate park across from my flat, I walked by [...]

apples to apples

I’ve been up since the early hours of the morn, for some unknown reason my body just decided it was time to wake up. However, it was too cold to get out of bed and seeing as I had no place to be this morning, I nestled into my blanket cape (my sleeping one, of [...]

don’t tell everybody at the table about your dreams, they’re too amazing, it’ll melt their minds

Seeing as I missed Art Friday (well I did post those graffiti daffodils) I thought I would post some art on this delightful (yet boring) Monday. Seriously, I don’t think time is moving.
A little Toulouse-Lautrec always brightens my mood. He was one of the most famous Post-Impressionists artists. La Toilette. Reminds me a bit of [...]

tree art

Found these pictures on the interweb with the title “a new form of graffiti.”
Thoughts?
I saw something similar in London last week, well sort of, but not really. Multi-coloured metal trees on the sidewalk. Take a look at this link, which displays more trees, street signs and the like, knitted. Imagine how long that would have [...]