admission

I haven't put away all my clothes yet.
Finishing the closets has been on the top of my list for days, but I'd much rather catch up with True Blood.
gulp...

Polyptych & Rail Rail via Prokopaviciute's photostream

things you find

Things you're happy to find when you move into a new house:

Forgotten TreasuresForgotten treasures, like the tiny opossum fetus my father gave me over a year ago. He arrived in a plastic Dixie cup floating in wintergreen rubbing alcohol. I made him a better habitation... then forgot about the lil fella until now.

Things you're unhappy to find when you move into a new house:
Miscellaneous & unidentified droppings
yuck. enough said.

A brief hiatus from posting.

Lot's of assembling, shopping, and skull hanging left to do.

Keith Scharwath for Aaron Rose's Simulacrum
Available for sale here.

owl pellette

Flour Paste Paper Mache Recipe:

1 cup Flour (2 parts)
1 1/2 cups Water (3 parts)
1/4 cup white glue

Even after I read the ingredients in paper mache, I want to ingest this little guy:

littlelolas: pink papier mache Owl

Sculpted with paper pulp papier mache and hand painted. He is about 1.5 in. big.

snail trail

Semâ Bekirovic "Grid"
video ( 19:00)

I let three snails make a drawing by making them crawl over a grid I drew on a piece of paper. Their slime-trails dissolved the ink of my drawing, creating an abstract figure.

A great piece by an artist that tickles my brain and leaves me with creative snail trail.

Stand out today.

Paul McCarthy
Spaghetti Man, 1993

yae or nay

undecided.

Shelley Hesse Spiny Lobster Rug

via Anthro

*I'll leave it up to the all too critical blogger crowd to decide.

UPDATE: Thanks for all the feedback, guys. I might get it, although the misters says he doesn't like it.
Hmmph.

ladders & boxes

Less:

More:

We still have a long way to go before I feel settled in the new house.
I'm really wishing I had some of those snazzy Bewitched powers right about now.
The best part about moving is redecorating and art buying.
One of the first things I plan on doing for the new house is commissioning a neon prop ladder inspired by Ben Jones, but first my sexy step ladder and cardboard boxes need to vacate.

BEN JONES Beehaven 2009

hissss

Ivan Bordas
"Black and White Snake Shield"
Oil on Panel; 24" diameter, 2006

❝A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.❞
-Jack Handy

modern love

Meet Gordy & Zizzy:

je t'aime plus qu'hier moins que demain & zzygrrr
two eccentric & talented artists
one ginger haired, the other bearded
both very much in love

♡

just a modern day Lucy & Desi

ysb

Brian Willmont's skinwalker

represent

Hands down the best piece of manatee related graffiti on the planet. One of my best friends, Tiffany excellently representing Florida on a legal wall in Berlin.
Her personal travel blog lieblingslauf allows me to keep a track of her awesomness.

She makes the 305 proud.

kick off

This whole week I'm featuring the work and achievements of my very talented associates. To kick off crony week, here is an open letter to my best friend, the internets:

Dear Internet,

Thanks for hosting my little Art & Vanity blog. If it weren't for you, I'd have never made such an amazing webstie. Through your magic, 1,981 miles away feels like nothing. Fortunately I was able to meet up with her and solidify a long lasting bond carved in brass.

Thanks for again for being so awesome, internet.

Warmest Regards,
Melody

they finally meet:

If you felt a slight shock under your feet on Sunday, don't fret, that was just the earth having a little orgasm when Grace and I came together.

discipline

After a whirlwind week filled with camping, then flying 2k miles to Arizona, enduring corporate consumption & mental exhaustion at a 5 day business trip and hanging out with great friends, the last thing I want to do is prep for the real world tomorrow.
I'd like to call in sick and tell Life it can pass me bye on Monday. I've done a bit too much in the past couple days and I'd like time to pause for a moment.

source

EZ in AZ

Gianni Pareschi Armadillo (1969)

italian furniture makers Businelli

241.4016 km

We've got a big bike weekend planned, full of cheering, camping and schlepping around stuff. I'll be rooting for my boyfriend and his team's 150 mile charity ride for the National MS Society. Ben's ridding down to the Florida keys in 2 days, in honor of his Aunt Katie. If you'd like to support and donate to the cause visit here.

happy friday

Adam Ekberg

• Thomas Mailaender: No pain no gain
• barnacle feet
• Alice Anderson's work gives me trichotillomania
• I'm going to start handing these out to puppies
  

dandy critters

Mr. Meerkat is eye-rapping me.
I kinda like it.

VICE: DANDY CRITTERS

PHOTOS BY WILLIAM SELDEN
STYLIST: SAM VOULTERS
Art direction: Kim Jones
Coordination: Kylie Griffiths
All clothes and accessories: Dunhill SS10

Dear Life,

It's always a pleasure to visit Michael Bojkowski's world

Have you had a date with Life lately?

I may, or may not be moving into Henry Ford's 1934 island home.

art of the hunt

Jan Weenix II
Falconer's Bag, 1695; Dead Hare and Partridges,1690, The White Peacock
Oil on canvas

We finally found a beautiful apartment, life was grand, then got screwed, now we're back on the prowl.

glazed

Canvas > Donut

Luke Barber-Smith drip frame

My breakfast choices are making me fat.

Photographs like this give me the tingles*.

campaign for oyuna cashmere
by annabelle elston

*when cleverness mingles with style my special spot gets happy

sometimes...

I'm golden.
Other times, I'm shit.

Lizzi Bougatsos, Success!!!, 2005
Plaster, newspaper, gold leaf 13" x 6" x 6"
at James Fuentes: via tinyvices

A stuffed inbox, overdue replies, mismanaged time and occasional cunty remark score me a Zero in congeniality this week.

wise fortune cookie once said...

Both are very true!
I'll be heading to Phoenix Arizona in a couple weeks, and indulging on some Gracie!
Phx AZ & W&M Cake

if you're out there

Designing with Type: Open Forum: Essays and Quotations

via touching harms thart

• would u eat a human shaped sandwich?
• sooo thirsty
  
• Jane Benson's Dead Swan Wall Paper
• Shawn Huckins paint chip series
• solid thankyous
• waynestead
• Slawson for SPACES gallery: I want to play too
  
• dan funderburgh's Chinatown Ball
• video: sorry I'm late
  
  
  

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❝Guilt is regret for what we’ve done.
Regret is guilt for what we didn’t do.❞

Kyle Ranson
"Lorelei Lee"
Multicolored original ink drawing on card

listening as a conceptual practice

Jennie C. Jones

“How We Package Music” folded paper sculptures. 2007
left to right: LP, CD, 8 track tape, cassette tape and 45.

BREATHLESS Series, audiotape under UV glass, 16 x 20″ ea., 2008. (from Kenny-G’s 1992 recording “Breathless”)

Silent Clusterfuck (bianca), earbuds & acrylic, 2008.

I'm no where near as in love with music as my boyfriend is. I can gladly sit in silence and stalk the interenets, whereas dead silence bothers him. Sometimes my drive home is talk radio, other times just might thoughts. I think he borders an obsession with sound. What I am loving right now is Jennie's works based on listening, music and concepts of audio.