♡

When I want something I see it everywhere.

adam cruces photo & polaroid scarf
Qiu Yang Pigment prints & scarf

#1 dog mom

ESB's momversations post has been resonating. Although I am far from being a mommy, I am one proud dog mom. One of my favorite things about meeting new people is the opportunity to pet chat. I'm usually the first to whip out the ole iphone to flip through dozens of Parker pics. I was happy to meet a fellow chiwa enthusiast the other day who shares my obsession.

Meet Loki:


Loki's mom showed me a few normal looking photos of her Chi, but this shot made me lose it.
Here you see him wearing a homeopathic herbal eye patch to cure a mild case of puppy conjunctivitis. His just take the damn picture look is killing me. Pet parents are just as weird as one's with human babies.

consecration

*this cute post-it I found in the kitchen the other morning made my heart thump

I'm sure I'd gain new insight into the man I love from reading his dogeared copy of The catcher in the rye. Those early influential books are so formative of one's personality. I need to revisit this classic.


influential
in·flu·en·tial [in-(ˌ)flü-ˈen(t)-shəl]

adj. Having or exercising influence.
n. One that is of considerable importance or influence.

❝Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.❞
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

∞

soul mate

Happy Friday

Magmamouth: Ghost Rider

Casein and Basswood, 2006

visit Mike Garten's site and flickr page, you won't regret it.

holiday

be still my heart: Bradley Castellanos

Self Portrait Mapping
oil, acrylic, photo collage, & resin on panel, 2009
Water Gap
oil, acrylic, photo collage, & resin on panel, 2010

Retreating
oil, acrylic, photo collage, & resin on panel, 2009

Playing in my head when I look at these paintings is Weezer's Holiday.

visual intrigue & cerebral tickling

Tauba Auerbach

Subtraction (Startling) Ink and pencil

Reflectera II Reconfigured typewriter

All the Punctuation Typewriter ink

Alphabetized Bible Laser printed pages

Ambo Dextro Reconfigured typewriter

Here and Now/And Nowhere (Anagram IX)

Stacking (Yes), Stacking (No)

Gulp... I think I'm becoming a floozy. I'm falling fast and hard for Tauba Auerbach although I've already professed my love to so many others. I've come across some standout, stimulating and creativity conceiving works lately. I lub* me some Tauba.

schmuth

Tell me I'm clever,
Tell me I'm kind,
Tell me I'm talented,
Tell me I'm cute,
Tell me I'm sensitive,
Graceful and wise,
Tell me I'm perfect-
But tell me the truth.

Tell Me
Shel Silverstein

Bryan Schnelle collage

focus

a noisy love

My brain is full, I haven't focused like this in a long time. A slurry of different acronyms, acquiring names and faces, remembering building layouts, odd scents, sacchariny politeness. The newness is exhausting and invigorating.

☂

From the children's book Long Neck Deer, illustrated by Yoota Azargeen.
via thescienceofdesign

Cotidianidades

I'm wrapping up a few long over due carepackages this afternoon. I want to take some cues from this amazing paper installation series. I need more discipline in my life.

Lola Guerrera

Lola is a former student of the EFTI photography school in Madrid. She physically wraps everything in her scenes in clean, white paper. She is using her own domestic spaces and is interested in ideas of safety, security and protection of and within the home. Beautiful and thought provoking!

source

Farewell

jesse draxler

In 2 hours I'll no longer be your default receptionist.
Fuck yeah to new beginnings.

Brrrrrriing.

powers of 10

10 things that make me happy:

1. Successfully twirling my hair up into an effortless and sexy fuckdo.
2. Having a full conversation in nonwords with someone who understands my language.
3. Re-reading the last page of a good book moments after it's finished.
   
4. Finding one more M&M in the bag after I thought I ate the last one.
   
5. Kissing Parker's furless chest in the morning.
6. Peeling a clementine in one piece.
7. Smelling my fingers after ripping up basil.
8. Finding hidden gems in my bookmark bar.
9. Hearing Ben say that "cookies, ice cream and shoes" make me happy.
10. Making my dad laugh.
    

10 that make me happy

1. Grey
2. fake working
3. Rackk and Ruin
4. CEVD
5. dreamresidue
6. ziz
7. cheapdate
8. Kitty Stampede
9. Heist
10. even*cleveland

Rules: List ten things that makes you happy and do one of them today.
Then link to the person who tagged you and pass this little bit of love on to 10 others.
No pressure to repost.
Thank you Claw for being so sweet!

page tsou illustration

perptually & forever

My dear pal Ferris has been working on some new pieces that make me salivate.

ferris caldwell: Perptually & Forever

typeset and cross-stitch quote from "I am Waiting" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I have talented friends that perpetually and forever inspire.

hop on

The PIG Presents, Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, 2008 Miami

Just the right level of insanity

Explosion needlepoint.
Amelia Bauer:

Explosion Pillows, 2009
"STILL,"
mound of needlpoint pillows, approximately 6' x 6' x 3.5'

based on stills from the following movies:
Blood Diamond
The Departed
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
The Godfather
Groundhog Day
Jacob's Ladder
The Matador
Mission Impossible
Night of the Living Dead
Syriana
Top Secret!
Traffic
Zoolander

long time no links

souls of light

• cutest children's book ever
• cheapskate cards
  
• peach boy needs a home
• sailors!
  
• Campbell's Campbell
• Armadillo facts
• ara peterson worship tower
• Quit your job and work on Standard Time
• father & son
  
• for you twilight freaks: art inspired by
• curiosity
  
• The place where I was born: Clinton, Iowa
• Castings: Uma is banging but Viggo has slight methface
• book of space
• beaver who builds the best lodge
• ticking time bomb
  

atrial systole

Brando, Cat, Typewriter

Crush: Summer Pierre

She's multi-talented, she just had a baby in a gypsy cab, and I LOVE her.

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