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.

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
  
  
  

What's my greatest skill?
Finding really cool and really distracting websites when I'm supposed to be studying. The uninteresting, banal and pedestrian seeks me out when I have all the time in the world. Only when I tell myself, "15 minutes of browse time" do I discover the internet honey hole.
Bah.
I'm signing off.

Masahisa Fukase; Koen-dori, Shibuya, 1982

(I'll gladly trade this aptitude with any master quiche makers or calligraphy experts out there.)

meeep

"Cuteness is distinct from beauty, researchers say, emphasizing rounded over sculptured, soft over refined, clumsy over quick. Beauty attracts admiration and demands a pedestal; cuteness attracts affection and demands a lap. Beauty is rare and brutal, despoiled by a single pimple. Cuteness is commonplace and generous, content on occasion to cosegregate with homeliness." -The Cute Factor The New York Times

I'm working on correcting a few verbal bad habits.
One of them: the over abundance of the word CUTE in my vocabulary

2 in the bush

If you were to propose to me with this:

I'd say YES!
Not kidding.

Kate Macdowell's porcelains make my eyeballs explode with joy.
So would being your ball and chain.

unstimulated & easily distracted

I've been watching bird videos for the past 20 mins.

inspiration: Alexandre Joly

one word: awe-inspiring

I want my home to have elements of Alexandre Joly's work. The birds, the smoke, the peacock feathers... Everything! I strongly recommend checking out all of his projects. If I owned a home with a yard I would certainly want to duplicate the Brrr... project for the holidays. The propped taxidermy ravens were a slight inspiration for this year's pithy Halloween decor:

weekday links

andrew degraf Bike sketch

• I dont remember holt books, but I sure wish i owned some.
  
• I had an intimate encounter with a garlic clove this week.
  
• nostalgic living is ideal
• I like your fancy mask Devendra
  
• George Porcari: Florence Green Bike
• burrow owls!!!
• every surfboard needs a cozy
  
• hurricane portraits
• I want the wolf faux Lilo is sporting
• a smart and beautiful christmas tree alternative
  
• I'm so excited that Stone Crab season is here again.
  

If you're in the Boston area I suggest checking out FRINGE Studios OPEN HOUSEThe Fringe Movement
It's sure to be a dynamic collective.

85°F with a 0% chance of Fall

I recently picked up the fall issue Martha, as I do every year and I've came to the realization that I really shouldn't . It's still hot as hell here in Miami and we're no where near autumn. I have bookmarked pumpkin recipes, autumn inspired decor (like those pumpkin & squash mushrooms), and Halloween costumes. It's all a little depressing when it's 85°F with 76% humidity. What is it about fall that is so amazing? It's one of the only things I cherished about living in Boston. Miami is the murderer of seasons- all we know of four seasons is: hot, really fucking hot, still sorta hot and slightly bearable.
I absolutely love these dapper wool clad bird folk. This is so far from my current world that I might as well grow feathers.

Venice's famed "Carnevale" inspired these avian creations

nice tits

Sebastian Lester: A celebration of the humble tit. Print available here.

stuck.

Robert Gligorov, Art 4 Oil;2006-07
Digital print on aluminium; Ed. of 3

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
- Sol LeWitt

good article

Todd Forsgren; Columbina passerina - Common Ground-dove, 2009

Proximity Magazine: In Defense of the Philosophy of Art

"There is a saying, attributed to the painter Barnett Newman, that “aesthetics is for art what ornithology is for the birds.” This quip sums up the divide between those who make art and those who think about art. Neither birds nor artists need their academic counterparts to do what they do..."

bird folks

My bf calls me chick-o-dee on occasion and I call him coo-coo bird. I squealed when i spotted these old bird people illustrations. I hope we look slightly less dumpy as geriatric lover birds.

Aleksandra Kopff

sexy perky chick:

dumbo shop- pajara
buttoned up prude chick:

oh my cavalier: ghost bird
m-f headless bird:
Matthew Feyld

weekday links

Ramones beach party
via now voyager's hilarious ms paint party!!!

• amazing porcelain clothing
  
• lettering
• Paco, the cosmic chihuahua postal stamp
  
• Geodesic dome a blaze
• I'm haunted by this book chandelier mobile
  
• skull swap!!!!!
  
• heavenly shades of night are falling
• loving: Iannone Design
• a cat's fantasy dress
  
• I keep revisiting these vanillaice&madonna pics
• totally gaga over treatzone's altered vintage portraits
  
• I want her long ass legs
• I love Ann Yee's designs esp that pleated coat
  
• Oh my, more pleats ||||||
• indoor pool from a pretty eco house
  
• Erik Sandberg's harry kids
  
• Japanese cat house
• after a stressful week my shoulders need this
  
• Liam looks beat and his line is a bit meh.
  
• She's so precious
• happy bday MM
  
• I want this ceiling by Verner Panton
• I don't need this taxidermy mouse deer right? Right??
  
• Angelica!
• Ann Ropp watercolors
• one of my fave best of Craigslist
  
• it's Friday:

A little mid afternoon banality.
Ryan Dineen; Flock, oil on canvas 60" x 36"

Colette Calascione

Bird with Egg
Oil on Wood; 4.5" x 7", (1995)
Colette Calascione

A nest of a Bullock's oriole that is made up almost entirely of plastic.

Rosamond Purcell egg&nest via NYT

I'm crashing

Polly Morgan

sanity break

powerlinerflyers

This is wonderful with or without sound my office peeps.

you are beautiful

winter drawings; 2007 digital print on archival paper, ed of 10 prints

available for purchase
I really wish this wasn't photoshopped.
I had this photo as my desktop for a hot second but I quickly removed it in fear that in an office setting it's a bit, hang in there baby. Hang in there! Inspirational Art of the 1970s By Jennifer McKnight-Trontz.