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Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts

Friday, May 7, 2010

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.

Monday, April 5, 2010

if you're out there

Monday, February 22, 2010

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.

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Masahisa Fukase; Koen-dori, Shibuya, 1982

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

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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.

Monday, November 9, 2009

unstimulated & easily distracted



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

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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:

Friday, October 16, 2009

weekday links

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andrew degraf Bike sketch
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.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

nice tits

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

Thursday, September 10, 2009

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

Sunday, August 16, 2009

good article

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

"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..."

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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.
sexy perky chick:
dumbo shop- pajara
buttoned up prude chick:

Friday, June 5, 2009

weekday links

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

Monday, June 1, 2009

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

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Colette Calascione


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

Friday, May 15, 2009

A nest of a Bullock's oriole that is made up almost entirely of plastic.
Rosamond Purcell egg&nest via NYT

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

I'm crashing

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

sanity break

powerlinerflyers

This is wonderful with or without sound my office peeps.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

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.