Ted Passon “I Learned it From Watching You, Ok!” series

too easy

Yes, it's official. I'm a huge skank.

Liam Crockard stole my dignity.

I have fallen for an other yet again.
Check out his website & flickr

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

Farewell

jesse draxler

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

Brrrrrriing.

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Formula for inspiration:
Good music + Good art + Good Coffee* = creative juices flowing

Nick Drake's Pink Moon album
Listen to Things behind the sun
+

WAFA collection: mail art
we are fucking awesome

Have inspired me to make some collages this afternoon.
I will post my results.

Resources: NOTPAPER (a blog about collage)


* Having absolutely no agenda for the day helps too.

☺/☻

I think I have a split personality. Really.
Beci Orpin

just for you:

another Monica Canilao piece

TA-DAH!

I've got nothin.Anthony Zinonos pillhead

I like dogs more than humans.
I like dog-humans more than everything.

check out sylvia's blog

April of my eye

I feel so lucky to have such creative and talented friends. I am very proud of all their accomplishments. Even though I haven't completed a single piece since graduating in '05 I'm inspired by my pals who are still creating. My friend April is one of those people who is always making and working on something fresh. We are serial care package senders and she always seems to blow me away with her handmade pieces. This "melodious thonk" postcard collage [above] is one of my all time favorite treasures. I believe it's based on a Polaroid we took the last day we lived in Boston together. She later admitted it was difficult to drop it in the mail because she really wanted to keep it. I fucking love that!
She's presently a high school art teacher and mixed media specialist. Below is just an itty bitty fraction of the work she does. Having collage as her medium of choice really keeps April in a pack rat scrap hoarder category. You should see how much awesome crap this girl has. You could turn her room and studio into an archaeological study.
April posing with an installation piecemanila beauty for vanilla booty
Her vast collection of photoboth strips
(if you look closely I'm in a couple shots)
collage

What are you guys doing this weekend?
I plan to hit the spa and soak with some friends. Panda Bear Person Pitch

water receding

Fortunately things are drying up. It doesn't look like I'll need a swim cap for my ride home.
But, I can still bust my gut over Javier Piñon's flood collages.

via: youhavebeenheresometime

scrapatorium!

I've been having a blast browsing through scrapatorium. I really never explored the collage medium but these pieces are fantastic. I'm crazy about this one below titled Bird Watchers:

here are a few of my faves:

inspiration: mondongo

The Argentine art collective Mondongo inspires me. Their highly tactile pieces don't inspire me to actually create anything by hand, but looking at this work encourages me to get off my lazy ass and start focusing on my real job so that I can one day afford to buy a piece.

I've seen a few pieces IRL and they're awe inspiring and slight folkish. They create these large scale fantasies by collaging feathers, cotton thread, plasticine, hair, freeze-dried slabs of meat and biscuits. As unsettling as it sounds, their work still manages to be reminiscent and beautiful.

resources:official site, artnet, smartartpress towel

checking out

bang bags; alps etsy shop

Wanna travel somewhere far away with me?

i'd run away with him...

Fawn Gehweiler via Gatopoder
I think above little kitty will grow up to be this handsome fellow by Mark Weaver.

dimensions

Dana Gentile:Dreamboy; 2007 6.5 × 11 × 1.5 inches mixed media collage, wooden spool and cigar box

Aqueduct, Mixed-media collage

Aqueduct, Mixed-media collage
&
Emily Counts
Cavernicolous, 2006; Gouache on Paper, 34" x 27"
Frame : Gesso, Gouache, and Gold Leaf on Paper and Foam Board
Chamber of Searching, 2006, Gouache on Paper; 44" x 34"
Danger Diamonds, Death Diamonds, 2006

Emily's geometric frames would go perfectly with my faceted dream chair and the kaleidoscope collection by Richter Switala.