Music: Grimes

How did I come across this song? How did I become addicted?

Checkout: The Tao of Pinochet - Brennan Howard

Yesterday, I bagged on Reality TV, for which I clarify: People and their lives CAN be extremely interesting...when they're not hacks trying to sell you something. This clip for "Mary" is testament for how truth is the best reality (and comedy).




I'm VERY confident it will also hook you on my friend/surrealist auteur, Brennan Howard. My dear heart Catherine Taryle introduced his unique and gifted hilarity into my life, and that was a good day. His talent has manifested itself into his latest project, the very stylish "The Tao of Pinochet."

Lucky friends in LA, there's a screening in Santa Monica this Sunday . Click here to get the info. GO.

Checkout: wishproject.me - Dayna Crozier

So. The end of 2011 is near. While sobbing over the lack of taste displayed this year, I angrily blamed chain businesses, reality TV, Clear Channel, etc, not realizing that I already stand within one of the most fertile pools of creativity & ideas out there: MY OWN FRIENDS. For 25 days of December, I show off.

This is the Wish Project by my friend/secret sprite Dayna Crozier. We met by way of Res Magazine & Palm Pictures, bonding over the cruel air conditioning. This enchanting site is more than just making a wish, it's about reality, in observation and in execution. YOU WILL SEE YOURSELF IN OTHERS. And like Dayna, it is brief and sweet and will follow up with you.

click HERE to go to wishproject.me

Check Out: Scandalous Women

I had begun a series of illustrated portraits called "Of Empresses and Queens" a few years ago. The series included leaders such as Queen Isabella of Spain, Empress Wu Zetian of China and the ever notorious Marie Antoinette. Here is one of my favorite blogs... I learned about Wallis Simpson through it before Madonna & Hollywood ever got a hold of her.

If you like your girls bad, I definitely recommend this.

Please click here to go to Elizabeth K Mahon's "Scandalous Women" site

You won't be disappointed, trust.

Animation: Balance - Wolfgang & Christoph Lauenstein

One of the first indie animated shorts I really loved... I still aspire to make a film as true as this one. Such an amazing film. Enjoy!

Le Sigh: Wes Anderson and Sofia Coppola

From the awesome blog Awesome People Hanging Out Together

Animation: David Lewandowski

Sometimes, we shouldn't question the strange. Sometimes, we should just enjoy the strange.

going to the store. from dlew on Vimeo.

Retro: Edie Sedgwick, First Reality Star

Jewelry Junkie: Perry Gargano

I recently began a habit of buying jewelry for myself as markers of life moments/obstacles/projects, etc.. My attitude towards jewelry is the same as some people may have towards tattoos.. it's very personal, and high quality is mandatory. Since beginning this behavior, new emotional doors have opened and jewelry has become much more emotional for me...and like a tattoo, I fully commit to pieces... so much that when a piece is lost, I have never been more distraught.

I have my eyes on Perry Gargano's tentacle cuff. I will possess it in silver by year's end.


Click here to see more of this gilded gothic menagerie

Fashion: Glow in the Dark Halston

I'm all over this... how perfect for standing out in the crowd...especially the dark places I roam...



go to ecouterre to see more

Check Out: Astronomy Picture of the Day

THIS IS A REAL PHOTO AND NOT SOME THOMAS KINKADE/ADOBE/ A-HOLE CREATION
photo credit: The Brilliant David Kaplan

From the site: "Sometimes a morning sky can be a combination of serene and surreal. Such a sky perhaps existed before sunrise this past Sunday as viewed from a snowy slope in eastern Switzerland. Quiet clouds blanket the above scene, lit from beneath by lights from the village of Trübbach. A snow covered mountain, Mittlerspitz, poses dramatically on the upper left, hovering over the small town of Balzers, Liechtenstein far below. Peaks from the Alps can be seen across the far right, just below the freshly rising Sun. Visible on the upper right are the crescent Moon and the bright planet Venus. Venus will remain in the morning sky all month, although it will likely not be found in such a photogenic setting. "

NASA has this great site: Astronomy Picture of the Day-- it is humbling and it's a reminder that we are just passing through...enjoy the view.

Please click here to see more beauty bigger than ourselves ...

Fashion: Daisy & Elizabeth

If you say "Green", the first thing I will think of is Birkenstocks (bad), recycling (good), patchouli (bad), and trust fund hippies (THE WORST) because Boulder ruined me. Before leaving the hairy arms of the town, I was DETERMINED to be as bad as I could ..drive to my mailbox, eat a steak a day, become a traditional animator... how terrible was the Flatirons experience to turn a girl who began the environmental club at her high school into a borderline Sarah Palin-type?

Bad.

Because extremism of any sort will turn most sane people off. And while "being Green" is indeed hip these day, it's not the first thing I think of when you think "sexy."


Until now. While visiting Eccoterre, today's posting featured Daisy & Elizabeth lingerie - eco-conscious sexiness. The line was begun by Daisy Hartmann and Elizabeth NeSmith, students at FIT, and features beautifully racy pieces constructed from organic and recycled materials.

The ladies are also seeking assistance via Kickstarter-- they have a show to put on, and it's got a $15,000 price tag on it. When I last checked, they were around $3,300 with 4 days to go. We need to help these girls connect with the trust fund hippies in Boulder, and EVERYBODY (the planet, the designers, the hippies and even YOU & I) WILL WIN.

Click here to help a green girl out

art art art: Steve Thomas

Modern Vintage-- oxymoronic, sure.. but makes perfect sense when you see Steve Thomas' work. Steve is the boy I WISHED had grown up next door to me instead of the passel of snot-nosed, smelly, loud rascals who would hold cannibal grasshopper contests and throw game controllers at the wall when they lost their 54th try at Cosmic Ark. We'd hang out and draw, he Transformers and Inhumanoids, and I would sketch out things for She-Ra and Shirt Tales... and it would look cool.. and we would get married.. and we'd have children who would create amazing works of art...

All until the next water balloon was hurled at me.

Ah.. Imaginary Nostalgia...

See Steve's brilliant eye here

Love love love: Denver Egotist

Admittedly, the artist in me is conflicted about advertising because there is SO MUCH BAD stuff out there.*
However, there are a few people who will call it out that crap, raise the bar, refusing to suffer idiots or mediocrity (unless it is ironically funny). The Denver Egotist will become one of your daily stops for new ideas, inspiration and encouragement. Not just because they post interesting things, but they also serve as a reminder that creatives must PUSH themselves to produce the best. I can always get behind that.

*To be fair, there's a LOT of bad art out there too.

Click HERE to go to Denver Egotist

Music: The Dollyrots

New obsession.

Travel: Crestone Colorado

I'd read there was a spiritual vortex here. After visiting, I'd believe it. I'm pretty sure I'm getting back there. Not sure when though. Soon, I hope.

Real Life: Trees + Forest

Someone whose humor I absolutely get.Sometimes, you just need someone to break it down in a true way.

Click here for Trees + Forest

Music: Lusine

Maybe, I'm late to the game with these guys, but this is the most gorgeous sound I've had in a good long while. It so reminded me of dawn in the mountains. Have you ever seen the sun come up while in the Rockies? You should.

Check Out: The Swelle Life

Sometimes, I go online, and I see a person's blog that very much feels as if it were sliced out of my very own brain. I want to hang out with this person, talk about the most minute details of the fashion of the Golden Age Hollywood, Weimar Republic, British New Wave and/or French Revolution...all while discussing it over the most beautiful assortments of desserts and cocktails. This blog, too, I add to my favorites of places to visit. Denise is the friend I want to show me around LA, Paris or Madrid. Love the Swelle Life.

Sweet, eco-savvy, stylish with good style icons..I admit, sometimes a LITTLE twee... however the overall fun and good taste keeps me. A fab fab fab read. Please click here to visit the Swelle life.

Delicious: Cupcake Royale

Feeling in a Seattle mood...SO adorable. Drooling staring at this.

And I know it feels like the cupcake thing is overdone, but I will always fall for a delicious dessert.

Click here to go to Cupcake Royale

Music: Nicki Minaj

I just love the look of this video. Sucker for bright color

WOW

Every week should begin with this!

CLICK HERE FOR THE AMAZINGNESS

Be inspired!

Insanity : Russian kids

Oh, to again be as fearless as a kid.



I was scared to death to watch this, but also slightly wistful...

Design: Jonathan Adler

Be still, my heart...

Surely, there's a holiday coming up where I can justify purchasing these.... I want, I want, I want!

GO here to find & buy

Check Out: Barbie as Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds

MODERN ART. Love it.


For more info go here

Fashion: Kobi Levi

If something is playful, quirky and unique, it's pretty much guaranteed I will love it.

Slide

Sling Shot

Miao

To see more of Kobi Levi's amazing and whimsical work, please click here

Hotness: Cantonese Girl Fight

This is about TIMING!

Mega Post: Uma Thurman

Music: Innerpartysystem

"American Trash"..as we all have been at some point in our lives?

Check Out: Barbie as Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan

She is here!! But WTF on those shoes? Joan Collins would not approve.

Pop Fantastic update

Well,.. looks like I haven't been active here since October. Funny how work snows you in... however, I've seen a lot of really amazing stuff, and I can't wait to post it bc I'm scared it's going to evaporate from my mind!

So stay tuned!!!

Music: Mad Men vs Nat King Cole

This WORKS! WHat an awesome mashup! And completed in ONE take (granted, it was the 29th take, but still....)

Music: The Japanese Popstars Feat. Green Velvet

The Japanese Popstars Feat. Green Velvet - Let Go from David Wilson Creative

The timing is impeccable, the imagination...well.. disturbing. But that's not a bad thing.

Animation: "Dot" by Aardman's Sumo Science

This is INSANE!!!! The world's smallest stop motion animation...shot on a Nokia N8



WOW

Here is the "Making Of" segment, which is RI.DIC.ULOUS.



Wow, just WOW. COuld you imagine if someone bumped this set???!

Check Out: Justine D (again)

Dear GOD, is Justine D the most incredibly cool person EVER?


While checking my twitter updates (bc I never really seem to get there), I found that she had left this gem of a posting on her Twitter:

In The Kitchen At Parties

She's in FRANCE! And she's baking! What a life! And still playing and chatting about the coolest of music, as ever.

It makes me want to start a fan club for her! She is, by far, one of my favorite New Yorkers, extremely interesting and awesome-doing... she is definitely a person to watch in this world. What she posts looks incredible, and her commentary is always so down to earth and likeable.


FUCK CUPCAKES! Look at her blog and live a little through her!

Retro: Go-Go Dancing Contest circa 1970

art art art: Christian David Moore

Fashion illustrators sometimes feel like a dime a dozen, however, when a unique talent comes about, it is so refreshing.

Christian David Moore is a self taught, London based illustrator (SO much great illustration coming out of the UK these days....) who loves Tom Ford, Miles Davis and has a wicked, yet very delicate hand.

Never underestimate the impact of watercolor or goauche!

Here is an interview with the illustrator:



Too see more of his work please click here

Retro: The Origin

This video has more hair flips than a Pantene commercial, but my GOODNESS they were one of the most engaging bands during the 90's. Truly, they were... just a year or two before the entire grunge movement steamrollered everything in rock media...They lost Daniel and gained a new member whose name eludes me, and went sort of hippy dippy for the second album, which turned out to be a pretty solid collection of work...I loved Bend.

Gah, my silly artist's eye has to comment: It didn't hurt that the entire band was very photogenic. You have to love the boys from the West in the 90's. Topper Rimel's hair flips are The Best. I wonder what they are up to now?

Music: Youth Group

A leetle, leetle formulaic.. but not so much so that we miss the beauty of this song... This is still easily the most gorgeous version of "Forever Young" out there now.

Photo: David Leventi's "Bjoerling’s Larynx"

La Fenice, Venice, Italy, 2008

Amazing and grand, these photos are PURE visual confections. From photographer David Leventi, here are some of the world's most beautiful opera houses. Just look at that INCREDIBLE curtain at the Palais Garnier below. GORGEOUS. Enjoy!
Curtain, Palais Garnier - Paris, France 2009

For more, click here Margravial Opera House, Bayreuth, Germany

Hotness: Dolemite, muthaf*cka!

Oh, I LOVE this...still laughing for so many reasons...

OMG

Good grief, has it been THAT long???? And it's not that I haven't been inspired.. I have, many many times...I just pulled a sort of Rip Van Winkle...eep.

Posts to follow... trust.

Retro: Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt. So classic, so original. Very missed.

Art art art: Toothpick City

Stan Munro would have been the guy in your 3-D Design class that you knew would kick your ass EVERY week. You'd be green with envy, but you'd probably love everything he turned out.



Here's to vision!

Click here to see more amazing stuff.

Music: Kid Sister

Love this dreamy, funky, pop & fun ditty.

Check Out: Modern Toilet Restaurant

Ok, this one goes in the same category as those soaps that were shaped like babies' hands... is it creepy or not?

In this case, is it gross or not?


For all you closeted coprophiliacs (and I really don't want to know, trust me), you may want to take a trip to Taipei where you can have your entrees served in urinals and sit on toilet seats...

Can't help but wonder what the bathrooms look like?

I don't even have a link! Just google "MODERN TOILET RESTAURANT!" You'll find it.

Music: Aesop Rock

Comment: On Hipsters

The funniest thing about a hipster, is defining who IS a hipster. I don't think anyone really knows. Urban Dictionary defines it as "The blend of every failed fad since the early 1900s." THe closer that you get to an epicenter of hipsters (NYC, Austin, Portland, San Francisco), the finer the definition seems to become. I, personally think the world is a better place with hipsters, regardless of how annoying they may be. But then again, I don't really live amongst them. I do like to watch them, and I find the culture around them funny.

This lovely clip features stylist Erin Hirsh discussing/lamenting about the irony of the hipster... watch, enjoy.

Erin Hirsh, Fashion Stylist :: 120 Seconds from friendswelove.com

Check out : Apocalpyse Cakes

(Fallen Angel Food Cake)

Sometimes, I wonder where are all the people who share my warped sense of humor are. Some of those folks are definitely behind this hilarious site Apocalypse Cakes.

(Leviticus "I Told You So" Aporkalypse Pie)

Some of the recipes on the site seem edible and delicious, but I can't assume that someone out there won't think that dirt, salt and vegetable shortening is a bad combo and is not to be eaten.

(Seismic Haitian Mud Cake)

Please click here to see more irreverent cakes!