Check Out: The Great Gatsby

Last winter, I began revisiting some of my assigned high school readings. I came back to the Great Gatsby, and just want to remind everyone how incredibly touching this book is. I think if F. Scott Fitzgerald were alive today, he could be a film director.

Gatsby is just the saddest character ever.

art art art: Kathie Olivas

I've been looking at Kathie Olivas' work on and off for the last couple of years...It suits my darker moods (obviously) and admittedly, I can only take so much of it. However, I've never been able to NOT check in and see what's new. Do I need a psychiatrist?



Click here for Kathie Olivas' site

Animation: French Animation

I'm not sure who this is by, but I fund it googling "French animation"... wonderful, non?

I need to take French lessons this summer. Gah...

Design: Silverair

Insanely beautiful combo of art, science and design.



Designed by Pod Design

art art art: Barnaby Barford

Normally I'm not one for guns, but this ain't your grandma's Precious Moments collection, either...Love this work.



Please click on BARNABY BARFORD

Music: Depeche Mode

I've missed Depeche Mode. Ever since Alan Wilder left the band, I thought I could notwholly embrace them again. THis video gives me hope for the new album.



Depeche Mode's "Wrong"

Le Sigh: Season 2 Sneak pics of True Blood

art art art: Elizabeth McGrath

Truth be told, when I first saw Elizabeth McGrath's work.. I wasn't too moved. This late offering of her-- a menagerie of phantasmagoria in springtime pastels and steeped in ice creamy fairytale lore. I find myself mesmerized, caught and kept....

Excuse My Cuteness!: Orisinal

I've been confounded by the word "twee", but I think if anything were twee, it is Orisinal.

This is an ADORABLE site... and I HATE using that word.

Orisinal

art art art: Simon Kim

"Missing"

Still in school and full of promise. Amazing sense of fantasy and color... Enjoyed his portfolio and will be keeping an eye on his work!

"Tempest"

Simon Kim

Design: May Luk

She will be at the Brooklyn Indie Mart on April 4th.. If you are headed there, be sure to have a look at her amazing ceramics...

May Luk's Take Me Homeware

art art art: LoopyLu

I saw these guys in Union Square not too long ago... Very perplexing, dreamy and discombobulated...they call it Assemblage art....

Loopy Lu

Design: The Iron Chinchilla

Furniture that looks like it's straight from the topsy turvy world of Wonderland...


The site is a bit cumbersome, but the pieces are worth it.

The Iron Chinchilla

Animation: Vintage ToonCast

Vintage ToonCast!

For vintage animation clips from yesteryear...Brilliant!

art art art: Kristin Hassenfeld

Amazing paper structures that take my breath away... like magical paper pumpkin coaches...

Animation: Disney's The Princess & the Frog

Looks awfully lovely, doesn't it?

Jim Hill Media

Le Sigh: True Blood

This show is gorgeous.


A Viking Vampire...I am besotted!

Fashion: Sonia Rykiel

Sometimes, I have days where this outfit would be entirely appropriate!

art art art: Patrick Jacobs

Art is always good for the soul. This guy is amazing with the mini dioramas...


Patrick Jacobs

http://www.pierogi2000.com/flatfile/jacobspat.html

dandelion field, 2002
(2) 5" glass lenses, paper, concrete, plastic, paint, glue, lighting - (all materials behind wall, viewed through 5" glass lense)

Art is always good for the soul.

Comment: Social Networking sites

THere are too damn many of them.

Twitter. Myspace. Facebook.

And for art: DeviantArt. Red Bubble. MyArtSpace.com

and the professional sites: Adholes, LinkedIn...

Is all hope lost for face to face contact, or this the beginning of something new and great?

Music: MGMT

I give this guy props for art direction and concept. I would have suggested (superficially) that the guy shave all facial hair before applying face paint. The makeup just lays better that way than upon facial hair. Perhaps it was the point...

I am just loving this song, and this band.

Off....

...to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see.


Kidding. I'm putting the blog aside for right now. I'll be around, though, definitely.

Comment: No!

I read that one of my favorite restaurants in NYC has had their rent raised from 6,000 a month to $58,000, and is up for sale.

Truly, I think this is one of the scary things about living in Manhattan. You can be uprooted at any moment.


www.restaurantflorent.com

Check Out: Star Wars Guide to the Candidates

In case one needed help deciding....

click here

Animation: The Dot and the Line

One of my all time favorite animated films.

And of course, here we go: Chuck Jones is a genius.

Check Out: Geography

The Australian/South Pacific quiz is really hard. And I don't know CRAPOLA about Africa. I am ashamed.


Lizardpoint.com

Excuse My Cuteness! : Baby Polar Bear

Excuse My Cuteness!: I could SCREAM

This is the most adorable thing! A crochet pineapple! I just want to squeeze it. Hawaii based Kathleen Uno created this little gem-ling.


Funny Little Things

update: I bought both of them off of her!!! All mine!

Comment: If only those implants could talk....

You have to love life.

Music: Nick Rhodes & Simon LeBon: New Years 1985

My holiday break officially ends tonight, and it's back to work tomorrow. So, Happy New Years ! Nick has the "View To A Kill" hair which was pre-First Break up.

Le Sigh: Christophe Galfard

It's official: I'm obsessed. That jacket is awful.

Christophe Galfard
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Check Out: Eddie Izzard

Comment: Phoebe Price

Bad outfit for the camera-- the lighting, the pattern, all bad. I think I am in love too.

A couple of the blogs I regularly read are in love with this Phoebe Price-person. From what I understand, this woman has not built her fame by any discernible artistic, athletic or intellectual talent. Absolumente non. It was built by her own determination, sheer pluck and some truly awful outfits (...and some chicken cutlets.)

My fantasy is that she's a phD student at UCLA and her dissertation is a sociological experiment involving a methodical rise to pop culture fame. She would document in her dissertation the timeit took for her to be "discovered" and then revel to the world how you, too, can get your photo published next to those of Reese Witherspoon and Britney Spears. It would be brilliant.

However, the only thing I can surmise is that she's probably guilty of massive vanity and delusion, and that she looks, ahem, "interesting" in front of cameras.

She reminds me of:
She's my new poster child for American Stardom.

Vanished Berlin Wall

I saw this on Towelroad and found it touching that it pointed out the artist Eun Sook Lee (Korean) is from another country that is separated by a "wall" too: Korea's Line of Demarcation.

How gorgeous... I wish that I was in Berlin now.

Retro: Lucas with the Lid off

So brilliant. Michel Gondry directs.

1994.

Retro: PBS

These ALL rocked.







( I know that I have been a Youtube junkie as of late...)

Music: What else? Duran Duran is going to Broadway

(Why is it when bands with 3-4 members take photos, that they always are staring off in different directions, except for maybe one or two that seem aware there is a camera? Who came up with this formula?)

Seven kajillion people forwarded an email that my favorite band in the universe is going to Broadway. They will be playing for 12 nights straight in November, or something insane like that. Tickets go on sale this Saturday. Why did you leave again, Andy?!!!


The new album is called "Red Carpet Massacre." The press keep mentioning Justin Timberlake worked with them on it. Enough already! Who cares about HIM? What about Nick?

Excuse My Cuteness: Koalas and Puppies

Comment: H.L. Mencken

"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."

Comment: I Didn't Art Direct These

But found them funny... oh dear.

Kermit & Debbie Harry - 1981

Comment: Theresa Duncan & Jeremy Blake

This week, I read New York Mag's article about the double suicides of these two artists in love. It was a tale of love, paranoia, artistic frustration, and Scientology. I was moved enough to read some of Theresa Duncan's blog, (the post below is something I gleaned immediately from it) -- I found her affecting...

She created an animated short which was mentioned in the New York article. Iam hoping to find a clip of it to post. It was fragile, lovely and very rock and roll.

Always sad to hear stories like this.

Retro: Josephine Baker

Le Sigh: Christophe Galfard

I had to break my hiatus from the blog to post this handsome man's business.

Christophe is a graduate from the University of Paris with a degree in advanced mathematics, he went on to gain a Diploma of Engineering at Ecole Centrale des Arsts et Manufactures de Paris. Christophe continued his education, earning a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, where he is currently pursuing his PhD under the direction of Professor Stephen W. Hawking. He's brilliant, he's handsome, he's FRENCH.

I'd LOVE to discuss black holes with him. Le sigh. This is not a very good picture of him. Okay, I'm going back under my rock.

Films: Ratatouille & The Order of the Phoenix

and really really really loved.

Ratatouille

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Plus I need to post this GORGEOUS depiction of Paris from Ratatouille. Good grief!!! I want to cry.



Le sigh.