Excuse My Cuteness! : Baby wolf & mom

Baby wolf cub playing with his mother.

Photo: Alin Dragulin

Photography appreciation is something that is starting to develop on my life's horizon.



Here is Alin Dragulin-- Romanian-born and living in Portland.. amazing eye and subjects.



Click here to go to his site

art art art: Carter Hodgkin

(Whatchamacallum- 2008)

Some time ago, on a dusky eve in SoHo, I found myself mesmerized in front of a shop's window, watching a ceiling of twinkling little lights changing color againsta a black surface. Once again, I find myself mesmerized, but by the still works Carter Hodgkin's Electromagnetic Series.

(Electromagnetic Circles-2007)

Her spirited work is reminiscent of physics and science studies for me, with the Lite-Brites feel. I could stare at her work and see galaxies. I could stare and see elegant women moving gracefully. I could just stare at this all day....while listening to the Devils. (Dark Equation 2 - 2009)
(Dark Equation 2 - 2009)

Click here to go to her Website

Comment: Erin Featherston's pants

I can't quite figure myself out on this one. On one hand I really really love those pants.. they remind me of Crystal Barbie when I was in 5th grade and anything that shines I have an inherent weakness for. Opalescence? Forget, I'm all over it. Of course, I want to try them on.. but, there's where reality kicks in.

The IDEA of the pants is amazing. I love the outfit.. but something... SOMETHING.. just seems off on it, and I have to pass...

Music: Hot Chip

"Ready for the Floor" V. cool video, fun fun concept. Love the yellow paint splashed on the hidden bodies.

art art art: Jen Corace

Airplane
Tub Monster

Jen Corace's work reminds me of the vintage animation work created by Winsor McKay-- sort of if Gertie the Dinosaur met Marc Jacobs.

Click here to go to Jen Corace's website

Music: The Flying Horses

I know nothing about this band, except that they are from Japan and I really love their cover of Paul McCartney's "Take it Away."

Click here to see more of The Flying Horses!

Le Sigh: Another Christophe Galfard pic!!

Oh, to be the scarf draped around his shoulders...

This is the gorgeous gravitational physics guy Galfard, and the lovely (and lucky ) lady in the pic is Stephen Hawking's daughter, Lucy.

Thanks to Lindsay

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.