yup

this could not be more fitting.

5th post today. mmmhmmm...

kills: goodnight bad morning

thanks to warren for introducing them to me. video sounds a bit like a warped cassette tape at times. gold booties make up for it.

shalonda: umi says + house of the rising sun

thumb war!

really really loving the site book by it's cover today.

i am upset that the thumb war book pictured below is sold out online. i was looking to gain some strategy...

he's my type

recently i am particularly interested in typography and book design. i found will miller featured on the site: book by it's cover . quite into his sketchbook series (a few selections shown here).

i love my papermate sharpwriter

 

 

 

 

i am nobody: the prolific TMNK

i found tmnk (the me nobody knows) a few years ago on myspace (before it became known as the decidedly sketchier social networking site). this nyc based street artist is an art-making machine. his ability to turn out consistently beautiful and socially significant artwork at such a fast pace has always really impressed me. Equally impressive is the dedication, heart, and soul that he expresses in his work and on his blog.

he recently graced this blog with his presence, leaving a comment on one of my earlier posts. thanks tmnk. your encouragement is very much appreciated. you are quite the inspiration.

yuki: dreams not smokes

dontsmokefagssmokedreams on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Loving this artist's work right now. happy things.

continually obsessing over altered books...

Jennifer Khoshbin

Georgia Russell

Brian Dettmer

Karen Hatzigeorgiou

sand animation + pop art blue

ok, so i want to combine this kind of animation with...

this song! (turn off  the sound on the animation video and turn it up on the zero 7 video. it matches. sort of...)

Humument by Tom Phillips

"In a sense, because A Humument is less than what it started with, it is a paradoxical embodiment of Mallarme's idea that everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"

Who wants to make altered books with me?

wow

VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone from Enrico Ascoli - Sound Design on Vimeo.

the raveonette's "black/white" video: neat animation

i like this. a little creepy but it's october so creepy is in.

sketchcast: worth it?

kind of neat. i would suggest fast forwarding though...

oktober/honk fests: cambridge at it's cambridgiest!

so, cambridge is really it's own entity. quite a special place indeed. this is only a small portion of what i saw there today. this cop was barely able to mask his disgust, which kind of made me giggle.

live music was  plentiful, as were the carts selling various foods and jewels. especially enjoyed lake street dive's set at club passim's stage on the corner of brattle and church. singer-girl has some pipes and stand-up bass girl played the hell out of that thing. trumpet/guitar guy worked it out damn well, and drummer-guy was smooth and sweet as jello instant pudding blended with an electric mixer. plus, they were all quite adorable and played a cover of "faith" by george michael (i think, or "freedom"...- whichever it was, i liked it).

melting/melding muse's faces

definitely reblogging from fabulous classmate nathalie. i couldn't resist sharing this video on my page too.

Dr. Sketchy's Molly Crabapple: webart/streetart/performance art/burlesque culture lovechild?

Perhaps Ms. Crabapple is onto something when she says, “What you get in life isn’t about how much you cultivate your talent; it’s about how you cultivate your name.” (NY Times)

Crabapple's "performance art"/gathering of artists with Dr. Sketchy's anti-art school and subsequent sharing of those works on sites like Twitter and Facebook feels exemplary of the ways that the web can help to maximize the possibilities for artmaking, sharing, and artist exposure.

Dr. Sketchy's does have a Boston branch which regulary hosts drawing sessions every Second Sunday at Great Scott in Allston/Brighton. Information is also posted at Truth Serum's site. I am definitely going to have to check this out...

sad commuter girl appears before your eyes

my bus drawings never turn out this well...

woah...

photoshop is pretty amazing. i am a little bit upset that i've lived nearly 29 years without using it. nevertheless, i am utterly enthralled by the possibilities for projects using this technology.