hit me

requested black lightning bolt earrings. check it out!
sweet, no?
Hj Designs

twilight

sunset from mars. captured in 2005 by Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.
the visible sun is two-thirds the size as what we see and twilight is roughly twice as long as ours due to heavy atmospheric dust scattering the light.

there's a reason

i think there's a reason that this is shark week and not starfish week

b positive.

i found out my blood type yesterday. i suppose that's good to know.

on a related note, a neighbor told me he's been meeting vampires and aliens lately. he said his friends think that he is delusional. perhaps he is. but i reckon most people are a little delusional about something.

Trouble - Jackie DeShannon

if that mp3 link doesn't work, hit refresh or visit aquarium drunkard proper.

manners, morals, emotions

try this at home

Infinity Guitars - Sleigh Bells
Run the Heart - Sleigh Bells

neon image via Freudenthal/Verhagen

the homeland vacation is nearing an end.

jungle love

My first (and favorite) art history professor, Camille Cottrell (sooo boss), just returned from Las Pozas (meaning the pools) where she was researching this magical surrealist garden. You can read a previous article about her study right here.



Designed by the eccentric Englishman* and poet Edward James, this fantastical 80-acre garden is surrealist sculpture, meandering paths, cascading waterfalls, and, of course, pools. There are gates that seemingly lead no where in particular. James must have known (as many architects must) that in walking through a gate there is either a conscious or subconscious sense of change or renewal, of passing from something into something else, somewhere else, an unmistakable sense of place.


I'd like to see this for myself one day, but since today is not the day, I think I can satisfy my wanderlust by visiting Iron Works studio, then Garden (a garden shop with a t-ton of terrariums) where I may continue such musings.

*I think being an eccentric Englishman is actually a profession unto itself.

that's a good looking _______ ____

chicken coup. that's a good looking chicken coup.


forget that this would be covered in bird crap almost immediately.



the breed retreat by frederik roijé

thesis: disco will never die

The Last Days of Disco a favorite film o'moi. I believe this. Disco will always live in our hearts. Right, Thunderheist? Space Cowboy - Thunderheist (click)


Yeah, that's a good song. And not just because it reminds us of Clint Eastwood.


Who is sooo not disco...


But maybe because of some intrinsic link to space indians.
(photo from a starry eyed weekend project taken earlier in the spring)

In any case, here's my context:

Dendritic Arbor Day

Did you know that in 1979 the Woodland Zoo in Seattle developed the first naturalistic gorilla exhibit? 1979! So, that thing we did as kids when we put a stick and a leaf in the jar with the bug...that idea really hadn't developed so much in zoological practices until about 30 years ago.

That's Pete, a resident of the Woodland Zoo.

Learn more...listen to this Radio Lab podcast about Zoos.
(the bit about China was recently confirmed for me from a friend whose spent a year teaching there. how bum is that?)

And check out the really cool landscape architects who created Pete's home.

That's the "Artic Ring of Life" at the Detroit Zoological Park.

That's a dendritic arbor. One thing I learned about Pete is that, like all primate brains, his dendridic arbors will grow when he is in an natural environment with choices, interactions, and challenges. Now, if something with a primate brain is stressed, malnourished, or isolated from contact the dendridic arbors will shrink, actually retract. Managing stress in your environment is important. Having healthy, growing neurons is like having a really good processor in your brain which makes you smarter and happier.


BONUS!!! Something else entirely...The Giraffe Manor (danke, Kelsey!)

snow & the fauna

a photo i took

a song i like
Animal - Miike Snow
Animal (Fake Blood Remix) - Mike Snow
i like to make that "tooka tooka tooka" sound.


a new vid from miike snow.

last week, i ordered this (the vinyl text, not the door):


and received a jackalope silhouette with it (bunny bonus!).
it did not look like this.

one you go tech, you ain't never goin' back

alternately titled: the swedes
from emmas designblogg

See also: Lev Livet Leende o Hus & Hem




See Also:
I'm Good, I'm Gone - Lykke Li...Live Accoustic with Robyn, among other way rad swedish musicians.




See Also: Fembot - Robyn .... From her new album Body Talk

nostalgie de la boue

Nostalgie de la boue is a phrase I heard very recently, literally meaning 'a desire to return to the mud', but describing that faux povre aesthetic I know so well.

The context was a story about donations to a 12-step program of fancy soaps and things that recovered men could take home to their respective wives and girlfriends as gifts. However, items that followed the school de la boue were, unfortunately, eliminated as their appeal may be lost on many.



It's true though. This is a fancy box of soap. People will pay 20 Euros for this box of soap. I know it's not the box they want. Clemetines at your local Kroger will come in a nearly identical box to this one. Add some twine and a bit of recycled brown paper and your total packaging cost comes to about 7 cents. Your own box of fancy mud soaps can be purchased at Toast U.K., one of my favorite purveyors of primitive romanticism, or romantic primitivism, or what have you.

Speaking of things primitive, through this week has flown a stream of coincidences. And, in fact, just this morning I was introduced to an alternate universe. Truly, an actual landmark of this realm can be explored at a place no more than 40 yards from where I now sit. I saw a man have a heart attack in traffic ysterday. That's not a coincidence, it's only a tragedy. This has been a strange week though. Now getting back to my original tangent...I was watching the film Good Dick yesterday and The Musuem of Jurrasic Technology is mentioned and that's the second time in recent weeks this organization has come into my periphery. (Jason Ritter has a bad case of Beiber-face, btw. No value judgement, just an observance.)

I very much want to tell you about Kymaerica, but I need to do some more research. You see, not all the Kymaerica travel volumes have been published in the linear world. Only numbers 4 & 6 are currently available. This is not a joke.

marina and the diamonds

an orchestral treatment of Hollywood

Her blog.


Marina covers 3oh!3 on Radio1. Like Oooo Oooo.

no way! are ewe serious?

by Jean Luc Cornec

crickets

I'd read the first few pages of What is the What maybe three times in the bookstore in the past two years before finding a copy on the shelves of a babysitting family and asking to borrow it.
Since then I've become more aware of the sounds of helicopters passing.
They call helicopters "crickets." They're both black with bulky bodies and spindly legs and can make serious racket.
I need to stop complaining about the microcosmic tragedies of my life.

ode to sid mashburn

One of my favorite places on earth is Sid Mashburn.
Everything makes sense when you're there.
I feel order and peace in the world.
I have no questions.
The smell of leather and the sight of a tartan settee put me into a state of divine understanding.

anthro goes to india

how bobo is this?

text reads:
a horizon of sand and clay
petaled steps, spiced air
the hum of a thousand ages

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see that lady's face? (click image to enlarge)

you know what that says...

it says everything.


BoBo
bo•bo
adjective
characterized by being thoughtless, ill-conceived, unwise, or generally stupid.

I worked at Anthro one holiday season. When the merchandising was being explained, we were told that one collection/segment of the store was designed with a character/customer in mind that Antro referred to as Penelope. Penelope was said to only have a diet coke and a cigarette for breakfast. That's not breakfast, that's bobo.

thunderheist

I've been getting a healthy dose of Thunderheist this week. I like their videos.






Thatgo did the Jerk It vid.
Here is a video by Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - also from thatgo. It's semi-retarded.


But it reminds me of video artist Ryan Trecartin.

it's okay

you can say it.

the four corners

lol, miss, lol

lion

dear dixie, the world is a little less without you.

the beehive has moved to east atl

the beehive co-op has moved to east atlanta. and that's super because i'll actually go now as opposed to when they were located down on peachtree. my coworker hazel sells her jewelry at the co-op. so, i'm going out tonight to support her art. truthfully, i have a hard time turning down snacks. and everything will be 15% off for the night. so, it'd be nice to find something for my mom since madre day is around the corner.


lego jewelry...with diamonds...ooo, fancy nerd.


if you buy these earrings before i do, i will jack you in the parking lot.


this keychain is uber expensive, but it's a lucky cat and i guess that's hard to beat.

see more at da webersitie

whenever i'm with you

Below are unedited shots from a slowly developing series.
And click here to see the hilarious video my friend kombo shot the same day.
Home (RAC remix) - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Headed back home for another project that I'll be so excited to share soon.

Advice from Ira

the season finale is just like lord of the flies

from the mouths of babes: americana classico

tricerapurse

whaaaat1!?

i have a friend from highschool with a sister the same age as my brother. before his sister was born, his mom made a deal with him to keep the peace. when the baby was born he got to choose the name. it came down to Leonardo, like the ninja turtle, if it was a boy or Sara, after the triceratops from LBT, if it turned out to be a girl.



image from JAK & JIL

good movie

depressing (fair warning), but ahmazing...

also... really long. run time is over 3 hours. i did not realize this until we got almost through it and saw that days had passed since we started.

hypothetical

i'm not buying furniture for the next 6 months.
that might seem easy for many, many people.
but it is very difficult for me
i look at furniture all day. i think about it constantly.
still, i will remain strong.

i don't want to buy furniture because it's not practical. it's only a matter of time before i either sell it or store it or have to haul it across town. naturally, i've schemed a way around this. my furnishings have become increasingly nomadic. i can move most of my things by myself. there are two exceptions: my sofa because of its expanse and dainty spindle legs. and my mattress, partly because of the weight and partly because it's floppiness - i just cannot manage it. and these days it's essential that furnishings be flexible and multi-purpose.

if..... if i were to buy any new pieces it would be these two items. for the time being, they'd serve as a collective coffee table along side an antique stool.

1. milk stool from loll in black

it's one of the most durable materials for indoor and outdoor use on the market, it's earth friendly, it's handsome. i can use it as a seat or as a table beside a bed or sofa. i can stand on it. it can go outside or in the shower. es perfecto.


2. wire based end table by eames in black

at 10 inches tall, this table was originally designed for use in Japanese tea ceremonies. its size makes it unusual, but flexible. eat breakfast in bed with it. set it in front of the sofa and rudely prop your feet on it. buy several and stack 'em to the heavens. and for bonus, it's an iconic design.

in the city

A voluptuous vibration constantly stirs Chloe, the most chaste of cities. If men and women began to live their ephemeral dreams, every phantom would become a person with whom to begin a story of pursuits, pretenses, misunderstandings, clashes, oppressions, and the carousel of fantasies would stop. - i. calvino, invisible cities
da cali anthem - rusko

honey pig

going to a korean bbq for my friend's birthday. korean bbq supposed to be the bomb. in korean, the sound a pig makes sounds like the word honey. so, when they say pig they say always say honey pig which i guess would be like saying oink pig in english.

b... is for bed

and for best
and birthday
and bocce
and beer
and beige

i don't even know you

Haha, it is my birthday. I cannot contain myself.

bright star

watched that romantic period film in which john keats falls in love then dies.



Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death.

- John Keats

beautiful. what a bummer.

planetarium

stranger things have happened - the radio dept.

went to the planetarium yesterday.
and, f.y.i., the universe is pretty big.

...and it may not be the only.
watching the history channel, i learned about the multiverse theory.


images from NASA archive

de la domini

image from National Geographic

music:
Altona - The Voltarenes
Odessa - Caribou

mps via coast is clear & pretty much amazing