So Fresh and So Clean

So, I know the soap looks moldy, but what you actually see is sage combined into this tea tree oil soap bar. I got it from Mississippi Moon Naturals, a farm in IL. I was stumbling (I love StumbleUpon and happened to come upon this site, called Local Harvest. This site is great because you can check out where all the local farms, Farmers Markets, etc are located around your area and the whole U.S. It's an easier way for you to support local farms and it gives you great organic choices.

Old School R&B

Ha, love how they are rocking the white gloves.

The Stoning of Soraya M.

This movie is so frustrating to watch, especially for the female audience. It definitely stirs up all these emotions inside you about how the women are treated in this movie, which is sadly based on a true story. It reminds me of how lucky I am to be in a place where females are treated more equal, even though we still have lots of existing sexism and we definitely need to fight on! This movie makes me sad because of how certain societies use religion to manipulate others just to cater to a few ugly individuals. Please watch this, and it's on instant watch on Netflix!

Side Note: I can't help but notice the beautiful hair that Middle Eastern ladies have.

MARSHMALLOW

This makes me wish I was a Marshmallow fanatic. 240 Sweet carries yummy flavors such as chocolate chip and dark chocolate to crazy flavors like beef as well as bacon maple and toffee.

Warpaint

I love it when friends find good stuff on YouTube.

Love Crunch!

My buddy, Mitch, talks about what they do at Love Crunch. I bought a bar myself and can't wait to try it out and also have my other half of the bar go into some hungry tummy.

try it out yourself! --> http://lovecrunch.org/

Light Show

If you ever get your hands on some shrooms or acid. Here you go:

Also, I recommend playing the video below of the song Reckoner by Radiohead as you are watching the above video for maximum amazingness.

Leaves

I tried making necklaces out of these, but I only succeeded in putting resin on the red long leaf.

Heartbeats--The Knife

Why am I attracted to so many artists with interesting voices? CocoRosie, The Knife, Joanna Newsom, Bjork, Fever Ray...Bring it on.


I also like Jose Gonzalez' version. His voice is just very nice and soothing.

DJ Wally Wonder

Check out these sweet mixes by my buddy DJ Wally Wonder from Bloomington, IN.

http://djwallywonder.tumblr.com/

http://soundcloud.com/djwallywonder

Cookie Story of the Universe

Alyssa put this up on the fb and I thought it very cute. It seems to me that today's main topic is, COOKIES.

One of my fave pictures out of the set

http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/let-it-dough/

Cheesy Xmas Photo

So, originally, I wanted Paolo and I to be in really ugly Christmas sweaters and take cheesy family style portraits to send for the holidays. Sadly, we both do not own any sweaters like that so we had to settle for the colors: red and green. I did this last minute in our room with 2 shitty lamps. Enjoy!

Geminid Meteor Shower

Was able to catch some shooting stars after work. Woot!

Paolo asked me some things that made me wonder about how exactly meteor showers worked, so of course I had to find the best source on the interweb, which is Wikipedia! ha!
Click Click-->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_shower

Purple DRANK

Nothing solves a hangover like it. Mmmmm.

Black Hole

Gary Panter, he's an amazing commercial artist who also created the characters, Jimbo, in his comic book, Jimbo, Adventures in Paradise. If you watched Pee Wee's Playhouse when you were a kid, then you would be familiar with his set designs for that show. I had the pleasure of getting a luncheon with him with a group of my buddies when he came to Indiana University for a lecture in 2009. He's hilarious and I sadly did not have a book for him to sign, I should of totally brought my sketchbook because he drew, Jimbo, on someone else's. He also had worked with Charles Burns, and commented that he is one of the best inkers in the comic world. I got excited to hear this because I love Charles Burns' graphic novel, Black Hole.
Black Hole has beautifully inked illustrations and the graphic novel's context is very grotesque and interesting. It's basically about a town with a crazy type of std epidemic among the teenagers. I recommend you to try reading it and you probably don't know it, but you love comics. I got so many friends into reading comics or back into reading comics, it's definitely not a medium only for kids.

Web Addictions

One of my buddies, Luke Shumard is a web designer. I was browsing through his works and Dazed TV caught my eye. It has cool videos of art, music, and fashion. Such as this crazy video:

A Graffiti Collaboration With Groovy Clinks

Os Gemeos and BLU *heart*

I want

Honda CB 500 1971

Screaming Females

Marissa is a lil cutie.

If you like to read...

READ THIS!

Jeffrey Eugenides is also the author for The Virgin Suicides. Another amazing book. Middlesex has so many layers of history involved, from Cal's (the protagonist) grandparents story in Asia Minor, to his/her parents in America, and to the modern century in Detroit, MI. This book contains family secrets, secrets that build up and result in an interesting topic about hermaphrodites. Most people are turned off when I tell them this book is about a hermaphrodite, but it is so much more than that. I also learned some things about the Greek culture, which is great because I got a different perspective besides what the history textbooks gave us. It felt more human and not just about the usual war heroes, statues, and politics.

Green Tea Incense

Go ahead, say it with your teeth together, "Green Tea Incense." This was discovered by the lovely ladies, Lilly and Brody. Ah, college freshman year memories. I secretly burnt some today while listening to Weezer, that's right, I was in the mood for 90's. Don't judge me! Anyway, besides nag champa, this is one of my top choices of incense. It's settle, so it's not invasive at all to the nose. Burn it up!

M.I.A.

TIME FOR A DANCE PARTY IN THE ROOM!

Creatures I Draw

This is the result of me with two ink pens and when my mind is in another dimension.

Bee Orb Pendant

I made this necklace from recycled materials in my house. Yes, that is a bee, I found it already dead and I put resin on it to preserve it. People frequently stop me to ask about the necklace, and they either are disgusted or amazed by the little buddy in there.

I have such talented friends.

Featuring: Ms. Mary Beth Butler and her amigo, Corey.

The Not Quite 100 % Boiled Egg

Tucson Postcard

I was browsing stuff I have made, and found this picture of a postcard I created from a picture I've taken out in the Tucson desert. Made it for Alyson and Liesl. Cacti can be real dirty.

Yoga Time!

My Fave Yoga Pose: Child's Pose

Try it out! Step by Step Directions from site below
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/475

Bored? Got it.

I use to spray paint stencils onto shirts, but I found this method to be fun too, and definitely more permanent.

Tip: Use hairspray to stick the stencil onto the shirt.
Another reminder: Make sure the spray bottle isn't drippy, it could really fuck up a lot of things for ya. I learned the hard way. (Sorry Mary Beth!)

I made this shirt trying the bleaching method my first time and thought it turned out very well. :-)

--This is the site I learned it from--
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Judah-Method-Bleaching-Experemnet/396961

Homemade Lip Balm for the Smoochers

While drinking jasmine green tea with a spoonful of honey. I had a sudden desire to make some homemade lip balm out of honey. So this is going on my future to do list:

*Put beeswax and olive oil in ziploc bag and melt in boiling water.
2 Teaspoons of beeswax granules
7 Teaspoons of olive oil

*Mix in these other items.
1 Vit E capsule
1 Teaspoon of Honey
6 drops of Essential Oils- I want to use peppermint or vanilla

*Cut corner and pipe into lip balm container

halo

I have been loving Beyonce's voice lately.

Pieter Hugo

Art like this reminds me of what I want to do with my future work. Check out the link and read up on his images and their context.

Untitled (from Permanent Error collection)

Site: http://www.pieterhugo.com/

Farmer's Market

I decided last Sunday to check out the downtown Farmer's Market in SD. It was great, reminded me of a compact version of Bloomington's. I think this might be my every Sunday adventure, especially if I get the small booth to sell my artwork (cross my fingers).

Peace Pizza: vegan, happy, and yummy


I also got this scarf, which I shouldn't have bought. Shut up.


Strange fruit. Not bananas, some citrus fruit.

Sassy

Felty Goodness

Artist: Zoë Williams
Cloe sent this link to me. Creepy and fantastic 3d art.

Title: The Peacock and The Ram

Site: http://x03.org/portfolio.html

graffiti

http://www.zonenkindercollective.de.vu/

KID CUDI

gnarls barkley barls gnarkly

http://www.fromthebasement.tv/artists/gnarls-barkley/performances/crazy

BLU never stops to amaze me with his skills

best bitchy movie ever

Flash Dance Scene

Someday...

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1aCp0J/sciencehax.com/2010/01/beautiful-home-built-frd-materials/

Sarah Joncas

I like the play on negative and positive space here.

Title: Cyclops

Site: http://www.teapartylove.digitalinkz.com/

another band from bloomington that is freakin rad

http://www.myspace.com/tammarband

KNITTA PLEASE! GRAFFITI IN A DIFF MEDIUM

BUS IN MEXICO CITY

WARNING:

THE INTRO TO THE SITE WILL GIVE YOU A SEIZURE
http://www.magdasayeg.com/

Sweet Chairity (pictures taken by Mary Beth)

Rupert Discovers the Meaning to Intergalactic Life
My piece that I made for Sweet Chairity and me.

Tara and I getting shark attacked by Lauren's chair.

COMICS COMICS COMICS

Erin, showed me and Nate this amazing link. It's perfect for comic book nerds like us. My to-read books list has just gotten way lengthier.
http://www.newfangledfunnies.com/

my uncle got mad skills

Feric

Artist: Eric Feng

Title: Starts on a Journey

This is one of the first artwork pieces I saw by Feric, I immediately Googled him. Thanks to I.U.'s art library, where I got to nerd it out on sweet art.

Site: http://www.feric.com/

THE MALCONTENTS: MY FIRST SKA PUNK BAND I FELL IN LOVE WITH

http://www.myspace.com/malcontents

This reminds me of high school with Loubna and Mikey Mike

HIKING IN TUCSON = FUN SPIKEY THINGS

Barnaby Furnas

Working at the Friends of Art Bookshop allowed me to check out some of the sweetest books such as Barnaby Furnas. I remember the first time seeing this book on the new arrival shelf and pouring over the paintings. From then on, I would be browsing this book constantly. I talked about how sweet it was so much that for my going away present, Bennis got it for me! One of the best presents ever.

Bennis' fave pieces were of the rock concerts

Title: Kissers

My faves were the kissing ones

http://www.marianneboeskygallery.com/artists/barnaby-furnas/

Friends' band from good ol' Btown

http://www.myspace.com/selfishwhales

natalya kolosowsky

I really liked her intricate ink drawings, I saw them during the gallery openings this past weekend. Her witch series were pretty freakin excellent.
http://www.lunariusgraphics.com/index.html

Monica Canilao

http://monicacanilao.com/index.html

Dead Can Dance

Rachel introduced me to this amazing band.

Julian Hensarling

I.U. Printmaking MFA.

Julian's huge sculpture for his show at the Sofa Gallery was amazing. Wish I had a picture of it to show ya (Just go to his website and check it out).

Site: http://tourblvd.com/home.html

I THINK KURT VONNEGUT MIGHT BE ONE OF MY FAVE AUTHORS OUT THERE...

MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
"That's the end of good news about anything. Our Planet's immune system is trying to get rid of people. This is sure the way to do that."

"Here's the news: I am going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall Mall cigarettes, for a billion bucks! Starting when I was only twelve years old, I have never chain-smoked anything but unfiltered Pall Malls. And for many years now, right on the package, Brown and Williamson have promised to kill me.
But I am now eighty-two. Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon."

Jeremy Sweet

This is my silk screening G.A.'s website. He's an awesome guy and has mad skills.

http://web.mac.com/dulcedesign/jeremysweet.com/Welcome.html

lead belly

BITCH! I LIVE IN A F*CKING TRASH CAN!

THE ACE OF SPADES!!! THE ACE OF SPADES!

FOR BIKA, STAYING STRONG!

KOYAANISQATSI

In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means 'crazy life, life in turmoil, life out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living.

This movie is part of a trilogy, I'm very interested to see the other two: Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi. Makes you contemplate the natural environment and the technological environment, old and modern ways of life, and relationships between human with nature and technology.

Made this lil buddy for sarah

Amy Casey

Title: keeping it together

site: http://www.amycaseypainting.com/

John Casey

Title: Smile

site: http://www.bunnywax.com/

FUN TEXTURES FOUND IN THE DESERT

Chiharu Shiota

Sweet and creepy photography and installations.
http://www.chiharu-shiota.com/index.html

Dino dolphin love

Two friends, Jessica and Alex, whom I met in Tucson decided to make a stop motion film for the holidays (apparently me showing them some youtube stop-motion clips inspired them, yay to me!). Cute stuff, btw

Mahna mah na!

I was watching the second season of the office and they did this, hilarious, reminds me of freshman year in college

GET 'EM

Breakfast of Champions

Words of Kurt Vonnegut

"Patty Keene was stupid on purpose, which was the case with most women in Midland City. The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they did not use them much for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies, and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too."

"Like everybody else in the cocktail lounge, he was softening his brain with alcohol. This was a substance produced by a tiny creature called yeast. Yeast organisms ate sugar and excreted alcohol. They killed themselves by destroying their own environment with yeast shit."

"Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne."

Patrick Gannon

Title: Create

Checked out this guy's art at the C.A.V.E. GALLERY in LA...papercuts never felt and looked so good.

site: http://www.pgannon.com/

BANDITS

Missy and I at the slightly crooked apartment of Rob and AG

old ass picture back in 2005