happy new year!

xoox

found via suicideblonde.
colored pencil drawing from brandi milne, based on the best movie ever 'freaks'. i wish wish wish this was mine.
found via sitcky kitten.
camilla engman painting.

when i was in grad school, one of my teachers said that as writers we are also image collectors. it was an epiphany for me and described my life since i was a child. gearing up for a show means a massive influx of images. careful attention is paid to my dream/nightmare images as well as from books and the massive sea of the internet. i recently discovered tumblr.com and am in love. 

xo.

sci-fi darling.

a necklace! 2 necklaces! circus coins! a gun! a knife!

sci-fi splendor for your neck, ending my little dry spell. in the shop.

the seedy/glam life.

glenn barr is awesome. he was my introduction into the pop surrealist genre and therefore a main influence in my work. he seems to have two distinct styles that he can use cohesively in a show, the first being a more 'cartoony' style and the second being more 'realistic' but with a nostalgic feel. most of his work depicts city life, women, mythology and apocalyptic scenarios, as well as the dynamics between men and women. 

now that xxx mas is over....i've been seriously gearing up for my show over at Topstitch in Feb. an inspirational photo.... i love painting women. sometimes i consider painting men but i can't seem to get there yet. photo found at this lovely LJ community.

untying the strings that cage you in.....

i first stumbled on this lovely and gloomy image by artist tilman faelker over at my love for you is a stampede of horses blog. (which is a really love blog, i dig the writer's style and taste......) but upon further investigation, i found it's currently part of a give- a- way over here. hurry.

p.s. how rad is it that part of his last name has 'fae' in it? ? ?

found.

merry christmas.

xoxo

oh chloe.....

big love seriously creeps me out but i can't help from being dazzled by chloe sevigny.

college!

 our heartthrob president.

resolutions for 2009

found.

i need a job that won't make me miserable or make me give up making things. 

winter nights in supernatural splendor.

found.

reading in bed at the end of cold, bleak days before sleeping.......

and always with sookie stackhouse. i'm very sad to be nearly at the end of the books in current existence & waiting till summer for TB to resume is equally as depressing.

subliminal messages.

found.
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xoxo

a little more from ray caesar.

is it possible that the lovely photo above is a behind the scenes look at a possible photo that is based on the lovely artwork below? if yes, i would die for it. seriously. someone confirm.

 above photo via suicideblonde.

'blessed'.

will you live in the physical world?

Spencer Krug, boy genius. photo via.

" would you say that you wish you were worse than you are?

see you made up a list of your luckiest stars

and you made me familiar to you in the dark

when you said that you wish you were worse than you are"

some supernatural darlings.

the hypnotist's daughter wears a feather in her hair to ward off demons. i like to write secret notes on my paintings that i usually wind up painting over. but they are still there, like cover up tattoos. the last painting i did said "i will get a real job." (haha!) i started this one tonight, so that's why she's barely visible, but she's on illustration board. i'm trying new things out for this show, including posting in progress pictures because i've always been fascinated by this when other artists show what they're up to.
this is part of my vamp hysteria. she is really close to being finished and already belongs to someone. i'll tell you who soon. its really good, i promise. her name is charlotte. when she's done she'll be my first ever blonde. 

p.s click on them for a better view.

sleeping lessons. or the quest for the perfect bed.

miranda july is the best ever. please adopt me into a fiction. photo via.
this lomme egg bed has weird technology, an ipod sound system, temperature control and rad lighting effects. it's even advertised to make you happy! thanks again sweden!
within this bookcase igloo is a bed. it even has a tv inside. and the door closes. in the future, we will live in a loft and when we do, my love has promised to make me this exact same little house for our bed. estella would especially love the flamingo.

fire eaters and other freaks.

'Birthday of L'

Fuco Ueda, like many of my other favorite favorites, is amazingly inventive. She knows all your dreams and nightmares and paints them accordingly. I'm doomed to kick myself for all eternity for not buying the above beauty when it was available. I can't even imagine how much magic radiates off of it. This painting, along with several others, are responses to the Japanese writer Yumiko Kurahashi's fictions, which are surreal, cannibalistic, existential, delights. She uses initials as names which may or may not be adopted by Kafka, but Ueda mirrors this labeling in her own titles. Although you can't find much of her work translated in English, what you can get your hands on is worth delving in to. 

p.s

A nice selection of quality prints of can be found over at Nucleus gallery.

crystals and other otherworldly delights

my little bang bang baby made the front page. first time ever. 

good luck saving her.....

Marla Singer in all her glory. via.
Stella Im Hultberg's 'The Big Tourist'....I have this print but have yet to get it framed.......
This reminds me of her.....her apartment and bedding, but who knows if she was truly the inspiration for this beauty by Ray Caesar. 

i left a slice of my heart with the frenchys

when i'm a little sad, i often think of paris. 

furiously furious fury

I have always been a furious reader. I could gulp books down like a box of red fries since I was in the 3rd grade. I become so enthralled in the strange worlds writers cast around me when I'm reading that I often myself reluctant to join the "real" world again. I was talking to my love last night about the different categories I find my reading fall under: candy reading: books I read purely for entertainment value, similar I guess to how some people watch tv. inspiration reading: books that I find inspire my writing or are similar to the writing I already do, and lastly informative reading: books that I take in more like texts and are mainly comprised of non-fiction. Does anyone compartamentalize their reading habits? ? ?

Here's some winter reads I've been juggling lately:

Kelly Link is one of my favorite writers, I even wrote my analytical thesis about her for my MFA. Her new book is aimed towards 'young adults' but who follows those rules? The cover features a lovely monster/conjoined twins shillouette and has so far been an interesting read of speculative fiction, which is the genere I gear my own fiction towards. Her worlds are so interesting that I found myself both stunned and incredibly jealous at her inventivness, for example: ghosts and living people marry and even have children, zombies have plans and the baysitter's dead and dangerous.

Stacey Levine is creepy as hell and I love her for it. I first ran aross her work in the rad journal 'Tin House.' The above book doesn't come out until March and I feel like an overzealous fan waiting on line in a sleeping bag for the release....if such things happened for book releases......

This book by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum is a real treat that I found out about via the amazing artist over at Art & Ghosts. The cover photo is by Lewis Carroll and is weird and beautiful and heartbreaking. I've been taking this book in small doses as its written in short titled vingettes which is also a way I love to write. This book includes a sleeping girl who may or may not be sleeping her life away, who becomes a freak, joins a circus troupe and falls in love with someone with a Dali moustache.........

telepathic barmaids.......

i've been really obsessed with the sookie stackhouse books.

shhhhhhhhhhhhh

the voyeur in me loves this website.

please find me before i'm lost forever.

I recently stumbled upon the enchanting and puzzling work of Chris Berens via Hi-Fructose magazine. The fascination his work envelopes around his viewers is much like the feeling one gets when they have found something strange and beautiful that they can't quite fit their mind around....yet. Besides his work looking just amazing, existing so wonderfully in their own dystopias, his technique is quite puzzling. Apparently he paints on thin plastic that he blow drys and then cuts up and reassembles to his liking, so his work is part traditional painting and part collage, kinda like a surrealist text or a Burroughs experiment. His show, 'Go West' just opened at Roq La Rue in WA on the 12th and is already nearly sold out. Bravo!

xoxo

magic pencils.

Miss Van has new work over at FIFTY24SF gallery. I'm really into her circus theme, and the title 'still a little magic' speaks to me, and she just got it tattooed on her arm! Also, these two new works feature colored pencil on wood, which is endlessly interesting to me. I love working this way and hope to start again soon.