Sunday, May 30, 2010

waterfalls

pretty pictures

by tracy nakayama

back on track



suzanne bocanegra




jan brueghel the elder (all the petals)
suzanne painted each of the petals in jan brueghel the elder's flowers in a ceramic vase, 1620, individually.
i just love this piece.

funny

by http://www.slavsandtatars.com/


http://www.lifewinning.com/

just in case


"Finding a new love, or getting rid of an old one, is simple when you use magic."

Friday, May 28, 2010

Thursday, May 27, 2010

looms


guess who starts woven design class next week?!
is she weaving giant bunnies? eek

giant bunnies



ideas


i'd like to do something like this, but maybe with strips of colored construction paper, receding into the background...

dead flower drawings



by justin francavilla.

fischli/weiss

sleeping in 2006


flower girl


check out those shorts! she looks like a tulip. by rachel comey

lygia clark (1920-1988)

a new discovery - lygia clark was a brazilian artist who worked with healing rituals, nests, multi-sensory and multi-sensual participatory art. more here: http://www.afterall.org/journal/issue.15/lygia.clarks.structuring.self

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

sister corita


so cool.

ha


this kind of made me laugh this morning

feeling lovey lately


temper tantrum #1 (detail) by http://mayjuliettebarruel.com/

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

john baldessari

i went to see him speak awhile ago. he is a surprisingly tall, hulking, old and irreverent man. his whole thing was pretty much about how dealing with the art world is largely based on how much you can get away with.

Monday, May 24, 2010

life...

"life is too short for test strips, holding grudges, ignoring instincts"
-laura johnson, september 2004

things i like to take photos of:

hair
beds
windows
ceiling fans
chandeliers
body parts
hands
fabrics
cactus
grass
fuzzy things
babes
underwear
light
colors

cooool

quartz crystal and chart I by anna kristensen
http://www.uplandsgallery.com/artists/anna-kristensen

vuk vidor


(whoops, mixed up my graphics...sorry!)

john cage


art school flashback. i like the first one.

hey little guy

foxy!


“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
http://www.laurennassef.com/

inside



unfortunately don't know where i found that brilliant plant tv, the first image is by melanie schiff, from http://kavigupta.com

Friday, May 21, 2010

fashion break

does this remind you guys of becca?



colors


top - brion nuda rosch, bottom - sonia delauney. haha

well?


eskimos

planets







(first image by vija celmins, second image by christopher ryan - http://www.atmostheory.com/)


lists



Eero Saarinen List of Aline Bernstein’s Good Qualities, Ca. 1954

Harry Bertoia “May-Self Rating Chart” School Assignment, 1932

That first one might be the most romantic love letter I've seen.