i try to blog
everyday



but sometimes
i just can't



why push it.



i shall wait until
i have something
good for you

heat wave

the vandellas and tina
look so cool in their dresses
dancing ever so smoothly.







and i was just introduced
to big mama thornton




they're helping me
me get through
this heat.



ps:


dear katy perry, miley,
rhianna, aguilera, etc



(gaga is an exception)



learn from
these women.



your voices would be
much cooler without all
the props, costumes
and gimmicks.




hyper sexuality is not
exactly sexy.

colors for a large wall, 1951

ellsworth kelly

via moma interactive
exhibition 1998

it's funny.
because this is
where i grew up.

watch out!

i miss
city lights




There are going to be times
when we can't wait for somebody.


Now, you're either
on the bus or off the bus.


If you're on the bus,
and you get left behind,
then you'll find it again.


If you're off the bus in the first place
— then it won't make a damn.




Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid
Acid Test (1968)




ps: the use of the words
anglo & voluptuous



and did you read?
the school girl was cast
as an alley cat in a play
before running away.



i think that's pretty
damn funny &
ironic.

to feel completely at ease
in your own private moment

exit through the gift shop



banksy really
is the real deal.



and i'll be honest.
I didn't want to
believe it.



he radiates a level
authenticity I can't
quite pinpoint.



and says
brilliant things
in a matter-of-fact
kind of way



what stands out,
is that unlike most artists,
banksy really doesn't over-think
his words or talk ironically to assert
some kind of cocky authority
over the graffiti scene.



he seems at
ease with himself
and his work.



do you know
what i mean?

i want to be here.



let's just call this
stormy monday blues.



oh,
and tuesday
is just as bad.

father's day

for my father

who can wear a
chemical suit for
3 months straight
in the desert



who inspires me
to write everyday



to tell the story as it is

the most honest
loyal and creative man
i shall ever know

he ain't no
cake-eater




my father's life is one
big adventure



and i'm so damn lucky
that he has always
brought us along
for the ride.





love you.






the day is yours
patrick doyle

i was feeling kinda blue
until i saw this.

matisse as printmaker
via pentagram

ps: not sure
how i feel about
coppola's new film
"somewhere"


it looks like another
take on lost in translation.
yet something is missing
this time around.



what do you
think of the trailer?

new york herald tribune!




a bout de souffle (1960)
jean luc godard

barbara & michael leisgen

mimesis:

la nature produit des ressemblances

via rolu

i shall always live
in walking distance of
food, entertainment
and culture.

cars congest.



unnecessarily
big cars, like SUV's
can crush lives in
a split second.



cars sustain
companies
like BP



cars spread things out
so that you have no choice
but to use them.





i may have been
the only 16 year old
who had to be dragged
to the DMV to get
a license.



i preferred riding
the city bus



that way i could
watch people,
draw a bit.



i liked being
part of the public.
feeling the pulse
of america.



my grandma
thought i was weird
and would give me bus
tickets for my birthday.
it was awesome.



ph: nicholai howalt




ps:



if you drive to a
farmer's market



it's like taking
one step forward.
2 steps backwards.

loosening up

loosening up

fashion doesn't
have to be so severe





take your shoes off
at the party.




glam it up.




it's about
long dresses




ralph lauren
and the row
for fall



and
resort 11
with chanel
& phillip lim




ps: feel the cool

rene daalder



ph: phyllis galembo




via bdf
of course

the medium is the massage
(1967)



via ace jet

the oil spill in a photo



i can't take it
anymore.



and yet it still continues
to stream with no end in sight



how can we
help the clean-up
from home?



ideas?




ph: charlie riedel/AP

enough said

jasper morrison
john pawson

you must see
the interiors
in interiors
(1978)




can't stop listening
to this & this

jack halloway

anatomy of an object

"sun weathered urchin spines
procured from the dump of a
rural fishing camp in Baja"

jack halloway
always makes beautiful
things out of the most
humble materials.




his home is like
a laboratory





ph: jack halloway
(under construction)
& maura mcevoy





ps: art forms from the ocean:
the radiolarian atlas of 1862
by ernst haeckel

sounds like

sound is a beautiful thing
unique to each individual

images from

joey roth's ICFF
presentation in NY



more



i love how the
volume controller
in the bottom image
looks like a man-made
monument eroded
by years of salt
and sea.




that's right




speakers have
to live a little




new and
shiny gadgets
are old news.

claudia weber

claudia weber

leaving port

pieces of eight
studiolo I






ps:


el cant dels ocells
pau casals

elliott's war

while some of us go
to the beach and relax
on memorial day



others are still
over there.



physically



as well as
emotionally.




back in 2006,
my sister, lauren cerre,
did an incredible story on
a young, optimistic marine
my father met while he
was embedded in iraq
during the invasion.



elliott now fights
an everyday battle
he never anticipated
back home in
montana.




PTSD
post traumatic stress disorder
is a war wound we don't
hear enough about.



1 in 8
troops returning
from the middle east
have PTSD.



"the war within"



elliott is
just 1 story





ps:


i must say,
i shed a few tears
watching this piece again.



it's still so haunting
to see my father's footage
and to hear his voice at times
in the audio track.



it brings back so
many memories.



4 months of
not knowing what
was going to happen.