magnapinna

he has elbows

rick

rick owens' one eyed buck-toothed fur monster
she holds your keys and your cash, she's made of mink, and i think she would be the best evening bag ever.
i would feel like i was a kid crashing mom's dinner party in my nighty and teddy bear.
only weirder.
and in a better dress.

a sneak preview

of my new project

marcel

four works: (i) oh i'll be faithful in spite of my hate.; (ii) untitled; (iii) our hero; (iv) untitled

untitled

marcel dzama
artificial best friends

my new and wonderful things

so, as i said, i went to the 25th street flea market
and it was awesome
and here are the great little goodies that i picked up

this lamp will soon be transformed...

this little stool will not be transformed, because i like it exactly as it is

i love this

this one says "thou shalt not commit adultery"

a little antique victorian button with a tiny raven
i think i might make this in to something for my hair

some more wonderful victorian buttons

little golden duck buttons

these are these weird ermine tassles!
i don't know what i'll do with them but i love them.

a lovely little spoon

an ugly necklace with some nice beads and a pretty charm

matching cameo necklaces
these charms will be great in my project

i think i might go back to the 25th st market this weekend,
potentially with a. king?
she's really excited about all the furs for sale.

wow!
strange new species found on great barrier reef
there are more than these three...

red

while i was on national geographic, i found this
enneapterygius pusillus, enneapterygius pusillus, and calcareous alga in the genus amphiroais all glow red.
incredible!

jason

so the balloon monsters/creatures i saw outside the opening of mad
were by jason hackenwerth.
my boo hates them/is totally grossed out by them
which i understand i guess, but i think they're pretty great.
they looked especially great in the rain outside mad/columbus circle with people hiding in them, making their "wings" flutter.
too bad my camera is pretty much useless - i'll put up the pictures i took on my phone soon.
jason is a scad graduate.
oh man, i want to go to savannah!

top three from
summersong / steeplechase
seoul 2006

honeysuckle labrynth
nyc 2006

revenge of the megadon
new haven, 2006

mad

i went to the museum of arts and design yesterday, so excited, like it was christmas!
and then when i got there not only was it raining, but there was a line around the corner.
rats.
there were, however, some pretty spectacular balloon people/monsters outside, which i'll address later today.
so i'll be going back next saturday morning at 11:00 am, opening time.
the last thing i want is to go there when it's totally packed full of people and i can't see anything,
as was my experience at design and the elastic mind.
such a bummer.
but anyway, i'm more than excited
i've always liked the design room (and the lithographs and prints room) at the moma the best,
so i feel like this museum was sort of made for me.
plus i also love the folk art museum, which makes m.a.d even more perfect - i get a strong folk feeling (hello, arts & crafts heaven).
i'm really glad, though not surprised, that tara donovan is included in the second lives exhibition, but i'm especially excited to see stuart haygarth's chandelier in person and also susie macmurray's latex glove dress (above and below), and also el anatsui's work (i love, love, love his piece in the met's masterpieces of modern design) and the campana brothers' creation (here too).
and if the photographs from the nytimes' visit to second lives are any indication of how great it will be, then it's probably going to be a pretty wonderful saturday.

susie macmurray - a mixture of frailties

tara donovan - bluffs

freddie robins - craft kills
from radical lace and subversive knitting

a cloud

i made this little cloud for annette to take to niger
i used mary's silk ribbon to embroider the mouth
i threaded gold sequins through it and it looked really nice
i also used mary's silk thread to sew the guy together
i wanted annette to have something sparkly and a little glamorous out there in the desert

alfred kubin

die promenade (the promenade)
alfred kubin at the neue gallery

monsters quilt

i'm back at work at the monster's quilt
and i'm making a crab.

dumbo

yesterday was the greatest afternoon.

we went to dumbo to the baxter & liebchen showroom - which is awesome - to see the settee.
it was just as great as i expected!
hans olsen is my favorite
and it was so funny because it's tiny and when my boo was sitting in it he said he felt like shaq.

then we walked to the park along the water, and truly, dumbo is perfect.

i would love to live there, even though it's all families and older people, it's so quiet and clean, and the park is wonderful, and the views are wonderful, and it's just so great.
but anyway, it was a perfect day, and then it was even more perfect because all along the water were these crazy artworks and the best of all was michael mutt's creature.
it looked like some wonderful broken toy monster had come out of the water and was sunning himself.
monsters!

so then we decided to visit the waterfalls again.

i'm really not too crazy about them, but from the dumbo side, it looked really neat.

what a gorgeous day.

smile forever

artist, skater, and austinite (yay!) michael sieben makes really great things, and now has a collaboration with adidas that comes with a super super great video.
he loves monsters as much (or more) than i do.

monsters quilt

he's finished