August 18, 2008
Manga? Faced!
Like everyone else apparently, I faced my manga over at Face Your Manga.com and here's what I came up with for an avatar:
Not bad, and it basically gets my XXL "husky section" head size just right, but it's still not nearly as good as my Wii one, where I'm wearing a black shirt and red pants and have my face basically covered by giant black sunglasses. Kind of like I do every day. (To clarify, that's every day I get dressed in something other than a muumuu.) My mom's Wii icon, though? Has to be seen to be believed. DEAD RINGER (and I don't just say that because she had an appointment with one of those freaky gyno twins that she didn't go to because he UP AND KILLED HIMSELF. True story.).
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August 14, 2008
Defense
I've been instructed to buy the above for my rock-ribbed-Repub brother (size L) when they come out next week at The Fabric Lab. Although I'm more of a Rock-and-Republic-ribbed-henley, I would sport one two too if it meant we were to be defended against numbers one and two. But I guess the City Council's already got that under control.
Via Westword
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August 04, 2008
Summed
I've had this on my desktop for a while, waiting until the time was right to post it. Ta Da! The time is right! The day I'm not feeling it is today!
Art by Elbow-Toe via my love for you is a stampede of horses
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July 18, 2008
Oh Man, Absolutely Stunning
I saw a post today on Gesine Hackenberg and her repurposed ceramics and had to share the beauty:
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July 17, 2008
Where I Wish I Was
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July 16, 2008
Winters in Colorado
Kind of sums it up. Misanthrope I am, I did, in fact, talk with one of Bode Miller's coaches on the chairlift last year. I think he was, perhaps, taking the lift to a different trail than I. Regardless, he told me false information about moguls. Fucker.
Via the always wondrous Some E-cards
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July 15, 2008
Now That's What I Call Good Viral
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July 02, 2008
Sad Truth
c/o Natalie Dee, the same artist who brought you (and me) the beloved hot dog eating hot dog painting seen in locales from Manhattan to Denver:
Yeah. That's all I got.
TGIASHORTWEEK.
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July 01, 2008
Phew...Dodged it Again
The second installation of Pecha Kucha is scheduled for Monday, July 14th at the Buntport. I'll be flying back from Massachusetts that night, so am sad to say I'll miss it. Less sad to say I won't be presenting again, but...alas...this fear of public speaking thing I've had since delivering a speech at my high school graduation seems to be here to stay. I can handle about a five-person crowd but anything over that and I stop breathing, which I've read can be harmful.
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June 30, 2008
SEW AMAZING
(If only this said Mariah Carey...)
Via my love for you is a stampede of horses.
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Bathing Beauties
I told you I'd keep you up to date about the "CABIN BATHROOM RENOVATION" of 2008, and a girl of my word I am. (Also, a girl of my girdle but that's another post entirely.) Ahhhhhh...well, lessee. Looking back to...um...last Wednesday, I remember that I started the process as every good process should start - with an online shopping escapade. First step, hardest step: shower curtain. And while it may have been a bit tough to find a cost-effective one that didn't have flounces or see-through crossword puzzles or cartoon characters, it's still a lot easier to start with this piece and work from there than, say, starting with paint colors and having to play Harriet the Spy to get coordinating bath linens. Let the curtain be your guide!
So, after a few moments of looking through the dreadful/boring options, I decided I wanted a kid-friendly, cabin-appropriate, nature-appreciative theme. Yeah, it was between that and a rococo, Louis XIV, bejeweled bidet handle kind of vibe. Potato, potahto.
Behold what alighted:
Marimekko Kaiku Shower Curtain from Finn Style. (A look previously drooled over here.)
The next step was way easy, finding a small bath mat that matched the curtain:
Pottery Barn Classic Bath Rug in Clover Green. (That's the one on the far bottom right. I've got quite the eye for color, no?)
And then, it was on to the walls. I think we'll probably go for white or cream and let the curtain be the star, but I still wanted to add something on them to bring some pattern to that side of the room. And wallpapering is not - nor ever will be - my renovation forte. Even after my mom recommended I just drink Mai Tais during the application, which apparently is how she and my Nana redid vast portions of our house. Mai Tais? Check. Wallpaper paste and pattern aligning frustration? Pass.
So, I settled on some sweet little bird wall graphics:
Fly Away Wall Graphic in Ash from Etsy seller ellynelly (Note: the "Ash" is a dark gray. Again, color + me = fistpound.)
These also work to alleviate my bird-guilt over housing, feeding and caring for a multi-fanged killer. Win-win.
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June 16, 2008
She Was FRAMED
I found two great, low-budge framing options online today.
Bulldog clips, thumbtacks, eye hooks and salvaged wood via Apartment Therapy Chicago
Old wooden hangers (my Mom has about 150 of these if you're interested) via Poppytalk and O at Home. I think these would look frametastic with a selection of August Sander prints.
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June 14, 2008
The Royal Couple
I forget where I first saw this, but it's mine now. $20 from Etsy seller almost famous. I also like the Harold and Maude one, but admittedly a little less so ever since finding out a guy I know uses that movie to get the ladeez laid. The whole octogenarian sexual romance thing seems somehow...a bit sullied now. Call me crazy.
Paypal, you're gonna bring me to financial ruin.
Etsy, you're not helping things.
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June 09, 2008
Les Papillons
Allposters.com is having a 25-percent off sale (coupon code 25OFFJU), which makes me want to e-mail the person who complimented my Andy Warhol (but not Andy Warhol-ish) butterfly poster recently, but I can't remember who that person was. Molly? Angela? Marie? This is where I got it. The fine frame it's in was conceived of and executed by, of course, Target. I'm immersed in class over here, people. Immersed in class.
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May 29, 2008
Monopolize
Abby from Style Me Pretty is guest blogging at Design*Sponge this week. I think some of the stuff she's featuring is absolutely fabs, but my favorite is that Monopoly card painting above. It reminds me of my three rules of Monopoly mastery:
1. Buy, buy, buy (except when it comes to Park Place and Boardwalk).
2. Whoever has the railroads will most likely win the game.
3. I forget this one.
If I had any kind of artistic skills or spatial understanding, I would very much like to create my own Ventnor Avenue.
"In the first few blocks, still within Atlantic City, Ventnor Avenue now is home to tattoo parlors, divorce centers and bodegas."
Divorce centers? What sort of place IS this "New Jersey"?
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May 27, 2008
Magneto
I strapped on my crafty sandals this weekend and spent many hours cutting and gluing to make - ta da! - the 3/4-inch magnets seen above. Following the instructions and advice on Not Martha, I armed myself with magnetic buttons from Dick Blick, acrylic cabochons from Tap Plastics, silicon glue from Home Depot, an oversized (1-inch) hole-punch from Target, and a marathon of Jon and Kate Plus 8 on TLC.
I used old wallpaper samples and various patterns I punched out of magazines and print production catalogs. The glue didn't seep through any of 'em. Good glue. (Whinny.)
Matt has concluded that for my next go-round, I should buy one-inch magnets and use a mold and double-pour epoxy to make the top. I'm down, but was distressed to discover that one-inch magnets were surprisingly difficult to find online. I finally got lucky - and undistressed - at CMS Magnetics. Keep in mind, however, that if you want the one-inchers (to match the hole-punch you got at Target, DERR) you can affix the smaller, cheaper magnets to the bottom of bigger cabochons - they don't have to match up...unless, of course, you're getting all double-pour about it. In which case they clearly do, and which I clearly am.
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May 09, 2008
Megalegga Hi, Mega Hi Dee Ho
I don't know what that title means, but it popped into my head the moment I saw this UNBELIEVABLY GORGE wallpaper on Design*Sponge.
What a fresh, cool take on damask (which even I am tired of seeing). It's going to be shown at ICFF but assume will be available here at some point. Perhaps the point at which I decide to wallpaper my bedroom. Such coincidences have been known to happen.
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April 15, 2008
You Rang?
Guapa ring by Jimena Rios, $20 at Poppytalk
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April 11, 2008
Equine Design
An unexpected and delightful surprise arrived yesterday. A lovely, Swedish-designed horse head straight from Chicago care of the lovely, Swedish-designed Ms. Jessica B. As you can tell from the portraiture above, it has found new purchase in my study, from which it will only be moved for the biweekly horse-head-in-the-bed game I have started playing with Matt (see below):
Thank you for adding spark and joy to our intimate shenanigans, Jessica! Don't you like Matt's new haircolor? He's aging very well.
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April 09, 2008
Yikes
It would be tough, professionally, to share a name with this woman.
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April 07, 2008
Doing It, Doing It, Doing It Well
Crafty McUnskilled over here spent the weekend getting shit done. Of course, not the stuff I super-need to do (er...finalize colors for my web site, finish writing it, sign and mail my taxes, buy food not of the carbohydrate family and etc.), but stuff all the same. Minus the slight mishap of trying to turn an ornate, circular frame of mine into a bulletin board (after about 1/2 hour of hacking at the board with a box cutter to make it fit, I BROKE the frame during the gorilla glue finale. All went into the trash. Le sigh.), I count the two days as being both economical and productive.
Evidence A: I managed to cut padding and fabric for all four of my outdoor chairs - and successfully cover two of them - before jamming Matt's staple gun.
Before
After
Evidence B: After giving up the hope of being able to use "green" chemical stripper on a dresser I'm refinishing, I went to Ace and requested "the most toxic goo you've got." Came home with Extra Strength stripper - stuff that ATE through my gloves repeatedly (I would know to stop and run inside to wash my hands as soon as the unbearable BURNING began) - and stripped the shit out of two sides of this dresser. It's got about 8 layers of paint on it, no joke, so each side took THREE applications. After my lungs started whistling, I packed it in for the day...but big progress out in the garage!
Drawers
Half-nude
Now if I could just truly internalize the need to wear "scrap" clothing when working in the muck, my life would be nearing completion. Till then, I'm just going to have to be the only lady at Cherry Creek Athletic Club with lime green paint and chemical burns on my yoga pants. It's a good thing.
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March 24, 2008
Getting My Goat
If I can't have a real goat, I guess I'll have to settle for this 8x10 lovely from Etsy seller Berkley Illustration. $15 plus $2.50 shipping and handling. Good stuff.
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March 19, 2008
Pecha Kucha Denver
And no, thank God, I'm not presenting. More info at Jaime's site here and Angela's site here. Picture of Luke Perry here and Billy Squier here.
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March 13, 2008
Eye Level Plightful (Say it Aloud)
The delightful Miss Angela Schwab's spectacular Benta plates have finally made their debut on Umbra's web site! For a mere $42 American, you too can own a piece of the Schwab design legacy. Read her take on them over at her web site, and order yourself up a set here. Do it.
Yay Yay Yay Ang! You're, like, the only one of my friends who has ever accomplished anything of import.
No offense!
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February 22, 2008
A Pictogram of Angela's Week
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February 12, 2008
WE Go Bridal
Though not girly at heart, I have this unearthly obsession with all things wedding-based-reality. Thus, the programming line-up on WE (Bridezillas, Rich Bride, Poor Bride, et al) has entranced me on many a slow Sunday. Last night, howevs, I caught their latest entry - Master Cake Makers (or something - too rushed to look it up) and holy moly, check out this guy 's creations over at Mike's Amazing Cakes. Seriously, click on that link, turn down your volume, and prepare to be Amazed by Mike's Cakes.
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February 10, 2008
Now This is What I Call Birthday Cake
Cheryl Tiegs cum carrot cake.
1983 texted.
It wants its color scheme back.
SNAP!
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February 06, 2008
Sugary Goodness
The inestimable Angela just posted gorge-o pictures of her sugar packet/cubes collection on Flickr and her web site. I want to frame prints and hang them in my soon-to-be-painted kitchen as a reminder that life is sweet, even when you wake up with the "mangries" - morning angries - as I did today. Erk.
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February 05, 2008
Photographic Evidence
Jack Radcliffe took an intimate series of portraits of his daughter, Alison, as she grew up. Very moving, and a cool idea for any parents in the crowd. Also check out Diego Goldberg's family documentation, The Arrow of Time.
(via Photojojo)
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January 31, 2008
She's (Not At All) Crafty: Valentine's Edition
I think this would be easy to make, even for an uncoordinated clod like myself. Idea and picture ganked from Delight.com, where they're charging something like 20 bones for this cute little piece of nothing.
See you at the Depot.
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You Are Beautiful...and I am Too!
Have you guys seen this "You Are Beautiful" art project? Seems they're trying to spread the message that yes, we are all beautiful. Even without tattooed eyeliner and ass implants. Awww! (Tend to disagree but) Awww!
Best part is, you can order or download free stickers HERE to plaster your neighbor's car, wallpaper a small room or glue to your face. Which would be beautiful indeed.
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January 24, 2008
Donald Judd or Cheap Furniture?
Little quiz to test your knowledge on particle board crap versus great art crap. (I got a 92! A- all the way!) Similarities are striking. No offense there, Judd. Or the Ghost of Don Judd, as the case apparently is.
In other, related, news: Marfa, Marfa, Marfa!
(Link via How About Orange). Must say I'm surprised that neither the author of that blog nor some of her commenteers have heard of the Judd. Then again, I've never heard of Tumbir Tumblr. So judge not, lest ye be Lesty Molesty.
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January 18, 2008
spaceball.gif
I am riveted by this riveter.
The Library of Congress has added sumthin'-like 3,000 copyright-free, public domain images to its Flickr account. No word yet if the Library of Congress is trying to use Flickr as a dating site (verboten!) or if they too, like the guy who favorited my SUPER SHITTY Rush camera phone shots this morning, will soon favorite my SUPER SHITTY Rush camera phone shots.
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January 14, 2008
Not So Welcome in This Dollhouse (aka: What Would Ibsen Do?)
I'm totally ganking this content from BB Blog (which is in the top five on my daily read list...right behind Hot or Not), but as a devoted fan of The Wire, dollhouses and crack (not necessarily in that order), I absolutely had to share. Apparently, dollhouse maker extraordinare Grace Shaw has made a series of dioramas depicting a Baltimore Row House.
It's hard to narrow down a favorite, so here's three:
Stoned naked guy in tub
"If you look closely, there are the tiny crack bottles they sell on the street, a line of coke ready to snort, money and syringes on the table." (Just like my house! - ed.)
Crackhouse Exterior (note gigunds cheeba cheeba!)
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December 20, 2007
Tho Exthited!
The marvelous Angela gave me a **RED** Loyal Loot log bowl last night, and I just can't stop staring at it and touching it and envying the beauty of its existence. Oooowweeee, this just may be the best thing I've ever seen! THANK YOU DURLIN'!
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December 16, 2007
Almost Famous
A quick cellphone shot I like to call "Bloody Mary with Beer Back at the Cherry Cricket" (above) was chosen for inclusion in some sort of city guide called Schmap. Click here to become erotically stimulated by my art/alcoholism.
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December 07, 2007
She's Crafty; She Gets Around
Martha done bats it out of the park again. Resigned sigh. Learn how to make your own over here and start scouting your house for random goodies that'll thparkle and thine under the glistening glamour of gliding glitter. I can't wait to give my Dad an old pencap snowglobe for Christmas. Mom? You're getting the dryer lint. Matt? Dog turd. OMG I love you!!!!!
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December 06, 2007
Wants for Sale
Czech out this fun site: Wants for Sale, a collection of paintings of items and experiences that cost the price of the items and experiences themselves. Par ejemps:
Dinner at Nobu ($152)
A Night We Won't Remember ($100)
Charles Saatchi to Buy This Painting (£1)
Unfortch, they're all sold out for the time being. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't take a look and spitefully think to yourself, "Blast! I coulda thoughta thata..." After all, spite's always in stock. And, generally speaking, very gentle on the old pocketbook.
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November 28, 2007
Drooltasm
Designer Emulation Kits are tributes to some of the all-time great industrial designers. Use this kit to make your own instant design classic. Assemble and attach to 9-volt battery and enjoy!
Battery not included, duh.
Available in a few different designs at Cooper Hewitt for only $25! This is so smart it makes my brain itch.
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A Star is [Purchased Via Paypal]
The fact I just bought the above shot of the charmingly misspelled and adoringly half-clad Barbra and Kris (along with a festive 1 1/4" silver frame) to adorn my bathroom has added a bit of sparkle and gleam to the turd that is this week.
Make it yours over at Allposters.com.
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November 12, 2007
Pop Goes the Breesal
Porcelain soda cans from Chinese artist Lei Xue (via NOTCOT.org)
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November 05, 2007
Bringing Deeeesign Back
Straight outta Tokyo, crazy mofyo named Angela wants to start up a Denver chapter of Pecha Kechu. What is Pecha Kucha? Funny you should ax. According to the Angenator, and I'm quoting directly: "[Pecha Kucha is an event wherein] they let people present [on design topics], and the person shows 20 slides for 20 seconds each, and [the presenter] talks over the photos, and then the next presenter goes, rapid fire, and everyone hangs out and drinks beer. [It's awesome, just like you, Bree. God, you're so pretty and cool. I think that the entire world should spend each day in gratitude that you walk among us. Also, your ass is fantastic.]"
Anyways. That's all the news from Tokyo this morning. I have to stop all this blogging madness, put on a bra and go to a second round of interviews for a job I already turned down. Once you're done riddling me how I got myself into this odd little situation, I would appreciate a short synopsis. Powerpoint is fine. THXXXXX!!!!!
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October 23, 2007
Sony Bravia Pyramid Advert
Better 'en bunnies, not as good as balls.
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October 22, 2007
Guest Columnist: Mike L. Previews Hong Kong's Bathing Ape Store
$350 shoes, $100 t-shirts... this shit is urban pimp for the limo set. The store is also mad cool. As you walk up the neon enhanced staircase into the showroom floor, there is a see-through plexi-glass floor, revealing a revolving track display of their latest kicks. Their newest gear is packaged in toy store packaging... think GI Joe figurine packs but larger. Awesome!
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D-Sign D-Rinks
From Jaime over at designklub:
Whether you are in the field of industrial, product, graphic or any other type of design come on down for an informal gathering of Denver design enthusiasts. We'll share exploits from the recent AIGA conference, steal each other's Halloween costume ideas and generally have a good time.
Join us on Monday, October 29th from 6-8 PM at the Skylark Lounge, located at 140 S. Broadway. Happy Hour goes until 7 and it's a big enough place that we'll be able to hear each other talk.
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October 08, 2007
F-f-f-foolin' With my Photograph (All I Got is a)
Fun! Take any image you've got lying around your desktop (like this one of Britney's delightful quad boob, par ejemps) and "Hockneyize" it into several different Polaroids over at the delightful Hockneyizer.
(via How About Orange...)
Monday morning bonus:
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October 07, 2007
Verbatim: Best. CSR. Letter. Ever.
Text of letter received (along with wallpaper swatches) from Tapenten der 70er:
Dear Ms Nee*y,in principle the view of our sample wallpapers does not mean a risk to health. For reasons of caution you should neveretheless use the wallpapers masured. After all, to switch from simple ingrain wallpapers to the patterns from the 70s is comparable with changing from VW Golf to Ford Mustang. Maybe you will lose ground by watching our overwhelming wallpapers.
Now all jokes aside!
Enclosed you will receive your order of wallpaper samples. As a result of the oversized patterns regrettably only a small cutout can be shown. The out of ordinary surfaces and the partly infatuation beautiful colors will make you crazy about our wallpapers. That's for sure!We look forward to hearing from you soon and remain with best regards,
[Signature block]
Doesn't this just make your heart go pitter-pat-THADUMP? It's GENIUS on many, many levels. Including, but not limited to, the German/American car analogy. And the use of the phrase "partly infatuating." My GOD, I need a bratwurst. And a dirndl.
So support copywriting of the flagrantly bizarre ilk and send any 1970's wallpaper business that's-a percolatin' in your cozy little nest their way. Who knows? A letter that seems to have been authored by a monkey on too many - or perhaps not enough - Psilocybin mushrooms might too end up in your mailbin. One can always dream.
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October 06, 2007
Choose Your Own Arcade Fire Video
Click around in here.
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October 05, 2007
Lovely New Sony Bravia Ad
(Stones?! Oh no you DINT.)
More here.
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October 03, 2007
Denver Art Update c/o Mr. Fox
ARTISANS AND KINGS: SELECTED TREASURES FROM THE LOUVRE
Denver Art Museum
Oct. 6, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008
125 objects from the Louvre, including Gobelin’s 1775 tapestry The Loves of the Gods, Vertume and Pomone, a selection of Sèvres porcelain, and paintings and drawings by Rubens, Titian, Velazquez and Dürer
VIC MUNIZ IN DENVER (from artnet.com)
Artist and Zingmagazine publisher Devon Dikeou doesn’t only hang out at sports events when she visits her hometown of Denver, Colo. - she also organizes exhibitions. Her latest effort in that regard, "Muniz: Remastered," Oct. 4, 2007-Jan. 20, 2008, opens at the Museo de las Américas, Denver’s museum of contemporary Latin American art headed by Patty Ortiz. The show feature’s Muniz’s interpretations of famous works by Corot, Dürer, Rembrandt and other masters in a range of unlikely materials - chocolate, sequins, junk, peanut butter and jelly.
(Acc. to Mr. F., Vik Muniz is "awesome." And according to everyone around here, Ms. Dikeou is our city's most prominent pioneer of art-n-kulture. In a word? Sold.)
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Open Studio at INV/ALT
open studio at INV/ALT design this Saturday afternoon, October 6, noon-4 pm.
3100 blake street, denver colorado (enter on 31st)
MAGNETIC ceramics, upholstery, furniture
+ wii tournament
+ flipbook workshop
+ food and drink
more information at blog.invaltdesign.com
* feeling ambitious? download this picture, print it out, cut on dotted lines, and make your own flipbook!
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September 18, 2007
The Underminer Covers the Mass MOCA ¡SHITSHOW OF THE CENTURY!
Classic stuff c/o Mike Albo:
Hm? Oh I'm here with my close close close friends Matthew Marks and Perry Rubenstein and Leo Castelli. We are just having a strategy sesh about my work and also celebrating our close close close friend Roberta's masterful piece in the Times about the whole Mass MOCA scandal, which I am not sure you read because I know you don't really follow-- You did? Oh, no sure sure sure. Sorry I didn't mean to make it sound like you were clueless or anything! Ha!
I mean, can you BELIEVE Mass MOCA!? How DARE they cut the funding of my most brilliant colleague, Christophe Buchel, when he went over his 160,000 dollar budget, two times over, and delayed the opening of his work by months with his strange requirements? So what if he demanded near impossible things like a fuselage of a 737, a two-story Cape Cod cottage, a leaflet-bomb carousel, an old bar from a tavern, and a vintage movie theater? He is an artist, and has no choice but to follow his vision. How do they expect an artist to CREATE in that kind of environment!? We really live in an oppressive time. It's like Entartete Kunst all over again. Deplorable.
People like Buchel and I are ARTISTS! And we ARTISTS are allowed to do whatever we want because we make ART! Watch.
Hello? Sir? Yes, you there. What do you do? Oh, you're a high school teacher. Commendable. Well, I'm an ARTIST. Now get on your knees and drink my saliva.
See? I make ART.
Who can deny the power of Buchel's dirty, trash-laden historical dioramas? I look at the way he dumps crumbled cinderblock and dry wall into a pile and I just WEEP at the authenticity. And that authenticity takes money and time and creative freedom!
If they wanted something cheap, they should have just gone down to New Orleans and scrounged some poor folk artist's oil paintings out of the trash. Or simply exhibited pictures of The Ninth Ward or Baghdad or the Minneapolis Bridge disaster, which, I have to say, are sort of GOOD as art pieces, but don't quite capture the pain and anguish of the human soul as well as a Buchel diorama.
More here. Buy his book (illustrated by the one and only Carl J. F. - man behind the splash page and logo of THIS VERY WEB SITE) here. Brushed once again by the loosest possible connection to notoriety, I am.
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September 17, 2007
Getting Twiggy Wit' It
"If you’re going to be in Denver in mid October, you’ll want to take a stroll down California Street — it’s the site of this year’s Urban Forest Project, in which 24 local professional designers and 24 local design students will create banners that will hang up and down the street for two weeks. Each banner references trees (or tree-ness) in some way, and the results are sure to be eclectic."
Whole article, including unnecessary and untrue slag on D-town c/o those ass-munchin' Boulderites, can be found here.
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August 29, 2007
Must. Be. Stopped.
I have so much stuff hanging on my walls, it's absurdity. But alas, that's how I roll. So when I saw this tonight on Happy Mundane, I jammed over to the artist's web site, logged into Paypal and made her me own. Easy peasy; wordy birdy.
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August 24, 2007
New Schtuff at INV/ALT
Angela just added a bunch of kickass plates to her Etsy shop. Go and support. Boys -> NBenz: Can't speak for the Commies, but pretty much any girl without dreams of a socialized society would love one of these.
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Mile High Mod
Attn: Stalkers! Looking for me tonight? I'll be hitting the Denver Modernism show to fondle some bakelite and show me some mad love and support for the P's, who are offering floor models at 30 -50% off. Details is (and I post this verbatim even with its brazenly improper capitalization - I'm daring like that) as follows:
Preview Gala & Sale
FRIDAY 7 - 10pm
Admission $10
- Live 60s Instrumental Surf Guitar Music
- Super Special Guests (Oh, yes - the rumors are flying!)
- Tiki Bar, wine station and Hors D'oeuvres
- Retro Slide Show with L.A.'s Charles Phoenix
- Complimentary valet parking
- and more surprises!
More details about the weekend's events here. If you're looking for me, I'll be the asurcial one saddled up to the tiki bar drunkenly mumbling about an Eames brother sandwich.
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August 22, 2007
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August 17, 2007
HRH Fotografia
Grandma’s Shoes by Anna M. White
Bored this Friday? Bust out the biscuits and tea and have a sitdown with some some stellar amateur photography out of Enguland --> How We Are: Photographing Britain.
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August 14, 2007
I Love This, I Want This, I Absolutely Must Have This
Especially if it means returning to the halcyon days of 2006.
Curtsy: Some sort of mysterious foreign web site
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August 12, 2007
Picture of the Day
This is from NYPD Officer Russel Timoshenko's funeral in Brooklyn earlier this summer.
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August 06, 2007
Now That's What I Call Viral Marketing, Vol. 14
Grow, groom and wax your own man magnet at Burger King's lil pet moustache site. I think it's kind of fun, but as we all know - my standards could be higher.
Cuidado, kiddados: be sure to turn down the volume if you're at work.
Or church.
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August 01, 2007
This Picture of Carrots is Totally Tuber-lur
(From Happy Mundane.)
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July 31, 2007
Bad Day for Directors
Wait...Ingmar Bergman AND Michelangelo Antonioni both died on the same day? They were both still alive? I thought those guys went under around the time Halston sewed his last dress. <-- Obligatory Tuesday morning shout-out to Halston.
Clearly.
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July 30, 2007
Spidey!
Speaking of spider pig, look what I just found over on Cool Hunting: a primer, if you shall, of how the apparent master of spiderweb capturing goes about his business. I have one of these plates, (bought from the lovely Leigh of Jezebel Stationary at Catbird when I was in town for the gift show last year), and both my guests and I have often tried to figure out how in the hizzell it was made. Behold!
(Ang, now that we've mastered Fimo brick - what say you and I go down to my basement and get this business POPPING?)
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July 27, 2007
The Projects
If I had unlimited druthers, I would be more crafty. And not just in the Beastie Boys sense. I would love to be able to take all the design stuff I envision in my head and have it somehow materialize before me after a peaceful few hours working in my studio, Belle & Sebastian on the transistor radio, the waves gently lapping on the dock, a furry cat that never sheds purring on the table (NOT this one), my husband David Beckham practicing his soccer "kicks" on the front lawn, our money triplicating in the market as I studiously and artfully create masterpiece after masterpiece. Oh yes and I'd be wearing jeans of the perfectly worn and totally exact right length variety. And really cute jewelry. And my hair would be AWESOME.
OK. Wait. Anys. This is not how it goes in the life of Bree.
Except for the clothes and jewelry and hair parts. That I can do. The rest - not so much. But, as I've said before, I forever endeavor. So this weekend? This is the proyecto:
Turn THIS -
Into THIS - 
The groundwork has been laid. The materials have been collected. The motivation has been mustered. So. In addition to CLIMBING A 14,000-foot peak tomorrow MORNING, I am going to make a clay brick candle holder. Because I am all with it like that. And apparently, I like a challenge. Especially if it involves fimo.
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July 26, 2007
Memo to Nordstroms.com Booking Agent Re: Model Choice
I know these outfits aren't doing anyone any favors but, come on now. This is like dressing the Chupacabra up in velveteen remnants from the Gunne Sax factory and trying to pass it off as a new look for prom. <-- She shoots! She scores! Crowd riots. Chaos ensues. Economy collapses.
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July 23, 2007
Holy Moles!
I was just cruising around on the fabs - and aptly named - design site More Ways to Waste Time, and stumbled across her write-up on this piece:
An apparently "circa-1978 Finnish fabric wall hanging by Vallila" that totally hung in our yellow and orange playroom throughout my childhood! What a crazy blast from the past! I haven't seen - or thought of - this thing since about 1985. And frankly, seeing it now just brings back some horrific olfactory memories of the stankass dog that used to sleep under it. RIP Boo.
On a more positive note - Mom and Dad - youse so hip it's skeery!
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July 15, 2007
True Dat
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July 10, 2007
CO-nsider This Your Invitation
CO-DESIGN: An Exhibition of Colorado’s Top Designers
P Design Gallery l July 14 through August 25
A new show featuring contemporary home accessories and furniture from emerging and established Colorado designers.
Opening Reception – Saturday July 14 from 3 to 7 p.m.
P Design Gallery
2590 Walnut St., Denver, Colorado
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July 03, 2007
Tuesday Advertising Meeting
Click on through to check out the brillig new Sony Bravia ad (directed by Jonathan Glazer) or just watch it here:
Course, I don't dig it quite as much as the beauteous one below but that's to be expected. After all, whereas I like clowns and paint and brick buildings, I like like ping pong and that song and San Francisco and the jumpy frog.
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June 29, 2007
Be Still My Beating Clyfford Still (Lecture)
ABSOLUTE MUST DO: Attend lecture on Clyfford Still, the Astract Expressionist painter, whose estate bid Denver WON in a major major triumph:
In August 2004, the City of Denver announced it had been chosen to receive the artworks contained within the Clyfford Still Estate, created in 1980 upon the death of one of the most important painters of the twentieth century. Still (1904-1980) was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II. This highly sought-after body of work contains over 2,150 artworks representing all periods of the American artist's distinguished career and nearly 90% of the artist's total output.
Removed from public view for over twenty-five years, these works will finally be revealed at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado, planned to open to the public in 2009.
WHEN: 6p.m.; Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Denver Art Museum Sharp Auditorium (Frederic C. Hamilton Building)
MANDATE: Do! It! Support! This! Crazy! Awesomeness!
STILL MORE STUFF: Clyfford Still Unveiled: Selections from the Estate, July 14 - September 30, 2007
Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum
The first and only preview of the artwork prior to the Clyfford Still Museum opening in 2010.
Opening: Saturday, July 14, 2007, 10 a.m. - Midnight
(Admission is free all weekend as part of DAM’s What in the World?)
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BEAUTEOUS
Check this loverly Moroso display from ICFF. If all goes according to plan, we might actually get to use these models at the Denver Modernism Show (August 24 - 26). I'll be the one suspended near the top. You be the one shooting bb's at my butt. Thanks!
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June 15, 2007
Squotation Marks
So satisfying when your obsessive design web site/magazine/book reading actually translates into knowing about a product that would be perfect for a project. And by "your," I mean "my." And by "product," I mean "window stickers." And by "project," I mean "a sweet new house over on 7th" that we get to design window treatments and lighting fixtures for!
Calling! I found ye! Word up, Calling!
Uh...Calling?
Why you running away so fast?
*Oh and by "shittily written blog entry," I mean "this." 'tevs. Got my mind on other things. Like the ridonx weekend I've got in store. Ahhh.
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Burnt By the Amazing
Holy moles. Paul just got in three of these Moooi (Maarten Baas-designed) burned (burnt?) dining chairs and I am in LUST...
Whaa? Only, like, $1,400 a pop? Sounds perfunct. Wood's all ebonized and shaz...held together by epoxy...oh I just gotta say, "Dizzamn."
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June 12, 2007
McJobby Job !!
My awesome and excellent new friend, Angela over at Inv/Alt Design, just hired me to crank out her press packets and PR info. For money! This is super kickass.
Every cloudy day? Big fat platinum lining.
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June 06, 2007
Purchase Pants
My last bit of freedom (relative) before returning to the grind (relative) was less rad than one might have hoped for. Truth be typed: things are in a bit of a muddle. Not for me, not really, but yeah. Bit of a muddle. So, to celebrate the close of an important day - and the beginning of an important life - I bought myself this pitcher over at Coudal Partners Swap Meat:
(*link curtsy hoping for happy accidents)
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May 09, 2007
Realizing Recently That Something is Missing
Realizing recently that something is snaps.
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April 30, 2007
Three-Hour Tour of Duty
I am embarking on a new mission this week: to spend at least three hours a day working on my business. I know, I know...way to aim for the stars, Briggs. 'tevs. I've got stuff to DO...'cluding Americanos to guzzle and pooches to nuzzle. As such, posting will be lightish. In my absentia, etertain your brain with the photography of Denis Darzacq - a French artiste who takes snaps of falling teenagers. Pretty spectacular stuff, mon amis!
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April 17, 2007
Driving Me Knuts!
Q. How awesome is this lil Knut print?
A. 100 percent awesome...that's how awesome.
Buy it for your favorite blogger o'er at Creative Thursday on Etsy.
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April 11, 2007
Dropping Knowledge Like Galileo Dropped the Orange
Yesssss, my quest to hang in an industry that I don't work in reached new heights last night. Picture the scene: Briggles in the hizzle, surrounded by a bunch of art directors listening to Joe Duffy, one of the best designers and brand architects in the whole wide, speak about his company and their work (including the Fresca relaunch and that gorgeous Bahamas campaign of last year). Oh, got my heart to beating.
Most of what he said hit on some pretty familiar themes to anyone interested in the creative class (a la Richard Florida) or consumption in general. Always good to be reminded, however, so I present forthwith a brief little summation of what I believed to be the most compelling points:
* First off, he called Denver a "creative community on the cusp of greatness." Well, hellllooooo awesome!
* Said, that the world of marketing communications has been turned on its head. All bets are off. This is a great time for creatives.
* Consumers can now control messaging (via Tivo, Pop-up blockers, etc.) Now that we can control, funnel and focus our choice, we all have the ability to customize our lives and our experiences as a consumer. This is so powerful, Ad Age named the Agency of the Year, "The Consumer." At the same time, the choices in front of us are so huge they can be debilitating.
* Consumer = programmer of life.
* Today's most successful companies are recognizing people's desire for choice, control and customization.
* A marketer's role has shifted from that of storyteller to creator of a better life experience.
* In this design age, people will look to companies that provide an authentic experience:
- one you can't get anywhere else
- transparent and true
- delivers on promises
- aligned with consumer values
- considers all aspects of interaction
* A company that is talked about and recommended is a successful company. Talk value has never been a bigger deal.
* The strongest brands are brands that think about themselves as a total experience. Dan Weiden (of Weiden and Kennedy) said, "Don't tell. Converse."
* Everything communicates a brand message; therefore a company must do everything well.
* Companies must reinvent themselves early and often. (And, in a world changing so fast e-mail is already old-fashioned, one would apparently need to...yikers...)
Oh and just a quick P.S.: This is totels the style I manifest when I contemplate the future ->
No wonder no one wanted to sit next to me last night.
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Fire Sale: So Hot It'll Burn Ya!
The web site Modern Dose is having a crrrrazy sale, plus free shipping, on tons of cool artwork and furniture.
After a cursory examination, and a quick and sucky cut and paste job, I hereby present the things that are tickling my buy button this fine morn:
Marked down from $5,450 to $850
Marked down from $125 to $94
Marked down from $379 to $250
Seems to me that the whole durned site's to be had for cheap, so don't just be limited to the "Sale" section.
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April 09, 2007
Tomorrow Eve
How quickly my plans change. Tomorrow night is my last Photoshop class, but looks like I'm going to have to retract my RSVP to that party as I just found out that the branding and design hotshot Joe Duffy is speaking at the Oriental Theater in the Highlands. Perfect timing as my punk-rock illustrator and I are busting hump on my logo this week, and I need some inspo and advice. Not to mention that my total lack of Photoshop skillz has moved from slightly unnerving to wholly embarrassing...hence no bigs on missing the last hurrah of that experience. Luckily for me, the super-nice teach took about an hour last week to speak with me privately about all the technical requirements I'll need for online and print TSC designs, so that alone made the class well worth it. Well, that and the fact I can now erase errant zits from all pictures of myself.
Vanity? Thy name is Bree.
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February 20, 2007
Pojalsta
Awesome pics of the Moscow subway system to be found here. Don't forget your helmet.
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Happy (Early) St. Patrick's Day!
Love,
Me and my hand
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February 19, 2007
Mr. Green...in the Dining Room with...PANACHE
Awww! I love it when my instinct is proven palatable to the masses. 'member how I said I was going to spray paint my new chandelier kelly green? Well...chandelier arrived today, kelly green paint was purchased directly following, garage paint time scheduling at the casa de Rick was put on the books for tomorrow and all was well. All got even better, however, when I ran across this post at design*sponge just now.
Oh and to blow my own toot a little more, please aim your browser at yet another example of the prescient eye for color I like to call my own (er, for reference, I mean the bits directly beneath Fergie's dampened crotch).
I'm so hip, it's no wonder the kids call me sciatica.
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January 16, 2007
Commerce + Art = Cart
Applied Geometry
Robert Wechsler
A circle made by following the natural curve in a line of shopping carts.
Costco parking lot Goleta, CA. 6:00 am May 5, 2004.
More info here.
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January 15, 2007
Ads, Ads, Ads (*to the tune of "Girls, Girls, Girls")
Got a minute? Watch this trailer for The Alchemists - a not-yet-released documentary about some of the big-time advertising geniui.
As the marketing mats say: "THE ALCHEMISTS is a surprisingly personal exploration of some of the most influential advertising giants of the last century, and the communication they created which rocked our culture."
We'll see about all that, but at very least - it'll be killer to spend a few hours with some of the men (and lady) who stood advertising on end, shook it, took what came out, tossed it and started anew. It'll be interesting to watch an exaltation of reinvention of the industry seeing as we are teetering on the cusp of a total collapse of the industry. (I have written that past sentence at least seven times and CANNOT get it to read write. I just wrote "read write." Time to step away.) In summation: Advertising's dead. Pass the PR.
Also recommended: $ellebrity by George Lois and Inside Chiat/Day by Karen Stabiner. I would let you borrow my copy of the latter, but I left it in a beach house on the Adriatic in the summer of 1993. Bwwaaahhhaa! So cool I am! Too bad I can't write worth a crap!
PS Everyone reading this muck, do yourself a favor and go listen to "Go or Go Ahead" by Rufus Wainwright. Seriously. I think it's my new old favorite song. Do it. I'll be here when you come back.
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January 11, 2007
Skizzore
Anyone who has spent any time with me knows my great affinity for notebooks. I generally have them nearby to write down my incessent to-do lists, quotes, things to buy, things to look at online, places to go, reminders, etc. Unfortunately, I rarely have a pen.
'tevs.
I like to borrow.
But just as much as I am a fan of (obsessively) recording and documenting ideas and things during my day to day (see Flickr, Del.ious.us., this web site, etc. ad infinitum), recording and documenting allows me to forget it - clearing the old mind for more important thoughts such as, "Which will taste better: pumpkin seeds or sunflower?"
So, skimming through old notebooks always brings up a great many memories, a great many things to do, and a great many things to think about - all of which I like. To the point, I came across this entry - which I vaguely remember writing...maybe at Jenny's house over the holidays? -
"Illustrated junior library editions; Fritz Kredel - illus; Grosset & Dunlap, publishers"
One Google search later and behold! A beautifully illustrated 1947 version of Aesop's Fables, bought from a used book seller on Barnes & Noble.com for $1.99. Hence the "Skizzore" title of 'fore. Good stuff to rip apart and frame and use as my very own moral leadline (eh RJM?).
In closing, thank you Notebook. You're no Ryan Gosling, but you fill me with gladness anyway.
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January 09, 2007
Amerzing
This is a drawing:
Untitled (Big Sea #1)
1969
As is this:
Web #5
2000
Both from a dude lady named Vija Celmins; both on display at a retrospective of her drawings at the UCLA Hammer Museum in LA (through April 22).
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December 22, 2006
Snow Snap
Snowboarder on the steps of the Denver Capital Building
c/o Rocky Mountain News, December 22
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December 07, 2006
Soviet-Era Design: An Open Smile on a Friendly Shore
Feeling a little twisted and torn over the reemergence of the Russians on the bioterrorism scene? Oh pish posh! What's a little plumonium between friends? Take it from me, Mrs. Diplomacy nee Depravity, the key here is to just stop your frettin' (I'm talking to YOU, Heathrow!), pour a nice canteen of kvass and vodka and realize that the Russians are just like you and me. They too are inspired, no - enlivened, by the genius of Aaron Spelling and the whole crew of the Pacific Princess:
Come aboard...we're expecting you!
While you're all getting jiggy on the eastern steppes and stuff, be sure to czech out some more snaps over here at English Russia. Oh and disclaimer: I can totally make fun of the Russians because Heather's FAVORITE show is The Love Boat. No worries over here, mate!
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November 11, 2006
Cardinal Sin
Something about this comic is just giving me the wicked hoiggles (home office giggles). Better than cubigiggles (cubicle giggles), shoiggles (shared office giggles) or offigiggles (office giggles), sure, but still. It's a little embarrassing to laugh out loud while you're alone. And now I'm over it. The embarrassment, I mean. I still totally wanna fuck that cardinal.
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November 06, 2006
Home is Where the Darth Is
Let's round out our afternoon of art appreciation with a nod to Daniel Bozhov, and his impressive vision:
Darth Vader tries to clean the Black Sea with Brita Filter
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Soy Jaloux (Trans: I am Jealous)
Attn: Brooklyn --> Ron Mueck - master of the gigundo sculpture - just opened a show at the Brooklyn Museum . His stuff kind of reminds me of John Currin, in that it presents a real twisted view of humanity and the human form that is, nonetheless, completely magnetic and at least somewhat appealling. (I gots me lotsa nouns, and I gots me even more modifiers.) In fact, I do believe that Mueck was also part of the Sensation exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum that got Giuliani all up in a lather in the late '90s. You know - 'cause marrying your cousin is A-OK but displaying anti-Christian art is cause for the withdrawal of public funding. Like a good girl, I love what the man did for my city when it needed it, but I think I love the First Ammendment more.
Anys, let's just face it: I am chewing on a loaf of loathe that I won't be able to see this exhibit, so do go hop to. <-- Ahem, TOTALLY the name of my next band.
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November 05, 2006
ColorColorColorColor
Why yes, room, I do love you and your perfectly perfect colors.
Let's snuggle.
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Sunday Morning Poetry
Oh, ain't it the troof!
And in an early morning homage to the most easily pornographicated poetry form, here are some faves from the vaults of my Gmail account (authors redacted out of propriety; suffice it - there are but two of us represented).
Though I am not gay
I LOVE bed bath and beyond
Where are the squeegies?
Silky astroglide
You, me, best friends forever
Let's get a sandwich
Steak in the morning
Don't barf on my hangover
Upside-down OK
Though I do love you
Sometimes I just want to sleep
Go rub on the cat
Trojans not welcome
'specially when wicked drunk
Coochie coochie coo
Jerry Hall's advice:
give BJs lots, wherever
words to live by
Haiku sometimes makes
such accomplished poets
from lowly poon hounds
SPECIAL EXTRA G-MAIL BONUS
Lookee what I just found on the haiku search - the best e-mail I've ever written:
From: Bree
To: Matthew, Daniel
Date: Mar 10, 2005 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: incredible.
fucking reuters man. they wouldn't know a proofreader if it gnawed off lemmy's nipple and spit it in their face
Ah.
Genius.
Anys, I'm off as it's high time to get to church. Lord knows I needs me a massage!
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October 31, 2006
House of Stain
Welcome to the stuff that's totally flooding my mind with wanton thoughts of art and commerce. AHHHHHHH! My heart beats 1,000 pumps per minute (PPM) for the work being churned by these two totally kick-glass ladies! (Reports on the effects on other parts of my body to come as soon as I password protect.)
So point your cursor here for more Nancy Nicholson (above) and here for Susanna Conaway (way above). (Links thanks to the absolutely favulous Paul at P Design Gallery - go buy some stuff from him, wouldja now?)
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October 20, 2006
Sweet Design Comes to D-Town c/o Brooklynites, Natchy
I was tickled a toasty hue of burnt umber to discover the existence of the P Design Gallery, right here in the Mile High. Founded by Brooklyn coolios and stocking some of my favorite favoritos, it's inventory seems on par with (read: ripped directly from) the sometimes flawless Future Perfect in Williamsburg.
Check some of the lovelies I'll be fondling later this afternoon:
Straw cube by Sasha Sykes (sister-in-law to the loathsome Plum, but we'll struggle - valiantly and with great grit - not to hold that against her).
Jason Miller's glossy lil antler chandies, which are used to beautiful effect at Lodge, a semi-decent (though gorgeously designed) Burg restaurant I like to frequent with my proto-awesome bestos.
Enjoy this terrible picture of what I type:
(Eventually I'll get around to putting the rest of my Brooklyn bar and shop design stuff o'er on the Flickr. You have much to look forward to.)
And - piece de resisto! - wallpaper from the delightful Nama Rococo straight out of NORTH ADAMS, MA. Holla if you hear me N.A.!
Oh and speaking of Jason Miller (as I was, prior to the WeMa nostalgia interlude) - they've got a whole durned exhibit dedicated to the boy. I'm totally clapping my hands and jumping up and down in my Aeron right now. Totes. More to come after I actually put together something stylish to wear (Vhat? My whole yoga pants and lacrosse sweatshirt thing is a HIT with the menfolk...and the ladeez...swears...) and go to the joint. Again, much to look forward to. A shower being first on the list.
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October 17, 2006
Snap of the Day
Eh. Can't really decide if I like it or not, but just found a disk of old Brooklyn photos and was momentarily seduced. Momentarily. Lucky for you, this blog is, like, totally in real time.
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October 01, 2006
Audi Sarabia
It's no Seabiscuit, but I can't help think that my new chrome studded plate holder is going to earn some serious respeck come Colfax cruisin' time...
Next up? Spinning rimz.
Oh I kid not at all. Anyone who knows me knows how I feel about hubcaps: 1000-percent in favor. And, since I never got the purple neon undercarriage I wanted on the Saab, I feel more than justified dropping the dubloons. It's almost as if I've earned them!
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September 21, 2006
Today in Purchasing
I snaked this cold-lampin', cross-processed 8" x 8" photo from a British artist on etsy.com this afternoon. Damage? A modest $35. In celebration of what some might call my coup d'etsy, I finally verified my Paypal account and steeled myself to get this online "buy buy buy" thing rolling. Ebay - you're never gonna know what hitcha. It's gonna be all A+++++++++, BEST TRANSACTION EVER!!!!!!!!! all the time.
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September 14, 2006
"Buy Some Stuff" Page Launched
Your girl in HTML cracked some secretive nerd code and - high on the power that brought - posted a few photos and purchasing info in the "Buy Some Stuff" link to your right.
Enjoy - and please do be in touch if you need any further details or want to see bigger versions. For many of the black and white ones, I already have prints made of various quality and sizes, so I can be flexible with prices. For the others, I'm rigid like stale cheese.
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Damask Unmasked
I see the Times picked up on the damask trend - or, as I like to call it, "Mmmm, need more of that stat." Loyal loyalists know I've been cooling my heels on the "Ottoman?! Uttaman!" I picked up in Keenesburg, CO this past winter - and loving every minute of it. If I had my way, I would get a full-body damask tat so that I might revel in its beauty forevermore. Apparently, I don't have my way. Something about societal norms? Eff.
Anys. Here's a $130 chair from IKEA I would think about buying if there was an IKEA in Colorado.
Not crazed about the pedestal base/lack of arms in a living room setting, but I think they would rule as dining room chairs around a big fat white laquered table. Mod + traditional + cheap = just like I likey like. In fact, I will call it Motrache (pr: "Mo trashy!") and launch a style revolution. You heard it here first.
As for the black and white thing, I'm feeling it more and more as of late. I'm taking an incredible interior design class here - at one of the top schools in the country, apparently, for sustainable/green design - and my project will involve redoing my bedroom. All my big wooden furniture is just much for the space I'm in now, and I'm deathly sick of the brown/white/baby blue/red thing I've been living with since 2004:
Let's put it this way. When I painted that room, it was to the sweet sounds of the Black Eyed Peas. Back before Fergie wet herself:
So I'm thinking of getting into black and white but am also really, really feeling kelly green and white these days. Kind of 80's Benetton shirt style. Maybe toss in some really rich purple. Which, come to think of it, were totally my riding colors back in the Jr. High horse-showing days - plus some hot pink accents. Natch.
Sprinkle on a fine layer of manure and haydust, and I think I've found the answer to my design connundrum. Still not sure what to do with Fergie, though.
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September 08, 2006
Walls!
AHHHHHH! Coolest apartment walls ever!
Not that I'm one for hyperbole, or anything.
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