young and mike both randomly sent me a link to this guy’s loteria style illustrations this week. they are fun and funny

look at these bizarre animal hair pieces (hair hats?)

guess i’m really disconnected from my catholic heritage because it’s been at least a decade & 1/2 since my moms last badgered me about mass attendance and/or important catholic-related holidays that i must celebrate to avoid eternal damnation. so, i forgot how fun easter can be! i didn’t know until today, but the washington post has a peeps diorama contest. pretty fun me thinks. the birds one is killer - i loved that they used the boat scene. hitchcock & bodega bay forever. seriously, this scene looks like a scene i would enjoy eating.

i know i have mentioned flip flop flyin’ here before but i can’t remember why. these illustrations of famous artists/musicians craig robinson made remind me of playmobil figures. kinda fun trying to guess who they are

i am officially obsessed with eatpes.com

this stuff is blowing my mind

i thought i was strange for taking pictures of things that appear on my tv, but this person’s set takes it to the next level. some of these screen shots are familiar to me, but taken out of context with the kodak duaflex makes them seem far more mysterious and classic than they are.

check out these lovely paper sculptures

i like the wizard and the stag beetle.

kiss the cook, son.

during the day i went to the clarion alley block party to check out new murals this year and hopefully see some good bands. no luck on the latter but i only stayed for about 45 min. also, i remembered that i hadn’t been through clarion alley in a long time (not even on bike weirdly enough), so i really had no clue what was new. who cares, it was a beautiful day out.

i’m not feeling like typing too much. morning woke up, made a necklace out of this glow-in-the-dark resin insect keychain, met up with alexis at the sfmoma for the cornell exhibit (which was so very great), went to green apple books and bought lots o art books and then came home

re: these bearded dude heads - about 2 months ago, kristy pulled up to my house but couldn’t find parking, so i came down and sat in her car and noticed all these heads in the door compartment of her passenger door. i picked up a handful and said something like “uh wtf?” and she told me they were sitting on the dashboard when she bought the car. she told me i could have them. i’m gonna use them for a diorama. after this cornell retrospective i feel like i got ideas for like 3 dioramas and alexis is gonna hook me up with some cheap readymade shadow boxes. i’m very excited. i can’t remember the last time i made something i could hang on a wall.

thank goodness for the internet to tell me that there is a joseph cornell retrospective in my own neck of the woods. his shadowboxes and collage works are so lovely.

the SFMOMA is showing 200 works of his. i’m very very excited about this, and i need an inspiration boost for a diorama i plan to make as a belated belated b-day gift.

jesus christ, i want this on a shirt or my wall so bad.

if you know what movie this is from then we should be friends.

so i’m re-uploading 400 nyc pics to flickr because my iphoto put them all out of order. it’s taking forever. oh i also had 144 emails in my work inbox when i came back. yay! luckily the damage isn’t that bad considering i was gone for 2 weeks.

in the meantime, check out this college alexis made. pbs asked her to do a college for the show 49 Up on POV depicting 1992. yay! i’m proud of her. you should buy her art.

depicted:
windsor castle on fire
madonna “sex” book
dream team
bosnian prisoner of war
wayne’s world
diana’s biography
absolutely fabulous
bill clinton playing the sax
reservoir dogs
johnny carson
hurricane andrew
la riots

so um here is a skull made from melted rock cassette tapes.

i bought a wayne thiebaud children’s book today. thiebaud is one of my top artists next ed ruscha and bill viola. he makes dessert look so good!

incidentally the last kid’s book i bought (in adulthood) was Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs food theme a coincidence? hardly.

first, young showed me how to open and extend these cameras last night:

i like the lens and i think they take 120film.

anyway, i scanned and cropped about 30 of these found photos. it was a pain in the ass

this was one of the few color ones:

after looking at the expiration date on some of the film, i’m pretty sure these are from ‘91-92, which might explain the ‘losing my religion’ aesthetic on the first batch i took snaps of? anyway, i attempted to google the person for a contact email but it’s a too common of a name.

brian eno is having this video installation at yerba buena center this weekend called 77 Million Paintings and i’m trying to figure out if i should risk it for $25. all the photos i’ve seen of it on the internet seem intriguing but i’m also scared it might be so packed i won’t enjoy it.

also boredoms are on tour and there is no SF date which i am bummed about. i’m really jealous of new yorkers right now because on 7/7/07 they are going to perform for free with 77 drummers. they are amazing live and live up to the hype. seriously, one of the best live performances i’ve ever seen. read about this madness. i hate you new york.

i saw this video on fecalface.com and it’s the greatest thing evar.

why can’t i have dreams like this? i will be checking www.eatpes.com religiously from now on.

how does he not run out of genius? i never can get enough of this stuff.