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Howard Pyle - An Attack on a Galleon. Illustration of pirates approaching a ship (Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates) (1921)

Dreams of boats / boats of dreams

So many boats in my dreams, this last while. Boats and boats and then again boats. I like boats, always have (particularly those powered by muscle not motor), maybe as the result of having for a father a man who in his youth was a sailor or maybe as the result of my Piscean nature.

Published on Sep 29, 2012 at 10:53 am.
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Hands

Mmmmm, hands.

Published on May 02, 2012 at 7:58 am.
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“The world is a very astonishing place”

I love Milton Glaser.

Published on Jan 14, 2011 at 8:44 am.
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The writing on the wall

You know how much I love words and the physical act of writing, how much I love the graphemic grace of the thing that is written? Yeah, you do. And you know how much I like holding a pencil in my hand and making marks on a paper with it — marks with meaning, I mean — and also how much I like reading a paper full of writing from someone else’s hand? Well, I like all that very much, you know I do, but I like something else too:

Published on Dec 13, 2010 at 10:13 am.
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Sculpture made from recycled clothing by Guerra de la Paz

Spectrum brilliance

I don’t know about your little piece of the planet but here where I am there’s been a lot of greyworld and I’m not really an appreciator of greyworld, unless it’s mitigated by storm. Which it hasn’t been, here and now. So what can be done? One can give in to the grey and be taken down by it — opt for bed or heavy drink for weeks on end, except those are roads to ruin and I prefer to remain unruined for just a little longer in life.

Published on Dec 04, 2010 at 12:07 pm.
Filled under: alchemy, art, artisanry, concatenation, craft, design, diy, domestic arts, domicile, dreamy, embroidery, environment, Etsy, fashion, fauna, Flickr, food, glass, graffiti, graphic, handmade, illustration, jewellery, joy, knit, making, metal, music, neon, packaging, painting, paper, photography, playfulness, repurpose, science, sculpture, street, textile, the happies, tumblr, unruly, urban, weather | 7 Comments

Department of If Loving the Interwebs is Wrong Then I Don’t Wanna Be Right

Humanity is bad and terrible and capable of the most horrific acts of cruelty and venality. But oh my god, when a beautiful brain does beautiful brain things, it makes me remember that some of us are not only unbad and unterrible, but really fucking wonderful. What I’m thinking of here is this thing I found on the webs that are inter, this fabulous wonderful thing. To be precise, this thing:

Published on Nov 26, 2010 at 10:20 am.
Filled under: alchemy, bad attitude, badass, big happies, body art, comics, drawing, fashion, Flickr, graphic, hair & makeup, iconoclasm, illustration, indie, insane-in-the-best-possible-way, internet, intersection, interview, joy, novel, painting, project, street, the happies, transformation, unruly, urban, video | No Comments

Smooch

Sometimes I’m a romantic creature … okay, who’m I trying to fool here? … always I’m a romantic creature. Forever and ever I’ve been madly shivered up by the sweet gesture, small or large or somewhere in between. I have made those gestures and had them made for me and some of them have been over-the-top — whoa, Nelly, way up and way off the precipice of mad-for-you, with a celebratory shout of “For you are my beloved” — and some of them have been tiny and odd, discernible only to me and the person whose lips I wish to kiss.

Published on Oct 18, 2010 at 12:03 pm.
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"Hell, Yes!" by Ugo Rondinone, 2001, via yauhin1's photostream

Yes

You know what I love? I love “yes”. I love “yes” so much, and so hard, and also its more boisterous adjutants “hell yes” and “fuck yes”.

Published on Aug 27, 2010 at 12:22 pm.
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butcher & seam

Butcher’s charts take it all apart.

Sewing patterns put it all together.

The sundering and the reconciling … they interest me, both. I maybe love taxidermy because it requires both; I should maybe love the jigsaw puzzle more than I do, for the same reason.