reading

since starting a new job, my favorite lunch activity is to walk down to walgreens, pick up the trashiest/awesomest magazine i can find, and go to panera and eat lunch. today, i found a new magazine, Nail It!. it's obviously responding to the manic manicure trend that has sprung up in western female/girl culture (it's been alive and thriving in Japan forever.) just check out any instagram and you'll probably see a lot of nails. nails on nails on nails. all nails everything. so, onto Nail It!

i think the Nail It! logo is fresh:

starting out well, free samples of nail stickers. i effing love nail stickers:

Nail It! taught me that men care about your manicure, too. thanks a lot, Nail It!. i thought that my nails were the one thing i didn't have to worry about a man noticing. but, let's be honest, "Scott" isn't straight. so, that being said, gay guys are welcome to judge my nails all they want.

mmm now i want some ice cream...

ew, netflix for nails? would you use this? answer yes or no, with reasons, in the comments. i vote no out of hygiene and over-all ick factor, but prove me wrong.

yes, please, want very much. Dose Color Pills nail polish! j'adore the packaging. perfect chill pill is giving yourself an at-home mani.

over all, Nail It! was a fun romp through girly-thing-times. not entirely sold, and at 5.99USD an issue, it's kind of pricey for a lot of ads. anyhow, if you're into this kinda thing, visit Nail It! online, here.

palette play

paper is an excellent app for playing with color. i'm not a painter, and don't have the patience for watercolor, so it helps me play with color whenever i'm bored.

color tests for future embroideries.

what will i do / what i will do

current project list as of 02.26.13:

+ tattoo drawing (past due)

+ studio / apartment clean up for visit (03.01.13)

+ completion of current mid-size embroidery work for said studio visit (03.01.13)

+ table card design / place setting design for wedding (03.09.13)

+ two-headed great white shark with human heads in mouth crochet taxidermy (05.31.13)

+ website design for independent contractor (open-ended)

+ concept sketches for two large canvas works (open-ended)

current time sucks to be avoided, 02.26.13:

pinterest

buzzfeed

instagram

oscar redux

i will confess, i did not watch one minute of the oscars. but i did pick my favorite dresses, obvi.

with the win, Jennifer Lawrence. mostly because of her answer to what she was wearing, and the subsequent press room photo. PS just so you know, in the movie of my life, JLaw will play me.

Dior Haute Couture

in a close second, Naomi Watts. what is HAPPENING with that neckline? j'adore.

custom Armani

in third place, Halle Berry, who never ages. like, what. love this.

Marchesa

in fourth, mostly because she was just arm candy, Stacey Kiebler. but i love this. she was almost second. hell, she was almost first, but i adore Jennifer Lawrence too much to do that to her.

Naeem Khan

here is to someday having a reason to buy a fabulous gown and wearing it with ridiculous heels. le sigh.

things i do now that i am 30

go to bed at a reasonable hour

go to bed at a reasonable hour during the work week

wear moisturizer with SPF

walk

clean my apartment regularly

plan for the future

think about the future

drink the daily recommended allotment of water

care about my health

remember birthdays

remember to check FB for people's birthdays

keep in better contact with friends/family

remain balanced through various outlets

create/collaborate

enjoy life

life doesn't suck most of the time

things i do not do now that i am 30

sleep in eyeliner

bite my nails

bite my nails all the time

drunk text ex-lovers

go to work hungover

go to work still drunk

avoid going to the dentist

smoke cigarettes

don't care about my health

overdraft my bank account

do illegal drugs

get in petty fights and/or physical altercations

get kicked out of bars

cry

cry all the time

pattern play

one of my childhood friends, artist Doni Funkhouser, has a truly unique visual style which she uses to create psychedelic wonder-worlds of color. she also parlays this artistic eye to her very own vintage clothing store, located in our hometown, called Mod Closet. not only does she seek out amazing vintage pieces, but the prices cannot be beat.

recently, she posted work she did as Doctor Funlaw (a combination of her name, and her art partner's name), titled Sailor's Warning, for Spaceships' new album cover I am a Storm at Sea and i fell in LOVE.

in progress

completed work

i just want to ride that wave (even if i've only been surfing once) to a magical universe where there might be dragons. i am inspired by the use of color, and the pain-staking process of drawing something intricate and complex that ends up looking like stained glass that members of Pink Floyd might have in their house.

visit Doctor Funlaw on the world-wide-web, here.

visit Mod Closet in person, if you're in the michiana region, at 201 s. main st., elkhart, in. check them out on the web, here. PS, check out their dope commercial, here.

design elegance

this amazing device is light enough that the wind blows it around the desert, but heavy enough that it detonates land mines. i bet it's beautiful to watch.

visit Massoud Hassani's website.

read more about the project, and watch a video here.

illustration / inspiration

kirsten ulve is one of my all-time favorite illustrators; she was a huge inspiration to me during design school. love the wit + whimsy she infuses in her work.

visit kirsten ulve's website, here.

watching

This American Life, The Invisible Made Visible

stuck in the middle with you

my block. stuck in between people who make over 70K USD and under 20K USD. nob hill v. chinatown.

fittingly accurate.

where will we go

continue tour of world based on tadao ando museums:

next on list = punta della dogana museum, venice, ITALY

next on list = modern art museum of fort worth, fort worth TX, USA

next on list = chikatsu-asuka historical museum, osaka prefecture, JAPAN

next on list = museum of wood, mikata-gun forest, hyogo prefucture, JAPAN

future dated = maritime museum for cultural district, abu dhabi city, UAE

color studies

pink / light pink / hot pink / white-pink / peach / orange / light orange / sand

blue / green / turquoise / aqua / blue-green / green-blue / grey / black

black / grey / white / silver / dark grey / pearl grey / earl grey

all photos © me, at the sf zoo

progression

reading

Neil Freeman, fake is the new real.

A Crazy But Rational Solution To Our Electoral College Problem, via NPR.

reading

William Powhida

interesting investigation into inner intestines of art

How Uptown Money Kills Downtown Art

you said you'd be my dream, i could have you every night

forget chocolates and flowers. all work by tracey emin.

writing sample, deux

on San Francisco, february 8, 2013

you know, sometimes i really hate this city. it's too small. it smells like piss and poo nearly everywhere you walk. there are too many hills that are too steep to climb every goddam day. i step on crack pipes on my way home from work, and because of all the walking i have done i have busted through at least three pairs of black flats per year i've lived here. thats about fifteen pairs of black flats, if you count my oakland years. which my bank account counts them, so you should, too. san francisco is for people who want to live in portland, but have seasonal affective disorder. san francisco is for people who want to be cool, pretend like they're cool and hip and knowledgeable but really they're just insecure assholes. san francisco is sad to walk around, but even sadder on muni buses where people piss and freak out and go nuts and steal your iphone. so i've heard. i actually was on a bus where someone pissed and the driver wouldn't let him off. so you jump off to avoid the piss. and then you walk. and walk. and walk up a hill. and then you finally make it up the hill, and look across that vast bay to the marin headlands. you turn ninety degrees and see the bay bridge expanding past the ferry building. you turn ninety degrees and see the hill you just walked up, with a cable car chugging up it. you turn ninety degrees and see ONE MORE ONE MORE ONE MORE HILL. you turn ninety degrees again, and start walking those last few steps to home. up ten steps. up the elevator. into your apartment which you love love love. then you remember why you live in san francisco. and you love it.

writing sample

on LA, circa 2004

i love LA. i know i'm not supposed to because it's smoggy and gross and disgusting and there's weird people in hollywood and you can't get anywhere without a freeway that's jammed and there's never cheap parking and there's exhaust and you can't breathe but there is something about this city that sucks you in spits you out and you don't really seem to mind. an energy. teeming with people crammed to the gills with cars just mad chaos. is it ADD? perhaps. and then you get to PCH and it's calm, even when your sitting with 5 million other people in cars. you roll down the window hear the surf breathe the fresh air see the sun glinting on waves crashing into cliffs coming down a hill to see a coastline rocky and hilly and crammed with beautiful beachfront homes and then it makes it all worth it. that coast. it sucks you in even if you hate all of LA.

3020 laguna street in exitum

almost a year ago today, a unique temporal art experience

yulia pinkusevich, data mass projection

chris fraser, outline

jeremiah barber, dreamburn

andy vogt, drawn out

other photos i took and improperly catalogued. if you know who did these works of art, please let me know.

random bits of randomness

from travels / city walks

union square, san francisco

the five-and-dime, st. joe

the wall of my childhood closet, elkhart

the former museum, san francisco

nature/texture

winter on lake michigan, sunset

yeah you still kiss me sometimes...

new work

inspired by Lula magazine shots