mate for life

i've got an attraction to these arthropods at the moment. in shape and colour. 

art, events, films, locales to discover.

+self healing material. nature.com

+superjam.co.uk

+exploding flowers. mummeryschnelle.com

+artist, roger dean. flights of icarus from floating islands series

+cassiemercantile.com

+herdubreid at home

+stalker directed by andrei tarkovsky. mosfilm. 1979

+artist, phi frost. totem

+der garten. arno fischer. riflemaker.org

+stardust. riflemaker.org

+stan brakhage. mothlight, 1963. by brakhage:an anthology. criterion 2003

+artist, peter doig. tate britain. judith nesbitt. tate.org.uk/peterdoig

+fiskedon by goran dyhlen. tate britain

+radical lave and subversive knitting. museum of arts and design ny.

+threads of light. chinese embrodiery from suzhou. UCLA fowler museum of cultural history

+hieronymus bosch

+simonfinch.com

+hotel portillo. www.drn.cl www.skiportillo.com

+artist, helio oiticica. the body of colour. tate modern. london

+gary hume. american fan XXVI (gloss)

+pear light by nick foley

+ruth.gurvich.free.fr

books to find

+an illustrated life. charley harper.

+wabi-sabi:for artists, designers, poets, philosophers. leonard koren. 

stone bridge press. ISBN 1880656124

+l'espirit serge lutens: the spirit of beauty. edition assouline.

+wabi-sabi for writers. richard powell.

+real allegories. olivier richon.

+garden people: valerie finnis and the golden age of gardening. ursula buchan. thames/hudson.

+the gentle art of domesticity. jane brocket. hodder/stoughton.

+living normally-where life comes before style. trevor naylor/niki medlik. thames/hudson.

+the architecture of happiness. alain de botton.

+sanaa houses: kazuyo sejimat ryue nishizawa. augustin perez rubio. actar/musac

+rare bird of fashion the irrevent iris apfel. eric boman. thames/hudson

+william christenberry. e.brown/walter hopps/andy grundbery/howard n fox. aperture.

+dominant wave theory. david carson/andy hughes. booth-clibbon editions

+sweet earth-experimental utopias in america. joel sternfeld. steidl

+snapshot chronicles:inventing the american photo album. stephanie snyder/barbara levine/

matthew stadler/terry toedtemeier. princeton architectural press.

+svenska formgivare. caroline soderhold. historiska media

+domestic landscapes:a portrait of europeans at home. bert teunissen. aperture.

+audubon's birds of america. john james audubon.

+reflex:a vik muniz primer. aperature.

+masterpieces of the mineral world. wendell e. wilson/joel a bartsch/mark mauthner

publisher harry n abrams inc.

+element and shape. ratoruzv. ISBN 489977074x

projects to research

+domestic sticker murals. domestic.fr

+laughter in the face of conflict. face2faceproject.com

+the tissue culture and art project. we-make-money-not-art.com

+remembering the future. refu.fi

+the mentalist association. mentalistassociation.co.uk

+FRONT swedish design

+alternative communities. findhorn foundation

+community mapping. fallenfruit.org

+beach hut festival. bathingbeauties.org.uk

when i dream it is the same as being awake

javier tellez, letter on the blind, for the use of those who see, 2007, production still

yesterday i went to see the whitney biennial- and found this video work to

be one of the only few worth noting.

tellezs' work was a recreation of the Indian parable, the Blind Men and the Elephant.

Kind of a documentary filmed at the abandoned McKarren pool in Williamsburg, where

six blind people of different walks were all allowed to touch ula, this elephant. 

all of their reactions were drastically different and some being so thoughtful and spot on.

they made me laugh and cry. 

'are you awake in the world?'

if only we could all touch so thoughtfully and lightly as if we were blind.

other notes:

book, james welling, flowers

'the second sentence of everything i read is you'

'leftover remnants of snow'

'give me your everything' 

give me your end

conditions of light within us

'something being massive and losing that feeling as you observe it'

'imaginatively projecting'

door ways

marble - food terrains 

ships

painted fabric

ballet slipper pink

elephants, of course.

l'amour doit être réinventé

notes from this fantastic piece of art.

'love must be reinvented'

'you said we'd see it through the end, yes, the end of the night'

'the language of poetry rises from ruins'

'because you speak to me in words and i look at you with feelings'

'remembrance of things past'

'the feather in your cap'

'we are made of dreams and dreams are made of us'

'nostalgia for continuity'

'i believe you, liar'

'i'm just a huge question mark hanging over the mediterranean'

and kicks off the five week Godard fast at film forum 

the cool school

pictured john altoon, craig kauffman, allen lynch, ed kienholz, ed moses, robert irwin, billy al bengston

thursday evening- I saw the documentary about the beginning of the Ferus Gallery and 

modern art late 1950s, early 1960s- here lies the record of my notes and thoughts

-artists and work - ben bartosh/john altoon/ed moses, 'vreeland'

-abstract expressionism to assemblage 

'venice beach was the place to go to and vanish or create new worlds'

'you don't want people to know you are hungry'

-roy lichtenstein, 'white cloud', in personal collection of irving blum

-light, plastic and colour work - candy apple paint jobs, custom car culture, reflection of surface, 

light on colour

-art primarily made in the mind and language as a visual experience (ed ruscha)

'art offers the possibility of love with strangers' -wallace hopps

-cal arts, the last plastic show

-centre pompidou, 2005/06?, LA art show

weird emotion collision

in this entry, just simply recording some thoughts that passed through my head today.

-the countries in europe- (Tyrol for example- between Austria and Italy) 

and where they are close to other another an almost entirely new country is formed - 

new in the sense of customs, foods, languages and cultures- an overlap of cultures, people and ideas. 

-todays film, water lilies, about the difficultly of being a fifteen year old girl - 

and how the heart so easily breaks and how arduous its to be dealt with when the 

feelings are so unfamiliar- and ones experiences are nearly visibly imprinted on their person 

because of their actions and reactions to situations - and how times have changed so as to 

when i was experiencing coming of age and what it must feel like today

-finally, a copy of zola's belly of paris has been placed in my hands