Anat Shiftan

I am loving Anat Shiftan's pieces.  Maybe better described as collections.  There is ambivalance and tension in her composition of pieces balancing off a very rooted base.  It's almost as if you're watching growth in nature happening before your eyes.

and...

a good article on Howard Zinn.

do something good for yourself; read some Zinn.

Holden Caulfield would like to have a word...

"Salinger drew from Sherwood Anderson, Isak Dinesen, F. Scott Fitzgerald and especially Ring Lardner, whose wise-guy voice you hear chiming in the snappy banalities and sometimes desperate patter spoken by Salinger's characters, a tone that found its way years later into the neurotic chatter of Woody Allen's New Yorkers. But Salinger bent it all into something new, a tone that drew from the secular and the religious, the worldly and the otherworldly, the ecstatic and the unconsolable. It's customary to assume that the seven Glass children — the Glass family, an intricate hybrid of showbiz and spirituality, was his other enduring creation — make up a kind of group portrait of Salinger, each of them a reflection of his different dimensions: the writer and the actor, the searcher and the researcher, the spiritual adept and the pratfalling schmuck. That may very well be true. He made sure we could never be sure. Holden Caulfield says, "Don't ever tell anybody anything." That's one time you know it's Salinger talking"



article from TIME

old friends

I have BAD ASS friends!

My new 'Old Friends' slippers. 
Almost as great as my old greg tshirt.

almost.
Thanks guys!!! 

more balls than most

from the Contemporist:  New Zealand designer Fletcher Vaughan has shared some photos with us of the Stratospheric sculpture he created for the Brick Bay Sculpture Trail in Matakana, New Zealand.  link to post

Contemporist website

Fletcher Vaughan's website

love the balls, love that it lights up, goddamn LOVE New Zealand! 

Conor Wilson

Conor Wilson website
Conor Wilson Blog


Sexy!  but it's sexiness isn't dominating the design; worth checking out more deeply

:)  happy monday !

Ann Roberts

Meteora, by Ann Roberts more about her here.

shades of blues and greens

right now, all over color themes - my inspiration superhighways.

I wanted to give you more greys today - but, didn't.  So, enjoy the deeply satisfying feeling of these greens & blues.

the cool grey city of love

Tho I die on a distant strand,

And they give me a grave in that land,

Yet carry me back to my own city!

Carry me back to her grace and pity!

For I think I could not rest

Afar from her mighty breast.

She is fairer than others are

Whom they sing the beauty of.

Her heart is a song and a star—

My cool, grey city of love.

Tho they tear the rose from her brow,

To her is ever my vow;

Ever to her I give my duty—

First in rapture and first in beauty,

Wayward, passionate, brave,

Glad of the life God gave.

The sea-winds are her kiss,

And the sea-gull is her dove;

Cleanly and strong she is—

My cool, grey city of love.

The winds of the Future wait

At the iron walls of her Gate,

And the western ocean breaks in thunder,

And the western stars go slowly under,

And her gaze is ever West

In the dream of her young unrest.

Her sea is a voice that calls,

And her star a voice above,

And her wind a voice on her walls—

My cool, grey city of love.

Tho they stay her feet at the dance,

In her is the far romance.

Under the rain of winter falling,

Vine and rose will await recalling.

Tho the dark be cold and blind,

Yet her sea-fog’s touch is kind,

And her mightier caress

Is joy and the pain thereof;

And great is thy tenderness,

O cool, grey city of love!

(San Francisco)
George Sterling (1869–1926)

Grisaille

beauty and elegance in the warm tones of grey