my love for you is a stampede of horses.

red booties, little swords and colorful tears.

matthew feyld has instantly become one of my favorite artists of late.  his drawings and paintings are whimsical and colorful, yet have a sort of bittersweet under tone, which always appeals to me.  his images remind me of this book that was read to me as a child, but for the life of me i cannot place the name or anything really other than that the main character was a sad boy w/ a pointed head who lived in the woods.  i googled it and everything; pointed head, sad, children's book.  nothing.

feyld's characters are men w/ bulbous heads (w/ beards, i'm a big fan of the beard), bears, rabbits, and birds.  they are usually carrying sticks or swords.  prancing or running in tights w/ little booties, usually red.  his attention to detail is what i really like. there is so much fine detail around the actual faces of the characters, each exhibiting really subtle expressions of hope or sadness.  many of his subjects have colorful tears running down their cheeks, little crosses on their foreheads, lots of detail around the eyes, rays shooting from the booties.  you can see the care and hard work in each and every piece.

so far this is what i have found on him as in terms of his bio...

"Matthew Feyld, Saskatoon-based artist, is a lad who grew up with a birth defect that made his head swell unbelievably. This happened at the worst times possible: during show and tell, at the science fair, on his first date... It happened from stress. He found that keeping calm helped his head stay normal and drawing, painting, scribbling was his cure. His work is almost voodoo to keep his swollen head from reappearing. It recreates his greatest fears: beady eyed monsters with giant balloon heads fighting off the world in tights."

so cute. funnily enough it just reminds me more of that children's book i cannot seem to remember.

although unemployed, i am saving for a piece of his.  yep.  i'll subsist on beans alone if i have to.

you can see his stuff on flickr or check out his blog.

"come and spend the day."

i love how things get connected.  it's so easy to get lost here on the whole blogosphere.  sometimes after a couple of hours of it i feel like i have been at some sort of networking event and spoken to so many great people and heard about so many cool things.  my mind swims w/ ideas afterwards.

when i first started this blog i had this happy little soul get in touch w/ me.  she started leaving comments on my blog...which led me back to her blog, a little house in the clouds.  which i now read everyday.  her blog opened me up to a whole group of bloggers.  two of which i check everyday as well; slow progress and borrowed, bought, stolen.  i love the three of these girl's blogs.  they're friends in "real life" as well.  and funnily enough they all live in the mission here in san francisco.  such a small world.

anyway, today i checked slow progress, on her blog is a post about this great, really wonderfully talented artist from brooklyn, katy horan.  so through slow progress i was linked to katy's blog called katy*art.  it's a great blog...just about her thoughts, work and what she's up to.  and there i was brought to this video she posted by this band called bat for lashes.  oh man.  the video is so wonderful.  katy horan likens it to donnie darko and i couldn't agree more.

i downloaded the album today...and it's great.  spooky and dreamy.  great for a foggy chilly day like today.

chalking one more up for unemployment!  wooo-hoo!  i met three girls, looked at amazing art, inspired, driven, read about a new band, bought an album. living the dream over here on 15th street and it's all happening in my jim-jams, to the layman: my pajamas.

keep your eyes to the ground.

i'm obsessed w/ all things small.  i don't know what it is.  maybe the little girl comes out in me when i am around pint-size objects, bringing me back to the days when i spent hours playing in the dollhouse my grampa built for me.

street art is one of my favorite forms of art.  i've always been a fan since being a teenager growing up in boston.  i love how people use the streets to take their art out to the masses where all can see.  you don't need anyone's approval or permission (well, that is arguable i suppose...).  you just need drive, passion and ideas.  i especially like well done, irreverent street art.  when people don't take themselves too seriously and there is wit and/or whimsy involved.  check out little people - a tiny street art project.  it's so wonderful.  it makes me happy.

honestly, i'm too tired right now to write a witty, little description (no pun intended) of what little people is...you'll figure it out.  i'm convinced.  i believe in you.  i love you.

"let's re-learn every vowel and phrase and make it better than before."

being unemployed w/ other distractions at times can make it hard to keep up.  you know?  keep on keepin' on.  it's easy to fall into a sleepy haze of law and order, wakin' up late, hangin' at the coffee shop all day, stayin' up til 3:30/4 a.m, falling into the world wide intra web hole.  suddenly you've spent a couple days doing it, that turns into a week and then you realize it's been over a month now; unemployed.  i have to remind myself there is a greater prize on the horizon, i need to keep up and head for it.  in times like this i need inspiration everywhere and anywhere i can get it.  luckily i have wonderful friends who keep me on track.  i'm on my way to meet up at a cafe w/ friends to make a list of goals.  all three of us are going to do it.  the hope is that we can check in and be accountable for what we want to do.  as opposed to keeping pipe dreams in those pipes hidden underground and only taking them out when we need a hit of fantasy.  who knows how it will be...to sit and open up your heart, let people in on your hopes and dreams.  kind of scary.  but i've got all the time in the world, plus law and order isn't on till 7.