my love for you is a stampede of horses.

falling down the hole.

so being unemployed, i have had a lot of time on my hands.  which is really wonderful.  i spend a lot of that time on my lil mac.  sometimes hours of that time (eeek).  often i have no idea where the time goes.  my friend katie calls it falling into a hole..."i fell into the reddit hole", "the superficial hole" or "the fecalface hole".  although i love fecal face, the sounds of falling into that hole is a bit graphic and kind of yucky.  anyhoo, those are some of the holes katie falls into on a regular basis.

one of my regular holes is: flickr.  when i first joined flickr i thought it was just for photographs.  you know the kind i'm talking about..."oh hey, nice composition." kind of photographs.  which for the most part flickr is for that, however it's also become this great place for artists of all kinds to share and show their work.  people post photos of their crafts, murals, embroidery, drawings, street art and art.  i could go on and on and on.

it's amazing how many people are on flickr.  i get lost for hours looking at all of it.  not only are there individuals but there are groups one can join to post your wares.  the community is impressive and inspiring.  at times i spend so much time looking, leaving comments and perusing people's art that sometimes after i get off the computer i feel like i've been at a party!  i'll go and meet my friends for coffee...and i feel like i have so much to say, but i have to remind myself i've only been on the computer for 4 hours!!! or lost in the flickr hole.

recently i stumbled on this woman's page, dwelldeep.  i love the simplicity and tenderness of her  water colors and drawings.  the people, places and things in her drawings are so sweet and heartfelt it really comes across when you look at them.

i think one of the best things about flickr is that artists are able to document their work.  you get to actually see where artists are in their craft. recently dwelldeep started a drawing a day. i check everyday to see what wonderful sketch she has come up w/.  along w/ the daily drawings there is usually text and her cute happy face poking out from behind the drawings.  i find them inspiring and positive.  i hope you will as well.

lovin' it.

if i had a nemesis i would like to compose requests for duels w/ absolute brilliance.  i would hope to have my own stationary.  i mean how else can you request a stand off elegantly and w/ valor?  i mean let's get real.  oh, and also i'd like one of those doohickey's w/ my initials on it, a stamp to place on the back of the envelope in that weird plastic wax.  yes.  that's how it's done.  artist porous walker knows how it's done.

porous walker aka jimmy dimarcellis is a bay area artist who mainly dabbles in illustrations of complete hilarity.  he's into drawing boobs and penises attached to people that look like they are distant cousins (w/ gene disorders) of the peeps in yellow submarine. i recently found out that he had a show at the now defunct gallery low, which is only blocks from my apartment, a few years ago.  bummer.

his stuff is often drawings of men and women w/ said boobs and penises w/ rainbow colored bubble letters that spell out cliches like "follow your dreams." or "it's what's on the inside that counts.". each illustration is a wash of rainbow splatters.  porous is also a big fan of jesus and dinosaurs which as we all know makes for great drawing fodder.

i'm kind of jel of porous. he seems to lead a pretty charmed life.  he works for francis ford coppolla and pals around w/ banksy, although that last bit could be a lie.  he's even faked his own death as a way of retiring from the art world.  he's pretty genius actually.  come to think of it i wish i had quit my last job that way.  it could  have been so perfect, calling in dead and stickin' it to the man on my very own personal stationary.

sunny w/ a chance of goodness.

today was one of those sunny days in san francisco where everyone is out and although it's monday no one is ready to relinquish the weekend. my friend jack says that mondays are the new saturday.  i'm ok w/ that considering i'm unemployed at the moment.  so depending on how you look at everyday is either a monday or a saturday.  kind of like the glass being half empty or half full.

my thoughts on moving back to boston are starting to dwindle.  but we'll see as the job hunt goes.  it was easy to chalk one up for san francisco after a day like today. which consisted of spending the morning w/ friends at ritual, having lunch on haight street, then stopping by needles & pens on my way home. needles & pens is indicative of san francisco.  it's so inspiring to go in there and see all the jewelry, zines and magazines, and books amongst the art.  i always leave there re-energized to go home and make something.

at the moment the work up is by david benzler.  it's actually coming down this week. but regardless, he has a wide range of pieces up.  little installations, framed drawings and collages, watercolors, pen and ink drawings and large (and small) latex on panels.  he had some great drawings of teeth and mouths. i loved the portraits in water color and ink on the back of record albums.  my favorite, was a pen and ink drawing called 'better bitter".  i love when words are used in a clever way.  it makes me happy, kind of like how saturdays make me happy.  and right now everyday is saturday.

human tetris...who knew?

why don't we have "game shows" like this? really. i want to know.