Inside Look at an Outsider

Anado McLauchlin is a mostly self-taught assemblage artist living south of the US border and across  the  tracks in La Cieneguita, Mexico. Oftentimes he is called an Outsider artist but prefers the term Insider  artist. His creative endeavors include beaded jewelry, embellished whimsical furniture, celebrative be-  jeweled mirrors, shamanic assemblages esoteric wall hangings and revelatory [...]

LOVE HOTELS

To quote a famous philosopher of our generation, “I got to kn kn kn know what’s your fan-ta-sy” I’m speaking of course, on behalf of Japanese Love Hotels. While you may imagine “Love Hotel Hill” to be an outrageous feature of quirky Tokyo, it is actually located in Osaka. Chose your fantasy: Hello Kitty? Anime? [...]

Salaryman: bruno quinquet

Japanese office worker. Between documentary and street photography, the Salaryman Project is an ongoing work about Tokyo’s unknown office worker. This project was inspired by portraits rights problems in the field of candid photography. documented 1/09 – 1/10

Access Your Animal Instincts

Beth Cavener Stichter ceramic sculptures “There are primitive animal instincts lurking in our own depths, waiting for the chance to slide past a conscious moment. The sculptures I create focus on human psychology, stripped of context and rationalization, and articulated through animal and human forms. On the surface, these figures are simply feral and domestic [...]

Blog Spotlight: twisted lamb

Twisted Lamb is a blog that exhibits Fashion Photography {especially that of the Avant-Garde category}. Her collection of images is by far one of the most intriguing that I’ve found on this here World Wide Web, so of course I had to obsessively save all of my favorite photos and turn them into animated GIFs. [...]

Something Old, Something New

I found so much beautiful inspiration in the homes above, I had to share them with all of you. I tend to feel a stronger connection to decor featured in vintage photographs. Of course, flooding light is a sure “in” with me… Though I am generally taken by the old, I can’t quite reject the [...]

CHRISTIAN DIOR's Spring/Summer 2008 Haute Couture collection

Umm. I know we’re on the brim of a brand new year and all, but I can’t help backtracking to the glitz and glam of Christian Dior’s Spring/Summer 2008 Haute Couture collection. Do my eyes tell lies? Wonder awaits you. “Who else could open a supposed treatise on Symbolist painters (quick, log onto Wikipedia!) with [...]

CHRISTIAN DIOR’s Spring/Summer 2008 Haute Couture collection

Umm. I know we’re on the brim of a brand new year and all, but I can’t help backtracking to the glitz and glam of Christian Dior’s Spring/Summer 2008 Haute Couture collection. Do my eyes tell lies? Wonder awaits you. “Who else could open a supposed treatise on Symbolist painters (quick, log onto Wikipedia!) with [...]

APAK: (dream)home tour

Aaron and Ayumi Kajikawa Piland are a husband and wife collaborative art group known as APAK. They live in a little cottage on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. They are known in particular for creating rich and colorful gouache/acrylic paintings on wood featuring the utopian lives and adventures of curious little beings living in lush [...]

2010

To all my readers: Happy and healthy NEW YEAR. Letting go of the past is imperative: It’s time to shed the old and plunge into the new with optimism and grace. Think about what is important to you. Brainstorm. What makes you happy? {Not temporary glazed in sugary-sweet pleasure, but actually fulfilled as a human [...]