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 gardens.

Casa Las Ranas

Anado’s Art

artifacts

artifacts

assemblage

mirror

jewelry

paintings

doors

dining cabinet

This project is in homage to all outsiders, gardeners, and folk artists the world over.

Anado’s studio in La Cieneguita and the house and grounds of Casa Las Ranas are available for tour groups or private individual visits upon appointment.

Checking in is anonymous. A wall of video monitors shows which rooms are available and their prices. Patrons use the touch screen to make their pick. Once selected, the room's picture goes dark to show it's in use. A clerk behind an opaque service window takes the cash and hands the couple a key.

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? S&M? Gas chamber? Schoolgirl? Children’s carnival? Subway? These privacy-pads are decorated with theme park interiors and equipped with game consoles, karaoke boxes and lusty machines. These establishments provide kinky fun for all types, from fetishists and sadomasochists to the ordinary couple seeking sexual adventure.

The Love Hotels of Japan have pretty much got all your desires covered.

Covered with photographs of tied-up Japanese women from the '80s, Imagine cuffing your date to the giant black X

Perfect for grown-up boys who never got that Neil Armstrong-themed bedroom as a kid.

slutty anime.

Christmas all year... Kinky?

Lock your partner in the torture cell and command him to pee.

If their date is late or a favorite room is still occupied, patrons can wait in these igloo-shaped internet booths.

Carousel room with toddler's faces plastered to the wall. Hello, pedophilia- here anything goes!

A train to love-land

kitsch-tastic

hello kitty weeeee

the spider room: swing from side to side of the room on chains and live out your spidey fantasy

Notice how the clock is set to 3:40 p.m., right around the time when most students have left the building and you have your detention student all to yourself.

this one scares me.

yes, broccoli? i'd like a reservation for two.

love hotel hill, osaka

documented 1/09 – 1/10

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 individuals suspended in a moment of tension. Beneath the surface they embody the impacts of aggression, territorial desires, isolation, and pack mentality.

Both human and animal interactions show patterns of intricate, subliminal gestures that betray intent and motivation. The things we leave unsaid are far more important than the words we speak out-loud to one another. I have learned to read meaning in the subtler signs; a look, the way one holds one’s hands, the tightening of muscles in the shoulders, the incline of the head, the rhythm of a walk, and the slightest unconscious gestures. I rely on animal body language in my work as a metaphor for these underlying patterns, transforming the animal subjects into human psychological portraits.

I want to pry at those uncomfortable, awkward edges between animal and human. The figures are feral and uneasy, expressing frustration for the human tendency towards cruelty and lack of understanding. Entangled in their own internal and external struggles, the figures are engaged with the subjects of fear, apathy, violence and powerlessness.

Something conscious and knowing is captured in their gestures and expressions. An invitation and a rebuke.”

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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.

She has a great eye for selecting exceptionally striking designs and concepts. As I am becoming increasingly shoulder-shruggy toward blogs that seem to mainly post about damn PRODUCTS and ITEMS to $purchase$, this is a refreshing alternative for goosebump-giving visuals.

Thanks for stopping by, and do visit Twisted Lamb!

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 new.

Platform beds have surprisingly appealed to me for a while now. Previously, Princess and the Pea-stacked beds were a rule of thumb in my boudoir bible. However, over time, something about dreaming on a low-to-the-ground piece of wood has become rather appealing to me {and not because it reminds me of Kate Winslet floating around on the wooden board in Titanic}. Less surely seems to be more in my eyes nowadays!

Anyway, I’ve decided that my next bedroom is going to be based on this image from the film I Love You, Alice B Toklas!:

It’s sort of 60′s flower child meets Indian elegance.

Man, I wish I could’ve been a part of Venice Beach at its prime.

“Who else could open a supposed treatise on Symbolist painters (quick, log onto Wikipedia!) with a blast of Led Zeppelin, gigantic overblown shapes, eye-watering color, and a whole lotta bling? Why, only John Galliano in his haute couture mode, of course. He blew vast volumes of air into multiple meters of duchesse satin, and whorled floriform shapes and swing-back swags into every passing silhouette. For garnish, there were great plastic flowers, chunks of sparkle, and frissons of dangly paillettes as embroidery. Topping it all off: towering laquered updos—”inspired by Vreeland’s Vogue,” he said—with myriad lamp-shade and saucer hats made to hover over them by the gravity-defying hand of Stephen Jones.

Somehow, Galliano’s primrose path of inspiration had, he said, wended its way from John Singer Sargent’s Madame X through to the gilded swirls and bejeweled geometrics of Gustav Klimt. All that richness—plus the vibrant reds, magentas, yellows, purples, and limes—meant the collection teetered (atop vertiginous à la Japonaise platforms) on the brink of overload. Still, strange as it may seem, this was not one of Galliano’s more manic excursions into fantasy costume. In the end, something in the odd air of high-society sixties hauteur came over as surprisingly chic.”

X

“Who else could open a supposed treatise on Symbolist painters (quick, log onto Wikipedia!) with a blast of Led Zeppelin, gigantic overblown shapes, eye-watering color, and a whole lotta bling? Why, only John Galliano in his haute couture mode, of course. He blew vast volumes of air into multiple meters of duchesse satin, and whorled floriform shapes and swing-back swags into every passing silhouette. For garnish, there were great plastic flowers, chunks of sparkle, and frissons of dangly paillettes as embroidery. Topping it all off: towering laquered updos—”inspired by Vreeland’s Vogue,” he said—with myriad lamp-shade and saucer hats made to hover over them by the gravity-defying hand of Stephen Jones.

Somehow, Galliano’s primrose path of inspiration had, he said, wended its way from John Singer Sargent’s Madame X through to the gilded swirls and bejeweled geometrics of Gustav Klimt. All that richness—plus the vibrant reds, magentas, yellows, purples, and limes—meant the collection teetered (atop vertiginous à la Japonaise platforms) on the brink of overload. Still, strange as it may seem, this was not one of Galliano’s more manic excursions into fantasy costume. In the end, something in the odd air of high-society sixties hauteur came over as surprisingly chic.”

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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 fantastic environments surrounded by friendly little animals, the landscapes are familiar yet surreal, hinting at a fantastic narrative while suggesting truths about the real world at the same time.

And here is some of their inspiring art!

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 being}. A friend once told me that “dreams are outlines for achievable goals”. Make lists! 2009 was difficult for many, so suit up and take control of all that awaits you! The past has provided lessons learned and thicker skin, and you have  been given the wisdom and courage to conquer the future. Isn’t the unknown exciting? This is your year- you have the power to make it anything you wish it to be!

Love,

Jessie Askinazi

“From now on I will make burning my aim, for I am like the candle: burning only makes me brighter.”

- Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

Andy Warhol

(And me!)

Anywho, here’s a history lesson that’s both visually enchanting as well as substantial.

Or you could go look at photos of gifts to buy from Urban Outfitters. Either/Or.

Czech puppeteering has achieved this significant status for a number of reasons. First and foremost there is still a widespread, although by no means completely historically accurate, conception of the role played by Czech puppeteers in the period of the national revival, that exceptional process, at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, whereby the modern Czech nation was formed, and the leading forces of the nation combined to fight against the gradual decline of the Czech language and to give rise to a new national self-confidence within Czech society.

The amateur puppet movement, widespread in the first half of the 20th century, also evokes feelings of considerable respect and, after the period of the folk puppeteers in the 19th century, forms the second critical phase in the history of the development of Czech puppetry. At that time there wasn’t a city, town or even village in the Czech lands where amateur puppet players didn’t play puppet theatre for fun, and the entertainment and aesthetic education of their children. With their enthusiasm and self-sacrifice they only constituted a unique phenomenon in the puppet world of the time, the range of their activities having no match in Europe, but they also created a fertile enviroment for the creative development of such eminent artistic personalities as Josef Skupa and Jiří Trnka.

To these historical associations in the general consciousness we can also add the fact that, after a complicated development in the 20th century, contemporary Czech puppet theatre has now reached a momentous stage in its development. The dream and the goal which generations of Czech puppeteers fought for has at last become a reality: On the basis of its artistic achievements, puppet theatre has fought its way up to take an equal standing alongside the other theatrical arts. Not only is its relevance to society completely accepted, but so are the unique possibilities of achieving artistic affects which arise from the expressive qualities of the marionettes themselves.

We can say without fear of exaggeration that contemporary Czech puppet theatre plays a significant role in Czech theatre culture as well as in the context of world puppeteering, and that the work of its leading protagonists is playing a leading role in determining how puppet theatre will progress and develop. At the same time it is contributing to the development of modern theatre culture as a whole.

For the bride, one of the most important tasks to tackle is that of… THE DRESS! With the thousands upon thousands of designs and designers available, I’m surprisingly turned off by most: I just can’t stand the whole poufy-satiny-strapless-David’s Bridal seeming gowns; I can’t deal with tacky wedding flair.

That being said, I decided that there is only one designer I would ever select from (if and when it comes time for me to chose a wedding dress, ha). Her dresses are just… me. The name of the designer is Claire Pettibone, and yes, the dresses cost a pretty penny. I never thought I would be particularly interested in a fancy gown, but her designs are truly remarkable pieces of art; every detail is exquisite; they remind me of the 1930′s and earlier. I suppose it’s inevitable that I’d be floored by dresses that are vintage-inspired. I can’t imagine myself in anything else.

Okay okay, I’ll hush: Here are my favorites!

*but I would totally remove the hideous flower

Oh! Oh! Maybe I could change into that little get-up for the reception!

{Or maybe I should go on a date first.}

Yeah…

Ironically, as a former monk, he lived with almost no furniture for 10 years. An inveterate world traveler, Robbins now splits his time between designer showrooms, his New York City studio, and the various remote jungle communities where he buys his wood and often employs local craftsmen to help create his pieces. Mixing ancient tribal motifs with modern styles, he calls his mode of furniture design “modern primitivism.”

Found Beauty

Robbins makes two or three trips to different tropical jungles every year, spending several months at a time. He has trekked to Guatemala, Africa, Timor, Borneo, the Philippines, and elsewhere to acquire the raw materials of his craft. It is illegal to harvest many of the species of rare, exotic hardwoods Robbins uses in his designs. So instead, he “recycles,” buying up timber — some of it over 100 years old — that has already been logged and hewn and, in many cases, put to some previous use by the peoples from whom he buys it.

Thus, boards from old houses become bedframes. Baskets made of vines are re-purposed into lamps. The roots of dead trees are carved into coffee tables, where the design itself is suggested by the wood’s sinuous shape. As a craftsman, Robbins possesses skills that place him in the top echelon of designers; but his ingenuity in giving new life to old wood is unmatched.

Putting the Art Back into Artifice

Because it has been worked by hand rather than by machine, much of the wood Robbins uses has a texture all its own. Moreover, oils from human hands have conditioned the grain over the years, giving it a rich, natural patina that would be difficult if not impossible to simulate using modern finishing techniques.

But what truly makes his work stand out is the absence of the artificial symmetry — and depressing sameness — that is the hallmark of factory-made objects. His furniture pieces are beautiful precisely because they lack “perfection” in the Western sense of the word. Instead, they possess balance, wholeness, harmony, even a history. Each piece may have a utilitarian function, but it also has a story to tell and draws the eye as a work of art.

Yet his furniture is furniture that is used, and it can be seen not only in high-end showrooms but also in people’s homes and places of business. Interior designers, decorators, and clients worldwide have responded enthusiastically to Robbins’ vision, discovering in his pieces a naturalness and one-of-a-kind individuality that is many steps removed from the sleek, anonymous, mass-produced quality of so much modern design.

In the end, the result of his non-Western approach to furniture-making is a product that is at once comfortingly familiar and excitingly new.

Chairs

Coffee Tables

Dining Tables

Stools

Beds

Storage

Lighting

Accents

Kwaheri!

Louis-Ernest Ladurée, a miller, founded the bakery on the Rue Royale, Paris in 1862. During the Paris Commune uprising of 1871 the bakery was burnt down. A pastry shop was built at the same location and Jules Chéret was entrusted with the interior decoration. The chubby cherubs dressed as pastry cooks, painted by him on the ceiling, form the company’s emblem. The interior of the premises were painted in the same celadon colour as the façade. Ladurée’s rise to fame came in 1930 when his grandson, Pierre Desfontaines, had the original idea of the double-decker, sticking two macaron shells together with a creamy ganache as filling. Queen Catherine de’ Medici had brought the macaron to France from Italy in the 16th century, and the recipe for the biscuit had hardly varied over the years, but the amounts of the ingredients used and the appearance of the end product were up to the individual bakers.

Desfontaines also opened a tearoom at the pastry shop. In those days women were not admitted to cafés, which were the exclusive domain of men. This was a big success with ladies, who enjoyed meeting in the freedom of the tearoom rather than their homes.

In 1993, David Holder and his father Francis Holder, founder of the Holder Group decided to buy this Parisian institution, and promote and enlarge the famous “Maison”. In September 1997, a new prestigious Ladurée address both a restaurant and tea room opened on the Champs-Elysées. The mission of the President David Holder is thus to bring back the great classics, which have contributed to the reputation of this ‘salon de thé’, as well as create an environment for gastronomic creativity in Paris. With him, Ladurée will be a tea salon, pastry shop, restaurant, chocolate shop and an ice cream parlor.

-STORY OF THE  MACARON-

These small, round cakes, crisp on the outside, smooth and soft in the middle, are made every morning in Ladurée’s “laboratory”. With each new season, Ladurée pays tribute to this its most famous creation by creating a new flavour.

-SHOPS-

royale

bonaparte

champs elysées

harrod’s, london

dublin

burlington arcade

mitsukoshi ginznza, tokyo

-Chocolat-

-Other Goodies-

wedding cake

tarts n' pastries

pates fruits

preserves

marshmallows!

-Gifts-

shopping bags

candles

bath & shower gels

for xmas

christmas treat

gift box

LADURÉE also made the pastries featured in Sofia Coppola’s Marie- Antoinette.

Let them eat cake!!!

xo. Au Revoir! xo.

{Favorite LOOKS and why she RULES!}

“We all need an image that screams, ‘I’m an individual!’ I think Jennifer Aniston is beautiful — she’s gorgeous — but I prefer to look interesting rather than pretty.”

FAME MONSTER

“Pop culture is art. It doesn’t make you cool to hate pop culture, so I embraced it and you hear it all over The Fame. But, it’s a sharable fame. I want to invite you all to the party. I want people to feel a part of this lifestyle.”

“I’m not trying to prove to anybody that I’m going to be here for 30 years. You either are or you’re not. You either have passion for it, or you don’t. It’s either important for you to stop, and buy a condo, and have babies, and marry a rich actor, or not do any of that, and continue to make music and art, and die alone. Which is what I’ll probably do”

She made a name for herself on the Lower East Side club scene with the infectious dance-pop party song “Beautiful Dirty Rich,” and wild, theatrical, and often tongue-in-cheek “shock art” performances where GaGa – who designs and makes many of her stage outfits — would strip down to her hand-crafted hot pants and bikini top, light cans of hairspray on fire, and strike a pose as a disco ball lowered from the ceiling to the orchestral sounds of A Clockwork Orange.

1) SHE’S GOT A HELL OF A SET OF PIPES.

2) SHE WRITES HER OWN DAMN MUSIC!

3) SHE’S SUCCESSFULLY MERGED ACCESSIBLE, COMMERCIAL POP MUSIC WITH AVANT-GARDE, EDGY VISUALS: SOMETHING THE MAINSTREAM HASN’T SEEN SINCE… FREDDIE MERCURY OR MADONNA? I MEAN, THE BITCH HUNG HERSELF LIVE ON MTV WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY TOPPING BILLBOARD CHARTS AND RECEIVING WORLD-WIDE PRAISE.

4) SHE MAKES HER OWN COSTUMES AND HAS AN INCREDIBLE EYE FOR DESIGN AND FASHION. SHE ASSEMBLES SOME OF THE MOST KILLER LOOKS I’VE EVER SEEN!

5) HER PERFORMANCES ARE OVER-THE TOP, OUTRAGEOUS AND WILL KNOCK YOU OFF YOUR SEAT, LEAVING YOU WITH YOUR JAW ON THE FLOOR AND ALWAYS GUESSING.

6) SHE TAKES THE RISKS MOST PERFORMERS COULD ONLY DREAM ABOUT AND UNVEILS INNOVATION.. WHO ACCEPTS AN AWARD WITH THEIR FACE COVERED IN RED LACE AND THANKS GOD AND THE GAYS? GENIUS. SHE KNOWS THE CARD SHE’S PLAYING.

7) SHE IS AN INSPIRATION TO WOMEN! AT 23 YEARS OLD, SHE’S CREATED A DISTINCT GAGA UNIVERSE WITHOUT BEING PORTRAYED AS “JUST ANOTHER PRETTY LITTLE POP STAR”.  WOMEN ARE MARKETED AS SEX OBJECTS MORE OFTEN THAN NOT AND ARE PRESSURED TO LOOK, ACT, BE “PERFECT” (A STANDARD THAT SAYS NOTHING NEW, TAKES NO CHANCES). FOR ME, IT’S SO INSPIRING TO WATCH A LADY WITH SUCH RAW TALENT EXPRESS HERSELF AS CREATIVELY AS SHE DOES. NO ONE IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC HAS TAKEN THE PERFORMANCE TO THE EXTENT SHE HAS AND REACHED COMMERCIAL SUCCESS ON THIS LEVEL.

I’M A FREE BITCH, BABY.

alexander mcqueen cruise collection

alexander mcqueen spring 10' bracelet

opening ceremony shoes

yohiji yammamato

for the love of metallics!

viktor & rolf 2010- GENIUS

maison martin margiela

balenciaga, bitches

givenchy, god-like

giles!

lanvin

brainwashed to own this dress for the holidays! {anthropologie, $188}

adorable marc by marc jacobs sateen top via gilt groupe sample sale

Let’s all melt down together.

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alexander mcqueen cruise collection

alexander mcqueen spring 10' bracelet

opening ceremony shoes

yohiji yammamato

for the love of metallics!

viktor & rolf 2010- GENIUS

maison martin margiela

balenciaga, bitches

givenchy, god-like

giles!

lanvin

brainwashed to own this dress for the holidays! {anthropologie, $188}

adorable marc by marc jacobs sateen top via gilt groupe sample sale

Let’s all melt down together.

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Though Merrild was not purely a Surrealist or a Post-Surrealist, his work was easy to claim by such groups for it contained biomorphic and sexual images, as well as images of space, clouds, water, stones and nature. In addition, like the Surrealists, he employed non-traditional techniques and used unusual materials. His constructions incorporated housebuilding materials like wire, roofing paper, glass and scrap wood; his collages were made of magazine cutouts, wallpaper and fabric, and his watercolors were unusual with their undercoat of unevenly applied gesso, incised imagery, and top coat of wax. Merrild’s 1930s output consists primarily of paintings, some of which are highly built up with gesso or other material; gesso-wax watercolors; about a dozen constructions and three collages.

In 1942, Merrild developed his technique of painting which he called “flux”, a process by which he alternatively poured, dripped or expelled paint from a dispenser onto a fluid surface. According to Merrild, “A natural consequence of the process is that orthodox tools are of little use, being replaced by gravitation. The paint is expelled at various distances, from zero to several feet above the surface–painting by remote control. The pattern created differs according to the velocity or gravitational force, and to the density or fluidity of the paint. The impact of the expelled paint with the fluid surface creates fissions or explosive eruptions, more or less violent, and the painting is set in motion in four dimensions. Mutations follow, lasting from seconds to several hours. When in motion, incessant mutations of color and form ensue, until arrested in a metaphor of its own Flux. Left alone, it becomes an automatic creation by natural law, a kinetic painting of the abstract.”

M E L I S S A   D I A Z

Melissa Diaz received her BFA in painting from the University of Central Florida: It was there that she learned to incorporate painting into 3-dimensional work, leading to Installation Art and alternative showing spaces in Orlando. During her stay, she co-founded an artist collective {Thread Orlando inc.} Melissa went on to continue installation while finishing her final thesis requirement for her MPS in Art Therapy from Pratt Institute in New York.

“I create all of my pieces on site, having no clear idea of what the outcome will be before I arrive: I trust in the process and work in a purely intuitive manner. My work is all about the viewer experience, sharing, playing and fun!”

She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. {Did I mention she’s an awesome lady and a dear friend?}

“Walking into someone else’s house for the first time is like entering another country.” – Angela Chase, My So-Called Life