this fish is incredible. the monterey bay aquarium just recently found the first live barreleye fish with it’s transparent dome head intact. those little black dots aren’t his eyes, those are his nostrils!! his eyes are inside the transparent dome! INSANELY COOL.
you can watch a video of the barreleye fish swimming around on the national geographic website.
my first completed drawing after those photos of flocks of birds. not sure if i like it. i think i need to hop on my bike and pick up some grey/blue paper. or maybe a peachy color. just not brown.
did you have a productive day?
more tim walker.
i posted about tim walker a while back, but after returning to look at more of his photos this morning, i decided to show you a bit more of his work:
a lot more on his website.
Why didn’t Cloudy love me? I loved her! At the Humane Society they let you visit with your potential kitty in a seperate room so you can see if you like each other… of course, as soon as they put her down she just curls up next to my sister and ignores me. Ugh. Maybe I came on too strong? (Why does this sound like going on a first date??)
I even filled up a water bowl and litter box in preperation for bringing her home today… kinda depressing to come home empty handed.
things i’ve read, 2009
maybe a better title for this blog would be “things i want to call and tell nina about, but don’t want to call three times a day because she’ll think i’m insane.” suits my life right now.
so, despite the madness that’s been consuming my days, i’ve kept on target for 52 in 52 so far. here’s what i’ve read so far:
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food, which started off with great questions and interesting ideas, and ended with what i found to be obnoxious first world “solutions,” which are inaccessible (however visionary and appealing) to most people.
Maira Kalman, The Principles of Uncertainty. I like her. She thinks like us, in the sense that she finds the minutea of everyday life interesting.
Shalom Auslander, Foreskin’s Lament made me feel clued in to a lot of the trials of growing up in a strict Jewish community. Really funny, he’s got a great wry sense of humor.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet. Everyone says this is a life changing book to read, therefore I assumed I would be annoyed by it. I actually felt like I could relate to a lot of what he was saying, though, especially about alone-ness being a creative force in one’ life.
William McDonough & Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle… I liked it, especially in terms of the ideas they put forward about completely flipping the ideas about how/why we make things. I love the concept of trying to create things that are actually useful/helpful once they are discarded, and thinking about the entire life of goods, instead of just how we will use them in our own lives. I felt like it got kinda technical and jargon-y at the end though… I am probably a bad environmentalist for admitting that the last 1/4 of the book was kind of a drag to finish.
Bill Buford’s Heat is about his time working for Mario Batali, as well as working with food and chefs/artisans all over Europe. Mario Batali is one of the most interesting characters in this book, he is completely insane (I’d love to hang out with him). Proof of craziness:
Hilarious.
I imagine that Christoph Niemann’s article about experimental lego representation (called “I LEGO N.Y.”) would be funnier if I lived in new york, but it’s pretty funny already.
Rediculous. They’re called New Kids on the Glock. As in glockenspiel. They covered D.A.N.C.E. by Justice. Need I say more? There’s also a video out there of them covering the Beach Boys, too. Ahhhhh. This has put me in a much better mood.
I think I’ve posted about Ray Fenwick recently… actually, I think VERY recently. I will double check. It’s probably because he’s a genius, and I am a huge fan. If he was my neighbor, I’d make him tea every single day. Cookies too, probably, just to get him to hang out with me. I’m a creep.
Aaaaaanyway, thought I’d post some of his series of friendship bracelet paintings, because I’ve been missing my best friend!
found these weird dog lamps as i was searching for a new desk lamp today… weird. for sale at design public.
i can’t seem to put the video directly into my post, but you should really check out Theo Jansen’s talk for TED… creepy robot monsters…
my brain is exploding.
Were you aware that our dear friend Nathan now has a website? I know. The photos he’s got up right now are all gorgeous, these were four of my favorites.
He seems to be alive and kicking, according to the absurdly long message he left me last week. I’m glad, I was starting to worry (the grandmother in me worries a lot).
