Toast Tea

I miss this guy.

Photo: Jen O'Malley

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Danny and Julia

My grandparents met in the Bronx when they were 19. She was wearing a red dress. He always says "she was walking around like she had lost something, turns out it was me she was looking for."

Today is their 61st Anniversary

He still uses my Return of the Jedi juice cup that I loved when I was 3

She cooks the best chicken and rice.

He likes to invent things

and fix things

They love this tree

They sing in Spanish

and always make us laugh

Te quiero mucho mucho

photo: Jen O'Malley

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Hand Knitten

Kate Jenkins is a crochete artist from Brighton whose philosophy is that anything can be created from yarn as long as it is made with love. I think it's plain hilarious. Check out some more of her work here.

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Put Some Yarn On Your Head

photos: Jen O'Malley

These beauties are now available on my Etsy Store. Made from high quality silk, organic cotton, bamboo and merino wool yarn. Alex, I think it's time to bring the Barfs back and we can knit and crochet people from head to toe.

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MACHIKO

Japanese illustrations are becoming fast and furious, my favorite kind of illustration. Still a huge spot in my heart for cutting and pasting , Machiko does some beautiful pieces.

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Book Boner

Paul Graham

A Shimmer of Possibility

Inspired by the short stories of Anton Chekhov

Chekhov's six principles that make a good story:

1.  absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature

2.  total objectivity

3.  truthful descriptions of persons and objects

4.  extreme brevity

5.  audacity and originality: flee the stereotype

6.  compassion

Sam Winston

A Dictionary Story

"When it comes to typography language always comes first. This might seem like a fairly obvious statement to make but to find this harmony between content and form is incredible hard."

If I could only feel the weight, smell the ink and glue, listen to the subtle crackle open. Guess I will have to make my own. ; ) 

 

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Annalemma Issue Five

oh my! It has been a busy few weeks. I am finally coming up for some air. I just finished designing and laying out the next issue of Annalemma Magazine. It is a relatively new literary and art mag that features amazing writers and artists from all over the United States. You can get a sneak peak of the roster here. It was a really fun project and I will keep you posted on the release date. 

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Nature Morph

I am researching a logo project and flickrd " crocodile" and found these... Amy Ross is a Boston collage artist who does these incredibly amazing mushroom collages and bird illustrations. Inspiring, no?

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to capture...

light.
Lauren Ward

humor.
Will Sanders

serious.
Martynka Wawrzyniak

I cant pretend to be a photographer, although I do believe I would be able to capture a moment in all its beauty and light, maybe adding some humor to the set or perhaps some serious children. Endless possibilities...just need a good camera. And some fun masks ...

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Fantazma Gloria

Biddy Maroney has a cat named Machete. She is one half of we buy your kids and has a plethora of dark and amazing illustrations. One of her designs was pitched to an artist who wanted something dark but then graciously said no thank you-" not that dark". To which Biddy smiled.

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my love of moustaches revealed

I learned a bit of graphic design at Shillington College in Melbourne, the website was the best one i could find out there and it was actually a whole year ago when I started...i was on the site and noticed my work made a little appearance..so funny. The brief was for an italian restaurant...just thought I'd share;)

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Forecast

floral

have a beautiful weekend

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My Eyes Were Thirsty

If you've got a minute or eighty to look at some great sex, drugs and rock n' roll images that are well suited to leading us into summer, I would recommend a beer, some eels music and a soft pillow. Get comfortable.

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E. Wallman In Australia

It turns out this raconteur is as skillful in photography as he is slinging rotten fruit across parking lots, disguising nutella on your doorknob, or making you collapse in laughter telling his collection of amazing stories. I've picked out a few pretty images that I like from his trip, but to get the full sense of his point-of-view visit the pharaohchin. (I am not sure if Eric was in your neck of the woods. Recognize some of the places?)

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Order/Chaos

What is hidden inside Yukinori Maeda's Cosmic Wonder? Exploration.

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