creative solutions

There are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter in every square mile of ocean in the world. Fran Crow started collecting it from her local beaches and then recycled it into art.


I like that as a metaphor for all our unresolved and unpleasant emotions, take the shit and make art!

More Spring Celebration!

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

In honor of the vernal equinox and the first day of Aries...
RAM-BUNCTIOUSNESS

smile getters of the week

SEEING...
-A middle aged Asian man wearing lederhosen with matching "cap" walking his bike down the street.
-A sign spinner "riding" his sign like it was a bucking bronco and waving an invisible lasso overhead.
-Homeless men in Ugg boots.
-...->THIS
-Be Kind Rewind, the latest Michel Gondry film.
-The wisteria blooming outside my window.



-pictures from a friend's adventure of diving with Great White Sharks





EATING...
-wild arugala
-thin mint girl scout cookies kept in the freezer
-red mango with lime juice

HEARING...
-song sparrows going OFF!
-The Tubes "White Punks On Dope"
-"Ramble On" by Led Zepplin (always)
-Blitzen Trapper, The Dragons, Over the Rhine, Liam Finn and the piano solos of Dustin O'Halloran.
-someone playing ragtime music on the piano as I walked by their house
-about the dolphin that saved the whales

Cloudtastic yesterday!

in my hood, the shopping cart has been elevated to
urban utility vehicle, sporting accessory and creative medium.

tonight's sunset

LUSCIOUS.