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.

good times over at the flickr pool

look what the fog rolled in

when I left the house it was sunny
and I wore my super wide brimmed hat...
a homeless woman said
"I like your big hat, it's as big as my headache.
Go on girl, walk right cause you a star."

By the time I reached the beach,
the fog had climbed onto shore
and was hugging everything...
it was fun not knowing what lay 20 feet ahead.

I came upon this ewok-dog hybrid named groucho,
according to his owner he likes meat and the ladies.

And on the pier (see photo),
the guy in the striped shirt
was doing the entire Thriller dance,
which was particularly amazing to watch
in the fog
and set to the sound of
harping seagulls and waves rolling in.

excuse my beauty

All captured in a 15 minute walk around the block...

momversations

Mom: You wont believe what happened the other night, it was the straw that took the cake!

if you decide to take a walk in the rain

If you look at the clock, and it is 3:41
and realize that you are still braless
and in pajamas.
and it is raining.
You may want to get dressed and take a walk.

When you walk in the rain in Los Angeles,
there is a good chance
you will have
the place to yourself.

You could see a mama duck with her babies
make good use of the park
that stretches out like a green tongue
from the Venice Library,
A tongue usually claimed by the homeless
who have moved their city under the library eave
and out of the wet.

You might happen across an art gallery
and be the sole customer
and get to take all the time
in the world
to enjoy
the Confabulations of Tucker Neel

You would get to see the sky
feathered out like watercolor on heavy parchment.
And the light would make
the color of things painted for safety
(curbs and pylons)
pop out in 3-D.

And as you walk back home
you may look up just in time to see
a big truck
with the words
Blessings Transportation painted on the side
pass by.

on yesterday's walk

someone wrote the words "small penis" on the side walk
just, small penis.
no, I have a small penis
no, he has a small penis
no, she has a small penis
no, _______ has a small penis

just small penis.

an old Russian couple, probably in their late 70s
sitting on a bench,
and looking out at the ocean.
she was nagging him in Russian
and then his cell phone went off
and it rang with the cheesiest, casio-toned version
of "when the saints go marching in"
that I have ever heard.
hilarious.

a young guy with an Israeli accent
asked me to take his picture (with his camera, not mine)
so I did.
I liked that he just wanted a picture of himself.
It would have been funnier if he asked me to take a picture of himself with my camera.

I saw this magnificent creature


I noticed a Range Rover stopped in the middle of the road
with it's hazards on,
and two women standing over a seagull.
I asked if they had hit the seagull and they said no,
but someone else had and it was very much alive and
the women couldn't bear the thought of someone hitting it again.
It was sitting upright like a goose on her eggs
and it's tongue was hanging out the side of it's beak.
It was clearly in shock and had urinated in place,
staining its feathers yellow.
Someone (not the two ladies) had put two vienna sausages nearby
so that the bird would have food.
It was heartbreaking.
and I had to go to work.
The ladies had vowed to at least find a way
to move the bird to the grass.
I thought about it all day yesterday.

I didnt go by to check today.
but I am thinking about the kindness of those two women
and whoever left the vienna sausages.

R. Crumb Science Fair

I love them all!
But, I have fallen particularly hard for "animal magnetism".

there was a "The Ideal Pancreas: Part 1"? WOW.

They break my heart with their pimples and schlummpy I-wish-I-was-invisible shoulders. As if being a 5th grader isnt hard enough, it's the height of awkward for most of us. Oh, that was an unintentional pun ( I was the tallest girl in 5th grade). But I loved the science fair for giving the popularity-shunned a moment to shine. And it inspired such wacky creativity like "The Code of the Meniscus". Not a baking soda/vinegar volcano in this bunch!

safety instructions for the kidz

Stolen from the seat pocket of my Virgin America flight.


Joseph Campbell once said that adults wearing shorts marked the downfall of a civilization (that's a paraphrase)...I wonder what he'd say about adults wearing shorts while flying?


I like that her shirt rides up exposing skin and that she's got hairbands on her wrist (I relate)


Yo Girl, your bra strap showin...

Props to Virgin America for using hip-hop video dancers as it's safety demo models


I agree, disc-man is OUT! But I cant play my boom box? Why you gotta be like dat, Virgin America... ?

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