leggo my eggleston

Snooping around at my new place of work, came across some stuff by photographer William Eggleston. I really like his work. Also, um, I have found my doppleganger...see the last picture. Freaky, right?

this is just to say

i hope i am not sullying the content of this blog in posting this video, but this is too good not to. I feel that it is, in some way, wrong to say "I want to be this," and yet...

battle of the fishes

Andre Masson was an artist in the early 20th century, whose work was of the surrealist school, and marked by the use of automatic drawing. The top one, my fave, is called battle of the fishes, and evokes an undersea environment through vague doodling, without any actual representational forms. The colors are great, and it reminds me of embroidery. I like it a lot.

My Kind of Man

I wish I had a time machine, so that I could go to this concert. Neil Young is grunge with soul.

I Love Libraries

So I've recently decided that part of my life's work will be to tour the world's most beautiful libraries. This one, La Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Lengua, in Madrid, would be a good place to start. Here is a url for more awesome libraries, from a great travel blog called Curious Expeditions: http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=78

Kiss Me Kees

Thought the blog was looking a little drab, so naturally I turned to my friends, the Fauves. I actually don't really like most fauvist art, but Kees van Dongen made some wonderful portraits. Kees was a dutch painter who began exhibiting in Paris in the early 20th century. I put two of my faves above; you can tell he's a sartorialist at heart.

Oh No

Researchers in Virginia found that due to
pollution the scent of flowers, which could travel up to
4,000 feet during the nineteenth century, now travels not
even a quarter of that distance