Impressions

Don't you just love it when an artist with a beautiful style is sent your way? Lauren Nassef's work is delicate. Barely there.

Impressions of moments. Whimsical and vague. Lovely.

Check out her website, her work deserves more recognition.

I Love Love.

It's true... there was a time when I doubted that I would ever find it, simply because I could not imagine what it could really be like. The truth is, it surpasses how wonderful you ever think it could be. You know how it is; you just don't know, until you do.

Enjoy these this series called Love Letter murals by Stephan Powers with the City of Philidelphia Mural Arts Program.

The Seed Cathedral

This amazing piece of work was created by Thomas Heatherwick for the 2010 Shanghai Expo. It is dubbed The Seed Cathedral, it is a structure that is covered in 60,000 acrylic rods, each rod embedded with its own seed. Therefore in total there are 60,00 different seeds from around the world. It is suppose to symbolize the importance of protecting and archiving our world's ecological identity. Isn't it simply amazing??

Miranda Kerr

Alright, so you are used to seeing this little lady do her thing as a Victoria Secret Angel. She got big with them back in 2006; a tiny Aussie girl with a cute butt and sweet face. Sounds about right yeah? Recently though, she took a break from commercial print and ventured into the world of high fashion editorials. This particular spread called La Mauvaise Education, was shot by Greg Kadel and is set to appear in Numero magazine. Take a look, she looks considerably different than her usual, long dark curled hair and bare body. Personally, I think its a step in the right direction, she looks great! Much more interesting.

New Painting!

So I finally finished a painting that I have been working on. It is my first in what may turn out to be a series for me (we will see how it goes ;) based on Julius Shulman's photographs. The photo up top is the particular photo this painting (still unnamed as of yet) is based on.

I took a page from my sister's book and followed suit with progression photos. I am what you may call a lazy painter; I sketch on the canvas and work from there. Well, here you go and enjoy!

What Can Still Happen

Every time something really really bad happens, I spend a few moments considering quitting. Just kind of, everything. By saying this I don't mean anything like suicide, but rather just a giving up of ambition. Of trying. Overtime, I over come it. But I have only ever had to deal with emotional scars. Never physical.

The woman who painted this, Lisa Fittipaldi, is blind. She was born with her sight, and then lost it later in life. She paints with incredibly bright colors in all of her works and with soft, beautiful detail. She determines which color she is using by feeling the textures of her paints.

I realize these two things may seem non sequitur, but I promise they arn't. It always astonishes me what people are capable of after horrible things happen to them. Amazing things can always happen. It can be so hard to remember that.

The Magic of the Mouse

Alright, so its time to admit how completely smitten I am with Disneyland. I mean smitten like, will read a book about Disneyland, will collect Disneyland art books as soon as I can afford to, would spend the money to fly to and enjoy the massive consumption that is Walt Disney World, would have passes so I could go on random afternoons, love Disneyland. This is a love that stemmed from my sister Lisa who when I was little, would take me fairly often. She was so good at it too, she would get up super early with me, we would stop for Taco Bell breakfast burritos, and we would get there before they had opened Main St. Then she would go on ALL of the rides with me AND totally get into the spirit. It really was so awesome. No one had energy to go to Disneyland with a kid quite like my sister did. And because of her taking me, now I have the luxury of Disneyland really feeling SO familiar to me, in such a wonderful, comfortable way. I suppose the only place I really draw the line with Disneyland is with souvenir's. I was never really one for Mickey Mouse T-Shirts, sweatshirts, lollypops or shotglasses. I am more of a Designer Micky Vinyl Toy, Star Tours T-Shirt, maybe a piece of fudge kind of girl. AND NOW, vintage Disneyland art kind of girl.

Recently, Jeff and I went to Disneyland for our two year anniversary while we were both back in Los Angeles. While there, we came across a souvenir that we both loved. It's really quite awesome; in one of the stores on Main Street (the same place with Abe Lincoln) they have kiosks where you can search through digital archives, pick a piece of art and order prints of them. In different sizes, matted, not matted, on canvas, on paper, framed, you name it. My favorite artist that I found on there was John Hench, one of the main, original concept artists for the creation of the park. His works are BEAUTIFUL, mid-century, futuristic works of originality. We ordered a print of one with monorails and the submarines in it (unfortunately I have not found an image of it online) and we are waiting for it to arrive in the mail.

So yes, here on some of John Hench's works for you to feast your eyes on. The only way to really see his most amazing works is to buy one of his few coffee-table type books available at Disneyland and through Amazon, for scans of most of prints don't exist online.

Also, as a side note, I have been fantasizing lately about going to Disneyworld and staying in a big beautiful hotel and spending a week and a half adventuring with my love. Ha who wouldn't? (Don't answer that, I am sure many people would prefer not too lol)