storm tharp.

while i was in nyc last week i made a point to go check out the whitney biennial. overall there wasn't too much that i was excited about. that is, except for the series of paintings by storm tharp, which i really really like. a lot. unfortunately they were placed in a room with marianne vitale berating the art audience via video, which was both annoying and attention getting; so these paintings probably didn't get as much eye time as they should have.

gasp!

we have a winner in the perricone giveaway! congrats to me melodia for getting her name randomly chosen! now she can stay looking like a hot young reality tv-ready babe for a long long time.

{karin bubaš via wool gathering}

them youthful hardships.

some good words of advice from bugs.

{via the a-haa}

flowers of a hundred generations.

simplicity is beautiful. momoyogusa's mount fuji.

{via nevver}

a gift.

happy monday everyone! i think that this week i'm going to be putting together a holiday gift guide. a nice lil something for everyone.

{images from gates of heaven}

by ray.

ink drawing by ray "is not my brother" eames from the work of charles and ray eames.

untitled.

'we should not be moral but we are, and all kinds of emotions that are very, very unwelcome creep in, and we have to deal with them. one of these emotions, which is completely useless and creeps in all the time, is guilt...so whenever guilt comes in we want to get rid of it because guilt is extremely painful and we are not here to experience pain. exorcism is necessary when the guilt has come in and you want to forget about it. you want to forget about certain experiences because they are forbidden. sculpture needs so much physical involvement that you can rid yourself of your demons through sculpting. drawing doesn't have that pretension. drawing is just a little help.'

{ taken from louise bourgeois: drawings and observations}