desk reads.

here are 7 online magazines to 'flip' through. chocked full of great info, they are all FREE and won't clutter up your living room.

neet magazine is all about the d.i.y.

prim magazine just came out with it's first issue and has a little bit of everything, including swear words.

slash magazine's tagline reads: a quarterly for the extra observant and is maybe a bit "smarter" than the above two.

art krush is strictly about art. it's like getting artforum sent right into your inbox twice a month.

vice magazine is one that everybody loves to hate, but it's updated everyday and it's writing 90% worthwhile {just don't read the user comments}.

the believer is from the mcsweeny's conglomerate, but it's never updated enough and teases you with half-articles, but they usually have interesting"online exclusives".

harper's is like readers digest for geniuses and you might as well just subscribe to it. it's only 17$ for the year and your guests will think that you're really smart. plus, once you're a subscriber you can read articles on website that date back to the 1850's.

film fest.

the 17th annual philadelphia film festival started yesterday and i'm just now getting around to checking out the films that are playing. after reading all of the two sentence blurbs, it's still hard to tell which movies are worth seeing. words like "quirky" "hard-hitting" "dramedy" and "romp" don't actually tell you much and most of the movies seem like they could probably go either way. there's really too many to choose from, but here are a few that seem interesting.

Phoebe in Wonderland


Mongol


Join Us


Fata Morgana



what are you going to see???

animal cams!

a long while ago someone sent me a link to mr. lee's catcam. it's is a device equipped with a light-weight camera that attaches to a cats collar, which takes a picture every few minutes and gives a visual on just what cats DO all day. i think that if my cat had one it would be; the couch, the kitchen table, the other couch, the kitchen counters, etc. these guys have it a bit more exciting.

recently photographer john downer did something similar, but with elephants! for a bbc special about tigers they created high-definition cameras hidden in logs that were carried by trained elephants. animals are my new favorite photographers.

monkey & bear.

although i still have no flyer for the show, no information about other artists in the show and a really cruddy detail shot of my own piece, i might as well post about it anyway. i have two pieces in a group show at topstitch boutique here in philadelphia. the theme is "paper dolls" and i made some twee marionettes. monkey & bear.



you can make the monkey take his top-hat on and off and the bear can do a little dance in her ballet slippers. the opening is tomorrow at 3rd and market {2nd floor} from 6 to 9pm.

palettes to wear.

wear palettes is a mash-up between two of my favorite sites the sartorialist and colourlovers.



they 'extrapolate' images from the sartorialist and create coordinating palettes using colourlovers. pretty darn clever. here is my 'wear palette' for pretty much the next 6 months.