dark days

dark days and late nights.
lucius' room is good. the side of our home is warm. our porch is cold.

homebody

In an effort to cut down on the all night fucking non stop party thats consumed the last month or more of my life, I've put effort into my homebody skills. This includes making vegan chocolate cupcakes and buying pretty flowers, collecting weird branches for the house, and crocheting ropes to decorate with using the most brilliant wool yarn. Anyways, cupcake flowers flowers. Yarn ropes to come soon.

free things and color coded books.

Today I cleaned out things and color-coded my bookcase.
The above boots, shoes and shirt are all for freeeee!
The boots are super rad granny boots sz 9-9.5
the flats are pretty much brand new, leather, size 10.
and the JP designed tank top is super hot, just doesnt fit me right. I tried to make it work, but its not lookin' good on me, so it will probably look good on you? its marked as being a size L, but i think its closer to being a medium.
anyways, get it while its hot.

Camera Obscura

Yesterday Miles, Drew, and myself went about the process of turning our apartment into a camera obscura. It was Miles' idea, and with his guidance we were able to succesfully do it- and it was so amazing!!! Definitely one of the coolest things I've ever been a part of making. We covered every window in our house with layers of garbage bags, blocking out as much light as possible. Miles made a small, penny sized hole in one of the bags in the main room, he made a little lense using a straw, and his ear plug, and he was able to direct the light/image and focus it a little bit more onto our walls. It was an awesome experience, we all sat back on the bed and just watched cars, people, and bicyclist go by. It was awesome to see the wind blowing trees around and try and figure out what buildings we were looking at, and what signs, since everything was upside down. I took a few photos of the process, and Miles took a couple long exposures of the images being projected on the walls. They arent super crisp, but you get the idea. Just imagine being in a very, very dark room at 2p.m. and watching the world go by, upside down, on your living room walls. So rad!!!

a man, a foot, a cloud, a googley eye.

left over portraits and hazardous debris.
beware of the googley eyes, they will turn toes into martians and your cat might try and eat them. p.s. isnt miles a total babe?

neverending projects.

Miles and I completed the largest portion of a project we are working on together, last night. It is a good feeling! We worked for about 3 solid hours last night, and today we will do more of the technical assembly portions of this anticipated project. Here is a little glimpse of what we are doing, but I can tell you no more! It looks like we can unveil this project in just a few days...maybe today if the printing goes well! So, stay tuned, and be stoked, because this is gonna be so fun.

listen up!

I came across Meryl Smith's blog tonight. Check it out here. Its pretty amazing and very strange, I really like how she uses basic materials, (like gauze, above) and creates these fanciful and bizzare objects.

When Miles and I were in Portland we went to Pistil, a nursery which was recommended to us by Jessie-Mae. It was a cozy little place and we got many new plants for home. These were the three I picked out.

Lana and I had an exhausting photo shoot today. Look for the photos tomorrow. We made clouds for the set!

lunch.

Yesterday at lunch time I made some red chard and leeks. I added walnuts, salt, and cumin. it was amazing. Miles and I ate it with scoops of brown rice. yum. I never have ANY light in my kitchen, and it breaks my heart. I have a beautiful little studio and no natural light. This is the best photo I could get of my chard, after holding it, in pan, around my window for 10 minutes trying to find the most light.
Miles and I are going to do some modifications to my Polaroid 360 Land Camera in a couple minutes...I will keep you updated on that because its exciting!

Lastly, I've been obsessing over TV on the Radio's first E.P. lately. I was into it a few years back, but I dont think i've listened to it for a few years now. Its amazing, you should re-introduce it to your musical library. Young Liars is an amazing song.
And thats about it for now!

ice cream you scream

Tonight I made Vegan Cookies and Cream Ice Cream. I have an ice cream machine that I dont use often enough. The ice cream is dreamy. I think i finally figured out how to make it keep a good consistency, but i never have anything to store it in. This is kind of a problem, but tupperware works for now!

foods.

The good thing about working a farmers market is the insane amount of free food i get every week. Right now the farm i work for is growing amazing fall and winter foods- we have beets, winter carrots, turnips, radishes, chard, kales, mustard, fennel...etc! Last week I took home three bunches of baby beets and decided to make a kind of risotto. I was inspired by my friend Jessie Mae of Vegan Soldier who made a vegan beet-risotto dish. I have been trying to eat a variety of grains and came across a recipe for barley risotto. You know, creamy long cooking grains with lots of veggie broth and onions and garlic. yum. Anyways, i combined the two recipes, stealing Jessie Mae's beets and the barley risotto recipe from Super Natural Cooking. It was delicious. I had (free!!) pine nuts on hand so i toasted them and added to the whole deal. It was bomb. I took a few photos. Come over for dinner sometime. I will make this again. It's too good, and the barley really stands up against your typical arborio rice for the risotto...its slightly nutty and has a great texture. Okay, enough pretending to be a pro chef. Go make yourselves dinner.



Washing baby beets!


Chopping red cippolini onions from the farm. They are so small they look like little leeks inside.


The finished project! Barley Risotto with Roasted Beets and Pinenuts. And its vegan, too.

little mice.

we have atleast two hundred toy mice in our studio. these are the favourites. the left one is a faux suede hard little mouse. the middle one is the plush catnip mousie, and the janky mouse with no head in one i crocheted and stuffed with catnip. he has a white looped yarn tail. anyways. mouse mouse mousehouse.

yellow submarine.

last night:
40's
whiskey
too much pot
yellow submarine
suprise visits from lana
tacos
polaroids
bedtime.

from the vault.

a long time ago I took polaroid portraits of my friends. I have since broke two sx-70's and am no longer able to take such crisp polaroids. anyways, these are two of my favourite portraits i took. its so strange how the colors in each one are so different. using mostly expired 600 film with an sx-70 is always a gamble, sometimes the colors look dreamy or bitter, sometimes they look pretty true (as Cory's does.) I hope that with christmas coming up I will maybe get some money to buy another sx-70!

sometimes.

sometimes you flip through photos and find something you never noticed before.

necker.

i invented a cozy neck warming device that has many functions. i am dubbing it "the necker". it is a magical neck warming cozy that is ideal for riding bikes (as their are no annoying scarf flaps slapping you in the face), it is also a makeshift hat, ear muff, and if you have long thick hair, or dreads, you can store them in the necker. girls and boys with longer hair are encouraged to tuck hair into necker for safety and comfort purposes. the necker is a crocheted, woolen cozy that slips over your head and rests on your neck/ears/face. soon there will be neckers in many colors and even many with your initials crocheted onto them. here are some horribly lit photos of the necker, as i am in a rush to get to work!
so, what do you think? bad idea, good idea? would you wear one?

birthday fliers.

For the past few years i have made ms paint/photoshop fliers for every and any occasion. most often these are birthday fliers, but sometimes they are sexy rock and roll parties, going away parties, old man parties, etc.
anyways, my birthday is coming up very soon, so i made a flier for the occasion. i searched my computer for old flier files, and i found a few, but sadly, i think the first ones were erased in the epic computer crash of 2007. i love making fliers, i think i should do it professionally. hire me, okay?

lets wear pajamas.

Here is a cozy man falling from the sky. He was supposed to be Rick Moranis, but looking at it now, I dont know why I thought that.

Fox.

My astounding friend Lana came over dressed as a fox yesterday. She put together the costume with a digital sewing machine and all her love and magic. We took a few photos before she departed to a party in a Vet's building. Lana is amazing and her costume is perfect.

Also, I dressed like a tired college professor for a few hours. It was fun, drag is good.