sunday snack: roma & sun-dried tomatoes, basil, olive oil, balsamic vinegar with fresh mozzarella on top. so yummy!! (i wish we could get real sourdough in seattle, though.)

i got this from allrecipes. you should make some too, and invite me over. clicky.

i just spent about an hour marveling at the work of arthur hash. (marveling sounds better than gawking and drooling, right?)

he plays with shapes & space, polyurethane & metal, and i want to touch all of it.

arthur’s website has a mesmerizing slideshow of goodness, including what i think are computer prototypes of some of his pieces. he’s also got a flickr pool. and, for those of you who have any kind of “job” or “money” go directly to etsy.

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one of the only consolations to be found in the declining state of…everything…may be that while the world gets scarier and scarier, the onion gets funnier and funnier.

satirical, thrash metal, styrofoam-head wearing band gwar on joan rivers’ daytime talk show?

it happened!

oh, and seattle-dwellers: gwar is coming to showbox in november. enjoy!

from the wiki

In détournement, an artist reuses elements of well-known media to create a new work with a different message, often one opposed to the original. The term “détournement”, borrowed from the French, originated with the Situationist International

the family circus and nietzsche meld is randomized, but consistently brilliant. clicky.

here’s a détourned blondie comic that explains détourning! clicky.

finally, a treat called “can dialectics break bricks” which we’ve watched on video for years. it’s a détourned martial arts film that now focuses on socio-political critique. it’s absurd, very smart and so very funny.

one of my favorite scenes: over a dozen young and talented marshal artists in a courtyard, showing their skills, high kicking, breaking stuff with their hands and faces, jumping around expertly. their teacher approaches the front of the group, who fall into formation to listen to his wisdom. he looks to them knowingly and says “i would like you to remember that my karate teacher died of a bullet in the head.”

i love this film. and, now that we live in the future, you can read about it, or even watch it on the internets.

<thanks for the comic link, collin!>

last sunday was marked the begining of the craft season in seattle with i heart rummage at the crocodile cafe. i took some photos of a handful of the completely amazing artists there, but i didn’t have time to get to everybody…that means i’ll be making the rounds again next time. will you be there?

next ihr: sunday, october 7th.

in the meantime, check out the photos on flickr! clicky.

this is a photo of my friend lisa’s mom, who grew up on a farm in the early 40s.

i have gone back to look at this pretty much once a day since she first posted it. there’s something so touching and real about it…in some weird way it feels timeless, too.

anyway, i had to show you. it’s too good. clicky
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if you wore this, i would point and yell “hey look out! it looks like a monster is scarfing your body! get it? SCARFING?! hey, wait…where are you going?”

but i’d only do that because it’s so damn cool. if i wore it, i would always yell “oh heck, it’s up to my…” and then make disturbing gacking noises. in public. because i’d have to. clicky.

this is a 1988 dodge colt and i am the original owner. this car is named “marv” and is currently half covered in peeling, fraying, disintegrating duct tape.

last summer i convinced paul, the primary driver and my husband, that it’d be a really cool idea to cover this car in duct tape. and it was cool. last summer, it was an awesome duct tape art car. today, it is just sad. and so is paul. but paul is not as sad as the car. look at it.

no really, here:

see? doesn’t it make you feel sad? doesn’t it!?

you: “oh my, yes. i have looked at this car and felt the sadness.”

me: “i know, i know. it’s going to be ok because, you can help.”

you: “me? but, i’m just one person! i can’t make a difference!”

me: “come on now, muffin. don’t be like that. let me show you how….”

if every person in seattle (and bellevue) who walks by this car takes 15 seconds to peel off a piece of failed duct tape, we could have him naked in a matter of days. once he’s naked, he’s a canvas again and we have plans. fancy plans, with pants to match.

so, look into your heart. can’t you spare 15 seconds to peel this car? for the price of . . . nothing, you can give new life to a very, very, very, very crappy car. how can you look into those headlights and refuse to help? you can’t. you just can’t. i know you. you’re a good person. now, prove it: peel this car.

please?

this has no tags, or captions. i guess the title says it all?

anyway, i think it’s right nice. originally uploaded by cwchen07. clicky.