Tan de Repente / Suddenly (2003)
Takeo Takei illustration, via 50 watts.
Sometimes you have to switch things up a bit, like planting begonias on the balcony or trying out a spicy mustard.
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Glutton, 2010
“There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.”
R.I.P. Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928 - May 8, 2012)
(Source: inessentialhouses)
Jaime Angelopoulos, Untitled, 2012, pastel on paper, 31 x 29,5”
Louise and Martine Fokkens are 70-year-old identical twins. For 50 years they’ve worked as prostitutes in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. In their long and illustrious careers, they helped establish the first trade union for prostitutes, freed themselves from their pimps and ran their own brothel. Despite being inseparable, Louise has decided to retire from the business and is adjusting to a new life away from sex work. Martine carries on, still needing the money. A different type of clientele visits these local celebrities, as Martine allows us inside her booth to see her day-to-day working life and the men who inhabit it. Now these matriarchs find themselves facing an industry from the outside as it changes beyond recognition, the old set of values they were used to long gone. Meet the Fokkens is a peek behind the curtains of two ladies who have seen and done it all.
(Just caught this last night at Hot Docs in Toronto and it was hilarious and moving and thought-provoking. Do see it if you can.)
One of my favourites, Travis!
*re-working*
Travis McEwen
oil on canvas
18” x 16”
2012
I’ve been known to create a fake cake every once in a while (following Amy Sedaris’ recipe), but those are nothing compared to Scott Hove’s Cakeland. One day when I have my mansion I may commission him to create a cake room for me.
Cakeland is a series of sculptures and installations resembling perfect delicious cakes— wall mounted, hanging and standing— and walk-through cake environments complete with their own lighting.
(Source: kingkwongkweenkwong)
Cartoon of the day. Don’t forget to enter this week’s caption contest: http://nyr.kr/r46had
(Source: newyorker.com)
Hannah Höch (1889 – 1978)
Woman with cat, N/D
Here’s my talented brother Sean performing live projections with Tasseomancy at the Royal Ontario Museum last night.
(Source: mianoti)
Descriptio Anatomica Capitis Foetus Equini Cyclopici by Immanuel Ruben.
