to look like a Belize postcard

YOU'RE OFF THE LIST.

I'll always choose the black in front of white

HAHAHAHAHAHA. At last! Common Sense has a victory!

I just bought a pair of shoes online. Holy Jesus. I even tried to stop myself by assessing my bank account and figuring out my budget for the next two months and this still did not deter me. I think I have a sick, sick addiction. However if you found a pair of shoes you really REALLY wanted for $200 and then found them somewhere else for a quarter of that who are you to resist? Probably a stronger willed person than me. I feel extremely guilty every time I buy something that is not photo-related however since I am organising that photo shoot in a few weekends I feel slightly less guilty. Plus I am shooting Di next friday night so that is something else. QUIT HASSLING ME. Also Yolanda just emailed me to let me know she sold a bunch of my prints at Pick and Mix so I feel slightly artistically gratified, and am putting the finishing touches to my entry for the Clothespeg Show. I want to post it here to get some helpful criticism but then again am terrified of failure and rejection so most likely will just keep it to myself and post it later. Doing all this illustration stuff makes me feel kind of a fraud sometimes, I feel like every time I submit something that isn't photography I am kidding myself, but then again all my illustration derives from photographs so I guess it's kind of a,what do you call it, evolution? Anyway am also thinking of opening an Etsy store if I manage to actually complete this series of images I want to do/am working on. Which means you people would have to buy them. Deal?

all the umbrellas in london couldn't stop this rain

There was this crazy storm the day before we left New York and the light changed so much in the space of 40 minutes. I tried my best to capture it with my little point and shoot but these were the best I could get. To the right is 2 minutes after it started.






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Goddamn I love nature sometimes.

hoping there's a method to your madness

So I just went to the post office and was very excited as there was virtually no line and only a woman standing in front of me wearing one of those hats that have those massive visors and wheeling a small suitcase. They guy behind the glass calls her over and he's like "Was there a problem ma'am?" and she goes "I WANT TO SEE THE SWITZERLAND PACKAGE AGAIN" to which he produces a folder size envelop with a billion stamps all over it addressed to (I am presuming) Switzerland. So she looks at it and drums her fingers on the counter and starts fidgeting and then she says:

Crazy: "I just don't like it. I mean, this is going to Scientists and DOCTORS and it has MY WORK in there and the way you have stuck the stamps on makes it look HAPHAZARD."

Clerk: Blinks. Silence. Continues to hold package up.

Crazy: "I mean, they are going to see that and assume I am a disorganised person!! If you look at the other envelope I stuck all the stamps IN A ROW. VERY NEAT. I'm just VERY UNHAPPY with what you did."

Clerk: Blinks again. Looks at me, I make a "She's Cuckoo!" hand motion near my head and cross my eyes, he tries not to laugh.

Crazy: "WELL??"

Clerk: "I understand you are unhappy ma'am but unless you want to repay for all the stamps I can't change their position."

At this point I was called over to the other counter so didn't get to hear how it ended but OH MY GOD. Who would ever judge someone on STAMP PLACEMENT?!?

Side note: Kristin Stewart and Dakota Fanning are across the street.

it's all about the makeup and the dancing and the Oh

I have a piece in this show so please go down and buy some art work. It's super cheap and the other artists are way better than me so really, you are making an investment of the smart variety. BUY BUY BUY NOW NOW NOW!

intelligiable, and cute as cupid

So on sunday night Jake and I went and did our best to help out at the fundraising event thrown at the Echo for the cat shelter we both volunteer at. I thought I was going to be bartending but turns out they didn't need anyone for that so instead got stuck at the merch table with a woman who I am not completely sure had Asperger's. Least to say it wasn't the most fun filled evening, that is until she left for the evening and it turned into me running it with two gay side kicks. one being 12 and one being 18. Holy crap I haven't laughed that much in soooo long and the stuff that was coming out of the 12 year old's mouth was so insanely funny I wish I had been writing it down. My inner Hag must have been working over time as later on a 20 something gay also showed up to help out. So it turned out to be super fun after all. Plus they (me) were selling these awesome tote bags that had animals screenprinted on them and one of the styles was a sausage dog! Sadly there are no sausage dogs at the shelter. Probably for the best seeing as if I don't have a door, I probably shouldn't get a dog.

sounds like a mountain range in love

Here are some of my favourite points from the trip (not in any order):

1. Upon arrival, Jake's dad picking us up at JFK dressed like a driver, complete with doorman hat he borrowed from his doorman and a giant hand drawn sign saying WEISMAN.





2. Seeing the city from such beautiful heights, and getting to watch a thunderstorm come raging and and then zoom out, changing the light and colour across the landscape every few seconds.

3. Driving out to the Berkshires, staying in the Berkshire, eating pancakes the size of hubcaps in the Berkshires and running down that hill. Oh what a whimsical place. Plus, the cow are gay and the Llamas are hipsters.

4. Big Pimpin, Hunx and his Punx, David Hyde Pierce wears Hats, Knish (light on the mustard), POUGHKEEPSIE, Fleigals, chasing ducks, Scarsdale 101, the Great Fly Swarm of 2009 and bizarro scoops.

5. Having brunch with Allison and Joey at Cafeteria and all the time not being able to get the terrible image of Sarah Jessica Parker in that terrible tie-dye thing out of my head.

6. Johan Johannson at La Poisson Rouge.

7. Meeting Meredith for wine and surprise snacks in Washington Square park on the evening everyone heard about Michael Jackson and surprsingly enjoying a group of people singing all his songs with improvised instruments. Not enjoying it so much when they broke off into Paul McCartney.

8. Meeting Sarah Bellantoni and her man for dinner and discovering addictive fried sweet noodle snack things. Holy balls delicious city.

9. Watching the constant power struggle between Ellie the naughty kitten and Lynn, Jake's mum.

10. Gin Rummy, Mahjong, Annagrams, reading a book in a day, raining a lot but still feeling so lucky to get so much time with Jake and to be in New York!

There is way more but I'm having problems translating from brain to hand right now and I need to go somewhere in a minute so this will do for now.

dull people exist to make sharp people feel sharp

One of the greatest ladies I know is sending out a call for works for her third volume of this great exhibition. If you makes the art then I suggest submitting! Here is some info:

The Clothespeg Project launched in Perth W. Australia in 2007, the concept is based around these simple instructions...submit any style of work, about any theme you like, with whatever content you want - there is no limitation other than size. Previous volumes have included work from graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, tattoo artists, textile artists, painters, street artists and sculptors. The open submission format welcomes submissions from anyone. Currently in its third volume the project will be touring to Sydney and Perth with a call for works currently open.

As part of The Clothespeg Project an award is offered (sponsored by our lovely host galleries) for one artist who is declared the 'best in show' to receive a free solo exhibition in the space. Past winners have included local designers Sean Morris and Kate Anna Williams.

in a cereal box on top of your stereo

We are back from New York and I am pretty exhausted so am most likely not going to post properly until tomorrow. Although the thought of talking about everything we did is exhausting and terrifying me in its extent right now so maybe it will just have to come out piecemeal. Anyway, the abbreviated version is I had a great time, the weather sucked for the most part, we saw some great exhibitions, I want to move to rural Massachusetts now, I ate too many pancake related things, I also ate the majority of Jake's Magnolia birthday cake, I got new glasses (see below) and finally got to meet Allison and Eloise. Anyway more to come when I am not still feeling slightly delirious from lack of sleep and time zones.

all my cars got leather and wood

New Face New York.