SpoonFed Art

project 33

Project thirty-three is one of my favorite blogs on the web...
it's run by Jive Time Records, a Seattle-based record store that specializes in used vinyl, and it's their homage to the seemingly infinite number of vintage album covers that convey the feeling of the record with only simple shapes and typography. 
I check it out from time to time & it always makes me smile!

thoughts for the new year...

(JonathanAdler.com)

Méliès moon

Happy new year!!!

1960s-esque

one lifetime

George ✩

the vogels

Okay, I know... enough with the film festival already. 
I promise I'm moving on, but I have to sneek in just one more on the way out...

It's Herb & Dorothy, aka Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a documentary about a couple with modest means but a deep passion for art.  Somehow or the other these two unassuming people - a postal clerk and a librarian - managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very little money.  You just want to hug them both, and I honestly started to cry as I watched the 5 full-length moving vans removing their collection from their
one bedroom New York City apartment. 
It's a remarkable story, and it just makes you happy to know that people like the Vogels exist...

lovely nico

Nobody does eerie dust-bowl balladry and
anachronistic rustic-murder milieu quite like Nico. 
I drove to Athens, GA night before last to see her, and I'm so glad I did.  Her voice could launch a thousand ships, fire a million cannons, and I don't doubt for a second that she could cause entire cities of men to follow her to the ends of the earth.  Her voice is strong and pure, and strikingly similar to a tornado,
not only in lyric but in quality as well...
whewwww...

in spades

This is my new favorite thing.

I ordered it online and I know
I shouldn't love a "thing" so much, but I do. 
It's Kate Spade, and the interesting thing is that shortly after I got it, I became head over heels enamoured with the idea of spades, and cards, and chance.  So much so that I proceeded to make this just for me...

And this...

And now I'm wondering if I'm trying to tell myself something.

Maybe to call a spade a spade?
That makes sense given certain
particular situations in my life right now.

Or maybe it's that everything is coming to me in spades?!
hummm... both are definitely true -
the good thing is
that it's definitely a good thing either way ; )

black + white

pretty chair

Hi!

I've been painting this weekend, and just generally getting things ready for Indie Craft Parade, which is coming up in less than 2 weeks... wow.  How did that happen?   Anyway, in my ferocious search for interesting ways to display the paintings, I came across this great chair at ye olde local Goodwill.  It was sad, and black, and there was no "seat"... but I made a couple of adjustments and I love how it turned out. 
And it was $10... (love that too!)

Have a great week!