as long as there's no packing tape spiders.

a giant packing tape cobweb showed up in vienna.  they used 530 rolls of packing tape to create this giant sticky mess.  i bet everyone climbed out of there completely lint-ball-free.

made by the numen group.

i have to deal with crowds of skunks chasing me all the time

and that is why i love that jon han painted a picture of a girl being chased by her own crowd of skunks.

a kind reader asked if i'm still painting since i hardly ever post my own art anymore - it's true, i do! here's a few from the farmer's market set last week.... and some are for sale at etsy, since i retreated from the rain before i sold out!

mr. mackie frequents dark corners.

and when he's in those dark corners, he picks up owl pellets. yes, owl pellets! those magical/excrement-like bundles of joy/disgust that you dissected in summer camp! then he creates incredible things, like balls of skulls. i bet he makes an incredible mess doing all this.

I LOVE messes.

alastair mackie! keep up the good work! also, give me a call if you need help dissecting those pellets. i'm the best owl pellet dissector around.

see more of mr. mackie's work here. there's all sorts of mysterious found objects and scientifcally-altered things there. you won't be disappointed.

migrating birds.

the family and i migrated to the migrating bird festival - there were lines of seabirds passing overhead almost constantly!

this shark can ollie better than you ever could

haroshi makes lovely sculptures outta ratted-up skateboards.

helpful graffiti.

Doesn't this make every walk through the neighborhood a bit more suspenseful and exciting?  who knows what kind of characters you can run into if you look for them.

via wooster collective.

a lil dose of monday mexicana

from stinkfish in oaxaca.  I think it's definitely time for my spraypaints and I to go on a little vacation down south.

cartography as art

a map of the changes in the river bends of the Mississippi River over a millenia, as illustrated by Army Corps of Engineers in 1944.

mr. varanese and his incredible love of the color orange.

no matter how he assembles his orange posters, though, it's always good. alex varanese must plant lots of marigolds in his yard. more orange beauties here!

sticky fingers

tanja hartmann created these amazing meringue rings out of silicone. the only thing preventing me from purchasing one is thinking about how i'd grow hungry every time i glanced at my hands.

they're only $22! shocking!

doug firs like a good rubbing.

bryan nash gill takes incredible wood prints from (surprise!) actual pieces of wood.  the man must be insane with the prices he dreams up, but isn't it delightful that through the power of the internet you can see this lovely thing without purchasing it?

what is super interesting about this print, though, is the weird tree ring pattern going on here.  each one of those rings grows uniformly around the tree every spring and summer, but Gill carves slight bumps and ridges into the face of the stump to get those tight clusters of rings. you can see how he made it here or (have lotsa dollars?) buy it here.

bread and puppets' manifesto.

amanda friedman's up at night.

but thank goodness she is so she can take more shots like this one.

more here.