Etsy Perve

Elizaveta's creations are amazing. I came across them a couple of months ago and still feel actively inspired by them.

Some current pieces available in her shop:

Some past favorites:

Excuse me, I'm off to bedazzle my shoes.

Sit vis nobiscum

May the force be with you and your crazy costumes:

Ernie Cline - Fanboys.

Anthony Georgis

Ah fandom, one of my favourite guilty pleasures. Not saying that I used to read Harry Potter fan fiction or anything, I'm a serious student of literature...

Skin

Today in my lecture for post-colonial literature we got given a sneak peek of the new film Skin that is coming out later this year (or early next). It tells the rather extraordinary story of Sandra Laing, a black girl born to white parents during the period of Apartheid in South Africa. Don't judge it by the trailer, which is much more overstated then the film itself.

I don't know, maybe it's just because it is fresh in my mind, but when I saw these works by Devin Troy Strother posted on My Love for You is a Stampede of Horses (link) earlier today, I started thinking that they explore some of the same issues.

One thing is for sure, I love his work. I think this guy is a genius. A visual symphony. I'm in to it.

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is on flickr. Lots of historic snaps have been uploaded including this iconic beauty:

“Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange.

Sebastian Mlynarski

Haunting and mysterious or quirky and fun. This guy takes my kind of photos.

Take a look at his website. Found via Free People.

Could Be Me

If you haven't already you need to.

"Could be me" is a project exploring possibility of one artist occupying another's space. It is a visual adventure and an interpretation of the same sentence by different artists worldwide . (taken from the site)

Jon Macnair

Holly Exley

Andres Yeah

The site has about a million submissions to feast on. It's amazing the scope that the project has covered. Found via Pikaland (great site)!

Hair Hats

Quirky? Check.

Nagi Noda extraordinaire.

Superbomba Fantastic

Superbomba's Photostream changed my life. Krisatomic featured the stream a wee while ago and, like them, I lost track of time looking through every single one of the photos.

A friend of mine was talking about how facebook heightens your voyeuristic tendencies, Superbomba is like that times a million for me.


PS I had that inflatable dragon water toy when I was little, not that Nana though.

Psychadelic Kittys

A friend of mine is kitten/puppy/cute furry little animal mad. I initially bought her a vintage top with two kittens on it but was quite annoyed to spy a rather large stain on it when I got it home.

This is what I ended up doing:

I embroidered (long stitch maybe?) the background and popped it in a frame. I think she liked it, I'm never sure if my quirky taste in crafts translates to other people as good tacky or bad tacky. It's all the same to me baby. Sorry about the bad quality pic - I snapped a quick one on my web cam. Note to self: charge batteries!

Other stitch inspiration:

Subversive Cross Stitch

I love the idea of a "Fuck You, Get Out of My House" sign stitched in such a traditionally warm way. Amazing.

The Beatles Piñatas

I am about to embark on making a bunch of piñatas for my birthday celebrations. I was thinking The Beatles circa Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Watch this space.

I love you Ringo, John, Paul and George.