they call it night

i'm strangely especially in love with this most recent collage i've done, for an upcoming group show at white walls.

so many aspects of this one are pleasing to me, some of which are tied simply to the process of creating it. but mostly i enjoy that it is a rather …

rock paper scissors

went to the opening last night for a group show i'm part of in sausalito, along with my dear friend jane, whose new work is amazing.

wasn't really sure what to expect in sausalito but we had a great time, good turnout and i sold the above collage... a little sad to see …

green apple

i was over at my favorite bookstore this evening, hunting for material. they've been doing a lot of purging of old stock and rearranging lately - a few times i haven't been able to find a section or two i usually hit up. the weird thing is, three of the main sections i …

blood and water

went to the edward gorey 'dracula' exhibit at the cartoon art museum on sunday, as well as the nearby aquarium at the california academy of sciences. these visits were simultaneously belated and premature; the former, because the day before was a free for all, and …

non sequitur

lovely group show at ritual this month, guest-curated by sacha eckes. hope to see you at the opening!

mineral paradise

this site has a lot of wonderful photographs of minerals, which i love to look at. here are some favorites... most of the dimensions of these pictures are in millimeters. while i mainly enjoy them for their variety of form, abstract beauty and strange echoes of other …

lithospherics

i know that we have little earthquakes here all the time, but i've only ever felt one noticeably, when it jolted me awake from a nap. sometimes i think i'm crazy for choosing to live on a faultline, surrounded on three sides by inevitably rising oceans. this isn't the …

ox eye moon

i did a little rambling over here the other day: artheadsf.blogspot.com about the above collage.

blunt-leaved milkweed

air, land, and water elements growing as one here

i'm really enjoying this new series so far

fall forward

fall is my favorite season. it took me a while to get the feel of them here in sf, the rhythm of the seasons is much more subtle. i felt a bit in limbo for a while without the changing of leaves and temperatures and then snow... but now i can recognize the colder …

furry frost

these here are pictures of false fungus frost. this is an extremely rare type of frost which is apparently formed by water freezing as it is pushed out of the wood.





so bizarrely beautiful.

i love how the top one has a warhol part in it.

there is a lot of great information …

flowers in ultraviolet

these are photos of flowers in ultraviolet: pollinating guide patterns not visible to human eyes.

natural light:



same flower, ultraviolet light:



another flower, natural light:



same flower, ultraviolet light:



same flower a third time, ultraviolet flourescence:



lovely …

haunting

opening the door to go into the ladies' room at work this morning i had a brief premonition of encountering a ghost or dead body behind the door. this happens to me frequently, to the point where i half expect that at some point i really am going to have a ghostly …

flock of blades

vote for nathan cordero

he is an awesome artist and one of the nicest people i've ever met

aura portraits

i really want to get my aura photographed

the "original" aura imaging system

i guess you can get it done for only 25$, seems like the kind of thing san francisco would go for so i bet there's one here. must find it.

blood blossoms

i keep having nosebleeds, for about a month straight now. every time i blow my nose, my right nostril complains reddishly.

my mom recommended putting vaseline in my nose.
having vaseline in your nostril feels like breathing in a warm fog.

we must be having dry weather.

construction zone

went to sfmoma yesterday to see the joseph cornell exhibit with audrey. she gave me an awesome glow-in-the-dark resin cast insect keychain which i'm going to make into a pendant (which is what she did with hers). thank you audrey.

the exhibit was fantastic, i don't …

after life

how i might die terrifies me, but what's worse is imagining my body slowly rotting, helplessly just succumbing to the elements, turning to slime over time. when discussing it with a friend recently, i became so alarmed at the thought that i might NOT be cremated …

begin here

a place to keep my thoughts.

stormy weather

i've been up all night obsessing over lightning photographs and aurora borealis time lapses online, among other wandering webby things which i should not be idling the hours away at.