Diane Arbus

I recently watched the film "Fur: Diane Arbus" and fell in love with it. The film is based on the female photographer's life but explores her deepest most inner thoughts, it uses beautiful imagery and color and simply blew me away.

And now...more about the artist:

"Diane (pronounced Dee-Ann ) was a privileged child, raised with her two siblings in large apartments on Central Park West and Park Avenue. She later told Studs Terkel, for his Hard Times: An Oral History of the Depression , "I grew up feeling immune and exempt from circumstance. One of the things I suffered from was that I never felt adversity. I was confirmed in a sense of unreality."

The wealth was complicated, as it often is, by distant parents: her father was kept away by work and her mother by depression. She was loved more than she was known. In her New Yorker review of two new Arbus exhibits -- Family Albums , at the Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, and Revealed , at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art -- Judith Thurman writes of Arbus, "Her heritage was, in fact, that of most artistic children of privilege, who feel that their true selves are invisible, while resenting the dutiful, false selves for which they are loved: a dilemma that inspires the quest, in whatever medium, for a reflection."

She was luminous, with large green eyes, a delicate, exotic face and a slim body. And she was, writes Thurman, "nubile" (almost every published photo of her has a sexual charge to it). All kinds of people were captivated by her, and she was captivated by all kinds of people."

Hope you enjoy, I found her to be quite interesting.

images found via diane arbus google search.

shocking.

how knitted-ly neat. also, knit knit has a cable knit postcard. I love the idea of a mail man delivering alternative materials. Which reminds me of a time when a good friend sent me a sweet little clear pitcher with a lovely hand painted drawing and address upon it, no packaging. It arrived just the way it sits in my fridge. Also, mail art is fun. If you're interested in a swap let me know.
ps. i hope you enjoyed my title pun.

Jens Lekman

Also, please listen to this if you have the chance, 'Postcard to Nina' is in there and I love that story version, although the above clip is pretty good too. ps. I may or may not have a school girl crush on this man. Seriously, he's adorable.

image found here.

roses are rustic?

these are flipping brilliant. i want them, no. i need them.
by allen company inc.

April is...

national poetry month. (also, beautiful and employs mother nature awareness {earth day}, so all in all a good month.)
i found this free verse project that engulfs both poetry and photography. beautiful//perfect.
project found here.
images via free verse pool::flickr.

yes.

Thank you hope.

image via ffffound.com

The Canvas Project

"The goal of the exhibition is to create a visual encyclopedia using mini canvases and artists from all over the world. At least one of your canvases will be published in an Art House book and one will be on display at the worlds busiest Airport, The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport."

The entry fee is $18 and they send you five 3"x 3" canvas'and then pick one to display in the airport. GENIOUS...on their part. They're getting people to pay them for art! It's true, but I also think it's worth it. Plus, they'll publish a book with your work in addition to the exhibition. I've always wanted to leave my mark in the world, this just might be it. ps. join me!

more info here.