i see your kittehs and raise you adorable noises...



(still can't embed videos because i'm a dumbass)

we say meow!

because what could be better than combining art and kittens?

feat rilo kiley, bon iver, clap your hands say yeah, devendra banhart, broken social scene...
illustrated by andrew j miller and proceeds go to charity.

what more could you want?




(narwhals?)

go read (or listen to) this piece on npr.org!

"She says that when you touch a narwhal, it feels like a cold, hard, slippery inner tube. And the breath from their blowhole isn't that great. "They have whale breath," she says. "Kind of a heavy, little bit blubbery smell."

That night in her tent, Laidre hardly sleeps, waking every hour to check the nets. When she does drift off, narwhals swim into her dreams. One dream narwhal beaches itself by her tent. In another dream, she finds a strangely tiny narwhal, like a salamander, lying at her feet. "Now I had too many narwhals," she laughs, "but for various reasons I still couldn't tag them! So they were really weird dreams, and then I woke up and I thought, I think it might be time to go home.""

to whom it may concern

two artists decided to send a handwritten letter to every person in a town in antrim. fer kicks.

THIS JUST IN

WHITE SOCKS ON AMERICAN APPAREL I REPEAT WHITE SOCKS ON AMERICAN APPAREL

how happy is the blameless vestal's lot! the world forgetting, by the world forgot...

my last few days have pretty much been spent wondering whether or not i should rewatch eternal sunshine. i've seen it twice, and i kind of don't want to spoil it by over-watching it, or to ruin my idea of it. hm. but i wanna waaatch iiiiit. i am indecisive. i've been thinking the same thing in circles for weeks. i want to watch it, but i don't want to ruin it, but i want to watch it, etc. ARGH.

in other news... actually that's it really. um.

LONDON SOON YAY

samorost!

just played samorost 1, which is surreal and cute and weird. now playing chapter one of samorost 2..

yes, the daily mail is filled with hateful bile, but they also have lots of ridiculous humaninterest filler. case in point, bus-riding cats. just focus on the kitteh, and don't look in the margins or the bodysnarking, celebrity stalking and other assorted bullshit will undo all the moodenhancing benefits of cats acting like people

IT'S PARTY TIME

you weren't on bofin at the time, so you didn't get to see the majesty of thr cartoon titanic movie we watched (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic:_The_Animated_Movie), but cousinsam found this, the most amazing part of the entire movie. (the rest was of similar quality, but this... well, you'll see)

i'd just like to mention that there was no reason for party time. they hadn't crashed yet or anything, but there was nothing to celebrate. on that note...

there's something you should know, so i'm gonna tell you so, don't sweat it, forget it, enjoy the show!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHNztg0X3s


in other news i have named my wife (the prostitute one) "my lovely whore" so i can sing to her, and moved her into a castle in a graveyard. no joke. she's terribly happy, it's a nice change from the caravan (no joke) in a dingy neighbourhood that we lived in before. EDIT: sam's just decapitated her. good thing he saved beforehand.

i can't stop lookng at these..
click through to the other works too!

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lalala

i finished fable two today... fell totally in love with reaver, voiced by stephen fry. he's an almost dorian gray type character, except a total nympho sociopath. he sacrifices the youth and beauty of someone else to the shadow court every hundred years or something to stay eternally young and things. he's terribly vain and horrible and selfish but i looove hiiiim. i think it might just be that when i hear stephen fry's voice i immediately think "BUT YOU'RE NICE WHAT HAPPENED D:"

anyhow, also married three people:

alex, who i met through a quest (the ghost of his ex-fiancee, who killed herself after being left at the altar, wants revenge, so she sends you to seduce, get engaged to, and then abandon him - i chose to not be evil and just married him instead cause he was actually quite sweet).

jackie, a thug i met in this rundown village (you later lend a guy some money, go to prison for ten years, and when you come back it's wholesome and there are children playing in the streets - if you don't lend the guy money you come back to a prostitute-filled dump)


and nora, the first whore i came across. and who was extremely cute and nice, whereas whores are usually really pissy. so i married her.

i ended up having a kid with alex accidentally (literally the first time i slept with him i forgot to use a condom. WHOOPS) and i then called my baby boy "jam humour cynic", i can't quite remember why. i also changed jackie's name to "bloody flying war", after the tags on a net game cousinsam was playing.

anyhow, that's what i did today.

oh, one more thing actually, while i was on the train was sitting across from this american couple (they were unstereotypically quiet, hurray) who looked all pleasantly surprised when i was all polite when i asked if a seat was taken, and then again when i was getting tea. and then when they were getting off the lady seemed to be having some trouble getting her bag down from the overhead thingy, and i asked if she needed any help. she politely declined but she looked so pleased that i'd asked. it's nice to prove people's opinions of teenagers wrong, yay.

if you have ever felt a taxidermy tiger shaped void in your life, now is the time to fill it.

personally, i think i'm going to go for the miniature greenhouse

i love my boy.

we played the best game of scrabble ever today.

idle hands...

was bored today and constructed a MASTERPIECE out of old make-up... she's so beautiful.

yes, i wrote lol beside her. it's kind of like code so when i look back at my art as a grown-up, i'll at least be like "oh thank christman i wasn't serious about that one..."

i also had a bath. i was terribly productive.


EDIT: actually did do one productive thing today - finished samchen's birthday drawing.
rather pleased with it. it's quite a bit cuter in-real-life.

first post!

i like amy ross.

i especially like her artist statement:

I am interested in the idea of artist as mad scientist. My drawings offer visual hypotheses to the question: what would happen if the DNA sequence of a plant or mushroom were spliced with that of an animal? Using graphite, watercolor, and walnut ink on paper as well as directly on gallery walls in site-specific installations, I portray animals morphed with branches, mushrooms, berries, and blossoms, thus forming implausible hybrid creatures. These images subvert the traditional genre of botanical illustration by approaching the close study of the natural world through the lens of genetic engineering and mutation gone awry.

we are mature

[02:22:01] sammy: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/07/realestate/0809-deal-slideshow_index.html
omigod. omigod omigod omigod. i am living here okay???
[02:22:14] sammy: i don't care if scott westerfeld just called dibs on twitter IT IS MINE NOW
[02:26:49] sk: GAH
[02:26:54] sk: I NEED IT
[02:26:58] sammy: NO MINE
[02:26:59] sammy: HISSSSSSSSSSSS
[02:27:13] sk: I WILL PUSH YOU FROM MY NEW FLOATING STAIRCASE
[02:27:18] sammy: NOOO
[02:27:28] sammy: I WILL PUSH YOU OUT MY NEW CLOCK WINDOW
[02:27:38] sk: that was the sounds of you hitting my nicely polished floors
[02:27:47] sk: i'll thank you not to make a mess
[02:27:49] sammy: ):<
[02:27:52] sk: GOD

my future autobiography

to kick off the blog...

...here is a picture of samchen's picture in progress.

i'm quite fond of it so far. think it would be nice to actually give him something instead of just pleading for him to tell me what to get him and end up giving him an i.o.u. type dealy. though i'm paying his way to the next buck gig in the roisin whether he likes it or not. now that he's legal he can't escape my paying for him (oo-er).