Hello darlings.
This is me making an attempt to update this thing much more frequently than a few times a year. I want to make this a place to share awesome and interesting things. I am being inspired by the brilliant Jody Pham, who is one of my fav people ever.

Every year I intend on putting together a bit of a holiday gift guide but then I forget until it’s too late. Perhaps I will do one for after the holiday? People still get money for Christmas, don’t they? That’s what I’ll tell myself anyway. So perhaps look for that in January.

I am still in the middle of a revamping of the website but it’s taking longer than expected. As usual, once I get started on a new look, I want to improve things like the art gallery and consolidate other pages and blah blah blah. The perfectionist & completest in me will not let things be.
Soon.

current sounds I’ve got Dean Martin in my head.
current beverage nothing yet but comtemplating either gingerbread coffee or hot cocoa.

Hello my darlings!
It’s been quite a long time, hasn’t it?
I got Angel City rather set up and a little organized and even made a sale. Now it’s time for me to get back to Serpenthes and refresh everything. I’m working on a new site layout, some new business cards, a few freebies, loads of stuff. I may even update this more often than 3 times a year. Imagine that.

In late October I made my way to New Orleans. The city and I fell in love and I hope to go back soon. Not soon enough, says I.
There are a few photos in the Flickr account if you are so inclined. I update that thing rather frequently now, as I just purchased a pro account for the next two years. So add me on there and stop being a stranger.

I hope everyone’s Halloween was as marvelous as mine. My very best comrades and I donned red contacts and fangs and corsets and capes and traipsed through the French Quarter fueled by bourbon and Dixie. It was divine.

It’s just about 1am and therefore my creative brain is just waking up. Back to work. More updates soon.

current sounds: nothing
current beverage: cafe au lait

I love nights when I can stay up until I want because no work or alarm clocks with interrupt my morning. My natural internal clock is nocturnal and therefore I find myself up until the birds awaken and start pissing people off with their singing as everything goes from black to blue outside.

Normal, boring, real life things have interrupted my progress on things. I have a new project in mind… which I’m not sure I mentioned or not. But that will have to wait until late July… maybe even August depending on how bloody hot it gets this summer. I suspect we Angelenos are in for a scorcher.

For the time being I’ve kept myself busy doing tiny portraits for the upcoming Gilmore Family Tree which I’ve yet to put together. But it’s been great fun for me, regardless of whether I actually put it together or not. I do so love portraits.
I suppose I should scan some and share with you. Perhaps soon.

Lately I’ve been in awe of the internet. I mean, I try not to take it for granted. I went all through high school without being online. I didn’t do any of it until 1999 - when I was 19. I don’t know if that’s just when it became more pedestrian or what but that’s when I joined the crazy interwebs and life has been easier ever since.
My point is, there are tons of crazy and wonderful things on here.
For example. I recently became obsessed with watching live feed of lions in a Norwegian zoo. I watch it for a bit before going to bed, actually. There’s just something strangely peaceful about being halfway across the word and 10 hours behind and being able to watch something like that. It’s a surreal mix of nature and technology, I suppose.
watch for yourself

Tonight I’ve been looking up travel info. I plan to visit New Orleans for the first time this October. It’s both exciting and depressing to look up hotel prices. I believe I’ll be going by train. It feels pure. And cheaper, heh.

Til next time, darlings.

current sounds: Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
current beverage: H20

Greetings and salutations!

For some odd reason, it’s a bit difficult for me to keep constant with this. I realize that in this day and age, the way to connect to people on this crazy interweb is through blogging. But sometimes, I just can’t be arsed.

In any event.
It’s about 1,000 degrees here in Los Angeles. 81 to be exact, which is a considerate cool-down from yesterday when it was about 99. When this happens, I, like most native Angelenos, start to get excited by the return of warm weather and how nice it is outside… and then proceed to hole up in our air conditioned comfort because No Way am I going anywhere, it’s HOT out there!

Anyways.
I’ve joined several awesome sites as of late. Too much free time, I suppose.
If you are on there, add us:
etsy
last.fm
twitter
goodreads

In the meantime, I sneakpeak at an upcoming project:

current beverage: water
current music: Tom Waits - What Keeps Mankind Alive

Greetings and salutations.
Lately I have become inspired. Perhaps I will make this place a little more bloggish in nature and talk about more than art (mine or others). Let’s chat, shall we? Talk about movies we like? Other blogs to check out? Tips on how to get blood out of the carpet?
Wait…

Well, along this line, I want to make the first installment about something awesome. Let’s talk film.

So. Blood for Dracula. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. That’s if you like Vampires or any type of cheesy horror. Not if your favourite movie is… I dunno… The Notebook.
By the way, don’t let the subtitle “Andy Warhol presents…” scare you away. He had nothing to do with it.
Anyway. 1974. Starring the uber-hot Udo Kier. You know him. He’s in every vampire movie ever. Even the vampire movies before he was born. Alright, maybe not those but you’ve seen him, you know him, you love him. In this particular film he’s super slick and oh-so-stylish (especially in a fur coat that closely resembles one of mine) and really guys, all he wants is blood from a virgin. Apparently that’s as hard to come by in 1974 as it is now.

Count Dracula is looking for a wife. Actually, he’s in a weakend state and is scouring the Italian countryside for virgin blood to make him stronger. He finds himself staying in a villa belonging to a once-rich man, his wife, his four daughters and their boyfriend Communist Klaus (played by Joe from the Bronx). Of course the man is trying to peddle off his daughters to regain family wealth. Of course, Dracula is all about biting these hot chicks, provided they’re pure. They should be pure, right? Religious Italy? The plot thickens.

The film looks fantastic because it was recently revamped (srsly, am here all night) and there’s just a whole bunch of beautiful people in it. Aside from Heir Kier and his Crispin-Glover-esque assistant, the four daughters look like they’ve come straight out of a Mucha painting. There’s tons of nudity and sex and you don’t mind it because everyone is gorgeous.

So, big thumbs up.
Until next time.

current music: The Creatures - Exterminating Angel
current beverage: none

I’ve very few things to say at this point in time.
Things of the personal nature are casting a grey cloud over my life.

I have many new ideas and things in mind to make this whole art thing more interesting to me but I don’t have the discipline to follow through at the moment.

I would like to say, however, that whenever I need inspiration to get it together, I visit one of my favourite people on the planet, Jody of jodypham.com and you should too.

I am working on a couple of pieces created with the intent to sell.

Besides this, nothing of the new nature to report besides spending quite a bit of time around the family, new additions to my knife collection, and finally being able to make the apartment look like a home instead of a place where we keep our stuffs.

Silver lining of the moment is several road trips to be taken before the end of this year.

More one day.

current sound: Tom Waits - Cemetary Polka