San Fran in Jello

I love Liz Hickok's San Fran series of prints. This work is far and away my favorite fresh art I have seen in a long time. Thanks Liz! Your crafty brilliance is inspiring.

While drinking coffee in the garden...

In August, there was a milkweed plant specifically planted for Monarch butterflies in the yard. I thought the batch of caterpillars had come and gone, and I had somehow managed to miss all of the nature in my backyard. I was mistaken. A random foray into our landscaping while drinking my morning coffee, turned into a point and shoot frenzy...

Doodling Interior Decor

UK artist Charlotte Mann inks up all over white walls! When I was in college, I used a Sharpie to outline a mural copied from a Japanese wood block print. If only Charlotte Mann had been my friend in art school way back then... she takes designing by sharpie to a different level! Killer. Thanks Ms. Mann! I love it. Seriously.

New Orleans Indie Rock Collective!

NEW ORLEANS INDIE ROCK COLLECTIVE. Yeah. I don't know about you, but I like almost anything with the word "collective" in it. It brings to mind revolution, counter-culture, economic equality and justice, and above all righteous hard-core communists. This organization has nothing to do with any of that... just rock music. In a city like New Orleans, that is a revolution of a sort.

Now plenty of you know that New Orleans is one of America's Greatest cities. Period. If you deny this, it's because you have never been there or you only went during Mardi Gras. I just stumbled upon the collective which promotes New Orleans' native indie rockers and that is kind of tough in a town internationally renowned for jazz. I love New Orleans brass, but I'm really excited about supporting indie rock. Thanks to NOIRC for collecting and releasing two albums for DL of fresh indie music from the Big Easy. Oh yeah, NOIRC is bringing in great live shows too. Very, very sad about missing the Datarock show tonight...

Kitsune Noir Mixtape > bright, shiny, and hot!

Many thanks to Bobby at Kitsune Noir for this marvelous mix. Super way to enjoy my sunny August morning.  One small ask Bobby: Por favor separate the songs as individual tracks.  

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While Kitsune Noir's mix tape jingled my birthday string, I found my spangled celebration at the New Orleans Satchmo SummerFest.

Soul Rebels raised the energy to pitch fever here here lightning... LIGHTNING!

I always suspected jellyfish control the world...

Okay, so yes the fluorescent dye is just cool looking... as if watching a jellyfish's movement through water wasn't amazing enough, WIRED magazine informs us about "induced fluid drift." And proclaims that jellies are the DARK ENERGY of the ocean. This brings to mind cosmic black holes made of dark matter. Perhaps jellyfish energy is the force behind the Bermuda Triangle climate anomalies? This is all supportive of my hypothesis that jellies control the world. Don't believe it? Check out this video courtesy of National Geographic.

Here We Go Magic!

I keep obsessively playing the eponymous album, Here We Go Magic! This album is kind of shoegaze style indie pop, but more than anything it channels PAUL SIMON'S GRACELAND. And that is a beautiful thing. They are touring with Grizzly Bear - desperately longing to go to one of these live shows.