Monday , November 16, 2009
Love: Sarah Wilmer & Felix-Gabriel Smith & Sarajo Frieden
I'm not sure if you've noticed or not, but guess what? On September 9th, nogoodforme.com is hosting a party called Spirit Animal House. Over the course of the past week of my life, I have had precisely one non-Spirit Animal House-related thought- it was, "I wonder if it's true that sometimes Venus Williams purposely loses tennis matches to Serena because of weird psychological sibling business." But besides that time I thought that about the Williams sisters, nope, sorry: in the wild world of Inside Laura Jane's Head, it's Spirit Animal House or nothin'.
Luckily for me, SPIRIT ANIMAL HOUSE is the coolest thing that ever happened in the history of time, and there is heaps and tons and dollops and bounds and miles (and etc.) of awesome stuff to think about. One thing I used to think about in my pre-Spirit Animal House existence was art. In my new life, I think about art as it relates to Spirit Animal House. Which is highly preferable to no art at all!
All you awesome people (to whom I owe my firstborn child) who will be attending The Actual Event have a shot at winning what I like to call The nogoodforme.com Ready-made Art collection. If you're anything like me at all, you aspire to one day actually own real art. If you're anything like me at all, you are too broke to afford even a piece of the crappy Mom-style art they sell at suburban non-art galleries. You know, watercolors of cottages and things like that. If you're anything like me at all, you are attending Spirit Animal House and will be purchasing several raffle tickets, which cost less than the price of ONE DRINK. And, if you're anything like me at all, you are presently hoping to high heaven that your raffle ticket may pay off into winning some cheap, brilliant, hot CONTEMPORARY ART.
At left, you will see an absolutely gorgeous and appropriately animal-themed photograph taken by Sarah Wilmer, a Brooklyn-based music, fashion and fine art photographer who once took pictures of me dressed up as Claudia Kishi. Sarah's work, though diverse, is tied together by a fantastically spooky, haunted mansion-y aesthetic and a lot of expertly-accessed shadows and darkness.
We are highly stoked that Los Angeles-based illustrator Sarajo Frieden was able to contribute one of her Burning Dresser linopresses (seen at right), which I have coveted for a long, long year (ever since seeing it on the ReForm School website, upon which I Imaginary Shopping Spree thrice-weekly, or maybe septa-weekly). I love this print because it balances scrappiness and elegance with a level of panache I could only dream of. A lot of Sarajo's work looks like textiles, and probably should be, and probably will be.
Last but not certainly not least is an original contempo-psychedelic (I just made that term up!) illustration (seen above) by Felix-Gabriel Smith, who is totally going places and has some of the best dude style I've ever seen in my life (just so you know). Gabriel's work sort of looks like the cover of Odessey and Oracle by the Zombies collided with Galaga and a meteorologist's e-mail inbox.
And of course, our Internet-only prizes are still available for your acquisitional purposes, and you can do so by clicking the handy-dandy Paypal button below.
Have a lovely Spirit Animal House! Oops, I mean day.
Tags: art, Felix-Gabriel Smith, my brain, raffle prizes, raffle tickets, Sarah Wilmer, Sarajo Frieden, Serena WIlliams, Spirit Animal House, Venus Williams
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