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Tuesday , August 3, 2010
Found Objects: The James Joyce of Five Year Olds
This morning, while leafing through my kindergarten Language Arts notebooks (or, "my early work"), I came across THE GREATEST THING I'VE EVER WRITTEN:
On the one hand, it's sort of depressing to learn that I actually hit my creative peak twenty years ago, but- being the self-aggrandizing sort of fellow I am- THIS IS SO VALIDATING! Way to be the most frighteningly literary five-year-old of all time, Baby LJ! This "piece" draws in its reader with the hyper-Joycean Daedelus/Icarus allegory, then moves into the stark, highly confessional second movement, before tying it all together with the jarring "People drown sometimes." Wow.
All in all, a striking and incisive take on the futility of human existence. Wonders Baby LJ, "Where's my Nobel Prize at? Can I have a cookie?"
Tags: Baby LJ, Daedelus/Icarus allegory, the futility of human existence, The James Joyce of Five Year Olds
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Wednesday , January 28, 2009
Found Objects: Paintings by Andy Kehoe
I really want someone to buy me this Andy Kehoe print! Preferably for Valentine's Day, because of all the RED. It's called Spirit Guide and it's not for sale at Andy's Etsy shop, but maybe you could sweet-talk him into something. Start by visiting his site (which I arrived at thanks to my new favorite blog I Always Wanted To Be A Tenenbaum) and reading his bio (sample line: "His father barely had time to throw his son overboard before the cargo ship that usually carried pickles and kittens to Spain, carried the burning corpses of his father and all his closest friends to the bottom of the ocean") and gazing happily at all of Andy's gorgeously weird paintings, more of which you'll find below.
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Tags: Andy Kehoe, art, bears, blogs, cats, Etsy, forest dragons, giants, paintings, Valentine's Day
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Thursday , January 22, 2009
Found Objects: Golly Bard's "Weavers" painting Spiders generally bug me out (pun actually not intended!), but when a bunch of them are all working together on weaving a lovely lopsided heart - well, that's just darling. This $18 print's of a watercolor painting by Golly Bard, whom Creativadoration just featured in its happy little "Hearts Are Hot" post. There is so much love on this blog today!
Tags: blogs, Etsy, hearts, love, paintings, spiders, Valentine's Day
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Wednesday , January 14, 2009
Found Objects: Jeweled Skulls by Amy Sarkisian (Things unearthed in other foxy realms of the blogosphere.) Not "Why on earth would I need a jeweled skull?" but "Why on earth WOULDN'T I need a jeweled skull?" Seriously. The artist = Amy Sarkisian, by the way, and we stumbled upon her precious skulls at Flitzer (who, incidentally, loves Keep Company just like us).
Tags: Amy Sarkisian, bloggers we love, blogs, jeweled skulls, Keep Company
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Tuesday , January 13, 2009
Found Objects: Umsteigen BlackCross & BlueCross hoodies
(Things unearthed in other foxy realms of the blogosphere.)
Never in my life have I needed Keep Company's Ashley Macomber owl hooded sweatshirt more than right now; it sort of eats away at my heart every second of every day. But if either of these Umsteigen hoodies (discovered at the very lovely (Into) The Fray) were to magically appear in my closet right now - why, I'd just be pleased as Planter's Punch.
Tags: Ashley Macomber, blogs, hoodies, Keep Company, Planter's Punch, Umsteigen
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