happy saturday. am attempting less cluttered pages...

not realistic, but sweet i think.

here's "H"

and some other stuff...

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other notebook stuff from today:

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*** added later: and here are "b" & "c"

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Hello darlings! I hereby open the 14th edition of "wasting your time on a friday". This week, we'll start with:

The glorious grandma that you've probably already seen, but that I aspire to be when I'm old, but I won't because I don't have children so I can just be old but not a grandma. I would love to meet her. She looks fun. We'd go to Disney World together, and she'd go with me on all of the really fun loopy roller coasters and we'd sit in the very front car even if we'd have to wait longer. We'd laugh together and eat drippy popsicles (hers would be orange, mine florescent pink) over the heads of small children, and we'd laugh as the drips stained their little sweet heads. At the end of the day, she'd touch the side of my face and say, "There aren't many like us." That's what would happen. (I tried to find the name of this delightful woman, but was unable to do so. She deserves more credit than an anonymous posting on a site.)

Sherwood Forlee has a fantastic site with great examples of his independent and private work. You have to click about 1/4 and 1/2 way down the page to access these menus from the image that you see at first. (I know this doesn't make sense here, but go to the page to see.)

These fuzzy rocking sheep designed by Povl Kjermake me think of cotton candy. I would want to cuddle with it but that would be weird given that it is an inanimate object that is much less cozy than a teddy bear. (Wooden frames impede the cuddling experience.) Also, I like the idea that the sheep used to be a real sheep (since it's made of sheep skin). Taxidermy it's not but...

Tag Galaxy is a fabulous way of looking at flickr photos. You search based on tags, and plants of tags appear. When you click on one, you get a wonderful globe of photos you can spin and zoom in on. Of course I went to ice cream. (Puppies are even better, actually. I went to them first.)



Mike Sacks has been taking pictures of television. The results are great if not pretty weird.

Benjamin Verdonck creates and stays in a nest on the side of an office building in Rotterdam for one week. (The web site. If you put your mouse over the EN at the bottom of the pages with dutch text a translation appears.)




Oh! And don't forget to check out Schmutzie's Five Star Friday for some links to some fantastic posts.

Here's a page from my notebook.

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Give me suggestions! :) I will draw for you.

for eli:

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(top right corner hedgehog is much superior to the ... hedgehog party on the bottom.)

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Whenever I feel really motivated to do something, I go with it. I'm not sure how long the spark will last... that being said, here are three more pages. :) I know that they don't make sense. I wonder what they say about me... Wait! Don't answer that. ;)

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I've started a new project. I'm going to fill up a notebook with anything: drawings, text, nonsense, attempts at beauty. Anything goes. I started this morning. It was fun. I went to that space I used to go as a kid when I was drawing. I decided I could make mistakes, ugliness, smears.... I could write soppy things, musings or whatever came to mind. Yay!

Here's the first:



Let me know if you do stuff like this too. I'd love to see it.

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Friday meanders to distract you:

• Really beautiful photos by David Nightingale. (on the site, click on the image to see more)
  
  
• Some interesting urban dictionary definitions of snuffalufagus and snuffaluffagus. (According to wikipedia, the real sesame street spelling is snuffleupagus.) Oh Bird.
  
  
• Brian Dettmer: book autopsies
  
  
• Flickrvision: watch people put images online, real time.
  
  
• Fat, cat, sat, hat: made me giggle.
  
  
• Airborne cats: a flickr photo set by the wonderful junku (credit for the picture above, of course, goes to him)
  
  
• Fun with microwaves (wait for the marshmallows) and no, this has nothing to do with cats.
  
  
• A friday song from me
  

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