♬ Gotye Fever

 This song's been making waves (Sting 2.0?)...

...as has its inevitably rad cover

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Guitar exploitation! Taciturn bearded Chuck Norris guy staring off into the 
middle distance & deigning to grace us with his presence is cracking me up.
  

Worth a listen:

I'm sold! Need Making Mirrors right now.

Porcelain & Gold

Porcelain Goldtop Milk Bottles by Shan Annabelle Valla

Beetle and Flor Beaver Skull

Beetle and Flor Coyote Skull

I Held A Jewel

I held a jewel in my fingers
And went to sleep.
The day was warm, and winds were prosy;
I said, "Twill keep."
I woke and chid my honest fingers,—
The gem was gone;
And now an amethyst remembrance
Is all I own.         ~ Emily Dickinson

Oil paintings by the incredible Toronto based artist Carly Waito. Her exquisite renderings of glistening semi-precious gemstones and minerals in macroscopic detail are so life-like, it takes your breath away when you realize they're not photographs. This sort of talent tends to leave me in state of wondrous despair. Even her name has an elfin, birdlike quality to it. ♥

Amethyst. Oil on masonite.

Tourmaline

Barite

Vesuvianite

Bornite

Amethyst

Rhodochrosite

Candy Hearts

Three things will last forever - faith, hope, and love - and the greatest of these is love. 

 ~ 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NLT)

 

 spiffy new prints @ etsy 

Happy Day!

Walt Whitman - A Song of Joys

Just finished two new designs whee! Will post soon. I should probably spend less time doodling in my journal and focus more on painting. meep. Occupational hazard. Oh by the by, go watch The Descendants. You will bawl your eyes out. in a good way. Now back to the gulag!

P.S. Anyone else utterly obsessed with this song?