A friend gave me the She & Him album ‘Volume One’ recently and I haven’t been able to stop listening to it since.
The She & Him story begins when in 2006 , renowned one man band M. Ward, recorded a duet with a girl named Zooey Deschanel. A delightful recording session, the experience lead to a dialogue between the two about collaborating further. This, in turn, led to Deschanel admitting to secretly making dozens and dozens of home demos and hoarding them like acorns for the winter. Sick and tired of being stingy and secretive about music, Deschanel realized that if songs were acorns then this was indeed her wintertime: she sent the recordings to Ward and these demos became the basis for their first record, entitled Volume One.
Here is the video for ‘Why Do You Let Me Stay Here’.
I think the music is beautiful, fun and something new. Well, new in an old kind of way. It makes me think of 60’s surfer movies, Gidget, and dance socials. It makes me want to drink spiders and eat gumdrops. I’m hooked.
Homework has taken most of my time, being this close to the end of semester (2 weeks!) and it will be like this until then. I have so much more to do ... it overwhelms me, and instead I do nothing. I really need to buckle down though, I need to get stuff done. I have tonight and saturday reserved for writing, sunday reserved for painting and monday for collaging & folio improvement. Maybe writing it here will help me stick to this schedule.
But Eek! I have been spending my procrastination time finding new blogs and things to want. So in an effort to write something here between homework (and LOST) shifts here are my new favourite things:
Ruby Press : this one has been on my RSS feed for a long time, but for some reason I had stuck it in a really obscure section and hadn't been reading it. So it's like I just discovered it. Through Ruby Press I discovered all of the other new favourites on this list.
Vic : I'm gonna call this blog "vic" but I'm not sure what it is actually called?? But it's awesome. Absolutley stunning photography finds.
Yvestown : this probably isn't new to anyone, and i had come across yvestown before, i just had never RSS'd it and haven't seen it for a long time. But I spent a long time going back through past posts ... beautiful ... and that let me to this ...
Jeu de Paume Books : this is probably not new to some of you either ... I have seem them floating around blogs before, but goodness me! I WANT I WANT I WANT!!
Ryan Studio : Abbey Ryan creates a painting and day and then auctions them. They are usually food items, and I find them fascinating and wonderful - especially this one, which I wish I had known about sooner so I could have bid on it.
This video is from Abbey Ryan, it shows her process, painting a heirloom tomato.
Ehh ... I've been lagging. I have homework, and final pieces to work on (even begin in some circumsances). There is nothing to show here yet. For my 'Visual Narrative' subject I've decided to use collage art to create the story. This method is brand new to me, so I am learning, and spending alot of time looking at how other people do it, so much better than I am right now. NOTPAPER has become an invaluable resource, and through that I found BRETT RYDER (from the UK), and fell in love with his style. So I am currently working on a few pieces, and will post them here when they are (somewhere near) ready.
ROBERT mentioned this video on his blog recently, and it really is incredible!
BluBlu created an incredible animation from his street art / wall paintings. It is mezmerizing! Visit his BLOG for more information.
I am Michelle. I paint, draw, glue, sew, knit, bake, shop and more. I am married to Aaron, a boy who likes to learn new languages and play the sousaphone and we live with a cat named Pip who runs the household. This, is my blog.
