Gerhard Richter: Frau mit Hund

Frau Mit Hund by Gerhard Richter. I dog-sat for my favorite dog, Mayhem, all weekend, and it was great! Our apartment is kind-of ridiculously furry at this point, and May decided to bury some food in my bedding at one point (?!), but overall I had an incredibly great time with her.

How You Should Make Cement for Mending Stones

I just received my copy of Jaakko Pallasvuo's How You Should Make Cement for Mending Stones. Such a great collection of zines and drawings! Through Napa in Finland.

Tim Wilson

This kid has serious talent. More HERE

My Heart is An Idiot

In My Heart is an Idiot, filmmaker David Meiklejohn --of Portland, Maine!--follows FOUND magazine's Davy Rothbart on a North American promotional tour. Along the way, Rothbart seeks advice on his love life from various celebrities (including Zooey Deschanel and Ira Glass). I definitely recommend that you check it out!

DEAR FRONTIER

Fabulous husband and wife duo Jacob Perkins and Hana Miller are taking their band DEAR FRONTIER on the road. These people are incredibly energetic, inspired, and alive, and their music is awesome. If you live in Paris, Stockholm, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Venice, Porto, or Jakarta, go check them out live!


Jacob previously performed as Jacob Perkins and the Nobody, and made this rad music video for his song Last Transmission:


"Last Transmission" from jacob perkins and the nobody on Vimeo.

Dmitry Sayenko

Dmitry Sayenko, Illustration from Daniel Kharms' Kharmsli Vslukh (Thinking Aloud), 9x12 1/4 in Woodcut

James Castle

A friend recently introduced me to the work of James Castle (1899-1977), a self-taught artist from Idaho. Castle was born deaf and did not learn to speak, sign, lip-read, or write, instead using art as his main form of communication.* 

He created his work with found materials: "papers salvaged from common packaging and mail, in addition to food containers of all types."* And he made his own inks and "colorants" using methods that he invented for himself.* One such method involved mixing "soot from the woodstove" with saliva and sometimes water;* to create colored ink, he would use "laundry bluing, face powder, or color leached out of crepe paper by soaking."* Castle then applied the ink with sharpened sticks and homemade cotton swabs.*

Castle's finished work comes in a range of forms---drawings and "colored wash pieces"*  to assemblages and handmade books. His work is intimate--the interiors of buildings, farm scenes, animals, people, giving us a sense of what life was like for this man from rural Idaho. The work is also remarkably fine.

Jaakko Pallasvuo

hiihtaja, by jaakko_ghostbuster

Frank and Gertrude

Foldover Weekender Bag, made to order by Megan Hoffman of FrankandGertrude

Untitled

Untitled, originally uploaded by Old Chum.

Kiakshuk

Just perfect drawing by Inuit artist Kiakshuk. via William Edmunds.

Joe Walsh: Sweet Loam

photo by Amanda Kowalski

My very talented older brother just put out his second album, Sweet Loam. My favorite song on the album is also dedicated to me: pretty rad! Buy the album HERE, and if you are in or about Portland, Maine on May 15th, come to Joe's CD release show.


Also, check out this profile of Joe.