Saturday, December 19, 2009

Silence made us.


Went to a haunted mansion today and I creeped around the third floor. I found this wicked cool red chair in this teal room with a bathtub. I wanted a slightly creepy and rather random picture to flow with the creepiness and randomness of the room. I hope the ghosts don't eat me alive for this one. Yikes!

Monday, December 14, 2009

Beautiful Mind


It's amazing what one person can imprint on your atmosphere, even if you only speak with them for a fraction of a second. Maybe even if you don't speak with them at all. People can change you without you even having the slightest idea they did so. It's really incredible. And who knows how many lives you yourself have changed. I'd like to get to know everyones beautiful minds. I would like to go back to central park and speak to this man, see where he has been, what he can teach me.
xxx Amski

The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. ~Mark Twain

What I would do to have a sweater like this back in my life. This would look absolutely stunning with black skinny jeans and a BA pair of Tristan Blair shoes. Any kind of sweater with wolves, kittens, etc. would be incredible to own. I'm in a glorious search!
-In a while crocodile.

I miss NYC








One of my best friends has the most beautiful features. If I could drag her around to be my model all day, everyday I would. This is from when I visited her in New York for a weekend. I miss seeing her run into doors. I miss having epic adventures with her through torrential down pours. I miss being mole rat status in the subways for hours. I miss being a creepy night crawler in the bright lights.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Collaborative poster

Basically, this is a poster made for the typeface Caslon. The poster design didn't have to have anything to do with the typeface, so this is the outcome of a completely unstructured poster design. With the use of a considerable amount of scanned images and some designs done on Illustrator, everything was placed and layered into Photoshop.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Beauty is Pain

Practical? Not so much. Hot? Damn right they're hot.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Kate Moss for Yves Saint Laurent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlVwjzyCvZM

This truly is art imitating life at its finest.
I am in LOVE with this video! I idolize Kate Moss and she is so beautiful in this commercial! I would like to see the stills from it...
If this doesn't make you want to buy the perfume, I don't know what does.
Kate, you never disappoint.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Andy Warhol

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you. I broke something today and I realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is. In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes but I always say one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party. There should be a course in the first grade on love. I have a social disease. I have to go out every night. It takes a lot of work to figure out how to look so good. I am a deeply superficial person. Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job. "Well what do you love most?” That’s how I started painting money. The artificial fascinates me, the bright and shiny. I guess I've been influenced by everybody. But that’s good. That’s pop. I never wanted to be a painter: I wanted to be a tap-dancer. Black is my favorite color and white is my favorite color. Art is what you can get away with. They say that time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself. When I die I don’t want to leave any leftovers. I'd like to disappear. People wouldn’t say he died today they'd say he disappeared but I do like the idea of people turning into dust or sand and it would be very glamourous to be reincarnated as a big ring on Elizabeth Taylor's finger. I don’t really believe in love. I sort of believe in liking. If everybody’s not a beauty, then nobody is. I like boring things. I did fifty elvises one day. If you want to know all about Andy Warhol just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me and there I am. Theres nothing behind it. I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy I can't wait to taste the last piece. The world fascinates me. Ever since I was a kid I've wanted to live as fast as I could so I always try to find ways to do things faster. But why should I be original? Why cant I be non-original? People look the most kissable when they're not wearing makeup. Marilyns lips weren’t kissable but they were photographable. Once you "got" Pop you could never see a sign the same way again and once you thought Pop you could never see America the same way again. I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them I don’t try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint the ordinary-ordinary. I never met an animal I didn’t like. I think that everybody is my friend. I never read, I just look at pictures. Pop art is for everyone.

Andy Warhol

Thursday, August 13, 2009

How Strange it is to be anything at all...















"...[Photography has] little to do with what you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Sliimy-Magic Game

So Sliimy is this french singer who just cracks me up. I love listening to his stuff when I paint and draw, and just to brighten my day.  His album is called "Paint Your Face."  I absolutely love this album cover and my favorite song by him is Magic Game.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

"You left me all up in arms and confused."

I didn't airbrush this, but someone I don't really know did.
He sent me this picture, probably because he knew I would compliment it and boost his ego. He'll probably do something great one day, and I hope he does. This is really painful, I'm not really sure why I feel the need to post this. I think I'll curl up in the fetal position with my blanket and dream now...


Monday, August 3, 2009

God of Wine

"She takes a drink and then she waits.  The alcohol, it permeates.  And soon the cells give way, and cancels out the day."-Third Eye Blind
Just a sketch I did today in pen for kicks. I was listening to Third Eye Blind and those lyrics were bold so I drew this to match.

Friday, July 31, 2009

This is what it feels like





Breathe,Heaven,The Gift,A Little's Enough-AVA
Come Home-OneRepublic
Again I Go Unnoticed-Dashboard confessional
Cry-Faith Hill
She Is-The Fray
Amazing Because It Is-The Almost
Halo,Broken-Hearted Girl-Beyonce
There Is-Box Car Racer
Glow In The Dark-Chris Brown
Crash Into Me-Dave Matthews Band
Tiny Vessels-Death Cab For Cutie
White Flag-Dido
Almost Lover-A Fine Frenzy
Freeze,Tattoo-Jordin Sparks
Thinking Of You-Katy Perry
Broken,From Where You Are-Lifehouse
Rest Stop-Matchbox Twenty
Before The Worst,Break Even-The Script
Between The Lines,Gravity-Sara Bareilles
I Want You,God Of Wine-Third Eye Blind
So there it is, from the very beginning to the bitter end.

Smile :o)

600+ photographs later and this is what I got haha.
These days, living with an optimistic attitude comes fairly easy to me.
I've really been loving taking in all that life has to offer me and I guess I just wanted to make something to represent that.
Thanks to Katie for being a goober with me!
Also just an FYI, the quality of it is really bad on this...boo :o(

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

My Best Friend & Favorite Model :o)


Whenever I'm really itching to take people pictures, she's my go to girl haha.







Sunday, July 26, 2009

Some lyrics from Tiny Vessels Death Cab For Cutie

Not to go all emo, but these lyrics sure mean a lot to me
This is the moment that you know
That you told her that you loved her but you don't.
You touch her skin and then you think
That she is beautiful but she don't mean a thing to me.
Yeah, she is beautiful but she don't mean a thing to me.
I wanted to believe in all the words that I was speaking,
As we moved together in the dark
And all the friends that I was telling
All the playful misspellings
and every bite I gave you left a mark
Tiny vessels oozed into your neck
And formed the bruises
That you said you didn't want to fade
But they did, and so did I that day
All I see are dark Grey clouds
In the distance moving closer with every hour
So when you ask "Is something wrong?"
I think "You're damn right there is but we can't talk about it now.
No, we can't talk about it now."
So one last touch and then you'll go
And we'll pretend that it meant something so much more
But it was vile, and it was cheap
and you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me
yeah you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Hide & Seek




Just messing around with the exposure really...