DO

I worked sooo much yesterday! Lots of tattoos. Lots of time. Strange characters, nice people... a great way to start the week. Today was my day off. Spent errand/drawing/fun time with Allan...biking..lots of usual things. Did a frantic cleaning session: Lucas' mom is in town! They rode the tandem bike together. I can only imagine. Lucas says she screamed when they went downhill. So cute.

Tomorrow...... lunch with my mom. Cafe Capri, maybe? mmmmm.

I am about to go to sleep the earliest in months and months. before 1am.







The pictures on 3191 today were very close to home. made me feel comfortable.







Oh, and I wanted to make note of this tree drawing.
I want to start collecting little images here and there of design ideas for a tattoo for Lucas. I'm dying to tattoo him! This is art by Anna Fatovich.

On thisisloveforever, there is a very interesting little thing about "Do," concerning objects with many uses, social issues, etc. you have to go look to understand. what i am most interested is actually on the kesselskramer publishing page itself. Look at the things they have to offer... so exciting! "DO TV" is sold out! where can i find this!? someone! please .. this is such an amazing find. going on a search.



"Do Shirt has dozens of potential applications: picnic blanket, straitjacket, headdress, bridal gown, baby bib, mop, duvet. It is especially recommended to maximum security prisoners, simply knot several Do Shirts together to create a handy rope, allowing you to clamber from your cell and break for freedom."


wow. that makes me really happy.
goodnight!

hippo love

Valentine's Day. quick, go celebrate now, if you remembered you had a significant other this morning!

i think holidays are a fun excuse to have a party/occasion/make shirts, whatever. there is nothing wrong with having a good time on valentine's day, too. but buying your partner expensive things and dating, when you wouldn't even think twice about it a week before, is just silly.

don't be like catholics on easter! love your lover every day!







kind of on topic, here are some interesting food facts about your health. avocados proved amazing, as expected.. mm. i love all the foods listed, which makes me happy. unfortunately for lucas, i think that the "profound effect on the testicles and sexual libido" that PEANUTS have is not the same meaning for him. i think they destroy his heart and lungs. ha. sorry lu. i'm also never feeding you figs again.







This is one of the cutest? things i've ever seen. 100year old tortoise adopts baby hippo... found that one on treehugger. oh wait, actually the hippo claimed the tortoise. evidently it was swept away from its mother, saved by rangers, and then decided the 100yr old male tortoise it was caged with would make a fine mother. someone should make a slow motion film of this.

bright silver. nmsw.

i did it. finally. the 2 bicycles issue will be solved very soon! ordered tires/tubes, a good lock (mine sucked), and THESE:



they are for the debernardi. got an incredible deal, the one i have been patiently waiting for. couldn't pass it up.


and here's the lock i got... we did some research into locks, supposedly this is the best affordable lock by far. the "onguard bulldog mini with cable." the one that won first was the kryptonite NYC ulock, but it's like $100. this one is around $25, and won 2nd place in the reviews.

i'm making anti-kanye t-shirts

kanye west has officially moved on from an annoying individual without talent to a disrespectful arrogant piece of shit.

his speech at the grammys. first of all, shut up. music playing. we're sick of listening to your breathing problems, we already had to deal with it in your performance earlier. second, don't throw a little fit, it's unprofessional. 3rd, but most important, did you really just tell amy winehouse that you and her deserved the best album of the year award, BEFORE herbie hancock? do you even know who herbie hancock is? no, probably not. you stupid, disrespectful little bitch. ugh.

here's his speech. a;lsf j;aowslk

laziness, owls, carscratchers, and i hate kanye west

this is a lazy post. i'll finish it later. ha.

these were on cycles for heroes. they are "carscratcher bar ends" !! granted, i'm completely against ruining people's shit for fun, but i would love to bust one of these into a redneck asshole's pickup truck while they swerved at me on my way home from work.

and these are for allan. i finished his tattoo today. it's his owl tat. surrounded by flowers. picture soon! (on the other computer)

here's his new OWL tattoo. !!

so happy.

and of course, mike giant is awesome. i like the script in the piece.

and i need more time to fully look at this event. looks very interesting... i'm totally distracted right now by lucas and tina turner. shit. okay so i got that site somewhere off Kitsune Noir, which is also great! today there were these beautiful little citroen cars on there. cute. efficient. why do people buy excursions????? trash. this is all you need.






okay so additionally i would like to rant about kanye west. it will be a new post. here i go. (go back up)!

dick.

i'd rather read playboy than go to bonnaroo 2008.

so daft punk, the shins, hot chip, duran duran, and gogol bordello posed for playboy's sex and music magazine. and there were t-shirt designs for additional artists such as the pipettes and new young pony club.

sorry..anything with those stupid playboy bunnies looks super trashy to me. can't get over the symbolism. also, wtf were the shins thinking, since marty crandall and his girl elyse sewell just got arrested for beating on each other? i guess the charges were dismissed, but still, i would lay low for a bit.


that sounded like a lot of complaining, but i really just wanted to see the photos... but i'm not going to buy a playboy! ha. the article just teased me.





soooo, the bonnaroo lineup headliner list is absolutely a fucking joke. pearl jam, metallica, jack johnson, and kanye west. FUCK that. it's going to be super douche-tool-bro-land to the max. this is a step even lower than the year that tom petty and tool headlined. wtf. i guess after the year of RADIOHEAD, they just gave up! i predicted a failure to impress after 2006's lineup, but they have outdone themselves.

on a nicer note, there are some great artists there, as usual. sigur ros, death cab, iron and wine, ben folds, talib kweli, gogol bordello, broken social scene, MIA, ozomatli, !!!, the fiery furnaces, ghostland observatory, black kids, bb king, ladytron.. so if you go, you will probably have a great time. just bring earplugs for the night-time headliners' shows.

oh, and MGMT looks interesting, anyone heard anything of them?

SHELDON BROWN

so, sheldon brown died last sunday of a heart attack. he was 63, and had contributed to so many of us personally, teaching us so much in every topic bicycling could ever throw at us. i spent hours reading his instructions and articles when i built my first bike, and my friends and i still frequent his site when any problem or project comes around. here's some personal info at wikipedia.

in memory, a few of his many bicycles.