Maybe it’s because it’s spring, but I’ve been on a real street art kick lately.
Category Archives: Art
All About the Wall
Unthinkable Beauty
Spring and Other Horticultural Disasters
The calendar is turned to April, the weather is warming (albeit gradually), and the world is starting to smell like green things and hope and the promise of better days. And so my mind is once again turning to . . . dead plants.
Animal House (No, Not That One)
“Deserted buildings are so full of contradictions, I am fascinated by the way nature reclaims spaces that were, essentially, only ever on loan to humans.” -Kai Fagerström
People Are Looking At Me Funny
. . . Probably because I’m hooting loudly at these fantastic animal comics, drawn by Simpsons illustrator, Liz Climo.
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Squee of the Week
Although I have always been a big fan of little things (hi, honey!), cute generally doesn’t get it done for me. However, these minuscule crocheted animals are so tiny and so perfect that I must make them mine. This one actually extracted from me the exact sound “squee!” Never really understood that before. Turns out it’s a thing.
Love and the Art of Baby Helmet Painting
When OCD Produces Beauty, It Produces Really a Lot of It
No One to (Cos)Play With
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Q. What Do Shoes and Poetry Have in Common?
Weird Beauty and a Meeting of Minds

©Alexander Khokhlov
OBWT (One black and white thing). Continue reading
NSFW UYWIPOA (Not safe for work unless you work in porn or advertising.)
Children are Sticky
Stunning Watercolors With a Sense of Humor (I Think)
красивый смерть (translation: Beautiful Death*) (*according to the internet)
Beautiful Words, Beautiful Art
A Tribute to McQueen (No, Not Steve.)
One Profound Thought
I Gave Up the Habit, but It’s Harder to Give Up the Paraphernalia*
Guilty Pleasures
* How wrong is the spelling of that word? I mean it’s correct, but it looks terrible. That second R has no business there. Seriously.

















