Rain, rain go away....

Portait of Rudolf Agricola

Came across this painting today,
It reminds me of when I was a kid; if I made a mistake, I would paint over it in black and make it into a scarf or something.

He makes me think of a vulture ( I think it's the nose!)

Mary ellen mark

Really disturbing but interesting photographs by Mary Ellen Mark.

Poor animals eh?

But I kind of have sympathy for the sad looking people as well.

Washing a white elephant

Le geek c'est chic

I went to see a 3D version of UP, a real tear-jerker of a Disney movie.

As a child of the 80's 3D has always been really exciting, I remember thinking as a kid, that all movies should be made 3D, and I guess thats what's starting to happen now.
They gave us the silly glasses, which we had a good laugh about.

They look nothing like the old skool ones, and are more like geek glasses, so I nicked some (naughty, I know) and cut out the middle to make some geek chic!

5 things

Ive been watching on TV...

1. Tru Blood

2. I'm a celebrity- I know it's bad but I can't help it!

3. Project runway

4. Misfits- With the rather cute Robert Sheehan

5. Defying gravity- I am slightly confused.

The knight, the young girl and death

I spotted this very strange painting today,
It's quite horrible to look at, but actually drew me in.
It's a man on a horse, trying to keep a grip on a presumably dying girl, who is being dragged back by death.
Disurbingly, death is holding on to her determinedly with its teeth. It's holding on to the stump of a tree and had it's bony leg stretching across the painting to prop his foot on another stump for support.
Its looks like it's painted from memory and not from life, as the horse is really out of proportion.
I really don't like it, but it made me stop and look.

Tiny dancer- 'you are home'

Tiny dancer just came up on shuffle on my ipod ,

An ex of mine a million years ago put it on a mix tape (remember them?!) for me and Ive loved it ever since...
There is a great scene in 'Almost famous' which is a wicked film, where everyone is really pissed off with each other and it comes on and they all sing along...

40 years of Sesame Street...

I loved Sesame street when I was really little...
very american, but charming and brings back happy memories,
my fav was oscar the grouch....


But I also loved Bert and Ernie...

And I adored the cookie monster! I loved the way he would eat the plate as well as the cookies!

and of course the count 'I love to count!''

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Grumpy...

I'm seriously grumpy today.

brown tape art

Just read about this artist, who creates these really interesting images with brown tape and a light box...

Dead flapper

Halloween was fun, I ended up as a dead flapper; when I arrived and there was fake blood to play with!
I put a line on my forehead under my headband dripping down... v gruesome,
Im still struggling to get it off, lots of make up remover later my right eyebrow is still looking a bit pink!
I drank a loooooot of red wine, so I spent the whole of sunday hung over on the sofa.