spring post

(even though its raining)


From NYTimes article "Let’s Hear It for the Bees" by Leon Kreitzman
"In 'Philosophia Botanica' (1751), the great taxonomist Carl Linnaeus proposed that it should be possible to plant a floral clock. He noted that two species of daisy, the hawk’s-beard and the hawkbit, opened and closed at their respective times within about a half-hour each day. He suggested planting these daisies along with St. John’s Wort, marigolds, water-lilies and other species in a circle. The rhythmic opening and closing of the plants would be the effective hands of this clock."

that would be awesome, right? let's do that.

clever!

Vogue Nippon December 2006
“Cut & Paste” Ph: Tim Walker
Model: Lily Cole











from foto_decadent

T W E E T

Zan and I are now also on twitter. Lurk us if youd like.

zan: twitter.com/wonderkidzan

me: twitter.com/mandadestroys

puppy cam!

Puppy cam!

our buddy J dropped off Charles a.k.a Wolf with us for a few hours.

deez girls

shot by lizard higginz. please note our new tropical color scheme.

the future

Testing text blogging

blue monday

via Print Liberation

french candy

erased james franco

Last night, Molly and Erica and I and a slew of teenagers / grandmothers / gay men went to a screening of Erased James Franco at MoMA. The film is directed by Carter (1 name) who Wikipedia informs me is "best known for his artwork that spans various media from painting and photography to sculptural installations, and videos." This was his first feature length film and featured James Franco mumbling, James Franco eating crackers, James Franco painting, James Franco moving furniture, James Franco acting like Julianne Moore, James Franco answering the phone, and James Franco walking into walls. The pay-off is the last 3 minutes when JF looks at the camera, dewy-eyed, and sincerely stammers "I love you" over and over (a scene from Todd Haynes "Safe").

I suggest you watch this movie only if you are a HUGE fan of franco or can stand the artiest of movies. The movie is only successful because of Franco himself (who else could you stand to watch drink water for 10 minutes?) Also there was a Q&A session afterward and he smiled at me so that was pretty tight.

awesome blog alert!

you're gonna like this one. http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/ "Surveying the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and Culture."