BLACK BEAUTY

this is a pretty little lady. the wondrous carly waito posed and snapped her photograph.

she's wearing leopard print legwarmers, little house/laura ashley on the prairie skirt, marle gray cashmere capelet (w/ abalone button detail...i hadn't sewn the button PLUS snap on yet so it's a lazy pin job..but that's all done).

anyways. she's ready to rock and roll and she has FRIENDS!

HAWK

carly waito and i had the most amazing and successful bunny photo shoot yesterday. i love working with her.  some of the photos will make you cry (and laugh and then cry again). i'll include a silly one that was a 'meh' one. it's not 'meh'..it is great..just not as on the money as the others...she's wearing a HAT but it also looks like a lion's mane or..as ben said...a mullet wig (especially from the back. Business in the front/party in the back) also.
we both intuitively know which ones are the money shots* and are always in total  agreement. HOW RARE.
* apologies
speaking of great collaboration! isobel campbell and mark lanegan perfection (lee and nancy)..their last album HAWK...beauteous...here is my favourite song of the past 24 hours (played on repeat)


You Won't Let Me Down Again.

Isobel is lovely (& w/ real lady's body as in: no emaciation)...cello player from belle&seb..and mark..i love his death-rasp. i met him & he is just how you would imagine him to be. i love this yin/yang collaboration. i wish the rest of the world would follow suit.

speaking of more awesome collaboration! ahlers and fieldguided. tavi and janeprattsassy.
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

can this bridge cross the ocean?

 Doubtful.
my favourite images of the bunnies (right now) is of them
facing in this direction.

looking forward/pressing on.

& nothing getting

in the way

this is my favourite song right now In for the Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix) by la roux
(forgive that ridiculous graphic on the 'video')

cant get no

arent these funny bunny pants? i guess more 'shorts trousers'...i wing this stuff as i go along and pattern nothing. so either it turns out or it doesn't turn out. but. i usually get it to turn out to my liking. somehow. make it work. or i avoid doing it at all. or i figure out another way. and then i apply these tactics to other areas in my life. the rest of my life. (my biggest pleasure during bunny production was coming to the end of a spool of thread. that was satisfaction. & watching the wrestler (& splice).

speaking of splice...hit that 'satisfaction' link for some genius Chan Marshall (& judah bauer on guitar)

processing

 cramming

that's called a 'Lamb Car'

 this is a favourite one.

 peanuts

 half-done midsized bunnies

 i make other art while i'm doing this. i write things down while i work. this is a photograph of an image ripped out of..something. Re-photographing. down below is some of the writing i speak of. thoughts. this is how my bookwork comes together over time. i edit a few times during the year and see what happens. it's seasonal work.

 here are some good things...'stevie' art from the very great Chelsea magazine and the most recent Lightning Dust album that amber sweetly sent me plus some of her mixes. (jeremy designed the stellar cover)

 oh my goodness. Old School Crew. They were inspiring me. The very first bunny i ever made, the second, the 607th and the 2,001 bun. I've lost track. can u believe how they've changed?

 'we can sit here for a bit even though you're in my space'

nice mess

 baby chick yellow bunnies waiting for ears.

 here are bunnies that are yelling at me: WE NEED CLOTHES. i drape them for a week or so...wait to see what they *need*.
here are bunnymaking images over the past 2 months. processing. always
oh and some more inspiration that has nothing to do with bunnies but it does but it doesnt.
The Rose!

mother of murphy~!

have you seen the new Vanity Fair? they plastered a marilyn monroe quote from a poem that i used in the selves..and had reservations about using her words b/c they are BEYOND vulnerable...i cant believe it! plastered across VF! it's from a poem she wrote and i've carted it around for over a decade thinking/knowing 'i have to use this somewhere'. poem fragment: help/help/help/i feel life coming closer/when all i want to do is die'.
i held onto it b/c it's shocking, sad, pathetic and why would the world's most beloved lady FEEL that way? it's like something from a 14 year old's diary.
anyways! awesome. it always feels good to feel a part of the collective consciousness and obviously this needs to get looked at.
radical!
i cant wait to read her diaries. wherever she is, i hope she is okay with all of this. maybe it's about time. it certainly is in my books.
i have to go catch a plane now! and finish packing and go pick up a poster at STAPLES (for the 5th time)
ciao bellas.
PS here is another bunny to look at. I've been making them little bill cosby-inspired sweaters. they will get jazzier with time.

x

My Art

i'm tidying up my computer before i leave for a month & found this gold. i made this (unedited) gem 3 yrs ago when i first came  to the yukon..sitting at my desk working on random book, turned around and captured MARVIN preening to Prism's "Spaceship Superstar"
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