Doris Rijkers inspired commission I did for dream couple Shelby Scudder & Ben Curtis.
March 2013
Acrylic except for the eyes.
Photo by Me.
stuck
it’s 6pm on a Friday night and I am sitting and working at the bistro table on my deck overlooking the ocean with some lanterns and a cup of coffee and I’m listening to Melanie’s greatest hits and occasionally people-watching as random neighbors walk along Ashland to main street and i can almost imagine how incredible it was to live here in the 70s. i think there’s still so much of that vibe and that magic that remains in this city, i mean how can there not be when you put creative people in a place where it’s almost always sunny — it’s the land of honey and dreams and colors and promise. i think the thing I love most about LA is that this city was built in the seventies and then it just sort of stuck. and there’s something about LA, something sticky, and it’s like time freezes or doesn’t matter, it’s just stuck, and it makes the rest of us want to get stuck here too.
More wedding pictures. The one of Josh and Sheila gazing at each other looks like one of those photos that comes in the frame when you buy it at the frame store. Ridiculous. The others may as well be from the J. Crew catalog. It’s all just so picture perfect!
SPIRIT ANIMAL: Seals
I figured out what my spirit animal is: A SEAL! Why? DUH! Seals live in the ocean and they like to play tricks and sometimes they love being super social in big groups of friends and a lot of other times they like to hang out by themselves and they really love taking naps on the beach and tanning.
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Look At These Snoozing Whales of the Day: This is how sperm whales sleep, but Matt Kaplan at Nature has the story behind this incredible shot:
A team led by Luke Rendell at the University of St Andrews [was] monitoring calls and behavior in sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) off the northern Chile coast when they accidentally drifted into the middle of a pod of whales hanging vertically in the water, their noses poking out of the surface. At least two of the whales were facing the boat, but not a single animal responded.
It was actually pretty scary. The boat had drifted into the group with its engine off [while] I was below decks making acoustic recordings. Once I saw the situation I decided the best thing to do was to try and sail our way out of the group rather than turn the engine on and have them all react.
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Look At These Snoozing Whales of the Day: This is how sperm whales sleep, but Matt Kaplan at Nature has the story behind this incredible shot:
A team led by Luke Rendell at the University of St Andrews [was] monitoring calls and behavior in sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) off the northern Chile coast when they accidentally drifted into the middle of a pod of whales hanging vertically in the water, their noses poking out of the surface. At least two of the whales were facing the boat, but not a single animal responded.
It was actually pretty scary. The boat had drifted into the group with its engine off [while] I was below decks making acoustic recordings. Once I saw the situation I decided the best thing to do was to try and sail our way out of the group rather than turn the engine on and have them all react.
Sunfish!
