RAND & DE GRUYTER & THYS.

Old & New. Paul Rand, graphic designer.  Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, artists. My current muses are Gruyter & Thys. I am also taken with Rands three dimensional collages. The collages remind me of this wonder.

ART TEACHER.

Matt and I took a second trip to the NYPL. Many thanks to craft minded librarian, Jessica Pigza who brought us some old timey craft books to help in our research. The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos first published in 1931 is pictured above. These pics are from ebay – first edition is [...]

PSYCHIC MENTALISM.

I was looking for drawings of a tesseract (Wrinkle in Time verison)
and found this weird stuff. Al Mann -  mentalist. via Zem

FEAST.

Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics
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FEAST is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging art makers.
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My talented culinary, arts & community minded friends have organized an ideal dinner cooked up in a church basement this Saturday Feb 21 5-8pm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. If you live in [...]

LENCI DOLLS.

Lenci Dolls — woah. discovered via Fashion Forestry

YOGANANDA.

I am reading (a quarter way through)  Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda.  I’ve been getting into yoga recently and decided to read this book for inspiration. My teachers have Yogananda’s picture all over the studio. They love this guy.
Does anyone have gurus anymore? Do you?

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