GREEN PORNO

Isabella Rossellini did these two minute videos for sundance about the mating rituals of insects. i like the bee one best i think.

ELLA DOES IT BETTER

FATHER

this is my dad.  i don't mean to display him like this, and if he knew these were "on the computer" he wouldn't like it.  but when i see him in photos i don't believe we share blood.  he is holding two carvings he did out of antler and horn.  his house is bedecked in bones and fur and taxidermy.  

i think my favourites are the tiny reindeer head and the antler chandelier in his entryway.  i didn't get a photo of that because i only see him once a year and it seemed wrong to spend the time photographing his home instead of conversing.

i think i'm becoming one of those family photo blogs where they post for the relations.  next i'm going to send out a christmas letter.

GOT ME HOPIN YOU'LL PAGE ME

                                          still fantastic.

antony/pta mom?

BELLS IN A CAVE

i recently read a book entitled, Terra Incognita; Travels in Antarctica, by Sara Wheeler. It harkens a return for me to my one-time favourite sort of literature, Travel Writing! I am years away from being able to afford any sort of travel beyond the armchair variety... Some day though. This book is wonderful because it feels like and i think was intended as an introduction to Antarctica. Wheeler quotes all the big names of Antarctic exploration heavily and those were the passages that won me over.

I quote:

"When you look upon such things there comes surging through the confusion of the mind an awareness of the dignity of the earth, of the unaccountable importance of being alive, and the thought comes out of nowhere that unhappiness rises not from lacking as from having too much...And you guess the end of the world will probably look like that, and the last men retreating from the cliffs will look out upon some such horizon, with all things at last in equilibrium, the winds quiet, the sea frozen, the sky composed, and the earth in glacial quietude."

-Richard E. Byrd, from Discovery

Doesn't that just kill you? I'm making a list of books from the bibliography to read.

BORED

HANNAH IRENE <3 <3

this is my sister hannah.

this photo's caption on myspace is:

"NEW-I got kicked outta class sooo i took pics"

and here is another, just so you can see her range.



HANNAH I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU AND CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU.

ANTI ROYALIST TRASH

i love these propaganda cartoons.  i can't find any images of the really dirty stuff.  A lot of the pamphlets circulating were about how she was having sex with every man, woman and animal she could find.  i know there exist really cool illustrations but i can't find them, which makes me think i should do them myself.

FUN FACT:  One euphemism for lesbianism in France was "the german vice" which is sorta funny, but wasn't so great for antoinette, who was from austria. 

PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS.