eyes on fire

took a zillion pictures at ingenuity last night... a festival in cleveland held under the detroit superior bridge.  it is such a cool space to explore.  it feels so other worldly.

 plus they have super fun activities like a doodle bar.

 and a gummy worm bar.

 and lots of really great installation and performance art.

 and carnival food.

plus my good friend's band Me played.  they play fast rock and roll and we did the twist.  

great night.

sorry i've been so m.i.a.  school has started and it's totally mad and plus i have dear olive taking up most of my free time.  but i just saw Submarine and thought it was fantastic.  i love all the signiture clothes each of the characters have.  and the sound track is pretty great.

i've got a lot of other fun stuff planned for this weekend so hopefully i'll have some fun pictures to show you.  

what do you have planned this weekend?  i'd love to hear.

here's my big news!  i just brought this little bundle of joy home from the APL Cleveland two days ago and we are in love.

 her name is olive and she's 6 months old.

 she hates being photographed... this picture reminds me of a people picture when your eyes are like half open and half closed!

so yeah, i'm pretty much obsessed.

saw peter bjorn and john tonight.  it was pretty much swoon, swoon, a little more swoon and some seriously amazing rock and roll.  peter admitted that their goal was to get into the rock and role hall of fame... relevant because we are in cleveland.  i think they are on the right track.  they are such great musicians and absolutely incredible performers.  unfortunately my polaroids didn't come out too great but they aren't terrible.

shoot 'em down turn around

 summer has wrapped itself all up and so i thought i would post a few random portraits and self-portraits from the summer that never got posted. 

and here is a sneak peak at my newest piece... it's kind of awful timing that the imagery is a hurricane/tornado but lets keep in mind that i'm using it as a metaphor.  speaking of irene... hope everyone is keeping safe!  and for those of you who are about to start back at school like me, have a good first day!

rock around the clock

 so this is the piece i've been working on all summer.  i'm SO happy with how it came out.  

"It's what's inside that counts, but I'd rather be pretty."

i really wanna go outside

just some photos from my last few days.  in biggest news... i got a major hair cut and dye

 before

after!

 otherwise i've been baking cookies 

 and playing in water

this is my portrait of steph

 and this is steph's portrait of me

most exciting this week was my best trash picking find ever.  some silly person through out this original robert lyons mid-century modern print manufactured by the franklin picture company.  it's such a cool find and it goes so well in my apartment!

i also may have some exciting news to announce very soon so stay tuned!