I have a digital bookshelf on Shelfari

I have been very busy and have had lots to do.. SO I needed distraction, and something to do while procrastinating. Look, I've joined Shelfari:



Thanks, CarynSKA, for introducing me to Shelfari! I am all excited about it, and have already found tons of new books I'd like to read. I am especially intrigued by the fact that someone else has read The Secret Life of Plants. It's a book about plant intelligence, and the other person who has read it has read SO many interesting books.

Now I'm off on holiday, and will be reading Secret and Surpressed II. I just finished a chapter called "Wilhelm Reich, Eisenhower and the Aliens". Nice one. Go befriend me if you're on Shelfari, I'd like to see what people are reading and get inspired to read more.

Ps. Truls, what are you waiting for?

I won Wilson's blog giveaway!!!

I've been keeping quiet about this giveaway as I wanted more of a chance of winning, bahahaha! AND I WON!? Normally only other people win things.

I didn't win this:
That was Wilson.
And this is Wilson with my prize:

My prize is a taxidermy toad called Mr. Toad with a BFF necklace (one half for mr. Toad and the other for me):
He's got a very nice face, and beautiful eyes, although Wilson has better teeth.

I've never seen such an amazing prize in a blog giveaway before, so I still can't believe that I actually won it. I feel very lucky, all those four leaf clovers I've found must finally be doing their magic.

Check out Wilson's blog, The Adventures of Wilson, it is very quirky and very good.

body painting by Chelsea Rose

Chelsea Rose mainly paints ornamental, psychedelic figures on canvas, and she calls them "Spirit Paintings". She has recently done a lot of body painting sessions, and I think her style of painting and her theme of Spirit Paintings works really well on live models.






This is Chelsea Rose with her Spirit Paintings. I like how nice they all look together at her stand, and the fact that she offers face and body painting as well. She has a very distinct style in everything she does. I kind of envy people who have found Their Thing, and has managed to narrow down their artsy interest into a very specific thing.

Chelsea Rose has a beautiful website for her art: http://www.chelsearosearts.com/

She also blogs: http://lucidrose.blogspot.com/
I find it interesting to get a behind the scenes look at how other creative people go about their creativeness, and Chelsea Rose's blog is a good example of this.

Chelsea Rose's Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/lucidopticlab

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My Baby Just Cares For Me by Ali Mahdavi

I remember the secret forest

photo by manyfires

renaissance bodies

A lot of John Currin's work is vulgar, some of it is ironic while also referencing the old masters. I'm not too interested in the more vulgar paintings he makes, but I like how he has drawn inspiration from the renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the elder when painting the bodies in this painting:


I've always liked to look at how the body has been represented in art through the ages- the old masters really painted a lot of interestingly shaped bodies.