cyborg menstruation

a cool picture i found in my massive strange-things-from-the-internet-folder. it's an ever growing collection of the weird and wonderful.

art on myspace

since i've started painting again (i didn't paint for a year!), i've been trying to breathe some new life into my dormant myspace art profile and it has lead me to re-discover some of the great artists on my friend list. this is the benefit of a bad memory; the same things can be discovered again and again and i'm equally thrilled each time... one of the artists that i keep re-descovering is korin:




i like how something so white can be so dark.. :

and i like the stale postures in her paintings:
i always find it interesting to see how people work, so here are a couple of behind-the-scenes shots:

taking good pictures to base paintings on is something i keep trying to remember. it's so much easier to work with something that isn't wrong from the start, as then the rest of the work doesn't have to be about fixing mistakes. it seems like a bit of an effort to take professional photos that will never be used for anything else than research, but it's more of an effort trying to make a painting based on a crap photo with shit lighting look professional..


check out korin's myspace profile for more of her art.

when i joined myspace, i was amazed at how easy it is to discover cool art there. if you find one artist that you like, it's very likely that you'll like other artists on his or her friend list. if any of my blog readers are on myspace, why don't you add me? you can find my profile here.

paintings from my grandmother's house

i thought i'd share some paintings from my grandmother's house. it hasn't occured to me to blog about them before as i see them all the time, but they're absolutely amongst my favourites. my grandad was very interested in art, and had lots of friends who were artists, including kristofori who gave him these paintings:




and with that i might disappear for a little while, as i'm moving house.

painting of kat x 2

i thought i was going to do more to this painting, but i have a tendency to overwork things, so i'll try to leave it as it is...
it is an oil painting on canvas.

deep in my synthetic soul

i want to share my love for a electro pop band from italy called syrian. i also want to make an attempt at explaining it as my boyfriend and a lot of my friends find it hard to understand why and how i can like them this much (or at all).

my first encounter with syrian was accidental. i had downloaded some mp3's by mistake, and played them out of curiosity. first there was some electronic pop and i found it sort of funny. then the vocal came on and i couldn't stop laughing. i knew i had found something really special. at first i was feeling embarrassed on the behalf of the band. the lyrics are really naive, yet the guy sings as if he takes it really seriously. and he has a very distinct italian accent too, that makes it even funnier.

i instantly needed to see what they looked like, and was not dissappointed when i found photos.


my mother has said i need to stop liking things ironically, as it's a very nonchalant and negative attitude.
there's also a quote i try to live by that comes to mind; "don't be cool, cool is conservative fear dressed in black".

i don't know if i'm trying to be cool when i laugh at syrian. i've wondered if i'm trying to cover up some sort of embarrassment of liking something this soppy by liking it ironically. i know that my love for them is not entirely ironical - while i can't stop laughing at them. yet i don't think it's out of embarrassment.

i've started to see something really pure and honest in the naivety about them. they're not trying to be hard or cool or complicated, they just sing their little hearts out. there's not a trace of evil in their music, it sounds like they don't even know what evil is - and i find it really touching and uplifting.
they sing about their own lonelyness and love(for each other?), but wrapped up in a sci fi setting. and it's not a hard brutal kind of sci fi that try to cover up any of their soppyness and naivety, no, there's lonely androids in space who takes the soppyness and naivety to the extreme.

here are a couple of their songs so you can judge for yourself. i've also included some of their lyrics as i think they are priceless.

lyrics to "space overdrive by syrian:

My starship is drifting
Aimless in flight
It's time to activate my mind
Mechanical pilot now comes alive
Storms of electricity
As digital implants are powering me
But now, running through the void
I can't stand the warp
Even if I'm a droid
Deep in my synthetic soul
I am falling down out of control
Light years of silence and stars
Will I return back to the sun
Space is cracking up my brain
Falling to pieces
I can't stop my pain
A war inside my head
Invisible forces are driving me mad

starless lyrics:

I'll never forget the silent sun
There was a universe around
The golden starship made no move
Into the red light all above
And when we watched the sky
We never felt so high
And you said it would last forever
Angels always fly there if you stay...
And you said you would wait forever
We will be together one day
Recalling the distant memories
I'm travelling through the galaxies
So time goes by and still the moon
Keeps spinning around the blue
And when I watch the sky
I wonder where you're now

awww.... <3

my friend katie armour makes amazing paintings!

i like the way she integrates real stuff like glitter and candy and pills and bows and stickers and whatnot with her masterly painting technique. her art is a colourful explotion of creativity.





they say people look like their dogs, but i say they look like their art. especially katie. i think she's an artwork in her own right, so i'm including some photos of her:



come see me in norway, katie!

if you want to see more of her art, you should check out her myspace profile. myspace is fantastic for finding new and interesting art.

the grand opening

i am opening an etsy shop with the name beyond reason at BeyondReason.etsy.com.

there's not much in my little shop yet, in fact this alien kitten is all there is,.. i was just too eager to open my shop and couldn't wait till more stuff was finished.

i'm crafting loads of strange things these days, though, and more stuff will be up soonish.
here are some of the things i'm making:

day of the dead skull beads in polymer clay:

knitted mohair shawls! this colour is amazing, it looks like it should glow in the dark but sadly it doesn't (i had to check):

fungus lover's earrings in polymer clay:

brain storm

A quick ink painting I did on the back of an envelope for my friend Kat.

STOP SHOUTING ON THE INTERNET!

I have been ranting about all sorts in this blog lately - I thought it would be a look-at-the-pictures-only blog when i started out, but alas, I just can't shut up. I guess it would be more shocking if I DID shut up, as I'm just TOO LOUD AND TOO MUCH, WHEREVER AND WHENEVER. WELL AT LEAST I CAN'T SHOUT ON THE INTERNET! SO A PRETTY PICTURE IS ALL I HAVE FOR TODAY:

naked men

this blog entry is a follow up on my last entry about naked ladies. i promised to post pictures of naked men, and i've taken my promise very seriously.

i did a quick google image search on naked men last night and mostly found very gay looking men, photos that made fun of the male body and naked girls. i told my boyfriend that i was trying to find photos of naked men that didn't look too gay and didn't make fun of the body. he said "good luck, i don't think you'll find any".

i think it's important for heterosexual girls to appreciate the male body to get the most out of what life has to offer them. i also think it's important for men to appreciate the male body in order to appreciate themselves.

and i don't understand how it can be so hard to see the beauty in the male body. i personally think it's a very obvious beauty.

here is a couple of pictures i've found on the internet:



as there was girls kissing in my last post i think it's only fair to post these men kissing in the man-post:

and i've also gone to the effort of scanning in a few pages from my "male nudes" book:


i really like this picture, it has a gritty rawness to it:
where is he angular? i think these are great shapes!!:

Victorian Alien

Victorian Alien started out as a quick painting on an envelope for my friend Elsa, but has undergone some improvements in Photoshop with my boyfriend's neat electronic pen-thing that lets me draw directly into the computer. Digital playthings are good fun.

naked ladies

i find the body infinitely interesting, not only in a sexual way, but as it is. maybe i look at the body differently than a lot of people because i like to do paintings of it, so i don't only see the sexual side of it, i see shapes and colours (and an awful lot of issues on life/death and everything in between).

i found these photos on rex venoms blog. since i started blogging, i've seen an awful lot of men who have entire blogs devoted to pictures of scantily dressed ladies. i've only once come across a blog with scantily dressed men, and that was owned by a gay guy.

i think that's a shame. it's not that i don't find photos of female bodies boring - on the contrary, i think some of the photos of ladies i've seen in men's blogs are well artsy and cool. it's just that there's a definite lack of male bodies!!

when i was in school and was getting into drawing the body, my friend tone asked me why i always drew naked girls, and not men. it was a question that made me think. it wasn't that i didn't want to draw the male body, it was more that i wasn't as sure about how to draw it as i hadn't been exposed to as much photos of naked men as of naked women.



i like the combination of fluff/lack of fluff (ok ok she's just got fluffy legwarmers, i like anything with fluff..):
ooh and i like underwater photos!!:

the body is a cool thing! and with that i pledge to find some pictures of naked men to put in this blog next. only for educational reasons, obviously.

etsy research

i'm doing a bit of research on etsy as i want to start my own etsy shop. i suspect i'll just end up buying tons of uselessness instead of selling my own. i've already bought myself a vintage magic lucky rabbits foot talisman and a vintage crocodile foot pendant. you never know when that will come in handy.

i've also seen other ace things, like this girl who has a shop called perishables. her organic looking jewellery is well innovative, and the way she photographs her work is sometimes very creative.




i also found this picture of a tulle skirt that was for sale. i'm not interested in the skirt though, it's her BOOTS that i'm loving. i remember seeing the very same boots in a shop in oslo when i was a teenager and i drooled and drooled over them but i thought i'd break my legs if i attempted to walk about in them. it's funny to note that my taste in things hasn't changed much sine i was a teenager; i still think these boots are awesome!!:
i already have fluffy legwarmers like these from OsinVinylDoll(and boots and bags and rugs, i have fluffy everything!!). i'm only posting this picture as i think the legwarmers look ace with stockings and suspenders. is it okay walking about like that, or is it too pervy??

ooh and i'd also love to hear about it if any of my readers have etsy shops of their own!

ocean aliens

i only started to appreciate fish a year ago. well that's not entirely true, i've appreciated them for dinner since i was a child, but i've never found them interesting if they weren't cooked.

but suddenly, last year, i realised how fucking WEIRD they are, and instantly got a fish tank. they truly are alien creatures.

"Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale."

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1962

i wish my fish tank would be big and salty enough to accommodate some of the weirdest creatures of the ocean, but just knowing that they are out there somewhere will have to do for now.

i remember seeing a cowfish like this one in a shop and he had me mesmerised for quite a while.
these are cucumber fish. they're no beauty queens:
i don't know what type of fish this is, but i like his teeth:lumpfish:
if there is a god, i wonder if he laughed or cried after having created this blobfish:a bit of an update on the blobfish photo; i was on the tube the other day when i saw a woman who looked JUST like this blobfish. it was absolutely horrible, she had the same pale watery complexion, a blob-like figure clad in white and dirty pastels and the same empty sad expression in her eyes. oh god, her eyes, she will haunt me in my dreams.


i bet this anglerfish played in a black metal band in his former life:
my brother says this is a "sea cow". i've never seen a sea cow before, but it looks very cuddleworthy and maybe a bit naive??:

fantasy erotica illustrations by michael hutter

hutter also makes fantasy paintings, this is one of my favourites:


check out the artist's website for more of his work.