A miraculous thing happened the other day – my sweetheart found a magical dumpster filled with all sorts of wonderful things. The very best was this killer cotton candy maker: As you can see, it works very well indeed. The process is quite magical, like there’s a big spider hidden in the hot coil that [...]
Attention New York! An amazing show is headed your way, and you absolutely must not miss it. Trust me. Go see this incredible piece of work, and help spread the word! The Pomology of Sweetness and Light at Manhattan’s Theater for the New City “New Orleans’ own “The Black Forest Fancies” are bringing their latest [...]
(Photograph by Muhammed Muheisen) A street performer uses a snake in his act on a road near Islamabad, Pakistan. I do not know the provenance of this photo, unfortunately. I tried using TinEye, to no avail. Anyhow, it makes me inordinately happy to see such a tiny snake (and his giant friend, the berry.) Sometimes [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Hello, hello! Many apologies for the long absence and all the tumbleweeds drifting around these parts! I am returned from my travels, which proved far too fun and chaotically action-packed to do any of the updates I had anticipated. In fact, I barely had time to flick a finger towards my laptop – which was [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Just a tease of photos from the last Gadjo Disko, from my friend Chip Warren. I was so excited that he brought his camera, and documented some of the magic of the night! More will be forth- coming, but I’m having some technical difficulties and frantically trying to get ready to hit the road for [...]
Hey y’all – I wanted to share this information from my friend Jay about our endeavor to bring a bevy Of New Orleans Bounce artists to Austin for SXSW. Please help us make it happen! There’s a link to the Kickstarter page in his letter below- it would mean so much to a lot of [...]
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Magic Windows are portals into the strange and beautiful world I inhabit, and the marvelous people, places and things come across in my day to day – all captured with the aid of my handy magic celephone (it’s an iPhone). I often take pictures of things I see while I’m at work at Uncommon Objects, [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
(Photo by Jane Aldridge) I adore this image captured in Coco Chanel’s gorgeously appointed apartment in Paris. What a dream come true, to explore her domain! I dreamt the other night that a was drinking Chanel No. 5 out of a big teacup. In my dreams, I have a golden indigo lacquered screen like that!. [...]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Due to the seasonal lag caused by my propinquity to the equator and global warming, it’s really just barely beginning to feel like a true autumn. The leaves here do change color a bit, though nothing so stunning as what the lucky folks up north get. Still, it pleases me to see the sumac and [...]
Thursday, November 26, 2009
(Photo by Red-Star) Turkeys are such strange birds. Ugly-beautiful, and regal-ridiculous. Have you ever seen one flying wild? It’s like a giant feathered cannonball shot through the woods. Hilarious and shocking. We saw wild turkeys in Osyka Springs, Mississippi when we used to go camping there. They are huge! I feel bad about it, but [...]
