flittermice of eld

coffins

2010-09-18T23:25:00.000-07:00

alex and lena

2010-08-11T00:28:00.001-07:00

lucy

2010-08-09T01:43:00.000-07:00

zoe and lou

2010-08-04T04:57:00.000-07:00

down south

2010-08-03T03:25:00.000-07:00

ces derniers jours

2010-08-02T05:17:00.000-07:00

2010-07-27T05:20:00.000-07:00

on the road

2010-07-26T05:06:00.000-07:00

permanent distraction

2010-07-26T03:19:00.000-07:00

holly

2010-07-13T05:09:00.000-07:00

through the woods i'm going, through the boggy mire

2010-07-12T23:56:00.000-07:00

2010-07-04T18:44:00.000-07:00

all city no stars

2010-07-04T16:46:00.000-07:00

more on the exhibition at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shidaart/
http://georgart.blogspot.com/
http://www.shatteredhell.blogspot.com/
http://charliehillhouse.com/

mushroom hunting

2010-06-06T03:26:00.000-07:00

2010-05-31T06:34:00.000-07:00

Lately, I've been busy writing art history essays and preparing myself for French exams. Days have been spent indoors with tea and many layers of clothing - we've been living like hermits. I'm looking forward to the winter holidays. This blog should be back from the dead in a few weeks.

2010-03-15T20:13:00.000-07:00

Though your wicked eyebrows call
Your nature into question
(Unangelic's their suggestion,
Witch whose eyes enthrall)

I adore you still
O foolish terrible emotion
Kneeling in devotion
As a priest to his idol will.

- From Afternoon Song by Baudelaire.

APT

2010-01-21T01:42:00.000-08:00

2009-12-12T22:21:00.000-08:00

"He who has known the other days, the angry ones... or those with that wicked headache rooted behind the eyeballs that casts a spell on every nerve of the eye and ear with a fiendish delight in torture, or those soul-destroying, evil days of inward emptiness and despair, when on this ravaged earth, sucked dry by the vampires of finance, the world of men and of so-called culture grins back at us with... lying, vulgar, brazen glamour -- he who has known these hellish days may be content indeed with normal half-and-half days like today." - Steppenwolf

2009-11-24T00:29:00.000-08:00

I drew this for Mikel in October last year.

newcastle

2008-10-16T20:43:00.000-07:00

2008-10-12T20:24:00.000-07:00

Italy - July

Alps near the Austrian border.

Desenzano del Garda, Northern Italy.

Swans on the lake at night.

View from Castello di Desenzano, a medieval fortress.

Lago di Garda

Venezia

2008-10-12T07:18:00.000-07:00

Hours seem like minutes.

2008-10-09T06:29:00.000-07:00

2008-10-07T19:26:00.000-07:00

June/July - Paris, France.

Île Saint-Louis

Musée National d'Art Moderne

Versailles

Île Saint-Louis

Notre Dame de Paris.

Musée National d'Art Moderne

Bacon

Dalí

Man Ray

Picasso

Léger

Basquiat

Versailles

Marie-Antoinette's bedchamber.

2008-10-06T22:37:00.000-07:00

June - England.

My mother and I stayed at our friends' manor-esque "house" in Bournemouth, Dorset. Apparently, their place dates back to the sixteenth century. I was envious of the wild rabbits in their gardens.

Mum hates photographs and she refused to be in any!

We visited the New Forest in Hampshire for lunch one day. Wild horses and deer were everywhere.

On our way to London, we stopped for tea in the 13th century village of Lacock.

nighttime...

London was sodden, windy, overcast, and bleak. Grey skies, grey buildings, and grey people. The Tate Modern was so killer.

2008-10-06T21:09:00.000-07:00

My friend Heather gave me a recipe for vegan chocolate and cinnamon cookies. They are easily the best cookies I have ever tasted, and the ingredients are commonplace in anyone's kitchen.

Mikel and I baked & demolished them last week.

Two cups of unbleached flour
Half cup of canola/vegetable oil
Quarter cup of water
One cup of raw vegan sugar
Half teaspoon of salt
One teaspoon of vanilla
Two teaspoons of baking powder
Cinnamon to taste
As much chocolate as you like (I use dark chocolate from the organic store, or 70% Lindt)

- Preheat the oven to about 180 degrees.
- Break the chocolate up into small chunks using a knife, or your hands.
- In a decent-sized bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and chocolate together, creating a well in the centre.
- In another bowl, mix the sugar and oil together. Add the vanilla and water. Mix well.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the well of the dry ingredients, and stir until the mixture is at a doughy, slightly crumbly consistency.
- Shape the dough, placing it onto baking paper.
- Bake for seven minutes, rotate the sheets and then bake for another seven minutes.
- Take the cookies out while they are still quite soft, as they harden while cooling.

2008-05-13T23:11:00.000-07:00

My first roll. BW film. Holga 120 GCFN.