Hear/Say

Kristina Collantes, an artist that works with illustrations and mixed media, features her imaginative monster critters on her site at http://www.kristinacollantes.com.

She manages to give everything– from a little bird to a mountain, to a cowboy ball of feathers wearing braces– larger-than-life personalities. Beautiful colors and intricate patterns included!

"Jules"

"Sam"

Mt. Pinatubo, favez

How groovy and creative! Her skills have been displayed in GQ, and she designs some pretty sweet concert posters:

for Narf Records

 Kick ass.

Gracie

Is Minnie Bad-Ass

The minute moment where sleep blinks into awakeness and slothily leeches itself away from your bones, you are keenly conscious of how lazy you potentially can be.

Skull bling via yrkool.tumblr.com

So you drag yourself out of the very pit of your bed, where the gravity is heaviest

via peachypeach.tumblr.com

And throw yourself into the morning coffee and mechanical means of getting ready for a day

via wordofcommand.tumblr.com

Where you think you know what will happen, and what is supposedly to be rewinds and forwinds in your mind like a silent movie clip

via boblobloblawsblog.tumblr.com

But the day is always different, and there is always something semi-unexpected

via bobloblawslawblog.tumblr.com

Gracie

Looking at my collection of blogs, I’ve noticed that the infamous Mickey Mouse motif is still quite popular in design or illustration art. Even fashion photoshoots have used the Mickey Mouse ears as a definitive prop. There’s something so broad (and at the same impossible time, concise!) about what these round black ears represent.

via iamlocksin.blogspot.com

via toddproctordesign.com

via http://bobloblawslawblog.tumblr.com/

Photog Christine Hahn via christinehahn.blogspot.com

via lookbook.nu

via stylebubble.co.uk

An entire fashion piece about Etsy-made Mickey Mouse ears can be found here

As we can see, Disney’s death-grip on Western culture continues.

Buy your own Mickey inspired headbands on Etsy at

jenniferloiselle.etsy.com

Gracie

Literally. I have accumulated 56+ blogs (that I theoretically read on a daily basis) in the past month. The internet is a never-ending addiction. Once you stick the wi-fi in your mental vein, you’re HOOKED–one site leads to another, and the next thing you know sites like polyvore and weheartit send you on scavenger hunts for invisible passions you never knew existed.

This blog post is a hurrah for my addiction. I claim no responsibility for my crowds of readers (feed them, feed them!) who fall into the same situation I find myself in.

via prismatic-effect.tumblr.com

via planettampon.com

Japanese Pregnancy Doll via morbidanatomy.com

via pafuruda.tumblr> via observando.tumblr

via christinehahn.blogspot.com

via velveteendream.tumblr.com

via velveteendream.tumblr.com

via parachuteshark.tumblr.com via retrozone.tumblr.com

via intweetion.tumblr.com via jamescohan.com; nam june paik

Happily blogged forever,

Gracie

WHEN YOU ARE STUCK IN A CLASSROOM

with the construction banging away outside without a care in the world for The Victorian Age and Its Literature

and your classmates rubbing up on your shoulders, where each breathe is breathed in by another

you escape.

And here I am.

I’d rather be here:

via butdoesitfloat.com

or eating these…

via http://bobloblawslawblog.tumblr.com/

or wearing this:

via planettampon.tumblr.com

Gracie