I DONT CARE, I LOVE IT.

Sketch42 painting

I got this feeling on the summer day when you were gone. I crashed my car into the bridge. I watched, I let it burn. I threw your shit into a bag and pushed it down the stairs. I crashed my car into the bridge. I DONT CARE, I LOVE IT! I DONT CARE!  I got this feeling on the summer day when you were gone. I crashed my car into the bridge. I watched, I let it burn. I threw your … [Read more...]

KNOW YOUR CITY: Socony-Mobil Building.

socony-mobil building

Yesterday, my brother walked over to my place during his lunch break, and I packed one of the kids into a stroller and walked back with him. "What is that?!?" I asked as we approached the corner of 42nd and 3rd Avenue. "Oh, It's the Socony-Mobil Building, where I work," he said. The building, which takes up an entire city block, is entirely covered in stamped stainless steel. Amazingly, I'd never … [Read more...]

Welcome To Paradise.

Welcome to Paradise, barneys

A few months ago I got the Barney's Spring 2013 catalog in the mail, and I saved it. Welcome to Paradise, it's called, subtitled Blue Skies, Green Grass, No Trash, No Traffic.  Shot by David Slijper, and styled by Bill Mullen.  I've been looking for the photos online and couldnt find em, but I just had to share them with you. Can all my catalogs look like this please? That is, like a midcentury … [Read more...]

Beyond Skin.

amanda wachob

Remember when I said I want to paint people? I think some of you though I wanted to paint portraits OF people. No, I want to paint ON people. Kind of like this. But tattoo and fine artist Amanda Wachob has one upped anything I could ever come up with: She tattoos abstract expressionist works onto the human body. First of all, why has no one ever done this before. And second. Wow. I personally … [Read more...]

The One Piece.

one piece

The one piece... I've been resisting one pieces for years, (unless pregnant -I dont do the bare prego bump, no one wants to see huge expanses of my hideous white skin, at least I don't.) probably because I think they are semi annoying to wear- they stay wet all day, and you dont want to have a pale stomach while the rest of you gets tan. You can look too prudish-if you are totally covered, or too … [Read more...]

Family Portraits.

sketch42 portraits

On Sunday, my family went back to the Queen's County Farm. I love that place. (I've written about the farm, HERE, and just FYI, next weekend is another carnival weekend, but May 5 is the Spring celebration when they shear the sheep, its really AWESOME. Visit their site HERE. ) Instead of just going with the hubs and kids, my siblings (minus one) and mom met us and I tricked them into letting me … [Read more...]