Fell in love with a girl...

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....she's a 2D portrait that i saw on the wall.

Yesterday for those who missed it was the Charm City Craft Mafia forth annual Pile of Craft.
Fun times, probably a lot more fun if you have money to blow and since some of you do i want to call attention to some vendors that caught my eye.


JamieZollars.com 
(the girl i fell in love with)
Amazing work, featured in Illustration Now vol 3.  I can only beg you to see her work because i can't phantom a way to describe it in words.

Tengu

the garden

Marmalade (just sky)

Don't like art?
how about clay jewelry? Check out Yummyandcompany.etsy.com
the shop is closed until monday so i don't have any pictures, but i'll try to add some





Two more worth mentioning:
My man at Fuzzy Ink   stand has some awesome concepts for men and woman's clothing and a huge fuzzy mustache.

game over (men's crew)

Identity Crisis (men's crew)

Music in Flight (women's crew)

Okay last i want to call attention to the awesome trend that is art and recyclables. Talk about the ultimate way to ensure that you are staying green: turning your trash in to a treasure.

CottonMonster
check out the site. I can't share any shots because it is jpeg...though i did purchase some screen print patches for my jeans.  Jennifer Strunge (like most of these artist) is native to baltimore and hopes to start her own circus oneday.

last but not least

The Broken Plate Pendant Company

 Rachel ray loves this company so you knoooow i love it! The concept seems so simple. one day the artist broke a plate, she made a necklace out of the pieces next thing you know she is getting orders.

dont' be fooled by imitations- this is the real deal, the Original.


don't miss these artist again, check out CharmCityCraftMafia to stay in the know.

peace and love

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds dies

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- The childhood friend of John Lennon's son who inspired the Beatles' psychedelic masterpiece "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" has died aged 46 from the chronic disease Lupus.

Julian Lennon showed his father a drawing he had done of Lucy Vodden. The rest is music history...

Lucy Vodden was a classmate of Julian Lennon, who came home from school one day carrying a drawing of his 4-year-old classmate. "That's Lucy in the sky with diamonds," he told his father.

Lennon seized on the image and embellished it in a song along with "newspaper taxis" and a "girl with kaleidoscope eyes."

The BBC later banned the track, which appeared on the 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," for its supposed drug reference with the words of the song spelling out LSD.

Lennon always claimed though that the title was suggested by Julian, not from any wish to spell out LSD, the chemical name for the drug, acid, in code.

Julian Lennon lost touch with Vodden when he left Heath House nursery school, near his parents' home in Surrey following their divorce in 1968. But they were reunited in recent years when he heard she was suffering from the immune system disease and he lent his support to her.

Vodden's death was announced on Monday by St. Thomas Lupus Trust in London, where she had been treated for more than five years.

"Julian and (his mother) Cynthia are shocked and saddened by the loss of Lucy and their thoughts are with her husband and family today and always," the trust said on its Web site.

Angie Davidson, Campaign Director of the St. Thomas' Lupus Trust said "everyone at the Louise Coote Lupus Unit was dreadfully shocked by the death of Lucy, she was a great supporter of ours and a real fighter, it's so sad that she has finally lost the battle she fought so bravely for so long."

Vodden, who was a housewife from Surbiton, southwest of London, cherished her link to the Beatles, but did not especially like the song she inspired.

"I don't relate to the song, to that type of song," she told The Associated Press in June, according to the Web site, PopEater.

"As a teenager, I made the mistake of telling a couple of friends at school that I was the Lucy in the song and they said, 'No, it's not you, my parents said it's about drugs.' And I didn't know what LSD was at the time, so I just kept it quiet, to myself."

Hump Day Laughs

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BANNED COMMERCIALS!!!

TOP THREE all in one video (1:36)
IKEA banned campaign "Tidy Up" I have to admit this is over the top...but they are Swedish, and some how that makes it "ok" and acceptable. Right?

Hump Day Laugh on facebook

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this was is on facebook and the avid fans who "hate" it
honestly i've cut back on my facebook checking drastically--i honestly don't care what all 600 of my "friends are doing" just 60 or so.



thanks current!