He learned me to smile.

Daydreaming, on a lazy afternoon.

"A daydream is a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake. […] While daydreaming has long been derided as a lazy, non-productive pastime, it is now commonly acknowledged that daydreaming can be constructive in some contexts. There are numerous examples of people in creative or artistic careers, such as composers, novelists and filmmakers, developing new ideas through daydreaming. Similarly, research scientists, mathematicians and physicists have developed new ideas by daydreaming about their subject areas." (Read more about daydream on wikipedia.)


Daydreaming, on a lazy afternoon, I was vaguely looking for a contemplative entertainment. Ok, let's go at Etsy.com and search among nine million of handmade listings with two keywords. Smile (why not) and strange (and why not). I landed here: RobotsAreAwesome, from Orlando USA, a shop full of wonderful smiling robots. Lovely finds!

Baby Blue Grungy Rustic Robot Sculpture - Blue Byron

Robot Sculpture Storage Bot Keepsake Vessel Rustic Silver Stew

Robot Sculpture Pull Toy - Green Glen Jiggly Wiggly

Blue Becky Back to School Girl Robot Sculpture

Green Giles Grungy Robot Sculpture

Red Rigby Angel Robot Christmas Ornament

Robot Christmas Ornament - Snowman Sid - Jet Pack Wearing Bot

Pale Blue Grungy Robot Head Mini Magnet

RobotsAreAwesome on Etsy
RobotsAreAwesome on facebook
RobotsAreAwesome on twitter

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Fall. It was in Fall when my friend Jack introduced me to the British band I Monster. But was it in Fall 2009 or 2010? I can't tell. Anyway, since that druggy night, every day the electronic dream pop duo cheers my ears up.

I Monster - Daydream in Blue

Half awake

Erin Tyner Photography: Half Awake diorama series, mysterious scenery for lonesome miniature humans

Tides

Fade

Sometimes

Above

Windswept

The Thin

Ice Swimming

The Crossing

Erin Tyner's etsy shop
blog
facebook page

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Half the time I don't know if I'm awake or I'm asleep
Half the time I don't even care

Richard Butler (Maybe Someday)

Blurry blue

Welcome to a misty and strange world, where a museum roof emulates a glass sinking boat, where a pure white orchid looks like: "What? Let's get the fuck out of here!" Beautiful blue polaroid art prints by Laura Hugues, photographer and needlepoint artist living in New York, USA.

Blue Polaroid Photograph

Louvre at Dusk


White Flower Polaroid Photograph

White Orchid


Blue Polaroid Photograph

Diver Ocean Cliff


Blue Polaroid Photograph

Blue Fairy


White Flower Polaroid Photograph

Wilted Flower


Blue Polaroid Photograph

Woman With Hand over Face


Botanicus Obscurus Series

Purple Botanical Polaroid Art

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Au Revoir Simone . Trace a Line

Au Revoir Simone is a Brooklyn-based girl band, singing and playing on three vintage synths and a drum machine. They've described their disarmingly minimalist music quite accurately as dreamy electronic lo-fi keyboard pop.

Birds in the clouds

Susie Loucks is a photographer living in Los Angeles. I met her outstanding work while looking for bird art prints on Etsy.com. The ones she gives us are amazing, stopped by the camera shutter in such peculiar and elegant poses, usually unavailable to our eyes.

"Photographing birds takes time and patience, however the more time one spends observing an animal, the more one sees its distinct personality emerge. Whether its demeanor is shy, playful, or curious, when a bird is in flight, its feathers are like a flower in bloom, everyday is spring." - Susie Loucks

Climb

Ring-billed Gull in flight against a desaturated sky

Spin
Heermann's Gull in flight against a desaturated sky

Hover

Heermann's Gull in flight against a desaturated sky

Twirl
Juvenile California Gull in flight against a desaturated sky

Eye Level

California Gull with its wings at eye level while in flight against a desaturated sky

Crow

Crow in flight against a desaturated sky

Moon Dance
Western Gull in flight against a desaturated sky

More birds in the clouds in Susie Loucks' Etsy shop
All photographs in Susie Loucks' Etsy shop
Susie Loucks' web page

Thank you for looking. Have a nice day *in the clouds*.

A wolf girl, her eyelashes.

A few weeks before my daughter's 17th birthday (last Wednesday), she told me she wanted a mommy-made little plushie as her gift.

- Ok, baby. I'll create a miniature ninja eskimo wolf for you.
- Make him a girl! Put some eyelashes! Just like Sponge Bob, FOUR eyelashes!
(She's a big fan of Sponge Bob. But Sponge Bob only has three eyelashes.)
- Ooh what a cool idea!

She chose the colors for the felt I'm gonna use: white wolf, denim blue coat. It's a girl so a touch of pink is added. He he.


First, the winter coat is cut and decorated with hand embroidery.



Second, I cut the body of the wolf girl. Her face was hand embroidered. Her head, breast and arms, sewn and stuffed.



Third, the winter coat is applied to the plush. After that, belly and legs will be filled with stuffing and sewn.




Here we go. There she is.



There are miniature ninja eskimo wolf plushies in my Etsy shop right now. Only boys. No girl. Yet.


Thank you for your interest in my work and have a wonderful day.

Rosita, Rosa, I see you now.

Many years ago, my friend Gogo gave me a box including several small cards with beautiful Mexican folk art illustrations. And the flower I drew was inspired (I think) by the rose of the loteria board game card.


There are 54 cards in the game. Number 41 refers to the red flower. Yesterday, the sentence "Rosita, Rosa, I see you now" was found HERE (Loteria on wikipedia).

I drew the flower with black ink on paper. I photographed my drawing. With Photoshop, colors were added on the digitalized image.



Mon amie la rose by beautiful French singer Françoise Hardy (1964) on youtube




 
Rosita, Rosaura, ven que te quiero ahora.
Rosette, Rose, je te vois maintenant.
Rosita, Rosa, I see you now.

My dream is drawn.

Noooooo! Please, don't do that! Remove your hand!
The lion is going to attack you!
Only his master can touch the beast...

A dream I've had last spring.

In a strange house, I saw a big upside down ninja lion, his head hanging down. I was attracted, went to him, and began to caress him. Then I heard a thundering voice ordering me to stop touching the beast, because the beast would aggress me. I remember being afraid, but the attractive upside down ninja lion didn't snarl or attack me.

I woke up, took my pen and drew the scene on paper.



On the photographed drawing, coloration was done with Photoshop.


I took the ice rink floor from another image I made for a cartoon on an absolutely beautiful - beautifully absolute! - cover of Joy to the World by Frank Fuller.


Today I listed the new ACEO UpsideDown Attractive Ninja Lion in my Etsy shoppe.

Thank you for your interest, have a grrrreat day.