Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924-August 29, 1987)

Paco Rico// Dude draws some pretty nice pin up ladies along with a sprinkling of weird orc type things. It’s pretty solid design wise and I love his color palate for the pin up ladies.

Aria Giovanni// This is a completely strange index of nothing but Aria Giovanni photos. Back in 2000 I was completely obsessed with her. I even got my picture taken with her at Comic Con in San Diego. I can’t find the picture where she is resting her wonderful, giant breasts on my shoulder like it was a hawk and I was in the movie Beastmaster, so you get this instead.

I don’t even know how I’m supposed to follow a perverts treasure trove of Aria Giovanni but I’m gonna try.

Dustin Harbin// There is nothing I enjoy more than reading comic artists blogs about things that aren’t about comics. Mr. Harbin is very entertaining and why should I have to convince you when there’s his amazing bit on, The Bachelor.

Freakonomics// I stumbled onto Freakonomics through the film that they made which completely blew me away. I love the way that they presented a lot of things in a way that I had never thought about in the slightest. They have a really good site and there’s also the podcast that you can get for free on iTunes. I really, really think everyone should give the movie a watch because even though you might not agree with some of the ideas that are presented, it really does challenge normal peoples way of processing ideas.

The Beat// The Beat is really the only site I check out when I want to find out about what’s going on with comic books. Which is rare. I’m forcing myself to pick up more books because I’m so out of the god damn loop it’s not even funny. I want to find some new artists that I’ve never seen before and read some new good shit. One day I’m hoping that I can finally snag a copy of Brandon Graham’s Prophet comic and I can’t wait to check out Becky Cloonan’s work on Conan, pesky bottom teeth be damned! I didn’t even know that DC had relaunched it’s entire stable of books with all new #1′s. I’m a retard.

threeA// threeA makes some of the sickest toys I’ve ever seen. If I didn’t already have a retarded collection of GI Joes, these would be next. It’s just hard to justify to my fiancee that spending $100 on 1 action figure is a worthwhile investment. It’s much easier to buy 11 $8 GI joes and get away with it. But the Fighting JC figure they dropped is really amazing. Who wouldn’t want a Jesus action figure that looks like he’s an extra on that movie The Road?

Chezerbey// A pretty slick blog documenting someones personal home transformation, as well as some really nice interior design ideas. I’ll prolly steal some images for the next installment of Interior Porn on Tuesday. Ooooh dropping plugs.

And that’s it for now. I’m tired and still sick. My body is achy and this boner won’t go away. 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one…

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

So this is the second round of things that have influenced my vision of what I want my dwelling to become. I’ve got the overall vision pretty much down, but every once in awhile I see things in photographs, TV shows or magazines that makes me stop and shuffle around my ideas a bit into a different sort of juxtaposition.

Lately I’ve been thinking about dining room living and how to make what I see in my head a reality. I rent now, but I still think there’s quite a bit you can do without having to physically change a whole lot. I love the reclaimed wood look for a dining room table. It’s got character and unlike those terrible oak dining room antiques that people fill their homes with, if you spill some shit on the table, no big deal. It adds to the character and comfort of the table. I could give a shit about how green my dining set is, so the whole using reclaimed lumber thing doesn’t matter much to me. Someone else can drive a Toyota Prius. The second photos color palette is very appealing to me, even if that 4 foot of tile is quite nauseating. I also like the use of plants in both photos.

Again the color palette in this photo is very appealing to me. The coffee table, chair and nightstand however should be burned in a giant fire with Glenn Beck books used as the kindling. I do however like the stadium chairs. I think they’re a very cool touch to add seating and style, however I find that they’re also better suited in the dreaded “Man Caves” than the living/bedroom of a studio apartment.

All these lights are not something anyone would want in their home, but turn em upside down in a restaurant and bam! They look cool as shit and are a good way to add a casual twist to a dining experience. Again another thing I like but couldn’t see a practical purpose in my life for it.

I’ve been reading up and researching different shelving ideas for our living room. I think I’m gonna build a series of “Book” shelves that will fill our giant barren living room. One day I’ll get around to it, until then I just keep collecting photos of things I like and things I could do without. I like both pictures, however the 2nd one features Ikea’s Lack shelving system I believe and I fucking hate Ikea shit. Everyone has it, it’s cheap as fuck, falls apart when it’s hit with water or a breeze and as exciting as your grandfathers morning bowel movement. I like the small things that Ikea has to offer in terms of design, but I think I’m pretty much past the point of wanting my house to be all chintzy Ikea crap. Now what to do with all these Billy book cases I have?!

The top two are both sets from Gossip Girl and the bottom is some dudes basement, when I saw these pictures I thought “Man if there was a bar that smashed these styles together and served good food, I’d live there!” Unfortunately the majority of people that run bars are douches and can’t figure out that the more time you put into making your spot nice, the better clientele you’ll bring in, the more ladies will want to come there and the less financial difficulties you’d have. Maybe when we buy a house I can find something with a basement that I can turn into my own bar and smush these all together into my own little AA getaway.

This is more than likely one of the next projects I’ll be looking into doing. Not because I’m a fan of giant boards full of things that have happened in my life, but because my fiancee is a sort of hoarder of memories. So rather than be all disgruntled and argumentative about the random shit she wants to show off proudly, I’ve been trying to think up ways to incorporate her massive collection of paper memories into the design of our living space. So I’m gonna put these two boards together and hopefully make something decent.

Before we get into this, go ahead and hit play. 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4&ob=av3e

Lately I’ve been obsessed with tigers. Tigers fucking rule. All I want to do is scratch a baby tiger behind it’s ears and pet it. With that here’s a sticker I drew for a recently sent order. Unfortuantely stupid Hotmail decided to lump all of my Etsy order notifications right into the junk mail. So again I apologize to the few of you that I didn’t mail out orders to in a timely manner. I hope we can still be BFFs.

Here’s the finished product of the envelope that I mailed out to Vera Attaway.

Tools: Sharpie, Micron, Prismacolors, Le Pen, White Prismacolor Pencil, Sticker Paper & Acrylic paint on the envelope.

and now after all that non-sense, here’s pictures of tiger shit that I thought was pretty dope.

See Tigers rule everything. Even people with tiger heads. People with tiger heads is way better than people with otter heads, right Nu? Since I can’t own a tiger maybe I’ll get a cat like this. Poopster will love it!

P.S. in exactly 1 year, I’ll be getting married. I’m so excited/depressed I wanna shit. <3