National Martin Ramirez Day

So I’m currently reading Murakami’s, “Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”…( I know, I’m so late to that bus). Man in the well? I mean, the book and the these drawings should have tea together. I feel like they’d be best friends.

And for some facts on Martin Ramirez: ( I’m going to let wikipedia take this one): Having migrated to the United States from Tepatitlan, Mexico in 1925, Ramírez was institutionalized in 1931, first at Stockton State Hospital in Stockton, California, then, beginning in 1948, at DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, near Sacramento, where he made the drawings and collages for which he is now known. At DeWitt, a visiting professor of psychology and art, Tarmo Pasto, came across Ramírez’s work and began to save the large-scale works Ramírez made using available materials, including brown paper bags, scraps of examining-table paper, and book pages glued together with a paste made of potatoes and saliva. His works display an idiosyncratic iconography that reflect both Mexican folk traditions and twentieth-century modernization: images of Madonnas, horseback riders, and trains entering and exiting tunnels proliferate in the work, along with undulating fields of concentric lines that describe landscapes, tunnels, theatrical prosceniums, and decorative patterns.

treehome, sweet treehome

And she even added WALLPAPER!

Mega props to Ms. Meyn, who built this treehome in Brooklyn, NY.

National Paul Klee Day

Ok, we made that up…but we’ve been petting these with our eyes all day.

boh!

We bring you the creepsicle master, Edward Gorey and his Gashlycrumb Tinies.

And his book in action set to one of our favorite tunes by Dead Man’s Bones, “My Body’s a Zombie for you”.

Get your House Beautiful Nov. 2011

And check out our artist’s edition, the talented Tom Slaughter’s Library Wallpaper.

Check out other amazing works at www.tomslaughter.com

Pets and pats

Artist Elim Cheng, made two “needy objects”- they need the owner’s attentions to make them work. One is an alarm clock, to stop the alarm, the owner needs to hug it.

The other one is a speaker, the volume will go crazy when the owner is not around. The owner needs to pet it to make it calm down.

We totally want to make pet-able wallpaper.

Courtesy of Elim Cheng

Navajo Spoon from the 1930s

And check out our Navajo inspired Tapestry paper in Country Living Magazine October 2011

Courtesy of Ready for the House

Tasty Triangles

courtesy of Patternity

courtesy of artist elise ferguson

Video Art: Gotye

“Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye

Credits: Cinematographer/colorist Warick Field, body artist Emma Hack, scenic artist Howard Clark. Original artwork is by Frank de Backer. Bravo to all!

To see video click here. Gotye \”Some That I Used to Know\”