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bubbles and half unicorns
Aug. 6th, 2008 | 08:58 pm
mood: 
z's needed
♪ ♫ ♪: monica z
a cutout. there will be lillies.
photo from småland by tuva.
my new roommate is here! it's strange but wonderful.
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my favourite subway stop: oktogon.
Jul. 31st, 2008 | 09:44 am
vy-47-e, 1975
when i was little i admired ivan bilibin, john bauer, maurice sendak and countless other fairytale artists. i loved egon schiele and had a long standing obsession with hungarian artist vasarely. i made my dad take me to the vasarely museum in hungary when i was about 10.
what did you like?
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my little friend, liquid latex.
Jul. 24th, 2008 | 10:47 pm
mood: 
sad
♪ ♫ ♪: johnny cash
latest little graylight cutout. this is from a two-page spread full of flowers and tree trunks. this comic will have lots of full spreads!
thinly cut ginger floating eerily up and down in a glass of jasmine tea.
häger! me and maja picknicked at rålis and saw this young one. so cute.
sale
i found this painting in my closet! i thought for sure it was sold but it turns out i forgot about it. the original is 11x17 inches (a3 format), in perfect condition. watercolour and acrylics on acid free, thick paper. you guessed it, i'm in huge financial trouble. again. to be fair though, i really like this one and i would love for it to find a good home. it's from 2006 so i think i'm going to ask $200 for it. takers? please email info@naomi.se
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la terza madre
Jul. 20th, 2008 | 12:16 am
mood: 
moon
♪ ♫ ♪: kate bush
i'm pretty sure that in my life so far i've come across three witches. one from the south, one from the north and one from the east. you?
(it's not so much that i've seen too many argento movies. i've just seen the ones i like way too many times. that said i'm actually dead serious.)
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lavender
Jul. 16th, 2008 | 07:12 pm
mood: 
not getting to see johanna :(
♪ ♫ ♪: monica zetterlund
from my graylight project.
a friend of my mom's has a brother who grows lavender in hungary. he gave me a small bottle of pure extract ... it smells like paradise and has healing powers on small insect bites and the like.
don't do what i did and climb in windowsills while half asleep and sort of still dreaming. this is the result. i'm quite proud of it's size and all but it really hurts. i couldn't walk properly yesterday.
oh goodness the good gossip i heard today! lovely.
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salice piangente
Jul. 13th, 2008 | 11:15 pm
mood: weak jasmine tea is all i can handle tonight
♪ ♫ ♪: kate bush - lily
find me in the garden.
i watched stranger than fiction. loved. it. so. much. emma thompson is one of those older women where every wrinkle and line makes her more beautiful. like the closeup of angelica houston from the darjeeling limited where she's so gorgeous it's painful. i just typed "almost painful" but the almost was a lie and had to be erased.
it's so easy to have sympathy and be sad and forgiving when it comes to strangers, but that much harder to swallow pride and disdain towards someone you love (somehow) when their sadness and sickness caused you personal harm at some point. i'm ashamed.
(today was ... like no other day).
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curvacious
Jul. 12th, 2008 | 12:45 pm
mood: 
güüüd
♪ ♫ ♪: ladytron - black cat
i forgot to say i'm in curvy this year, too! very honoured and in such good company ...
my piece "gomory" made it in.
some of my favourites: elly yap // christina koutsospyrou // maria vittoria benatti // sarah mcneil
my piece "gomory" made it in.
some of my favourites: elly yap // christina koutsospyrou // maria vittoria benatti // sarah mcneil
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öster om eden
Jul. 11th, 2008 | 12:27 am
mood: 
seeing the world through green lace
♪ ♫ ♪: as black as malevich' square // the cold furnace in which we stare (einstürzende! my loves ... )
one of the working titles of john steinbeck's novel east of eden was my valley. i read this in the foreword of the edition i have (somewhere. i lost it. did the ex take it?). i read the book a couple of years ago, first the novel itself and then the foreword because i figure if the novel is no good i waste my time reading about it. it was beyond good: at the time it ranked in my top five favourites and it might still but that would require me to think hard about what i've been reading since, oh, 2004, and that isn't going to happen right now. anyway, a couple more working titles (including cain sign) and then he found the perfect one, the perfect three little words from the bible. e a s t o f e d e n.
so.
i've been drawing comics, as you can see (a snippet of here, above). i had some awful working titles and one that was a little less awful (the one by which my publisher knows the project) but now i have one i really love, which made me think of steinbeck and the fact that great authors struggle with titles too and it's not just me the tiny tiny pea-sized* comic artist.
oh, and i'm going to try and get up early so goodnight ...
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*must. play. katamari. damacy. we, that's ebba and i, only got as far as 'dzien dobry'! have you ever been to poland? which of course made me squeal with joy because i'm half polish and i can actually pronounce that pretty good :)
so.
i've been drawing comics, as you can see (a snippet of here, above). i had some awful working titles and one that was a little less awful (the one by which my publisher knows the project) but now i have one i really love, which made me think of steinbeck and the fact that great authors struggle with titles too and it's not just me the tiny tiny pea-sized* comic artist.
oh, and i'm going to try and get up early so goodnight ...
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*must. play. katamari. damacy. we, that's ebba and i, only got as far as 'dzien dobry'! have you ever been to poland? which of course made me squeal with joy because i'm half polish and i can actually pronounce that pretty good :)
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button holes are a bitch
Jul. 4th, 2008 | 05:00 pm
mood: 
ok but so hot
♪ ♫ ♪: common - i am music
it's so hot in here, and to make it even worse i'm baking so the oven's been on all day. i've already used 13 eggs; go me.
outfit
#2
i haven't been drawing these past few days, just writing and planning and trying to research things. to be honest things are going very slowly despite me being excited about the project. i'll show you more when i can, anyway.
sewing button holes by hand takes a really long time.
my blog has a new look. tasty serifs.
.
outfit
#2
i haven't been drawing these past few days, just writing and planning and trying to research things. to be honest things are going very slowly despite me being excited about the project. i'll show you more when i can, anyway.
sewing button holes by hand takes a really long time.
my blog has a new look. tasty serifs.
.
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myriad lights
Jun. 28th, 2008 | 03:14 pm
( three )
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fruit of camera, fruit of hand of naomi & software of feri + very small fruit of mind.
Jun. 26th, 2008 | 11:21 pm
mood: 
quite ok
♪ ♫ ♪: myléne
today's look*:
today's work (nowhere near finished but still took all day):
i have a teapot, fruit and kimchi. very good. life ticks forward with simple thoughts of simple things.
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* i present you: really bad haircut! did it myself! probably shouldn't have!
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tangibleobjects&stateofheart.
Jun. 21st, 2008 | 08:06 pm
only little more than a month from now i'll have a new roommate. considering that, and considering the fact that material possessions truly suffocate me i've gotten rid of three garbage bags full of clothes (two straight in the trash, one to salvation army) and four boxes of assorted books, cds, letters, drawings, magazines and trinkets. (one in the trash, three to salvation army). it feels amazingly good.
i was complaining to the boy as we were going out today how when i work on the computer i can't watch movies at the same time. i like things in the background when i draw and i don't have a tv. i'm actually kind of rabidly against the whole concept and i haven't had one in years. when we were coming back we saw this guy carrying a tv and i was like "let's follow him and see if he takes it to his car or the garbage room" and he took it to the garbage room! so we asked if it worked and he said yes and that i could have it. and then him and his girlfriend also gave me a working dvd player that they were going to throw out! lucky. so lucky, i think, that it must be some sort of sign that watching movies in the background while working is good for me. please humor me because i really feel bad having that -thing- in the apartment, even if i really want it. only for movies though. no actual tv stations will befoul my apartment with their icky broadcasts and advertising.
i sleep enough but i'm just desperately tired almost all the time.
i was complaining to the boy as we were going out today how when i work on the computer i can't watch movies at the same time. i like things in the background when i draw and i don't have a tv. i'm actually kind of rabidly against the whole concept and i haven't had one in years. when we were coming back we saw this guy carrying a tv and i was like "let's follow him and see if he takes it to his car or the garbage room" and he took it to the garbage room! so we asked if it worked and he said yes and that i could have it. and then him and his girlfriend also gave me a working dvd player that they were going to throw out! lucky. so lucky, i think, that it must be some sort of sign that watching movies in the background while working is good for me. please humor me because i really feel bad having that -thing- in the apartment, even if i really want it. only for movies though. no actual tv stations will befoul my apartment with their icky broadcasts and advertising.
i sleep enough but i'm just desperately tired almost all the time.
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hungariasiberia
Jun. 18th, 2008 | 10:16 pm
mood: alright-ish?
magyarország (mostly)
me and a portrait i painted of my mother, waaaay back (the portrait that is. the photo is recent).
freaky baby dollies. we saw this in a window display in a small street off rákózci út along with a bunch of strange objects but left promptly when we discovered some less wholesome items. heh.
relative.
budai vár.
moszkva tér. i remember what this place was like when i was five and there was still communism. so different now.
dohány utca temple, where my dédi got married in 1927.
quinoa & olive oil & buillon cube.
back upstairs in siberia and eating piros pöttyös for breakfast, strawberries for lunch. kombucha with a tiny pinch of dark sugar and a couple of drops of lime juice. husband stretched out on bed in weird position and reading scott mccloud. mom brought potted flowers. very happy.
maja and her boyfriend jonas came over last night and we talked about parasites and dialects and gypsies and the would-be kosherness of the capybara. or something along those lines anyway. had coffee and drinks, etc. was nice.
i'm in a five person show opening at the grind gallery in LA on friday! check it out if you can and send me some photos :)
today a big glass of cold, clear water tasted so good my head spun.
me and a portrait i painted of my mother, waaaay back (the portrait that is. the photo is recent).
freaky baby dollies. we saw this in a window display in a small street off rákózci út along with a bunch of strange objects but left promptly when we discovered some less wholesome items. heh.
relative.
budai vár.
moszkva tér. i remember what this place was like when i was five and there was still communism. so different now.
dohány utca temple, where my dédi got married in 1927.
quinoa & olive oil & buillon cube.
back upstairs in siberia and eating piros pöttyös for breakfast, strawberries for lunch. kombucha with a tiny pinch of dark sugar and a couple of drops of lime juice. husband stretched out on bed in weird position and reading scott mccloud. mom brought potted flowers. very happy.
maja and her boyfriend jonas came over last night and we talked about parasites and dialects and gypsies and the would-be kosherness of the capybara. or something along those lines anyway. had coffee and drinks, etc. was nice.
i'm in a five person show opening at the grind gallery in LA on friday! check it out if you can and send me some photos :)
today a big glass of cold, clear water tasted so good my head spun.
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thatthingisoperational
Jun. 7th, 2008 | 07:28 pm
mood: alright
what june brought (so far) in photos and (bits of) drawings.
a little find (one of many) at the train station. boy am i glad to be leaving this neighbourhood.
i had tired eyes much of this month.
but good
skirts and candles.
rhododendron (possibly my favourite flowers except roses).
my phone does sepia. who knew?
moose skull.
mounds.
forest lair.
my long lost brother is returning for a quick hello before i leave for budapest on wednesday. so strange, i haven't seen him since january and my life is vastly altered since then. in a good way. i know his life is too so i'm a little bit apprehensive; there might be a completely new dynamic. or maybe just same old same old.
i watched a bad tv movie this morning while drawing and it was about this manhattan couple who were planning their marriage and registering for all these gifts and then the gifts started arriving at their apartment and i panicked at the thought of how horrible it would be to get showered in stuff every day. things choke me more and more. except for my treasures of course. they include but are not limited to: my ipod, my pillow, my stuffed seal, good clothes i got from people i love (especially my mother's 70's and 80's stuff), good books, tea.
two of my best friends from NY are coming to visit me this summer! and one is coming to stay. i have to knock on wood. so lucky. i know living with a roommate on 45 square metres won't always be easy, but there's all the love to make it work.
i've been swimming and biking and biking some more so to be me i'm in really good shape.
skepp o'hoj eller nåt? (det betyder: nu cyklar jag in till stan).
a little find (one of many) at the train station. boy am i glad to be leaving this neighbourhood.
i had tired eyes much of this month.
but good
skirts and candles.
rhododendron (possibly my favourite flowers except roses).
my phone does sepia. who knew?
moose skull.
mounds.
forest lair.
my long lost brother is returning for a quick hello before i leave for budapest on wednesday. so strange, i haven't seen him since january and my life is vastly altered since then. in a good way. i know his life is too so i'm a little bit apprehensive; there might be a completely new dynamic. or maybe just same old same old.
i watched a bad tv movie this morning while drawing and it was about this manhattan couple who were planning their marriage and registering for all these gifts and then the gifts started arriving at their apartment and i panicked at the thought of how horrible it would be to get showered in stuff every day. things choke me more and more. except for my treasures of course. they include but are not limited to: my ipod, my pillow, my stuffed seal, good clothes i got from people i love (especially my mother's 70's and 80's stuff), good books, tea.
two of my best friends from NY are coming to visit me this summer! and one is coming to stay. i have to knock on wood. so lucky. i know living with a roommate on 45 square metres won't always be easy, but there's all the love to make it work.
i've been swimming and biking and biking some more so to be me i'm in really good shape.
skepp o'hoj eller nåt? (det betyder: nu cyklar jag in till stan).
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la route de baba
May. 30th, 2008 | 07:09 pm
mood: somewhere between kill and cry?
♪ ♫ ♪: myléne farmer - tristana
a little bit of what i'm working on.
i guess i won't be posting paintings for a while because i'll be doing this but maybe i can keep showing snippets. other than finishing the above and getting some practical stuff done it's been one of those days when you wake up positive and fairly energetic only to be let down gradually. part of me wants to never hope for anything so i won't experience this feeling of a gross and dirty hand gleefully clutching my insides but then what kind of person would i be. pff. besides, they're just little tiny things, smaller than raindrops (or teardrops), really, and i'll get over it very soon. i'll have to, my roommate and i are throwing some sort of barbecue tomorrow.
i forgot: the checkout girl at the grocery store said my hair was very lovely. that was sweet of her.
i guess i won't be posting paintings for a while because i'll be doing this but maybe i can keep showing snippets. other than finishing the above and getting some practical stuff done it's been one of those days when you wake up positive and fairly energetic only to be let down gradually. part of me wants to never hope for anything so i won't experience this feeling of a gross and dirty hand gleefully clutching my insides but then what kind of person would i be. pff. besides, they're just little tiny things, smaller than raindrops (or teardrops), really, and i'll get over it very soon. i'll have to, my roommate and i are throwing some sort of barbecue tomorrow.
i forgot: the checkout girl at the grocery store said my hair was very lovely. that was sweet of her.
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bday present
May. 28th, 2008 | 01:55 pm
mood: alright
♪ ♫ ♪: mgmt
my boyfriend made me earrings for my birthday! they're brass with inlaid moss oak. i got another pair without wood, too.
♥♥♥.
♥♥♥.
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deadline, 5:55
May. 23rd, 2008 | 05:57 am
mood: 
completely and utterly out of it, thanks.
♪ ♫ ♪: o.m.s. - haneros halelou
malediction
instead of sleeping i finished this. now and again (while i watched dawn) i thought about songs that mean a lot to me and jotted them down on the paper where i was sampling colours and drying off my paintbrushes.
einstürzende neubauten - sabrina
kate bush - under the ivy
ladytron - witching hour
alizée - moi, lolita
serge gainsbourg - la chanson de prévert
quimby - legyen vörös
leonard cohen - one of us cannot be wrong
melotron - kindertraum
siouxsie and the banshees - israel
the magnetic fields - with whom to dance
M.I.A. - jimmy
the knife - forest families
instead of sleeping i finished this. now and again (while i watched dawn) i thought about songs that mean a lot to me and jotted them down on the paper where i was sampling colours and drying off my paintbrushes.
einstürzende neubauten - sabrina
kate bush - under the ivy
ladytron - witching hour
alizée - moi, lolita
serge gainsbourg - la chanson de prévert
quimby - legyen vörös
leonard cohen - one of us cannot be wrong
melotron - kindertraum
siouxsie and the banshees - israel
the magnetic fields - with whom to dance
M.I.A. - jimmy
the knife - forest families
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horsesandowlsandfishes and what is this now a zoological blog?
May. 21st, 2008 | 08:56 pm
strix nebulosa
i had a birthday. i'm not really a birthday person, all i've ever done is have dinner with my family, so we did that and i had the best sashimi i've ever had in sweden. i felt like i was floating on air afterwards; talk about food high. i also got the most beautiful present from my boyfriend, i'll try to take a photo that would do it justice and post later.
a journalist from dn kultur called a couple of days ago and asked about my comics which is exciting because it's sweden's largest newspaper. he said he might mention my name in an article and he did! he also said he might want to talk to me again when my third comic is out. (probably early 2009, i'm not sure yet).
on friday me, ebba, anna and elin went horsebackriding. it was amazing and i am so grateful i got to go! i hadn't been on horseback for years but i did pretty well and didn't fall off despite a rather feisty horse. we gallopped through the forest with the sunlight filtering through the trees and i cried tears of joy. really.
i had a birthday. i'm not really a birthday person, all i've ever done is have dinner with my family, so we did that and i had the best sashimi i've ever had in sweden. i felt like i was floating on air afterwards; talk about food high. i also got the most beautiful present from my boyfriend, i'll try to take a photo that would do it justice and post later.
a journalist from dn kultur called a couple of days ago and asked about my comics which is exciting because it's sweden's largest newspaper. he said he might mention my name in an article and he did! he also said he might want to talk to me again when my third comic is out. (probably early 2009, i'm not sure yet).
on friday me, ebba, anna and elin went horsebackriding. it was amazing and i am so grateful i got to go! i hadn't been on horseback for years but i did pretty well and didn't fall off despite a rather feisty horse. we gallopped through the forest with the sunlight filtering through the trees and i cried tears of joy. really.
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a horse with the eye of a goat, why not?
May. 15th, 2008 | 02:48 pm
mood: 
sliiightly out of it.
♪ ♫ ♪: balkan beat box
night swim
the colour of certain chemicals inspired this.
the colour of certain chemicals inspired this.
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naomisedramaspringflowers
May. 14th, 2008 | 11:18 am
mood: 
so so
♪ ♫ ♪: mgmt
i opened my website again! i was going to make it fancy and beautiful at first but then decided the sites i like best are minimalistic and take you to the content right away. the short attention span of our generation, etc. so i did it like this:
naomi.se
i gave myself several hours to do nothing but look at art, illustration and comics online today. it's my favourite pastime. when i just started learning to draw it really inspired me (as in every site i visited i would be like - "that's how i want to draw!", i guess that's normal at 16 or 17 years old). it still inspires me a lot but in a different way. just seeing how much passion and willpower and talent there is out there makes me so happy and so ready to sit down and draw for hours on end. (this would be a good time to post me art links by the way, if you feel like it).
today of all days i need reminding that there is so much good out there. i don't know why i expect so much from people, like my friends and stuff, but i'm always surprised at how differently we're wired. since this is a recurring issue for me (for as long as i can remember) i'm really beginning to wonder. i tried really hard last year to be sociable and stop walking out of parties all the time and i did do better but just ended up disappointed and lonelier than before. i don't have social phobia or any issues like that, in fact, i really enjoy talking to people and most of all, i love getting to know them. it's just so hard to find good ones! and once you think they're good it's even harder not to be disappointed. it's not like i have amazing expectations, really. honesty, caring and tea go a really, really long way with me and i can do without the spite and jealousy and the talking behind my back that i've had to put up with. my roommate called me naïve the other day. i think she's dead wrong. or isn't she? sweden just feels so cold right now despite the lovely spring weather*.
speaking of spring, i enjoyed james jean's "trembled blossoms" for prada. i bet you've all seen it already but just in case...
now i'm going to keep drinking date-syrup flavoured kombucha and jasmine pearl tea + have some toast while i look at more art online.
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*you know me by now right? you know this means my heart is seized with wanderlust ... i won't necessarily act on it, but what is the deal with not being able to stay in one place? at least this time i know i won't leave without my darling.
naomi.se
i gave myself several hours to do nothing but look at art, illustration and comics online today. it's my favourite pastime. when i just started learning to draw it really inspired me (as in every site i visited i would be like - "that's how i want to draw!", i guess that's normal at 16 or 17 years old). it still inspires me a lot but in a different way. just seeing how much passion and willpower and talent there is out there makes me so happy and so ready to sit down and draw for hours on end. (this would be a good time to post me art links by the way, if you feel like it).
today of all days i need reminding that there is so much good out there. i don't know why i expect so much from people, like my friends and stuff, but i'm always surprised at how differently we're wired. since this is a recurring issue for me (for as long as i can remember) i'm really beginning to wonder. i tried really hard last year to be sociable and stop walking out of parties all the time and i did do better but just ended up disappointed and lonelier than before. i don't have social phobia or any issues like that, in fact, i really enjoy talking to people and most of all, i love getting to know them. it's just so hard to find good ones! and once you think they're good it's even harder not to be disappointed. it's not like i have amazing expectations, really. honesty, caring and tea go a really, really long way with me and i can do without the spite and jealousy and the talking behind my back that i've had to put up with. my roommate called me naïve the other day. i think she's dead wrong. or isn't she? sweden just feels so cold right now despite the lovely spring weather*.
speaking of spring, i enjoyed james jean's "trembled blossoms" for prada. i bet you've all seen it already but just in case...
now i'm going to keep drinking date-syrup flavoured kombucha and jasmine pearl tea + have some toast while i look at more art online.
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*you know me by now right? you know this means my heart is seized with wanderlust ... i won't necessarily act on it, but what is the deal with not being able to stay in one place? at least this time i know i won't leave without my darling.