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mooooon
Nov. 18th, 2009 | 05:28 pm
i made this and i know not why.
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got my copies!
Nov. 17th, 2009 | 01:13 pm
i don't get fame or fortune but i do get advance copies and great great joy! the printing is wonderful, the paper is thicker than i thought it would be, everything is perfect!! 144 pages, full colour. slightly unreal.
available for preorder from: b&n, nbm, amazon or for the swedes, probably cheaper from adlibris. or cheaper still, come to our art show opening on dec 5th at grand and buy one from me directly.
by the way, i think i'm going to do a raffle for a free copy like i did when house of clay came out.
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invited.
Nov. 11th, 2009 | 12:17 pm
facebook event. we're doing an art show, if in town please come :) first copies of graylight (a week before actual publication date) will be available if the post office doesn't fail me.
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i can has the scissorz
Nov. 9th, 2009 | 09:32 am
random photos from yesterday + my cat helps me sew a blouse. i got my flu shot, had a sleepless night because my arm hurt so much and then an entire day wasted doing nothing. i'm not sure that i know what it feels like to be reaaaally badly hung over, but i imagine it's something like the aftermath of swine flu vaccine. anyway. plans for the week: get our show invitations printed, finish a painting and start a new one, find cheap airfare, find doors, do some early bird merchandising at aa, yoga in the laundry room, more sourdough baking and watching big love. yours?
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corner
Nov. 5th, 2009 | 02:47 pm
a nice part of our apartment, i think. i've been painting and painting but not much is coming of it ... sometimes you just have to experiment and deal with fail.
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the bath house
Nov. 4th, 2009 | 02:37 pm
intestinal colours, half intentionally. blogging took a back seat to: mornings in bed, baking bread & pumpkin pie, aa inventory, searching for clues (and figuring them out!). but i think i'm back, somewhat. hi.
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impedimenta
Oct. 28th, 2009 | 02:41 pm
(my fatty black kitty aspires to be a leopard + a slab of porcelain aspiring to be a cheetah. i think they go well together, these two)
it's been six or seven months since i definitely stopped buying new things* and i can finally safely say i've been detoxified, as in i have absolutely no want for them anymore. it's extremely pleasant. that said i love clothes but my wardrobe expands all the time anyway! due to mr charney being generous, thriftshops, friends and mother who want to get rid of old things and some special luck. i had to walk through a mall today and i wanted to close my eyes and pretend like they weren't there... shitty shitty shitty h&m, gina, cubus, home decorating and accessory shops, younameit. humans need to stop making so much crap! it's destroying not only the earth but us too. i would much rather save all that money and buy one genuinely beautiful, hand made couture dress if i felt i had to have new things. it's just that i don't have that kind of money or occassions to wear such clothes so i just leave it. i get free clothes and things often, and i don't think it's because i'm so effing special. there's just way too many things in the world, which makes it that much harder to appreciate the really beautiful, meaningful, quirky ones. or the ones with history.
* that is, newly manufactured. with two exceptions: underwear (which i want to get better at making. i just need a bit of practice and patience) and things i really need, such as ... oh ... lightbulbs. no clothes or home stuff, ever.
ps. the newest issue of vice has interviews with dario argento (<3), david lynch, lars von trier and terry gilliam! (he himself called tideland a bit of a punishment and i'm grateful he recognized because boy did i feel punished). anyway, it was a really fun issue to read.
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ånga
Oct. 26th, 2009 | 03:33 pm
a photoshop drawing // a photo of our kitchen window i secretly stole off of maria's friend nina's facebook (förlåt!). i love it when the windows steam up like this and i can never get any good photographs with my cell or my earl-grey damaged camera.
oh, there are some graylight previews out! here's one, i think there's more coming. scary! haha it says my comics are critically acclaimed. i guess that's true in a way it's just funny to read, and very very hard to believe. (i'm not trying to be coquettish, just honest, and i'm kind of ashamed that i feel this way)
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rags & feathers
Oct. 22nd, 2009 | 03:24 pm
i haven't been sleeping as soundly as i should lately. and there's been unecessary drama which i've refused to be a part of but it still affects me. you spend hours every day thinking about it even when it doesn't directly concern you. makes me tired. i guess drama queens used to amuse me, but only vaguely by now. i took a little bit of time off, visited lisis and left with the Best Stockings Ever (tm) a red rhine stone - adorned bra and a monstera deliciosa among other things. plus we had a fun discussion about male and female traits. it's hard for me to talk to people about that because you always have to make excuses when you make a statement, like - 'naturally, i don't think this applies to all women/men' - or 'i don't mean it would be weird if a girl had this certain trait, i just think most don't' blah blah. i like being able to talk freely and sound prejudiced for the sake of argument because the other person knows you're not (or, i mean, of course i am, but no more than the next person. one of the things that bothers me most in the world is people who claim complete open-mindedness. i don't think there's any such thing, and they are often the least open minded). the most female thing i could come up with was good flexibility of mind, as in being able to see things from different viewpoints and take many sides of an argument into account (to a fault, sometimes, of course ... but mostly i consider this positive). what would you consider a feminine personality?
ps. we saw "up" and it was a fantastic date night. i was pleasantly surprised at how good it was, i warmly recommend it for a night when life sucks just a little.
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webs
Oct. 14th, 2009 | 04:57 pm
shadows of plants are definitely some of my favourite things on earth. oh, and great news: me, martina and egil are doing a show together in two months! i'm so excited. more information soon.
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coctails and turnips
Oct. 12th, 2009 | 10:02 am
we had a coctail party on saturday! we took photos and danced, i got my underwear sewn into my dress by accident, and i mixed a lot of strange drinks ("dove special", as promised to lisis, followed by "pigeon love" and "flight of the rats") and gave them away to others. sunday i didn't do much but i managed to clean and organize my closet. i was very sleepy all day and went to bed early only to find myself awake and ready to go at 6 am. i took care of my sourdough (i think it needs about one more week before i can try it out! but it looks and smells right... it's my first one from scratch) this morning and made turnip salad before going to the studio.
(photos by lisis and konstantin, in them, lisis, maria, martina, isabel and me)
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the greenhouse
Oct. 8th, 2009 | 05:16 pm
i had to scan this in three parts. guh!
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by lamplight
Oct. 6th, 2009 | 04:04 pm
it seems like i get to do an art show this fall! it's been a while, mostly due to working with comics and at american apparel, but also, i think, recession. well, that or i'm just no good at painting ... this has been my slowest year of selling paintings for quite a while. luckily i've been able to support myself with other things. but i don't want to stop painting, ever ... i'm gonna try and finish the above work in progress tomorrow.
also, a big thanks to my friend karin for the feature on her blog! you should read it by the way ... we share a lot of views on consumption, for one thing ... and she was the first person i gave a kombucha baby to.
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read under trees
Oct. 5th, 2009 | 01:54 pm
books i've read lately and enjoyed: magda szabó - the door // hanna krall - the subtenant // hermann hesse - siddharta // saul bellow - humboldt's gift. i'm reading belzeebub's tales to his grandson at the moment which is a hefty volume. 350 pages into it i feel like i've barely made a dent and it's already stirred a lot of different things; laughter, recognition, confusion and some double-backing.
there's a lot of downtime today waiting for layers of paint to dry.
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vertical garden
Oct. 2nd, 2009 | 01:54 pm
a house with a wall garden, paris // a strange autumn day in stockholm. i apparently don't know what i'm doing anymore when i paint. i used to have plans for things. now i'm just playing. oh well.
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siren
Oct. 1st, 2009 | 12:55 pm
mermaid table // i got this wonderful drawing of me x3 in the mail yesterday! from lindee.
i also went thrifting with maria and peter this morning and found the best black dress ever and some knitting needles + books for p's nephew who will be three years old tomorrow.
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gates of egypt
Sep. 30th, 2009 | 04:53 pm
or not. what do i know, yet.
(ps. recognize it? it's the same panel from yesterday)
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snaps
Sep. 29th, 2009 | 04:34 pm
i get to paint! hooraaaaay, finally. i carried a gigantic mdf board on my head for half an hour through the city yesterday. i was stared at, but not offered any help. either i've gotten hideous/scary or people in this town are just rude. except for feeling a little dizzy when i got home it was fine though.
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miiicrooo
Sep. 28th, 2009 | 12:27 pm
light fixtures, new to our home! +not the most flattering photo of me but very accurately portraying how i feel. tired and scarecrow-headed. (that's work clothes by the way). maria and i talked about hosting a cocktail party just so we could show off how pretty our home has gotten. i do have one bottle of champagne in the fridge but i plan to pop it open when i'm holding a successfully printed just-out copy of graylight in my hand. the road has been looong with this one. yesterday was fleamarket day with eriksson, eriksson, erikson and me! lots of fun. sold some stuff, bought some stuff, gave some away ... we'll do it again for sure. now to proceed to hopefully getting hold of my publisher so i can send him files for print. oh and more coffee. more!