Art Break: Audrey Kawasaki

Birthday Kiss
(Oil on wood 7x8), 2006
~Audrey Kawasaki

Stumbled onto her site quite by accident really (perpetually a drunken sailor dancing a zig-zag-jig down the galleries of the internet). What I really love about her work is the dreamy abandon on the faces of her subjects combined with the way those subjects seem to materialize out of the wood canvas. The earthtones lend her eroticism a wonderful gravity, at once anchoring an immediate awareness of the twin powers of eros & thanatos in the viewer while at the same time releasing itself through a playfull immediacy as whimsical as it is coquettish.

Highly recommend you check out her portfolio over here.

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10:32am, Thursday. Hour three of the Integratech Mandatory Monthly Morale Improvement Meeting.

"...which is just one more reason why the keeping of squirrels in your desk drawer is strictly forbidden... all of which, I would like to remind you, is clearly covered on page 34 of the Employee Handbook" Dwight Kreutzberg sips from a cold cup of Heart Attack Soup and bottles back an exhausted sigh. He knows full well that the caged Squirrel fights held in the emergency exit stairwell have often been all that's stood between being lynched by a mutinous call center and another day of life. ( Read more... )

Possibly one of the Greatest Spider-Man stories ever told...

Don't ask. Just check out Andrew Farago's wonderful blog about Spider-man and Planned Parenthood. Big thanks to mlfoley for the heads up.