Would you buy these? Clock purses?

the faster, easier, more stylish way to tell time. Please judge with impunity.

Alma Mahler-Werfel is my hero

Although her track record suggests a golden or at the least floozy vagina, Alma Mahler was the muse to a crazy collection of genius artists. And she didn't just stick to one type of artist, oh no, she had quite the varied taste for aesthetic seduction.

She trampled on hearts, cheated and lied, over and over; and the fragile geniuses wept and moaned as the sadistic angel floated away. 

she was the childhood friend of Gustav Klimt-- she gave him her first kiss 

am i suggesting a correlation? I most certainly am not entirely! I do not see how such a universally identified beauty, labeled flirt, and heartbreaker would not at least have some sort of influence on Klimt's Masterpiece. All I'm sayin is he was a playboy, she was a playgirl, in the art world that relationship is represented in golden shrouds. Signs and symbols baby.

let us move on. In 1900 Alexander von Zemlinsky (Austrian composer) got shot in the ass by cupid's arrow, but however mutual or pure Alma's intentions were, she was dissuaded by her family to pursue the relationship because of his displeasing face and lack of international fame. They were right on both accounts. He was no James Dean and was completely under appreciated and neglected in his later United States home, but since when has that been reason enough to sever heartstrings, huh? That's unheard of. 

So anyway, later she ties the knot with Gustav Mahler who was director of the Viennese court opera (so apparently he has a few things up on poor von Zemlinsky.) But apparently not too much cause after her two babies, Alma shacked up with the young architect Walter Gropius (Bauhaus.)

So Gustav was all like "shit, I gotta take the intiative" and tried to win her back. He died. And she moved on. But not with Gropius- he was so last year. Oskar Kokoschka, the expressionist painter with the best painter name, fell in love blah blah blah with we all know who. Many of his painting were inspired by her (and this is not just me assuming) and he was a posessive bastard. When she left him, he got a doll of her made and brought it to operas as his companion. 

Alma said "fuck this, I am my own woman. And my body has been too long with one man" and ran back into the arms of Gropius. She had a baby together, but he had to go into the army and leave her alone. BAD IDEA GROPIUS...!!!! She went and had sex with poet and writer, Franz Werfel. She had a baby Werfel that she named Martin Carl Johannes Gropius because she didn't really want to have a bad reputation when hubby Gropi came home. Whatever, he figured it out and she lived the rest of her life with Werfel.

yes... Alma Klimt-von Zelimsky-Mahler-Gropius-Kokoschka-Werfel is my hero. Too bad i have no game.

For the sake of saving time (which we all know how much i love to do) i'm going to post the projects that I worked on in the past year with minimal description.

These a few of the 24 or so illustrations that i drew for my father's book 'The Swing Under the Eiffel Tower.' Which is basically a light-hearted and imagery saturated physics 101 book set in 14 different parks in Paris. It describes physical/natural laws in relation to the world that he sees in these utopian pockets of a gritty city. My job was to capture the essence of these park, which naturally turned out to be the most relaxing job i have ever and probably will ever have. It should be published novemberish?! in french and english.

                               

sorry they couldnt be bigger. but they got cut off. if you want to go to the non-migrane inducing sizes you can go to    http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a123/tapsnatch/Illustrations/

I'd really rather just jump right into this than speak of my goals, desires, and fears linked to this webpage only slightly more informative than myspace. 

It's really just a matter of having a spot to burry all the failed or executed ideas that run though my brain like wile e coyote. this blog is like my rocket that i genuinely believe will get me one step closer to the pursued. it's the best idea that i've had so far! it's the element that i've been missing by god!