Does anyone know more about Salvador Dali than that melting clock painting? I've liked him ever since I saw a picture of him walking his pet anteater in a metro station.

No, I'm not going to post a picture. You know how to google it, don't be lazy. Geez Louise, the things I put up with.

Anyway, I found these sweet Salvadore Dali quotes today. I've now doubled my list of personal heros, which used to just consist of Yoko Ono. It was a tough decision, but any clock-painting, ant eater-walking, insane-quote spouting artist is a hero of mine.

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."

"I don't do drugs, I am drugs." Unfortunately I would have like this more last year, when I wouldn't have been reminiscent of Charlie Sheen.

"There are days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."

Now go look at pictures of anteaters. Did you know they looked that crazy? Doesn't their head look like a fifth arm? Alright fine, I'll post a picture.



What on earth?!

next week I'm requesting an iPhone.

I hit the jackpot today, gifts-from-five-year-olds-wise. Let's start with this sexy portrait of me:



"Those two circles are for you to color, when you get home," the gift-giver informed me. THANK GOODNESS. Yesterday I finally wrapped up every season of CSI, baked the last recipe in The Joy of Cooking, and read polished off the Library of Congress' collection by authors whose last names start with Z, I was really hurting for an activity tonight.

And then there was this awesome home-made envelope. What could be inside?



THIS could be inside:



Count them, seven silly band drawings, seven trompe l'œil envelopes, and one creative spelling of "Brooke." Maybe.

And here's the best present: a brand new cell phone.



The great thing about this one is - oh excuse me, someone's calling. I wonder who it is?


Oh it's my friend!


She has shocking news!


What, she was just kidding! My friend is so hilarious!!


Man, it would be cool to have friends in real life.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some circles to color.

boo

Brooke's Museum of Fan Art recently acquired its inaugural work in its modern art collection, a minimalist piece entitled "I'm happy six years old," by Narmine. The exhibit will be open to the public immediately, provided the public has keys to my apartment.



Critics were moved to tears by the rich purple color - a symbol of the artist's tumultuous relationship with her mother. The white space brings to mind a never-ending loneliness, and the three sides of the triangle remind the viewer of his own mortality.

But all I can say is "Really? A triangle? Kevin just gave me a sweet drawing of a monkey eating noodles (I think) and you drew me a triangle?"

nearsighted spinx are my favorite animal

This week I invested in some sticky tack and made my kitchen wall into a makeshift art gallery of all the drawings my students have given me. The exhibit grew pretty quickly. In fact it will either have to be more critically curated or I'm going to have to build an addition by next week. Mostly because of a couple classes where I walk in and the kids all rummage through their desks for anything they could give to me.



Here's one of my favorite pieces from my collection: "I'm thankful for..." by Cooper. For now he's an adorable seven-year-old that often wears a corduroy blazer and Converses to class, but some day he's going to be the art director for a heavy metal band. I like to assume the pictures are things he's thankful for, and the crossed out pictures are things he ISN'T thankful for.



Which would make a translation read something like this.

I'm thankful for my family.
I'm NOT thankful for Yoda.
I'm thankful for my house.
I'm thankful for people who run around flipping people off. Especially that girl with a thousand teeth.
I'm NOT thankful for that girl with the beak.
I'm thankful for sphinx wearing glasses, horse/dog crossbreeds, and two-legged cats.
I'm NOT thankful for two-legged cats with one ear.

Cool illustrated video of a talk on education.

sixty days

good news

We have an iPad and it has a sketchpad on it.



I think the things I use the iPad for are the same things I would have used it for 15 years ago.

little-known fact

Eve was near-sighted

Bio-Diversity

by Christoph Niemann

dogs we don't know

Modern Dog, 20 Years of Poster Art

"Nobody can tell us what the future is and what utensils one eats it with."
-Naum Gabo, The Realistic Manifesto

heaven

go Twins

Vincent Laforet takes awesome photographs of sports games.

Kevin Van Aelst makes the coolest things I have ever seen.

girl and snail

www.somefield.com

tulip fields in the Netherlands

let's go.

Lee Friedlander

Wim Delvoye tattoes pigs.

this is the least disturbing picture I could find.