long stories short.

June wrote about me:

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:36:00 -0500

“She resides in her cave of wonders
and creates art and casts spells on men.

She sleeps by day and hunts by night,
feeding on the souls of the men with warm blood
and feasting with the damned.

She breaks bread with the gods of the dawn,
and she bathes in her own desires.

She weeps in the sanctuary of linseed paints
and cutout faces that have wept for too many nights.

She produces nothing but magic.

And when her time comes to an end,
I will be at her bed side to feel her pulse beat end.

But ALAS,

she

was never

alive.”

lucifer has returned to sing my soul to sleep;

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:13:38 -0500

lucifer has returned to sing my soul to sleep;

Would anyone be willing to buy Neiman Marcus drip throw pillows?...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:17:29 -0500

Would anyone be willing to buy Neiman Marcus drip throw pillows? Let me know!

hmmm

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:54:42 -0500

hmmm

I made some “HELLO my name is” stickers…

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:22:37 -0500

I made some “HELLO my name is” stickers…

It won't bite you, it's just paper.

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:59:00 -0400

Since keeping a sketchbook, i’ve always held it to some kind of unreasonable standard. I put my sketchbook on a hypothetical pedestal. I would keep myself from drawing or writing something that arbitrarily popped into my head simply because the idea was not aesthetically “fleshed out.” How dare I draw something that was really only a doodle!! No, no, you see, I believed my sketchbook had to be some kind of finished artist’s book… because every “regular” person I encountered was going to ask if they could look at it.

In reality I should say, how dare you, common human! What makes you think you can open up the visual representation of my brain patterns? Who gives you the right to view all of my most intimate ideas; word vomit, doodles, and all?

I started buying those softbound Moleskine sketchbooks.. the ones with that with thin fucking paper that even a ballpoint pen bleeds through. Fuck that hard-covered, watercolor archival paper bullshit!! I don’t need to be intimidated every time I need to sit down and release my visual genius on paper!

Well anyways, since i’ve switched up my sketchbook grind i’ve become a lot more productive. My thoughts are all spelled out and my doodles are inspiring me to elaborate and create something even more visually pleasing. And no, common people, you do not get to “see” my sketchbook whenever your demanding capitalist butts think you deserve to. I will show you when I desire to, and you must realize that the sketchbook is not for you, its for me.

You can have the finished product. You can have the finalized result, but the ideas… those are mine.

New stuff coming soon.

Anna

"Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or..."

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:39:00 -0400

“Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and mind and body and found it to be true. Work out your own path, through diligence.”

- Gautama Buddha

"Beneath the branches of an ageless tree, after thousands of years of deep thought, Time concluded ..."

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:39:34 -0400

“Beneath the branches of an ageless tree, after thousands of years of deep thought, Time concluded that there was no end.”

- Hermès Paris, The Gift of Time Installation

Started as a doodle of a drippy version of the Neiman Marcus...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 01:17:00 -0400

Started as a doodle of a drippy version of the Neiman Marcus logo… decided to vector it and see what happens. I don’t know, I like it!

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to..."

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:10:12 -0400

““Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.””

- Khalil Gibran

"here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the..."

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:29:03 -0400

“here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart”

- excerpt from I carry your heart with me by E.E. Cummings

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 05:33:08 -0400

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”

- Salvador Dali

"Don’t ever cheat on someone. I’m serious. It’s not worth it. And I’m not saying this because..."

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 15:00:27 -0400

“Don’t ever cheat on someone. I’m serious. It’s not worth it. And I’m not saying this because cheating is morally wrong, because some people have a very specific version of morality that doesn’t necessarily classify actions as right or wrong. The reason you should never cheat on someone is because you won’t enjoy it. No matter which person you’re with, you’ll always be thinking of the other one. You will never be in the romantic present tense; your mind will solely exist in the past and the future. Let’s say you sleep with your mistress on Friday and your wife on Saturday: To an epicurean, this is a dream lifestyle. This is sexual utopia. But it never works out that way. When you’re having sex with your mistress on Friday, you will find yourself thinking about your wife. You will be thinking about how this act would destroy her, and how humiliated she would feel if she knew the truth. But then on Saturday, when you’re back in the arms of your trusting wife, your mind will immediately drift towards decadence. At the height of your physical passion, you will think back to how exciting things were 24 hours ago, when you were with a new, strange body. Except that it wasn’t exciting to be with someone else; it’s only exciting in your memory (at the time, it just made you wracked with guilt). So now you’re having sex with someone who loves you, but your mind isn’t even in the same room. And suddenly it’s Sunday; you have now had sex with two people on two consecutive nights, and you didn’t appreciate either episode. Algebraically, a + b = c and a + c = b. The only thing infidelity does is remind you of the people you’re not having sex with, which is something you can just as easily think about when you’re completely alone.”

- Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman

I’m far away and I’m feeling aloneI’ve got one...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:13:00 -0400

I’m far away and I’m feeling alone
I’ve got one week behind me just six more to go
If I could see you I’d take off your clothes and we’d
Lie in the garden and watch the weeds grow

The grass is so high
I can’t see over
and the moon is so full, it’s setting the
stars all on fire
If they build the dam any higher
They’re gonna back up the creek and set this whole
Place underwater

The city is a million miles away

I lie awake and think of you
The floods and fires might be coming through, but
you would know just what to do, yeah
you would know just what to do

"You were winning but you’re falling behind… This saddens me. Those who choose to ignore..."

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:06:19 -0400

“You were winning but you’re falling behind… This saddens me. Those who choose to ignore choose to forfeit.”

"The dead body harbors the great mysteries of creation and humanity: the hidden beauty and intricacy..."

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:19:40 -0400

“The dead body harbors the great mysteries of creation and humanity: the hidden beauty and intricacy of function, the insistence of individuality, the inevitability of decline, the incontrovertibility of death set up against the ill-defined boundaries of life.”

- Christine Montross, Body of Work

I need to make some art..

Mon, 28 May 2012 00:34:28 -0400

I need to make some art..

"The big fallacy is that you can just make something go viral. If you produce good work, people will..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 18:59:28 -0400

“The big fallacy is that you can just make something go viral. If you produce good work, people will want to see it.”

- Ron Lim, ATTIK

I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT THESE ARE MY EYES. Someone has...

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:02:00 -0400

I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT THESE ARE MY EYES.

Someone has drawn them from a picture I have, I suppose.. lol and now this image has like 2300 notes.

Haha, my friend Rachel took this picture of my eyes almost 5 years ago after a crazy night out. HA. Internet, you are crazy.

Who drew this??

"Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the..."

Sat, 19 May 2012 03:12:20 -0400

““Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.””

- Louise Bourgeois