my art :: cover of Natural Awakenings magazine

It's out! My "Blue Car Christmas" painting is on the cover of Natural Awakenings Magazine this month , so go pick one up at your newstand or health food store. It's Free!

There are some great articles like: Green Parties - eco-friendly entertaining, Scrumptious and decadent Holiday cookies, Truly Gifted - creating connections of comfort and joy and lots more about healthy living on a healthy planet.





Here it is, "Blue Car Christmas" - You can buy the print over at Etsy .

See my Bedtime Story on the August cover of the magazine too. And don't forget to check out the online issues of Natural Awakenings. That magazine is JUST COOL!

art :: 100 tons of paint on the walls

It's stunning, it's staggering and grandiose both in design and cost! The commissioned artwork for the domed ceiling of the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room in the United Nations offices in Geneva stoked controversy over the spending of over 18m euros to create it. The pricey ceiling took over 100 tons of paint layered on anextra strength aluminum dome to come to fruition.

Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo took over a year to create his abstact 3D Michelangelo like masterpiece. When asked about his source of inspiration, he stated, "On a day of immense heat in the middle of the Sahel desert, I recall with vivacity the mirage of an image of the world dripping toward the sky - Trees, dunes, donkeys, multicoloured beings flowing drop by drop."

Like stalagtites in a psychedelic cave, this ceiling is JUST COOL - Hope it doesn't puncture anyone!

via BBC news

art :: dad does lunch bags

This devoted dad loves his kids so much that he makes them their lunches AND he makes their lunch bags. You wonder when he has time to do that? On his lunch break of course.

What a neat dad - he's JUST COOL!

via lunchbagart

cool product :: handy hooks

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art :: pigs paint pollocks

These two little pigs are regular Pigasso's when it comes to painting.

The staff at Pennywell Farm in Buckfastleigh, volunteered the the little oinker's artistic services at the Farm Crisis Network charity event and they painted pictures that brought home the bacon, earning over $300 for the cause. The miniature pigs style was likened to that of Jackson Pollock's.

Pig art - it's JUST COOL!

via dailymail

cool ad :: green lungs

This clever photo ad speaks volumes of how deforestation affects all of us.

"When rainforests are slashed and burned, it affects every one of us. It releases carbon into the air that we breathe. It changes our climate. Deforestation accounts for twenty percent of all carbon emissions, which is twice the amount that all cars,trucks and planes in the world emit, combined. Join Team Earth on conservation.org and help stop climate change, even if it's just one acre at a time. Or we'll all feel it."

from the NewYorker via bookofjoe

food art :: trans-fat yoda and dairy darth

The next time you bite into a slice of warm buttered toast remember that there are nobler purposes for artery clogging butter - like 1000 pound sculptures of Star Wars characters Yoda and Darth Vader.

These slippery dairy fat sculptures were the stars at the Tulsa State fair in 2005.

At this summers 2008 Erie Fair, two men took center stage -

I love butter - it's JUST COOL!

via greatwhitesnark

fashion :: the flying nun

get a load of those wings...

Pop magazine's holier than thou lace collection ends with the flying nun. How divine-

and JUST COOL!

cool product :: stainless steel candlelight

These cool candlesticks from Duo Design Holland are simple yet sophisticated in design. The sleek elegant stainless steel sticks work like a metal straw with a wick inside that draws up the lamp oil ~ and when lit make for a stylish and modern table setting. Just another one of their glowing ideas - and JUST COOL!

via notcot

travel :: win a trip to New Zealand!

Hey people! There's a cool new contest to enter and it's being sponsored by Air New Zealand and Larry the Travel Guy and they are giving away two free round trip flights from LA to Auckland, New Zealand! If you've never been to his website, check it out because it's a little different then your normal travel review website. Larry introduces his travel adventures to the online environment and shares glimpses of his cool trips from his own perspective. He created the website so that others could actually see for themselves that there are great wonders and just down right cool stuff to see throughout the world. And after you enter the contest, you can prepare for your trip by visiting his site and checking out all his videos and pictures of the amazing places he has seen

All you have to do is go his website and enter for this great free trip to New Zealand.I'm entering - they're are so many beautiful places to see in New Zealand that I can't decide which would be my first choice. Where would you like to go? Another cool thing about this contest is whoever wins will have their trip featured on Larry the Travel Guy. Air New Zealand will be paying the bill for this JUST COOL adventure. So go there and enter. NOW!

art :: money magic

Artist Marc Sky at DollarArtist.com has a magical way with money. He makes money from money but not in the conventional way. The Dollar Artist turns legal tender into intricate origami sculptures. His repertoire includes over three hundred fantastic folded models including dogs, cats, Yoda, frogs, hearts, and Wall-E, the lovable robot in the Pixar movie of the same name. He even makes utilitarian objects that you can actually use, like coin purses, paper clip holders and ipod holders.

The artist has been folding money since he was a kid. "I started in grade-school class, just folding my allowance money," he says. "When I ran out of that, I used Monopoly money to practice."
His folding practice has been flourishing ever since. You can purchase his "moneygami" on his website for $7.95 per dollar folded.

Making money from money - it's JUST COOL!

movies :: changes are coming

I was just checking out all the movie trailers on YouTube and found a few interesting ones I have never heard of. One of them, titled "Hatchiko, A Dog's Story", is about a man and his dog, starring Richard Gere. It's the touching and true tale of a man and his Akita dog in Japan and is a remake from the original movie made long time ago. In Tokyo's Shibuya Train Station, a brass statue of an Akita memorializes Japan's most beloved canine named Hachiko. Many fell in love with the real-life Hachiko, the devoted dog that became a fixture at that train station where he waited for almost a decade starting in the mid-1920s for his master's return. The movie follows this story. When Rebecca comes home this week with her Akita dog, Kismet, we will probably make our Thanksgiving pilgrimage to the movie theatre (we do this every year after the big feast, after all the theatres are practically empty on Thanksgiving day) and watch this movie. If I can find out where its playing, or IF it is playing.

Now this next movie trailer I checked out has me a little puzzled, looks a bit avant garde and a lot interesting. It stars such notables as William Shatner, Terry Thomas and Kasey Kasem. The description says that it took four decades to "create this American circus". The movie, titled Changes are Coming, is a satirical movie about America's final change, the change that takes us back to the days of Ancient Rome. From the trailer, it looks like it is about a circus with all sorts of clowns. But I really can't give you a synopsis on it - you're just going to have to watch the trailer for yourself, check out the website and make an opinion. I honestly don't know WHAT to make of it...

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