naked ladies

i find the body infinitely interesting, not only in a sexual way, but as it is. maybe i look at the body differently than a lot of people because i like to do paintings of it, so i don't only see the sexual side of it, i see shapes and colours (and an awful lot of issues on life/death and everything in between).

i found these photos on rex venoms blog. since i started blogging, i've seen an awful lot of men who have entire blogs devoted to pictures of scantily dressed ladies. i've only once come across a blog with scantily dressed men, and that was owned by a gay guy.

i think that's a shame. it's not that i don't find photos of female bodies boring - on the contrary, i think some of the photos of ladies i've seen in men's blogs are well artsy and cool. it's just that there's a definite lack of male bodies!!

when i was in school and was getting into drawing the body, my friend tone asked me why i always drew naked girls, and not men. it was a question that made me think. it wasn't that i didn't want to draw the male body, it was more that i wasn't as sure about how to draw it as i hadn't been exposed to as much photos of naked men as of naked women.



i like the combination of fluff/lack of fluff (ok ok she's just got fluffy legwarmers, i like anything with fluff..):
ooh and i like underwater photos!!:

the body is a cool thing! and with that i pledge to find some pictures of naked men to put in this blog next. only for educational reasons, obviously.

etsy research

i'm doing a bit of research on etsy as i want to start my own etsy shop. i suspect i'll just end up buying tons of uselessness instead of selling my own. i've already bought myself a vintage magic lucky rabbits foot talisman and a vintage crocodile foot pendant. you never know when that will come in handy.

i've also seen other ace things, like this girl who has a shop called perishables. her organic looking jewellery is well innovative, and the way she photographs her work is sometimes very creative.




i also found this picture of a tulle skirt that was for sale. i'm not interested in the skirt though, it's her BOOTS that i'm loving. i remember seeing the very same boots in a shop in oslo when i was a teenager and i drooled and drooled over them but i thought i'd break my legs if i attempted to walk about in them. it's funny to note that my taste in things hasn't changed much sine i was a teenager; i still think these boots are awesome!!:
i already have fluffy legwarmers like these from OsinVinylDoll(and boots and bags and rugs, i have fluffy everything!!). i'm only posting this picture as i think the legwarmers look ace with stockings and suspenders. is it okay walking about like that, or is it too pervy??

ooh and i'd also love to hear about it if any of my readers have etsy shops of their own!

ocean aliens

i only started to appreciate fish a year ago. well that's not entirely true, i've appreciated them for dinner since i was a child, but i've never found them interesting if they weren't cooked.

but suddenly, last year, i realised how fucking WEIRD they are, and instantly got a fish tank. they truly are alien creatures.

"Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale."

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1962

i wish my fish tank would be big and salty enough to accommodate some of the weirdest creatures of the ocean, but just knowing that they are out there somewhere will have to do for now.

i remember seeing a cowfish like this one in a shop and he had me mesmerised for quite a while.
these are cucumber fish. they're no beauty queens:
i don't know what type of fish this is, but i like his teeth:lumpfish:
if there is a god, i wonder if he laughed or cried after having created this blobfish:a bit of an update on the blobfish photo; i was on the tube the other day when i saw a woman who looked JUST like this blobfish. it was absolutely horrible, she had the same pale watery complexion, a blob-like figure clad in white and dirty pastels and the same empty sad expression in her eyes. oh god, her eyes, she will haunt me in my dreams.


i bet this anglerfish played in a black metal band in his former life:
my brother says this is a "sea cow". i've never seen a sea cow before, but it looks very cuddleworthy and maybe a bit naive??:

fantasy erotica illustrations by michael hutter

hutter also makes fantasy paintings, this is one of my favourites:


check out the artist's website for more of his work.

pork flesh vagina sculptures by geza szollosi

this art is mainly about the body. the artist wanted to depict the body as true to the original as possible, and to achieve that, he used pork flesh. clever.
obviously the pork flesh he is using has to be dead prior to sculpting, and as a result, the sculptures seem more like corpses than live bodies. something that also enhance this quality about the work is how the bodies are brutally stitched up and divided into parts. the artist, being a man, has chosen women as his subjects, and it comes as no surprise what sort of "parts" of them he has chosen for the base of his work.




as if showing pork flesh vaginas isn't enough, he then gets intimate with his flesh creations. associations of women seen as meat and objects comes to mind (not to mention necrophilia):




i didn't intend to sound this negative about his work, i actually really LIKE it. i think it's ace how he has created these sculptures, and it really says something dark about the body and mortality.

it's just that in our society, the body is always female, and the eye that sees belongs to a man.
unless it's a male body being seen by a homosexual man. this is nearly the only case where a male body is objectified. if you see porn with cocks and naked men, or even art with naked men, it is nearly always labeled "homosexual".

i have this book on the male body, and when looking at it, it's like i see it through the eyes of a homosexual man. it's not that strange; it's probably been published for homosexual men, and all the photographs are taken by homosexual men.

i want to claim the right for women not to see through the eyes of a man, but through their own, and have what they see aknowledged by all as equally important.

there's nothing wrong with the body being an object, it's an aspect of it's existence. but i don't like the notion of female bodies (and thus myself) as MORE of an object, closer to nature and animal, than the male body.
i refuse to identify with these flesh sculptures as they remind me of this absurd untruth.

i have seen this artist in two of my favourite blogs, unscathed corpse and morbid anatomy, and have been wanting to write about him for quite a while as i found his work absolutely fascinating. i didn't think i'd end up with such a gender issue rant. it's not the artist, but society as a whole that bothers me, and i see the symptoms of it in everything, even in things that i truly like, as geza szollosi's art.

here is a photo from his "betelguese projects". it looks like an elf preserved in formaldehyde! :


check out the artist's website for more of his work.

a girl with a mighty mad style

i've only been on flickr for a few days and i've already found great stuff. today i found this girl. i'm loving her fringe, i used to have something like it when i was younger, it might have to make a comeback. i'm absolutely amazed by such intricate colourful hair bonanza but i don't even bother to comb my hair so i guess i'll have to stick with what nature has given me till i feel more inspired. i also really like the tattoos on her arms. and her make up and just her colourful self in general.





is this elf ear surgery or fake elf ears? i'm green of envy if it's for real:




check out her self portrait set on flickr.

punk elf love

pencil drawing in the sketchbook that i've reworked in photoshop. the only stuff that has been added is the black around the heart and the red inside the heart.,