I Dreamed I Saw

Pits, Pods and Pendulums

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:58:36 +0000

“I reached out my hand, and it fell heavily upon something damp and hard.” The Pit & The Pendulum, Edgar Allan Poe

There are a few shapes that lend themselves well to design, and some of my favored ones are pendulums, pods and pits. They are mysterious in their simplicity, smooth, hard, graceful, and foretell some future event – a flower, a fruit, a divination. The promise of a message in a shape, a simple shape, is magic at its best.

Body Parts

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:44:11 +0000

Remember when the most exciting thing in the universe was touching the hand or leg of your lover, before you ever even explored their lips? The electricity that runs through these appendages could light a galaxy. When a hand stops its incessant activity and alights on yours, just briefly, it feels like the moon has stopped just for you. Or when the leg of your beloved is willing, for just this certain slice of time, to stop roaming the earth and let you rest your little hand on it because there’s nowhere safer. It’s an honor to stop these busy explorers. Like when a flying thing rests on your shoulder and lets you know how magical a place you are to light upon.

Alice in 1903

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:52:06 +0000

The first film ever made of “Alice in Wonderland” – 1903!

Animals in Someone Else’s Element

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:42:44 +0000

We all love to have animal images around us – instinctively we grab for an animal item and hug it. We’d all prefer the real thing, but intuit rather quickly that we cannot expect a bear to let us lie on its back or a penguin to want to swim in our soup. Then there are those like Sea World who think they can convince a killer whale to want to join us at our table and eat with a spoon. The lesson always eventually comes – animals have their own books of etiquette and we are not invited to dine with them for a very good reason! They, at least, have the courtesy not to try to make us live in their habitats. So let’s invite them to ours in the kindest possible way – in ceramic or cloth or metallic versions, so the real ones can keep on doing what they are meant to do - prowl and hiccup through the world.

Adopt a Mandrill!

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:22:07 +0000

What better beast to have for your children than a mandrill? They’re funny and sweet and colorful. ADOPT ONE and see how great they are. Their blue ski slope snouts, their button eyes, their redder than red noses…so beautiful. Severely underappreciated, they are shunned for their pink butts and often-justified snarling at people accompanied by a howl of great yellow teeth. But like all misunderstood geniuses, they are simply suffering poets. Give them a little kiss. And one of your children.

Turn Your Head Please…

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:12:54 +0000

Dressing screens have such stories to tell. The showgirl flouncing in her skirts to her dressing room only to find an elderly gentleman ogling her. She tells him to turn his head away while she slips behind a screen. He cheats and sees her ankles and shoulder, the curve of her neck. He hears her garters unsnap, the slide of her stocking down her leg. This is about as far as the seduction will go for him. She is meeting some musician after the show, so tough luck. But yes, thank you, she will accept that little diamond trinket and “see you some other time, you sweet old man…” All kinds of stories, the upshot generally the same – beautiful busty women tickling the chins of old men and always, always, putting them off. How wonderful the trickery of woman, and the accessories that attend her game.

Sam O’Hare’s “The Sandpit” video

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:16:27 +0000

Flora Pouf

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:34:51 +0000

Loryn Pouf

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:31:23 +0000

Beverly Chair by Oly Studio

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:18:06 +0000