Bree: An UpRight Italic

I have a Fancy New Font! Bree: An UpRight Italic, is a Sleek Sans Serif that delivers a Polished and Modern look and feel for Branding or Headline Use. Clearly influenced by Handwriting, Bree shows a pleasant mixture of rather unobtrusive Capitals and more vivid Lowercase Letters, giving the text a Spirited & Lively Appearance. Bree features Four Sets of Numerals, Ligatures, Alternate Characters, Fractions and +/- Science Superior/Inferior Figures. It supports over Forty Languages. And it's Cheap! VEER offers all types for $40. I love how BOLD it is. Get Loose B4 The Club, Bree! Sexual.

Knock Knock

Why does Snoop Dogg need an Umbrella? ------------------ Fo' Drizzle.

Why am I so irreversibly Restless? Why can't I ever seem to slow down or Settle Comfortably? Will I ever be Satisfied? Philip K. Dick (the mastermind behind Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said) once mentioned he wanted to write about people he loves. Only That. "But I'd put the people I love into a Fictional World spun out of my Own Mind, not the World we actually have, because the World we actually have does not meet my Standards." So then I started thinking about my own Standards, and my own Conceptions of the Universe. Why does it seem like I constantly have to reassess what makes me Happy? Why is it that most people these days seem Consistently Predictable? WHY. I mean, I know everybody struggles with denial and unhappiness, I know! But why does it not seem to Frustrate them? Why are YOU not Frustrated? Am I the only one who cares? Am I the only one dealing with Self-Reflection? Come on people! Wake Up! Life is on Fire!


Today was a Hard Day. I have all these feelings and all these questions. Always. I started reading about Aries One (the week of my Birthday). The 12 Signs are Split into 48 Periods. Yes, this has a Point. The Aries One Period (March 25-April 2) takes "The Child" as its Central Image, because it can be likened to the Earliest Portion of a Human Life (up to Age Seven). Its Characteristics are typically those of "Wonder, Curiosity and Primal Energy, symbolically revealing a Newly Emerged Being awed by a Bewildering Complexity of Sensory Experience". Aries One reveals the Human Dichotomy of a child's being able to Absorb impressions and become part of its Environment, while at the same time Preserving its own individual Selfhood. Well Shit. That's all I really need to hear: that to the Crazy Person (I think everyone, all the time is weird), the Normal One's insane. Bring it.

Isn't this Fancy? Valerie Hegarty's magical, fascinating Brooklyn-Based artwork is not for the faint of heart. Taken from her Beautiful/Decay show case, this work leaves me simply speechless. I would never have thought of something like this. Okay, maybe eventually? Unlike some of her other pieces (which were set on Fire and then gracefully put out), this one clearly has structure. I love the Branches; I love the Gold! Created using Wood and Mixed Media, Unearthed rings in at approximately 36" X 22" X 10". Loves it.

For my Free People Craft Swap (mentioned here early November), I've decided to create a Calendar made from pages of a Children's Novel The Red Shoes, of which I'm entirely inspired by. I tore out pages of the book to make the Calendar. While you may think I have ruined the Beauty of the Book, I believe I've celebrated it. What better way than to admire Sun Young Yoo's fabulous Black and White drawings all year? Besides, the story is a post-feminist retelling of the Fairy Tale. Blah. Over it. Here are September, February, November and July (in that order). Happy 2009! Get Loose! Woot!

2008 was an Odd Year. It's weird how mundane significant events are when you live them. It's almost like one's surprised that in this Extraordinary Circumstance, the Laws of Physics still exist and the world looks the same and no Beacons of Light or Dramatic Music begin to play. Graduation, for instance. Nothing Happened. Nothing Ever Happens. I guess there's nothing inherently Fantastic about obtaining a BA Degree, except for the fact that I busted my Ass for most of the past Three Years, and I have nothing to show for it. I've come home Empty-Handed. Will 2009 be different? Maybe I'll Go Places, Do Things, Be Somebody. Most of the time my mind is spent in an imaginary World, but then New Year's Eve arrives, and I'm reminded of All the Things I said I'd do, of All the Places I swore I'd go. Some thoughts for the next Twelve Months: I will Learn French. I will Attack the Nail-Biting Bandit. I will Stop Feeling Sorry for Myself. I will stop wasting Time on People. I'll Do Something! I will Appreciate, Embrace, Live in the Moment. I will Stop Abbreviating. I'll Fight the Lone-Liness, Let Go of the Past, Free My Soul and Find that Real Life can be grand, too. Just do it.

Yulia Brodskaya

Born in Russia, where she started out as a Fine Artist producing fabulous Contemporary Artwork for Moscow based companies, Yulia Brodskaya obtained a Degree in Graphic Design and Illustration. She has since moved to London, busy with parallel careers as an Illustrator and a Freelance Graphic Designer. Because I'm pretty much obsessed with typography, I love the pictures she mixes between illustration and printed matter. This girl is amazing! (besides the fact that I'm always looking for an illustrator) ...