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My friend Eddie pointed this out to me earlier and color me tickled. If tickle were a color that is. Vampire Art Now is the second coffee table art book I’ve been featured in that was put together by Jasmine Becket-Griffith. This link is to a brief review of the book on the io9 site. I was honestly more tickled to have my art at the top of it all ;)

Video for the Bete Noire Collection

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“A strange thing we saw that day we crept into the old man’s room. All of the eerie taxidermy creatures had been removed from the shelves and the walls. Not one pair of mammal eyes watched us. In their place a glutton of smaller eyes, many of them fractured and alien to us.

“The walls were covered with insects given the taxidermist’s treatment. Their bodies were frozen in time and preserved -but beyond that they were decorated. The mystery of Nanna’s missing jewelry was revealed to us and solved in this vision. Chains and rings, the old woman’s gems and the guts of the woman’s old watches, all broken down and used to decorate the little insect bodies. The old man had made a shrine to the insect and its breed that had taken his wife’s life from him. The sting that had killed her was somehow perverted and beautified in equal measure within this overwhelming collection…” …from Sepia

Sarah of the Boheme Tribal Belly Dance Troupe.

Bethany and I spent monday afternoon doing photos of her clothing and accessory designs. I co-opted her model to take some photos for my tarot deck to use for the new Sepia Stains Tarot site. The model is Charly (f’king awesome model), make-up was provided by Rachel Finan and the clothes/hair/accessories by Bethany Grenier. We did the photos at the Van Andel museum.

Do you know why sunflowers are the coolest bloom on the planet? The florets inside of the sunflower (the portion that produces the seeds that seed eaters eat) adhere to the principles of the golden angle. They align themselves into a spiral you can just see when you look right at them. This aside, they’re just beautiful. My childhood home in the obscure areas of Michigan, had a sunflower patch in front of it. In the middle of winter, I like to think of sunflowers. I hope you have a wonderful holiday.