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| 06:09pm 28/01/2009 |
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Handmade doll entitled "Annouk and Fox Mask"
by Christine Alvarado - Du Buh Du Design Studio
Well gentle reader, my foxes, vixens and kits perhaps you may have wondered at my disappearance... well, all is not what it seems. You see, the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) prosperous_fox is not the PRosPERoUS FoX. The gatherer of goodies for this blog, has been, none other than minouette, who has more-or-less been pretending to be reynardin. She (that is I) started this blog for reynardin, to reynardin's specifications, though reynardin has yet to take up the mantle of blogging here.
***Fingers Crossed***
Hopefully that will change soon.
In the meanwhile, if you like what you see here, or have enjoyed this particular brand of insanity somewhat eccentric collections of art, illustration, design, bits of science and OTHERness, please join me at Magpie & Whiskeyjack where I have now begun to gather my findings of lovely & intriguing things.
Also, stay tuned! If you do not know, and are asking, who is this is this reynardin who would inspire such a long-standing rouse. Well she is a talented animator, artist and illustrator. She is the one who drew my avatar. When *cough!* she begins to blog about PRosPERoUS FoX here, you won't want miss it.
All the best, from the one you have known as the prosperous_fox |
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| A girl and her tapir... |
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| 03:33pm 31/12/2008 |
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A very happy new year, to all my foxes and vixens!
2008 has come to an end - a reason to celebrate!
(image from planet FABULON) |
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| 12:48pm 17/12/2008 |
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Ah yes, it is the prosperous_fox's well known predisposition for bat costumes, once again. Though, I must confess, this one is a wee bit odd. It's the anatomy, silly. I mean, sure, she's got a bat head sticking out of her forehead, fine. But, does she have a neck? Certainly not one in proportion to, ahem. [Weird Tales, October, 1933, via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats] |
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| Unicorn vs. Panda |
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| 12:34pm 05/12/2008 |
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mood: amused music: horns
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The Aeternae stomps proudly with his baby angora unicorns in the Northern Plains of India. 180 BCE
Would you like to see line drawings, in black on white with red (& maybe some others), of unitaurs, characters who look like surrealist rejects from the Klondike Goldrush, amputees, pandas, narwhals impaling creatures, The Great Dictator, mermen, violence to and by animals, blood and unicorns? Maybe some collage too? Then look no further than Micheal C. Hsuing (or his flickr set).
During an extravagant feast, the satyr attempts to flag down the servers for some luscious grapes
Steer in fine china / Obese steer tipping over teacup
In regards to the lucky penguin who escaped impalement by the narwhal
He's got an LJ at michealchsiung and an etsy shop here. |
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| 07:32pm 04/12/2008 |
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Straydog, 9"x 12"
Check out the work of Toronto-based, Iranian-born, new Canadian Mirak Jamal (at his blog or his flickr). His work explores his experiences of being a repeated refugee, moving from country to country with his family, most recently deported from the US. He writes, "I have hereby chosen to extend my personal journey through artwork that deals with issues such as belonging/identity, loss/triumph, despair/hope, and the appealing ideal of internationalism."
Portrait of a Refugee 2007, 22"x30", mixed-media
Iran 9"x12"
I found his via this interview on my love for you is a stampede of horses. |
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| Gator, Tiger, Chimp |
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| 02:52pm 04/12/2008 |
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Via Le Divan Bohémien, my foxes and vixens, I bring you some London restaurant decor from Les Trois Garçons by the firm Airspace:
That's right. The scepter-wielding alligator wear a crown. The tiger wears a headdress. The cigar-smoking chimp nattily matches his bowtie with medal and his own crown. The deer seems a little obvious, but they make up for it with the seahorse. The bulldog, though, has butterfly wings.
That's what I'm talking about. |
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| 12:40pm 02/12/2008 |
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OK. The prosperous_fox officially reads TOO. MANY. DESIGN. BLOGS.
This morning, before even finishing her coffee (never a very auspicious time of day) she has fallen in love with furniture and textiles which appear on websites without dollar values (a very VERY bad sign indeed). Lately, it's all about the yellow.* Why? Don't ask why... just get thee some mustard or sunshine or gold items** and run with it. First, it is the cheeky "My Beautiful Backside" collection of London-based design duo Doshi Levien. Let's say you are some mysterious, independently wealthy, but inordinately bored individual, and for kicks, you think you'd like to sponsor a mysterious blogging vixen. Buy her this couch:
(from behind, of course)
Here it is with its larger blue brother:
It was inspired by this (which is a clear indication of genius):
They write "The Garden of Life" is a beautifully illustrated and practical guide to the use of plants in a range of applications - sacred, medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and aromatic. Author Naveen Patnaik. This painting inspired the Moroso collection My Beautiful Backside....
a Maharani sitting on the floor of her palace, surrounded and supported by multiples of pebble shaped cushions. [via Oh Joy!]
So I think this would look awesome in my imaginary home along with an urban quilt by San Francisco textile artist Amy Ahlstrom. Don't you think?
OakTown (2008) 30" x 30" Dupioni silk and cotton
Since she was featured on Apartment Therapy is a little less recherché perhaps, but clearly another genius who makes these by hand, combining the prosperous_fox's love of textiles, quilting and graffiti.
SFBe-Bop 1 (2007) 11" x 80" Dupioni silk and cotton
Tell me, gentle reader, what appears in your imaginary homes?
*This is an allusion to a dream long ago of minouette's, who was laughing in her sleep. Intrigued, her partner asked gently, "What are you laughing about?" to which, ever-sleeping, she replied, "It's the yellow!" which left him all the more mystified. She never told him, she was dreaming about Malvolio, in Twelth Night and his stockings, which was too improbable not to be true.
**Ginkgo biloba leaf patterned or with peacocks. You heard it here. |
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| beercan butterflies! |
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| 05:23pm 13/11/2008 |
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mood:  artistic music: vinyl
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and vinyl too!
AND one is even FRACTAL! *swoons*
[installation by Paul Villinski at the Jonathan Ferrara gallery booth from CA boom via whorange archives] |
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indescribable
confused
Dear Santa...
