Survey result...You're in love!

With No. 2!!! 

Well, 57% of you are anyway. The remaining 42% of you voted for #1. He seems to be taking it in stride though. 

In Search of...The Ugliest Figurines in the Universe

I have this idea for a TV show where I travel around to flea markets, barfy gift shops, etc. in search of the world's most hideous figurines. Thoughts? I have a small collection of my own. But many of the world's most hideous figurines are just too pricey or too terrifying to actually bring into one's home. Like this one...

It's made by some famous-name expensive company and it costs about a gajillion dollars. The head is life size, so you can put it on your nightstand to inspire the most creepy nightmares, and then in the morning it's there to catapult your existential nausea into full-on violent hurling. Yay!

$1449?

Is that how much it costs to buy it? 

Or to have it removed from the universe permanently? 

Survey! Which one of these are you in love with?

Use survey buttons at at top right to answer 

honestly and confidentially...

Thank you. 

Moleskine City Notebooks

I bought the Moleskine City Notebook last year and I highly recommend these for city travel. They make them for every city. It has all the maps you'll need, including subway. Plus it's small so you can use it while you walk around without feeling like you're holding a giant sign that says, "Hi! I'm foreign! Please rob me!" 

It also has transparent sheets that stick over the maps like a big post-it note, which allows you to write notes on the maps without ruining them... 

And like all Moleskine notebooks, it also has plenty of pages for notes and drawing, as well as pockets to stash stuff. 

Artist Spotlight...Bodan Litnianski

Artist Bodan Litnianski built this amazing labyrinth of walls constructed entirely of trash, found objects, and creepy dolls. More on this website. Is this not the ideal venue for displaying creepy dolls? Dolls are just creepy, innately. If you keep them indoors, they just hang out and plot how to kill you :) 

I LOVE this one...

© photos Benjamin Teissedre - Laurent Jacquy

I learned about this artist from the documentary film, The Gleaners and I, in which filmmaker Agnes Varda follows a variety of rural and urban gleaners. Gleaning means picking stuff up off the ground that's otherwise bound for the trash, or already is trash. It could be following behind crop harvesters or rifling through dumpsters. 

Survey Result! Which one of these are you?

The results of my recent survey (posted 1/19/10) were truly SHOCKING!

A whopping 90% of you are this one...

While only 1o% of you are this one...

Are you surprised? I was. This was a HUGE wake-up call for me... Why are so few baked potato heads reading this blog? HOW can we bring more of them in? Do we even want to? Thoughts??

Thank you to all who participated in this survey!