Green Still Life (Pablo Picasso, 1914)

by marco marella.

from a shoot by the selby.

Song of the day: Lilison Di Kinara - Luciana.

From the big picture, which remains my favorite photo blog.

Song of the day: Outkast - Spottieottiedopaliscious.
Bonus Beat: .

Song of the day: Clipse - Comedy Central (Featuring Fabolous).

Lucidity by Marella Marco

By Owen Gatley

Slave Auction by Jean-Leon Gerome

I had a truly wicked case of hiccups this weekend - I tried the Uruguayan remedy: drinking water from the wrong (far) side of the cup. This involves hunching over your cup and almost inverting your head. It works...

Book bloggin': Anticipating a move, I started going through my bookshelves, culling books to donate. Far easier to donate down the block than take with me. This job inevitably degenerates into flipping through books, then outright reading.

This week, I've been (re)reading books themed around Trickster tales, one of my favorite types of folklore. There's great trickster tales from all over the world - especially North American Indians - but my favorite (besides bugs bunny) is Loki as he appears in Villy Sorensen's retelling of the Norse Myths, "The Downfall of the Gods." Lovers of folklore and myth: this is a delightful interpretation - light, ironic, wise, playful, perverse. I wish I could speak Danish so that I could read more of his work.

From Lost at Sea. I really like Bryan Lee O'Malley's work.

Song of the day: Washed Out - Hold Out.

A new painting.

Laura by Giorgione

Take your Son, Sir! by Ford Madox Brown

"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. ...In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it."
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

That's pretty much how I feel about graphics - and all of the best results come about from mistakes or accidents. This is an accident I made today while messing about...

Song of the day: Jj - Things Will Never Be The Same Again.
Bonus Beat: Jj - Ecstasy.
Buy it here, I did.

painting by Mala Iqbal.

Balearic pop remake of Lil Wayne's Lollipop; actually good.

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Song of the day: Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog.
Bonus Beat: Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa.

Song of the day: Dara Puspita - To Love Somebody.
Bonus Beat: Glasser - Glad (Delorean Remix).

More Uruguayan/Latin American blogs:
The Latin Americanist.
Montevideo Living.