Milla Jovovich Naked For Purple

If someone put a gun to my head and said, "You MUST get naked for a magazine. You choose the publication..." PURPLE would definitely be at the top of my list. Since, I don't think anyone's going to be threatening me in said manner any time soon, I feel pretty safe slacking on a workout here & there, while gawking at the other brave souls willing to drop trou in the name of art. And, it is art. The human body. Pretty photographs. If you call it "porn", we can't be friends.

HERE's Milla Jovovich baring her still lovely parts for Purple & this is me tipping my hat...

Nudes & Shoes

Nudes & Shoes? Of course! What could go better together?




These super fun & drop dead yummy illustrations are the work of New York painter-poet, Carolyn Weltman. I read in her bio that she pairs her paintings with her poetry & that just floored me, because that's what I do too. Kindred spirits! Yeah! I like to joke that I trick people into reading my poems by flashing them a lil booby first. Works every time...

Multi-Tasking Is For Losers

I mean that. I used to pride myself on being a chaotic, octopus-armed multitasker & now I know that I was really just fooling myself. You might be talented & interested in many things, but you can't do them all at once, and you can't get anywhere dabbling. Well, maybe you can go in circles really really fast, but I was kind of hoping for something more like a straight line to brand recognition & career success.

Now, all I have to show for years & years of workaholic effort is some watered down press, confused fans, and piles of incomplete projects. I recently did some soul searching & came to the conclusion that a) I could not stand myself anymore and b) I would limit myself to two projects to devote myself to for today & well into the perceivable future. The rest must either hit the road for good or be put on hold for a much later date.

At first, it was overwhelming to make such a decision & hard to kill any one of my darlings, but, in the end, the choice was obvious: KOSHi & Obedient Waves. These are my truest, deepest loves, my biggest priorities, and they actually feed off & compliment each other in this kind of whacky Beauty & The Punk Beast way.

So... there you have it, and here I am, a newly improved & stream-lined art-making machine. I hope to dazzle you with laser-like focus in the month's to come.



And, in case you're having a case of the schitzos yourself, here's a recent article that John Tierney wrote for the New York Times on how multi-tasking isn't just hard on your poor lil noggin, it's literally impossible... .

"Kill your darlings" -William Faulkner