Let Us Take A Moment To Groove On Enid Woodward's Small-Space Style...

Sweet! Right? I love the clever use of color & furniture to break up the different areas while still maintaining spaciousness & a sense of flow.

Check out the SLiDESHOW!

I'm In Love With A Wall. A Stone Wall. Can You Believe It?

Actually, I'm in love with the whole story & wonderfully witchy woodsy art work of sculptor-builder Patrick Dougherty.

I regularly fantasize about creating a home like THiS in Big Sur... -xo

The Red Book

Seeing that it's Monday morning, you probably don't have time to dive into a ten page article in the New York Times about Carl Jung's mysterious Red Book. However, if you are a book lover or a student of psychology, you will definitely want to bookmark this page for later. It's such a fascinating read, and Sara Corbett, the writer of said article, is an irresistibly compelling story teller.

Sing It Sister

“It’s more important than ever to have confidence. Everyone else is insecure. If you start to take a little bit of everyone else’s insecurity — forget it.” -Diane Von Furstenberg on how to survive the recession
(New York Times)

Digital Barbarism

"One of the more trenchant cartoons of the Internet era features a stick-figure man typing furiously at his keyboard. From somewhere beyond the panel floats the irritated voice of his wife.

“Are you coming to bed?”

“I can’t,” he replies. “This is important.”

“What?”

“Someone is wrong on the Internet.”'

The review that Ross Douthat wrote for the NY Times on Digital Barbarism : A Writer’s Manifesto by Mark Helprin cracks me up, mainly because I relate to it so thoroughly. When I first started marketing KOSHi back in 2004, I got involved with some message boards to network w/like-minded girly girls & quickly found it to be a pricklier proposition than braving the dark-n-choppy waters of a jr. high lunch room. "People" get pretty vicious and petty when shrouded in the anonymity of the wonderful worldwide web. Unfortunately, I was too big of a dumbass to shroud my identity at all, was out there bald for all of the virtual world to see, and took the slings and arrows personally. What's even more amazing is that I did not learn my lesson the first time and committed a nearly identical faux pas a couple of years later with Obedient Waves. One particular message board (that shall remain nameless) had me chewing my nails to the quick & fearing for my sanity. Those folks just loved to bicker, belittle, and fuck with each other's minds. I just wanted to talk about music, art, fashion, pop culture, and, ya know, bullshit bullshit, and it didn't take me long to high tail it out of there, limping & cursing my naive attempt to communicate, "Stoopid! Stoopid!" So now I just keep this blog, which is basically a conversation with myself. I still have not resorted to disguising my identity, but the comments are disabled. I love yakking about my various likes & dislikes, the latest headlines peaking my interest, and especially other artists & performers that inspire me, but I refuse (REFUSE!, I say) to be influenced by or start censoring myself for the haters. Bullies be damned.

KOSHi Luvs... Taschen

Just did my early morning coffee with a Taschen drive by, thanks to Fashionista's announcement that they're having a 50% - 75% off sale in Soho this weekend. If you're lucky enough to live in New York, you must GO. It'll make your brain a better place.

Some of the goodies I'm lusting after...

Peter Beard:




Leonardo Da Vinci:



I LOVE the way Taschen lets you flip thru the books online. So cool...

Extraordinary Records:


The Big Book Of Breasts:


Frank Lloyd Wright Complete Works 1943 - 1959:


Taschen's New York:

Molly Crabapple

Obviously I'm crazy late to the Molly Crabapple game, but better late than never, as the infamous "they" say. Plus, I'm making up for lost time tonight. If you care to join me on this lil adventure, I say we start with this multi-faceted feature on this multi-faceted woman...


(And if you're only seeing the left side of this video, SHiT FUCK PiSS and i'M SORRY! Click HERE to watch it as God intended.)

Pre-Order Molly's upcoming comic, "Scarlett Takes Manhattan", at Amazon.com...


This is one seriously enterprising, badass lady. Check out the off the wall art class she started... Dr. Sketchy's! And then read all about it in the UK's The List.

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