I'm Obsessed

with this guy, Jorge Oswaldo. i just stumbled upon him after breezing through some interior design blogs.

he's originally from Chicagoland (born in El Salvador) and is extensively learned in various forms of art. he now does "paintings" with vinyl stickers.

they're effing amazing. i'm mildly in love with Frondescence.

someone buy me it. please.

My Kinda Protest

this is awesome.

those crazy eye-talians...some guy, Graziano Cecchini, dumped a half million of those plastic colored balls that are in the ball pit at Chuckie Cheese down the Spanish Steps in Rome. he was protesting.

apparently, the "garbage officials" in Naples stopped cleaning like, 3 weeks ago due to lack of space in the dumps, and since then trash has just been collecting in the streets. in an artistic (this dude calls himself an artist, and i, for one, agree wholly) demostration of trash in the streets, he and some other folks dumped all these balls down the steps. they were all over the Piazza di Spagna and the majority ended up in the Barcaccia Fountain.

this guy also dyed a fountain red in October.

i don't know about you, but i think this is perhaps the awesomest protest EVER. no real harm done (they're plastic balls, for christ's sake), and some sorta message got out, ya know?

Banksy and Cecchini should get together and do something REALLY fabulous.

Bah! Can NOTHING Go Unanswered?

so, you know how like, there have always been speculations about the identity of the Mona Lisa? how people thought it was a lover or something of Leonardo da Vinci? and some thought it may have been his momma? and some thought he painted himself (the hypothesis i like the best; it sort of hints at a cross dressing da Vinci, or maybe he was painting himself as he wanted to be, or how he felt he should've been born or something...)...?

well, some "German academics" have figured out who Mona really is.

damn. there goes the fun hypotheses...

it's some itlian chick. some rich guy's wife.

bah!

how bo-ring...

on a sidenote, just to toot my own cultured horn, i've seen this lay-dee. in person, at the Louvre. i'm so fancy.