Posts in the “HOLY DAY” category
Day of the Dead in New Orleans
by angeliska on December 27, 2010
Thinking about New Orleans all the time, and worrying for all my friends there. People are afraid to leave their houses, talking about buying shotguns, and reinforcing their doors and the bars on their windows. It’s hard to think back (…)
Hexmas Spirits
by angeliska on December 25, 2010
✶ A Very Haeckel Christmas “Ernst Haeckel’s 1904 “Kunstformen der Natur” [Artforms of Nature] is a classic of biological illustration. What is less generally known is that the artist started as a Christmas card designer. The book was originally simply (…)
Winter Solstice – Blood Moon
by angeliska on December 20, 2010
(This photo, and all others in this post, unless noted, is by the marvelous Sofia Ajram) Dark times, my loves. Dark days before the sun returns to us. Tonight even the moon will hide her face, turn the color of (…)
Sketchy Bunnies!
by angeliska on April 3, 2010
Sketchy Bunnies, y’all. I’m sorry I have to expose you to these horrors, and I hope seeing them won’t scare you away from our Easter Egg Hunt, but they’re just too good (wrong?) not to share. Many thanks to the (…)
Holi Hai!
by angeliska on March 8, 2010
The past few days have been rather damp and dreary, making me ravenous for rich, saturated color – electric, fluorescent hues that make my brain tingle. I’m getting pretty bored with the staple neutral palette that seems to be the (…)
Krew du Poüx!
by angeliska on February 24, 2010
Hello, hello! Many apologies for the long absence and all the tumbleweeds drifting around these parts! I am returned from my travels, which proved far too fun and chaotically action-packed to do any of the updates I had anticipated. In (…)
New Year's Redux
by angeliska on January 21, 2010
Ahoy! New photos have surfaced from our New Year’s Eve adventures in the Texas Hill Country, from Mr. Chip Warren, esteemed gentleman and fantastic photographer. Following are a handful of my favorites, but the full set can be seen here: (…)
Trans-Siberian Birthday Wishes
by angeliska on January 6, 2010
So – after much deliberation and brow-furrowing, I’ve finally decided what the hell to do with myself and anyone who’d care to join me on my holy whelping day, this coming Sunday – January 10th. I’m having a Trans-Siberian Savages (…)
Stargazer Honey
by angeliska on January 3, 2010
Our New Year’s Eve was truly magical. Despite a rocky start fraught with Mercury’s meddlings, we managed to create a really solid camp and the coziest tipi yet! In a pinch, duct tape, scavenged rope and a random dental tool (…)
Blue Moon
by angeliska on December 30, 2009
Here we go, darlings – on the precipice of a new year, and just nearly ready to dry our sticky wings on the other side of the future! 2010, for real? I mean, doesn’t it seem slightly preposterous, as if (…)
