so, although i can't tell you what you're looking at, how old it is, or who (roughly) created it, i can tell you what inspired me to snap a picture of it...
these puppets are just beautiful! there are some similar ones in the window of a shop on hayes street that i used to pass every morning on my way to work. (geez i'm really enjoying the words "used to".)

neil thought these two looked like characters from a tim burton movie

i liked this one the best, and found myself wondering exactly how difficult it would be to make one...



man-o-man, the kinda abs and gloots you'd need to maintain the kinda pose this dude has happening. notice how neilz gets all up in the mix?



these two are stomping out water demons...can you imagine? way back in the 15th century they were worried about biological warfare via water supply systems and felt violence was the only solution too! oh, wait...i'm being facetious...

although, i do have to say i was suprised by the choice of paint colors... in a weird way, they kinda look like leprechauns to me...


asian craftship on textiles often blows my mind, especially because of the frequent combination of size

and incredible detail



i must admit, i really enjoyed being among such a diverse volume of buddah sculptures




i wish i'd taken pictures in the jade room. it's my favorite, not only because everything is so beautiful, but also because i can't imagine having the skill to form those objects using abrasion. all those pieces with layers or chains? made with abrasion not carving...yup-yup..


sometimes i will see a thing, and it will introduce a completely different image in my mind.

when i saw these two bottles, i immediately thought of two of the blogs i read regularly; pinku and supereggplant. both rad crafty blogs!


check out those flames!!!!

can you imagine what life would be like hauling around a halo of those proportions?


no wonder folks were sporting these kindsa get-ups



i've seen a lot of these pannequins used in the lone wolf and cub comix. i gotta say, though, i don't know that i'd preferred to be carried if it meant being in such cramped quarters...(neil's in there for proportions)

seriously, would you rather ride or walk? i suppose if the weather was wicked inclement, the pannequin'd be the better option, cramped or not, cuz look at how protected that sucker is!


there weren't a ton of paintings that spoke to me in the museum...actually, there weren't many paintings period...but i really liked this pair. for whatever reasons, i just could not get the boy in blue to come out unfuzzy...well, it's kinda like a pair of camper shoes this way, innit?


**************************
as a total aside here, well, maybe it's more of a post-script, since i'm really done with the above entry, i have so been grooving on this mix i made a while back with one song from each of the following bands...i don't know the names of the songs, since i didn't write them down, AND had to sell my cd collection a couple of years ago, but i'll bet a mix of any songs from the following would be quite enjoyable...

the anniversary
built to spill
buck
cub
dashboard confessional
death cab for cutie
elliott smith
holiday flyer
jets to brzil
karate
knapsack
len brown society
mates of state
modest mouse
optigonally yours
pedro the ion
pinback
secadora
sukpatch
ugly cassanova