I can’t stop thinking about these flannel lanterns from Free People‘s series of store displays. I’m not going to make them because 1. I don’t have space 2. I’m moving 3. I already have to pack 23 homemade light fixtures and for someone who lives in a 5 room apartment, that’s pretty effing impressive.
So you have to make one and tell me how it turns out. K?
Bounce over to Building 25 (Free People’s blog) and watch the video. And pop around while you’re there: mucho nifty stuff.
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Months ago I googled up “Inigo Montoya painting”
and found this thumbprint image…
little did I know he was the real deal
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If by chance you should ever write about your love of black velvet paintings and Mandy Patinkin, and, you just so happened to post your wish to commission a portrait of Inigo Montoya on your blog, well, don’t be surprised if out of the blue you get an email that says, Hi. Your wish has come true!
Fast forward to last Friday, to me, standing in the crowded downtown Chicago post office tearing apart a giant cardboard box with my teeth —no literally, with my teeth—only to behold the latest member of my household: Inigo Montoya has come home!
The guy next to me stopped filling out his postage forms and exclaimed, Praise Jesus!
While the woman behind the counter smirked, Crazy white lady.
I said, HOLY CRAP JUST LOOK AT THIS THING!
Y’all. This is good. I mean, real good. Obviously I am a fan of the subject but the quality of the painting wasn’t something I was expecting. It is superb. These photographs don’t do him justice. I wish you could see him in person. He looks real. His eyes follow you around the room. It’s kind of amazing.
The artist is Bruce White, North Carolina native, tattoo artist and painter extraordinaire. If you are in the market for a one-of-a-kind work of art that is guaranteed to start a conversation, you need to check him out! Bruce’s portfolio is filled with just about every movie icon and cult hero you could ever hope for. Star Wars fan ahoy!
I plan to get him properly framed after I move, but until then I have him temporarily hanging on the faux velvet wallpaper above my bed. And just to make it even more weird, I put a frame of twinkle lights around it. Awesome much?
Between the lights and the dark velvet and the eyes that follow you around the room, Inigo has become pinnacle of some sort of diabolic shine. Friday night I went to bed I felt like I should have brought an offering of goat’s blood. Now he’s had a few days to settle and I find more and more to love about this painting every time I look at him it him it…him or it? I can’t decide. But perhaps thats the hallmark of a true art – the piece takes on a presence and personality far larger than the confines of a canvas. He It feels like a real person.
Welcome home Inigo!
Thanks again to Bruce White for making my wish come true! You can check out Bruce’s work or follow him on facebook and twitter.