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Posted by Allison Rae on 25th March 2009

pocket sandwich math

So I was recently recalling an old ’80s infomercial for a fabulous little kitchen appliance dubbed the SNAKMASTER. It was essentially a small electric sandwich grill that presses your creation into little triangular pockets. I think they’re fairly commonplace now, but whoo boy, it seemed like a real innovation to me at the time. Somehow [...]

Posted by Allison Rae on 8th March 2009

parallel universes

This is a page from a little storybook I drew for my sweetheart. It stemmed from a lovely random morning conversation about something in the world we needed to take care of – view the whole set to find out what! All sentiment aside, it was fun to make. I really, really like working in [...]

Posted by Allison Rae on 14th February 2009

le ballon rouge

Ahhh, this. It’s beautiful and you should watch it. It’s about childhood and balloons and Paris and colors and more. Directed by Albert Lamorisse in 1965. According to imdb, the only short film to win a non-short film Oscar, ever (it won Best Original Screenplay).

Posted by Allison Rae on 6th March 2008

svefn-g-englar

This is something beautiful, and if you haven’t seen it before I would like to share it with you. From fat cat’s site: Director : Agust Jacobsson and Sigur Ros Date : January 2001 This unforgettable and award-winning clip, conceived by and supervised by the band with direction by Agust Jacobsson features the Perlan special-needs [...]

Posted by Allison Rae on 26th March 2006

springtime in austin

Things have felt especially sensory-spiked the past week — could be that it’s finally started raining again. That loamy, damp spring smell is always a bit of a high in and of itself. Incidentally, Demeter has1 a fragrance called “Wet Garden” that almost kinda approximates it (unfortunately the scent evaporates way too quickly, as is [...]

Posted by Allison Rae on 18th April 2005

hot pink, an ode

Inside closed eyes lies the canvas for day & night dreams: pools of milky black offset by the ghosting of blood vessels, nerves, and other assorted arithmetic patterns that point to a greater natural language. Faintly purple bursts fade to strawberry whorls. A fingerprint, a blot, a parade of sunspots. Even entrenched in the neon [...]

Posted by Allison Rae on 4th December 2002

and then, tonight

The future is flat, or so I thought… noting wryly that it sounded like a slogan for tricked-out televisions. Staring at my laptop, my eyes crossed slightly – lapsing from the C L U T T E R, this present-day clutter of information masquerading as acquired goods (stacks of CDs, DVDs, books, photographs), to rooms, [...]

Posted by Allison Rae on 14th June 2002

simultaneity

To continue on this previous line of thinking: …These highways are hundreds of arteries, impartially channeling us from point A to B. And the roadside motels are anonymous. I always look in the mirror across from the musty bed, trying to imagine the reflection of each person who has stood in front of it. And then there [...]