Art & Illustration by Genevieve Santos

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The food I eat

The kitty I pet

The building I visit

The space I work

oklahoma city

Progress Report #1: ADAM

I got this custom order before I left NYC and it's been difficult finding time to work on it between traveling & cuddling with this little kitty:

But here's the progress thus far.

Shout out to Bob for helping me pick out the combos & Maggie for the custom order :)

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Wayne Coyne. You genius man, you.

James, K. Edward Van Osdol & co. put together a short DEBUTING TONIGHT at Deadcenter Film Fest. We snagged all access passes and have been drinking free Stella & watching a few films here & there. Last night, I watched "Blastula: The Making of 'Embryonic'" and Mr. Coyne said, and I'm paraphrasing here, you can't plan for things when it comes to creativity. You can only dive into it & hope it overtakes you. Not overwhelms you, but overtakes you as in it has complete control over you. I love that. I guess that's how people come up with stuff like this:

I will probably draw a picture of him while I'm here. I mean... it makes sense. Ah, so much love.

O, Oklahoma!

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Right. Forgot to mention that little fact... I'm in Oklahoma City! A short (er, more or less month-long) pit stop between NYC & California. It actually is much cooler than y'all would think... I mean, cheap vintage clothing, fried okra & southern hospitality?! Sign me up! I'm also starting to develop a slight OK twang. WEIRD.

So top three reasons why I visited OKC:

#1: mr. james varnum

seen shaking (with great seriousness!) a plastic bag for our homemade, old school, vanilla ice cream as instructed by these kids:

#2: little miss monkey

#3: Wayne Coyne

well, that's his house, but whatever. still really AWESOME!

I visited Tri's family's restaurant, BANG, in Moore, Oklahoma. SO GOOD. Seriously. I can't even get my mouth around the burger it's so tasty. Solid fried okra & fried chicken. And his parents are just about the sweetest pair ever.

Cute store called Wild Flower in a nifty retail space (James helped make the drawings).

Pit stop to play a mean game of tic tac toe along our walk. Walking isn't too common amongst Oklahomians but James & I have made it a daily must.

I like this city. I like traveling :)

James's Current Project

A building to hold & celebrate everything you could ever want & more

I'm a visual person so it was lovely to finally see all the mumbo jumbo he'd been talking about over the past few months. The building is in a great artsy area, and he's working to keep all the historical charm. It'll be home to a community space, burger joint, school, art gallery... see, I told you it was everything you could ever want & more.