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I just discovered the work of Jim Houser via Fecal Face’s interview, and I think he is rad. Here’s an excerpt:

I went to Penn on a faculty/staff scholarship, and because my father worked there, it was free. I was miserable there. I hadn’t really wanted to go to college. I just went because I was supposed to. And I felt really lonely there, and guilty too, for wasting this insane opportunity for an education I didn’t really want, but that others would give anything for. So I did what I guess at least a third of depressed, isolated, college kids do. I did a ton of drugs and got myself kicked out.

Read the entire interview here:, and you can see a lot more photographs of his work on the page too.

{Images and excerpt from Fecal Face}

The super-lovely Meighan over at My Love for You is A Stampede of Horses is giving out a special 4-item PikaPackage for her readers — and if you haven’t been there, you should really hop on over as she has the raddest interviews with artists like Jill Bliss and Kelly Lynn Jones of Little Paper Planes!

Hurricane Rita left a trail of destruction in Havana, but it’s a ripe environment for Escif’s ideas. Nothing can bring art down!

Art doesn’t necessarily need a studio — look at Escif’s photostream, and you’ll see.

And the walls of this building were designed and painted by the Happy Wall Maker — how apt! (You can see more of his process and his elaboration in French over at his Flickr.)