While looking through the beautiful blog by Yu-I Chan I came across the works of Shintaro Miyake filled with all sorts of creatures. He did this interesting project called the Beaver Project at Massart. {via Boing Boing} Miyake visited Boston for two weeks to film his nature documentary, currently in post-production and premiering at the exhibition. Donning a fuzzy homemade costume of a “cartoon” beaver, Miyake starred as “Beaver” in a video that blurs fiction and reality as he gathered wood to build his 45-foot multi-colored dam and shopped for chest waders and lumber for his lodge. More images of his work can be seen here.

Why was I leafing through Yu-I’s blog? For a very good reason… stay tuned to find out!

I totally forgot about signing up for the sketchbook project organized by Art House Co-op until the little package arrived at my doorstep today! I remember I was bummed out before as I couldn’t get in due to the 500 copy close-out, but this time they have extended the quantity to 3000 so right now there’s still about 716 places still up for grabs. I’m a little skeptical how much exposure each sketchbook will get, but with the many galleries they’ve already line up it’s bound to be a fun trip (at least for my little sketchbook!)

Click here to sign up to be a part of the whole shebang, which they have likened it to a concert tour, only with sketchbooks. And without the singing. I think.

One of my favourite hangouts these days is…well… other people’s hangouts. If it were an actual place, you can find me at The Selby, where Todd Selby features photographs, paintings and videos of interesting people and their creative spaces.

Click on the images on the main page, where it will lead you to even more images of the person’s space, a handwritten Q+A and even watercolor illustrations of the featured personality.

Priceless and full of inspiration!

{Images courtesy of Todd Selby}