When can I move in to my technicolor dream house?

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One of my oldest and dearest friends (and long time pen pal from LA) Damion Romero makes beautiful minimal noise music. He used one of my watercolor paintings for the entire gatefold image in his new double LP “Twins.” The original record looks amazing and it is my eleventh record cover collaboration with a musician and my first gatefold image ever.

Damion Romero – Twins
Inside watercolor painting by Seze Devres
PTapes/Tone Filth Records & Tapes, 2007
LP, edition of 500
Here is another release we have collaborated on:
Romero, Damion – Medium
(CD, edition of 500, each with a unique cover photogram)
P Tapes, 1996.

and other CD & Record covers I have worked on.

I am not quite sure why The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) directed by Cecil B. DeMille with Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston won the Oscar that year.  The film is way too long, over 3 hours, the plot gets a bit tiresome and the actors are better off doing acrobatic skits rather than trying to act.  However, this movie is filled with tons of gorgeous circus eye candy, amazing costumes, well trained animals, and an overall incredible use of over-saturated color.  It is even fun to watch even with the sound off. The Greatest Show on Earth reminded me of the days when my mom would take me to Madison Square Garden to see the circus when I was a kid.  We would have so much fun watching the circus together, and it filled my six year old mind with endless inspirations.

I absolutely love these digital paintings.

See also: www.lumicon.de
holgerlippmann.blogspot.com

Mousey_Spiral

www.spacecollective.org/gallery

The crab spider Thomisus onustus. Some individuals are a most unspiderly color: they are hot pink. This allows them to hide in hot pink flowers — and ambush unwary bees. Other individuals are yellow, and hide in yellow flowers. Even more surprising, their colors are not fixed: move a pink spider to a yellow flower, and she can change her color to match.

– Olivia Judson
March 25, 2008
Evolving the Wow! Factor
NY TIMES
This article and her blog are really interesting and well worth reading.

My mom and I painted some eggs today and Pixie was curious about the results.

Photo by Seze Devres

I finally finished watching My Fair Lady. So after 3 full hours of endless songs and long conversations that spanned the full spectrum of high and low socio-economic British accents, I am still happy to have finally seen it. Audrey Hepburn is lovely but I found out afterwards that the role was meant for Julie Andrews, who at the time was lesser known. I wish that they had given the role to Julie Andrews.  However, the same year Julie Andrews won the Oscar for Mary Poppins, which in my opinion is one of the best movies ever made. The real treat of My Fair Lady was the ascot scene where everyone was wearing the most incredible black and white outfits. Lovely.

Everyone wore black & white at the races, but
Audrey Hepburn’s dress was the show stopper.

Seems like Ralph Lauren was also inspired by Sir Cecil Beaton’s
famous black-and-white Ascot scene from “My Fair Lady” too.

Ralph Lauren’s Spring 2008 Collection

Ralph Lauren’s Spring 2008 Collection

I was flipping through the channels and I found out there is actually a new TV show about the Mr. Men and Little Miss characters by Roger Hargreaves on the Cartoon Network. It is actually kind of funny and oh so very colorful and that makes me very happy!