El Gorrión

El Gorrión, originally uploaded by tagois.

The wrong side of birds

I’ve been unable to blog in recent months due to a lack of internet access at home, but it’s all ok now, so I should be blogging a bit more. Sadly I’ve missed a lot of things that I would have liked to blog about - I’ll mention a couple here now, but everything else I’m just going to forget about.

• Via It’s Nice That - Hannah Waldron’s whimsical screenprints are enchanting - I think I know where some of next month’s pay is going.
• I saw the image that accompanies this post on Conscientious - it’s by a photographer called Audrey Corregan - she has more similary captivating photos of the wrong side of birds on her website, along with many other interesting photos.
• Tipped off by the 20X200 blog - there is an exhibition of photos of birds entered into a bird competition on in the Hackney area until August 17th (that link explains it better than I have!).
• Also via the 20×200 blog - the Jen Bekman Gallery also has been having a bit of a bird extravaganza with its Ornithology exhibition which is in the wrong country for me (but perhaps not for you..). Sod’s law dictated that I should be in Paris, and away from the web when the print of the exhibition flyer was up for sale on the 20×200 site - this was a Carrie Marill piece - I was very gutted not to be able to get a Carrie Marill print previously (blogged here) as at that point 20X200 didn’t ship to the UK, and now I have missed a second chance y being on holiday. Stupid Paris. Ah well - third time lucky perhaps. The exhibition itself looks awesome - I really wish I could visit. I’m certainly going to be investigating the artists featured, and probably blogging them at a later date.
• I made myself feel better about missing out on the Carrie Marill print by buying this print from 20×200 by Lamar Peterson.

Wol

IMG_7462, originally uploaded by stevem78.

Here’s an owl.

bird house

bird house, originally uploaded by albumleaf.

Saw these on Drawn! - Korean illustrator Chun Eun Sil.

Howling Bells

Part 3 in ‘Music & Birds’ - another owl! This time it’s the Howling Bells 2006 debut album. This owl is possibly about to be captured by some jaunty dudes from the past, who are climbing a tree. I’m not sure though, I reckon they’ll be too slow. However they do have a magic ladder which isn’t actually resting on the tree yet is still upright, so who knows.

Frank Chimero illustrations

Via Grain Edit - US illustrator/ designer type Frank Chimero has some nice mid century inspired yet modern pieces. Nice colours - what is the correct term for dark pastel shades? Is it ‘dark pastel shades’?! They’re what I like! This one below is called Owlnois, and is in the shape of Illinois. Do you see? It’s available to buy here.

God Save The Clientele

Part 2 in ‘Music & Birds’. I’ve had a look through my record collection and I’m not sure how long I can sustain this series. This one’s easy though, it’s from the marvellous Clientele’s album of last year ‘God Save The Clientele, the cover is one of Alasdair’s drawing type things. Hoot hoot.

Anyone know Turkish?

I certainly don’t, apart from how to say ‘piss off’, and I wouldn’t know how to write that anyway. Anyway, I have zero idea what this site says, but I like this owl:

UPDATE: I ran the text through a Turkish-English translator and got this:

Product : Owl Product Kodu : c011 Design : Katharina Leuzinger Turkey the first time tasarımları living Swiss ilüstratörün wonder desenleri measure İstenilen wall ölçülerine practicable. Every paper sherry cm. substance Silinebilir , import fleece vinyl price EUR KDV Product order alındıktan afterwards 1 moon in delivery passive.

In delivery passive indeed.

In My Mind I’m Clapping

Via It’s Nice That - Chrissie Abbott’s pictures are colourful and good humoured. They vaguely remind me of Remy Charlip’s Arm in Arm book from 1969, a long time favourite of mine (the resemblance may be entirely in my head, but there you go). Given my penchant for magpies the illustration shown is right up my alley. Abbott is exhibiting at the Old Shoreditch Station at the moment - the show is called In My Mind I’m Clapping.

Sleeve art birds

This is a new category for Birdy Blog, and promises to be a series which will start strong and dwindle fairly rapidly. Woohoo! It’s basically instances of birds on sleeve art. First up is this crow from 2001’s The Best of Roxy Music, it appears to have been decorated with some pearls, and is gawking at a paperweight and has possibly just pecked a lady from the eighties to death. Nice.

Randell Morgan print

I bought this Randell Morgan print recently from Little Paper Planes. I am looking forward to its arrival. I find the rest of his pictures slightly too odd to enjoy though.

Amy Ross

Via 20×200 - Amy Ross has some really nice surreal paintings. I want! (she gots a blog too).

Letterpress Coasters

Via Drawn! - coasters from Sesame Letterpress. Their website is rather irritating, visit their Flickr page for better views of the coasters…

Nicholas diGenova image

Via Wooster Collective - image from Nicholas diGenova’s latest monograph. There’s loads more amazing pictures on his website.

BirdNerd on Etsy

Some smashing prints at the Etsy store of BirdNerd.

Czechoslovakian matchbox label from Flickr

czechoslovakian matchbox label, originally uploaded by maraid.

Somewhat more stylised than the usual fare that graces this blog, this is, as noted in the accompanying comments a ‘camera cock’.

Birdy Sign

Birdy Sign, originally uploaded by Rob Brennan.

 

Jason Miller Crockery

Via Design*Sponge - nice crockery by Jason Miller, for sale at Areaware, great teapot and plates here!

Tunnock’s Owls

Via I like - Tunnock’s fill me with joy in pretty much every way, and their window display at their Tea Rooms in Uddingston appear to not disappoint…look, a tea cake OWL:

Ffffound! now lost

I had to unsubscribe from Ffffound! because of the  sheer amount of stuff coming into my feed reader, here’s an image from before the unsubscribe: