pieces of ria

Growing up, I spent a scary amount of time underwater. I was born with a very vivid imagination, and even up to my 12th year, I loved imagining I'm a mermaid and that I could talk to dolphins and other sea creatures (even in a swimming pool!). As result I developed a terrible ear ache quite a few times, and more than once had to spend time on the side of the pool rather than in it, during a summer holiday. I have a fascination with the underwater world, and I love art, especially sculptures. Anything 'larger than life', like land art always catches my attention. I've come accross this ghostlike underwater wonderland this morning ( Underwater Sculpture ) - the artist is Jason de Caires Taylor. His "underwater sculptures create a unique, absorbing and expansive visual seascape. Highlighting natural ecological processes Taylor’s interventions explore the intricate relationships that exist between art and environment. His works become artificial reefs, attracting...

Take a deep breath.. and open this site: Engrish Warning: You might be killing yourself laughing, & injure yourself laughing, or embaress yourself by having a histeric laughing fit soon... :) Enjoy it, this site always manages to make me wipe tears from my eyes (literally)!! SO FUNNY!!

Lovely print by an artist called Kelly Vivanco. This one is called White Ribbon. Love the innocent eyes.

When I moved house earlier this year, I've managed to 'misplace' the face of my cd player / radio of my car. I've been driving in silence (except for the moments I couldn't stand it and started singing like I'm on MTV!) for a few months now, and lost touch with what's happening in the music world. I have however stumbled accross last.fm - a fantastic site where you can listen to samples of any song you can probably think about... they also offer full length tracks, and 'radio stations' of spesific genres of music is freely available for your listening pleasure. A great site, very informative, very entertaining. (I hope they never decide to block this site!) *

I came accross this site containing amazing illustrations (Central Illustration Agency) - the work of Louise Brierley really caught my eye, and made me remember times when I was a little girl with an already over-active imagination. Creatures and beings like waterbabies and mermaids kept me curious for hours. Enjoy the site, herewith a few of her works:

Stamps are the reason letters get to their designated owners, and I love letters! Found this really cool site with new designer UK stamps (leave it to the Poms to make sure their envelopes look gorgeous.. it goes with their fantastic postal service! love it.) Stamps by Sir Alec Issigonis I think it's really cute - I'm going to try & convince a friend in London to post me something!