Rad pank: colors for a dying summer star.

Every few months the heavens shift, the planets align and somewhere whales sing a special song of simultaneous joy and loneliness and I like pink for a brief period of our miserable time on earth.  

It's like Lacy in retrograde.

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Or maybe I'm just holding on to summer and refusing to let go.  This tapestry by Evelyn Ackerman titled Hot Summer Landscape is MY EVERYTHING right now.  

Every time I see a pumpkin sitting on a bale of hay I cringe.  I want to take a flamethrower to the infinite mum display at the front of every grocery store.

If we're keeping this cosmic metaphor, like a dying star I'm intensely fusioning (real scienze word) for bright, summery colors and will eventually burn myself out into an autumnal death.  But it's 85 degrees and I'm still groin-sweating through my pants when I'm mowing the grass so I've probably got a few more weeks left.

I'm burning hot for these Kate Spade earrings too which is sooo preppy of me.  I told you I was in retrograde.  Fortunately I'm not groin-sweating through anything when I'm online shopping so that's good to know.

OR AM I?!?!??!?!?

Jessica Helgerson

I think the key is that I gotta put some black with it.

Marja Inez

Or cats.  Cats are always good.

NG Collective print on Etsy

Or blobs.  Blobs are always good too.

Sorry, Marie...

Me.  Wearing makeup.

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I actually have been going against my usual preference of looking as bland as humanly possible and wearing super bright lips.  Don't worry, the rest of me is still the Gap version of goth bland so it's kinda like I'm a walking funeral for my butterfly mouth.   

For my fellow makeup enthusiasts, I'm ADDICTED addicted to NYX.  It's candy for your lips.  I love every color and they smell like what cartoons rainbows would probably smell like and you can put that on your face.  They don't get sticky or bleed and are super cheap at Ulta and I'm now your candy facerainbow pusher.

But if you like painted canvases instead of painted faces I've also been enjoying all of MFAMB's paintings lately...

Jenny Andrews Anderson of MFAMB

She always has squee-worthy pank down in the Hotlanta.

Skeleton Clock III

Also check out my Twitter friend, fellow Tilda Swinton enthusiast and pink pimp Matthew Best.

One day I'll get around to buying so good art but until then...

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PLANTS!   My track record with green things is... checkered... we'll say but I feel victim to the bromeliad's flashy center bits.  It was just sitting there whoring it up for me and I couldn't resist.  Also, it kinda matched my pink and orange shoes so I figure the Universe WANTED me to buy it.

If I kill it let's pretend this never happened.

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I was also momentarily seduced (remember, Lacy Sauce in retrograde) by these blossom thingies until a plant smart person (thanks @_emily_rose) told me even dummies can grow zinnias.  GUESS WHAT I'LL BE PLANTING NEXT SPRING, Y'ALL?!??!

That's right, lipstick plants.

Until then...

Chatelaine Magazine via Design Milk

...hot pink and orange pumpkins?!  I don't know how I feel about this but I'm putting this here for you.  Because I care about your front porches and seasonal tablescaping.

But I'm still thinking about bright furniture and summer plants so y'all just keep pinning those recipes for pumpkin spice sex lube and I'll be hanging out here...

Elle Interior Sweden

Carrying this.

Kinda Khalidy

And tablescaping like this:

Patrick Cline for Lonny

Just kidding I can't tablescape.  I just throw my mail in artful piles and call it a day.  Hhmm... maybe we need to talk about proper 'scaping soon because this dying star is clueless.

Prepare for pink dump...

via Little Green Notebook

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Thomas Jackson

James Welling

Yes all things gradient pink and orange please.

Erica Fae

ME. I wish.  But this IS my hot orange/red/pink lipstick life muse and I love everything about her and whatever brand of magic is going on this picture.  This shade of red/pink (heretofore known as rad pank) is where my heart is.  I think it might be the color of the year for 2015.  But maybe I'm talking crazy...

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Jay Stewart Photography

Or I'll take this and some freckles please and I think I'm having a girl crush moment...

Put some black on it.  And see the other amazing fashion illustrations by Daryl Feril here.

And if I'm not thinking about rad pank I've been completely consumed with this:

BigBadRobot Etsy print

I'm not ready for it to be over.  I'm still grieving and refuse to take off my Blue Sky-inspired nail polish.  I've been watching old episodes again - no shame.

Good thing that bromeliad was so cheap so I can spend some money on posters inspired by tv shows.  Am I really that person now?!

Who cares as long as my lipstick looks good.

America is so trending right now.

Maybe I've finally reached the climax of pastels from this summer because I need to look at some normal colors that come from a color wheel and not ones that are shat out of a Care Bear's candy ass.  Kinda like that million dollar coffee bean that is only made after an Indonesian monkey shits out the undigested beans.  

That's where we get neon peach from, y'all.  Color scienze.

And as much as I hate to admit it I'm kinda drawn to the darling of remedial color theory: blue and red.  

via The Glamourai I think...

I know, I know.  

It probably has something to do with the pride I feel for America winning the Olympics and the fact that I shoot guns now so I'm super into dry-humping bald eagles and shotgunning Mountain Dew and other American shit.  

This video for Of Monsters and Men's Little Talks is trying to hypnotize me:

I also like red and blue with gold because AMERICA WINS ALL THE GOLD!  Maybe I'm a poor loser but if the US of A doesn't lead the medal count in the Olympics I get so fucking pissed off.  This is why the rest of the world hates us/me.  

I forgot where I got these gifs.  Pretty sure it was the internet, though.

Maybe y'all are tired of this video but I see one video a year so SHUT UP!  Also, fireworks!  Because they make me cry.  For America.  And for sparkly things.

Michelle Dockery from Love magazine via Bohemea

Ladies, let's have a makeup party at the MS Ranch and all do this.  I've got some old kabuki makeup (well, it's just baby powder) and the red eyeshadow (who doesn't?!) so you bring the blue hair dids and we'll Instagram the shit out of our drunken makeovers.

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Not sure what this is but it looks like donuts and I'm cool with that.

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Um, best bellydance belt ever.  I guess we can just start piling our laundry on our heads now...?  I'm down with that.

Joana Salta

Rainbow mini blinds?  I... I... I kinda like it.  *hangs head in shame*

Toast via Solid Frog

Laundry that you could pile on your head if you wanted to.  Just sayin...

Paolo Reversi via Just To Refresh the Mind

Pinterest ate the source. : (

Just a quick shot I took of myself.  I love red and blue so much it makes me toss my hair a lot and pretend to suck my thumb. (?)

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Meow.

Adam Juresko

You know what America also won this past week?  MOTHERFUCKING SPACE, Y'ALL.  If Mars is red and earth is kinda blueish does that still work with my color theme?  Gawddamn I'm really good at this.

Krzysztof Wladyka via MPD

Mogollon via Yatzer

Pegasus by Loredana Gasparotto on Saatchi

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 This is starting to get a little orange.  Let's bring it back home...

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Because America.

In unrelated news and in honor of the flaming homo above, I've temporarily renamed my vagina after another homo: Justin Beaver.  I'll probably dye my pubic hair to match the American flag.  It's the most patriotic thing I can think of right now.  

I really commit to a theme.

Now where's my bald eagle??!!

Circles. It does a neuron good.

My brain, full of billions of neurons firing important sciencey shit at each other, is really just a sump pump.  I didn't know what that was (the sump pump, I obviously have the brain chemistry part down)  until I moved into the Ranch and had to have one installed in the crawl space.  It does get rather saucy around here...


When it gets too saucy the magic lever sends a message to the bucket to empty its contents saving me from a flooded mess.  And somewhere in my head there is a magic lever that tells my brain when it's time to purge its contents as well.  Often to disastrous results but you can't contain (or judge!) the overflow sometimes.


Fortunately this time it's rather tame and just a roundup of big black circles.  Which I already blogged about last year but the reservoir is full again and I have to free up some space to write some really important things about tv and Instagram so let the purging commence!

You'd think I did indeed discover the circle with how much I blog about it. More Bruno here.

Now that this ball is rolling (get it?! ZING!), we can get down to business and talk about important shit like tv.  Since I've watched all the episodes of Sherlock Holmes and have to wait until May for Season 2, I had to get my British fix somewhere so I started watching Dr. Who this weekend.  And by started, I mean I watched the entire 1st season like a fucking rabid dog because it's not like we have beautiful Spring weather right now, amiright?!

No source. Again. People that like black circles apparently hate sourcing.

Maybe time travel has me thinking about wormholes/black holes but I really hope my brain isn't as basic and literal as that. 


Well, it is a sump pump...

Idris Khan

However I will say that it gets pretty basic *eyebrow wiggle* while I'm watching my new imaginary boyfriend Christopher Eccleston make his Dr. Who sexy time mad face.  

via A Minute of Perfection

I know, but no spoilers.  This would just be easier if all y'all would just go ahead and watch it.  I hate being forced to keep my mouth shut about things.  (Big black hole subliminal message to myself to shut the fuck up once in awhile...????)

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Feel free to comment about your personal Dr. Who obsession (I KNOW YOU HAVE ONE) at the bottom to make me feel better.

No source. Thanks for shit, tumblr people.

Look! All black and white and sciencey and vintage...  I love it.  

But not more than Dr. Who.

via Input but original source?

Egg-zactly.  And that's the closest thing to an Easter reference you're going to get around here.

Sarah Berdhard

Unless zombie jeezus likes to disco and watch sci fi...?  I fucking hope so!

Ova Slika via Metaconscious

spiraling electrons via Input

Eunice Kim via Planetary Folklore

Oh sorry - I zoned out and watched another episode of Dr. Who between those pictures.  I don't know who says blogging is quick but each of my posts is at least 4 episodes long.  This is my craft and all. 

So are you done with circles?

via Coffee and Air

Well since you asked...

via Young Folk Society

Motherfucking DUH!  

Bernard Aubertin

Seriously, I don't know why I collect this shit.  I need an immortal alien genius to decipher my sump pump brain.  


Perhaps alone... 


Surely the TARDIS has a good corner that would be perfect for dry humping...

Martha Richter

In a completely unrelated topic, you can download for free an entire series of these wood grain prints.  You'll probably see them on my wall next week.  If I actually have any time when I'm not busy finishing the entire Dr. Who series and most definitely getting to that Torchwood marathon that's been a year in the making.

astronomy wall hanging circa 1850 via Planetary Folklore

Hey, these circles don't collect themselves!  It takes hours for hipsters on tumblr to find this shit for me.  We should all get a TARDIS just to make our Pinterest and Netflix obsessions a little easier to manage.  

Jacob van Loon

We'll probably all have one by 2015.  You can trust me on this.  I'm really good with sciencey shit.

And keeping crawl spaces dry.