Christine Lukasik

Fred Holcomb

Also stumbled upon the fab Fred Holcomb - LOVE the stuff he had hanging in his workspace at Lemon Lime gallery, and covet "Hoh" on his site (Landscape paintings, second row middle. wide format. drool). He's also got a super cool looking side "stick project" - charcoal on canvas.  

who made me wear a tie to an *art auction*?

adorable boy at Ken Kelly art auction in Seattle last night. Those cheeks! So cute.

Springy

Don't know what the weather is doing where you live, but sunny Seattle weather has me feeling downright springy. Bit of extra pep now that it’s not dark when I leave the house in the morning :-) 

Stuff I’ve been enjoying recently:

Super fun girls day out with Carrie - here testing a vintage typewriter at Area 51 in Capitol Hill. 

We walked around, shopped, and talked all Valentine’s day continuing late into the night joined by other friends. 

Aimless, relaxing, laughter-filled & lovely.

 

 

“The Big Day”

which I picked up

this weekend at Blue Bottle in Seattle.

See more of 

Pittsburgh-based artist Strawberry Luna's

prints here.  

Shopping at Monster in Ballard a couple of times in the last few week -  not one but two amazing hoodies – ‘cause you KNOW if there’s one thing I need it’s more hoodies. Sshhhhyea! Oddly both from Portland designers. One, from The Darras, nearly identical to this one with the excellent skull sunflowers. The other by the amazing Isaac Bauman of Portland-based Antic. Mmm.

Jared Rue’s peaceful and cool feeling “Distant Mist”. I nearly passed out from the beauty of seeing this hanging a while back at Vivace in Seattle.

Peter de Lory’s lovely photography – particularly “Lone Cottonwood”, “Rocky Mountains, Falling Star”, “Fog Trees”.

Whatchoo been doin'?

The Heart is What Remains

Stunning Alexandra Roxo piece "The heart is what remains" - front window of Free Sheep Foundation space 3rdAve/Seattle.

MMmm, Art.

Got a chance to see Ashes + Snow while in LA on business a couple weeks ago. Completely stunnng.

The artist at work

The artist at work

The supremely talented Jason Robards of XPlane and his own comics creating the below comic!

Posted By: Chris Lukasik

Blog Wars!

Blog Wars!

XPlane and comic super star Jason Robards illustrates a hilarious moment between me and colleague Mike Hall in a Microsoft Windows Embedded Marketing meeting last week.

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Wowser furniture

Whoa. I'm pretty sure I first saw this on BoingBoing - but go check out this amazing furniture from Straighline designs. I'm partial to the "Cracked" and "tree" cabinets and the lamp in the furniture section.

Art respite

I'm totally taking like a 10minute break from my daylight 12hour shift at work to gaze at inspiring & relaxing art. Hey it's a great time to relax as I've got a project review with my boss's (Jane mentioned here) boss in less than an hour! I've been looking at these lovely black & white photos by Christopher Honeysett. The trees & nature works make me feel cool, realaxed, and tranquil. Perfect!

Delightful interlude...

Goodness...I bought the new Watershed album The Fifth of July from iTunes almost a week ago and have only just now had a chance to play it while cranking on some work. I'm SO biased 'cause I would listen to these guys perform a church ceremony but this collection of tunes is just excellent. Clever hook-heavy power pop awesomeness!!!