The music list 2008

pen, paper and watercolor - 8.5" x 11" - 2008 - AFR

Hello-stranger list:
Santogold - Santogold
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
The Kills - Midnight Boom
Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
Health - Health//Disco
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Glistening Pleasure
Little Joy - Little Joy

Growing-A-Beard List:
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Shearwater- Rook
The Dodos - Visiter
Dr. Dog - Fate
Department of Eagles - In ear park
She and Him - Volume One (or not-shampooing-my-hair list)
Marcelo Camelo - SOU
Noah And The Whale - Noah And The Whale

Nice and Mellow list:
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
Pacific - Reveries
Air France - No Way Down

Nice-to-hear-from-you list:
Beck - Modern Guilt
Tv On The Radio - Dear Science,
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Portishead - Third
REM - Accelerate
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Ratatat - LP3
Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane

Lukewarm List:
Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark

Guilty Pleasure list
Duffy - Mercy (gosh)
Selton Mello - Outra Vez (included on the OST of "Meu Nome Não É Johnny")

WTF List:
CSS - Donkey
Kanye West - Love Lockdown
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Jack White & Alicia Keys - Another Way to Die (007 OST)

Beautiful Sunny day in Houston

Photography by AFR

The Great Indoors

Aurora Robson - The Great Indoors
@ Rice University Art Gallery
18 September - 26 October 2008

Photos by Rogelio Rendón

Muertas de Riza

Retablo for Dia de los Muertos at Lawndale Art Center
Metal with mixed media - 8" x 10" - 2008 - AFR

N.S.A. (No Seas Antipatica)

pen, paper and watercolor - 8.5" x 11" - 2008 - AFR

on the other line

Watercolor paper, mixed media - 5.5" x 8.5" - 2008 - AFR

Uncommon Objects

During a recent trip to Austin I ran into the coolest antique store ever. ok, there, I said it. I've been to many antique stores in my life already, mostly against my free will, bragged along by some older relative or curious friend and I can say for sure Im not easily impressed by old stuff. I gave up on antique stores a long time ago. Uncommon Objects is different experience, items are laid out with care for composition, color coordination, impeccable harmony and even humor. Every corner, shelf and wall is art directed with the same attention a curator would put together an exhibition in a museum. One cant help but to think that these things were just coincidentally put together, it's got be a work of superior being behind all this, someone gave these inanimate objects purpose, a fate. The porcelain doll, the hat holder, the jesus painting on black silk, the antler, rusted bullets...they all have gone a long way to be there together. Its almost sad to think that someone can just buy them and take them away from each other. Unfortunately I didnt have my digital camera to snap some shots of the store. However that gives me an reason to come back to revisit this amazing sanctuary.

1512 S, Congress Ave.
Austin, Texas 78704