Drunk on crab malice

Pandas may distract you

This is the last drawing of the Yay manual.

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I'd gladly dive into shark infested waters and hope to be eaten, anything to end this insufferable sadness.

Here is water and a shark
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Yay progress

Getting closer to finished, here is a finished prototype





Inquiring minds ask "Why does it say For Myleen?" This is why

For Chris

A Felicidade

Sadness has no end
Happiness does

Happiness is like a feather
That the wind carries through the air
It flies so lightly
But has a brief life
It needs to have a wind that never stops

The happiness of a poor man is like
The grand illusion of Carnaval
People work the whole year long
For one moment's dream
To play the part of
A king or a pirate or a gardener
And all of that is ended on [Ash] Wednesday

Happiness is like a drop
Of dew on a flower's petal
It shines peacefully then swings lightly
And falls like a tear of love

My happiness is dreaming
In the eyes of my love
It is like a night that passes by
In search of the dawn
Speak quietly please
So that she wakes as happy as the day
Offering kisses of love

Happiness is a crazy thing
And so delicate too
It has flowers and love of all colors
It has bird nests
It has everything that is good
Because she's like this -- so delicate
I always treat her very well

-jobim/moraes

Dear photoshop,

I need my alone time now. Thanks for all your help. See you in a bit.
love, nathalie

Bring back flower cleavage

Why did this trend have to end?

moments

Thursday 85 degrees!

Brown bag sunset happy hour in the park
Eliot's birthday party on the roof

Invisible cities (with Dan Lee on drums) & Hey Willpower at the Hemlock
Tomas and Toph at Madrone
Do it!

Tony rules

I feel very close to Tony these days, working on Crab Malice brings back a lot of reminds me of excited phone calls, emails and lunch dates discussing his plans and the submissions he had received. More thoughts here

Manual sez!

more cat pictures

Medicine for Melancholy

The viewing of and following Q&A for Medicine for Melancholy at the SF international film fest was quite encouraging. A very simple story interperted elegantly by the actors, director, music supervisor and superb cinematographer, the film features a scene about Prop 98. The two main characters happen upon a community meeting discussing the issue. It may seem very out of place to include this scene in the romantic storyline but I thought it really worked. When asked about it in the Q&A, director Barry Jenkins said he decided to ignore any ideas that he shouldn't or couldn't include this scene because, it was his movie and he was going to do whatever the heck he wanted with it. He also recalled sharing the script with his friend who read it and said "we can totally make this movie". Then they gathered more friends and made it happen and it's beautiful.

Make your own project, do whatever the heck you want with it and bring all your friends along.

Treehouse

Went to see my friend Mr. N, the reptile expert and visionary horticulturist, to talk about snakes and his treehouse. He revitalized the garbage filled backyard of his apartment, removing over 20 big trash bags of junk, installing ponds and new plants. He introduced tadpoles which are now on their 2nd generation of frogs. There is a sunbathing turtle and he says lots of birds and critters have begun to hang out in the yard since he began his work back there.

Vipers

Aside from many contracts, he has with various institutions, he also works on a project to help save the The San Francisco Garter snake.

One day when his fort building cousin was visiting, he asked Ned why he hadn't built a tree house in the giant poplar tree in the yard. Of course! 2 weeks later he had a platform and rope 'walls' in the highest part of the tree. Here is the ascent, through a tunnel of ivy, climbing a little bit more than three stories.


long way down

almost there.

Feel the sway of the wind, hear the creaking of the trunk and the flitter flutter of so many leaves around you.

Thank you!

more pictures

Goose!

Thanks Shanan

drumming knitter/knitting drummer

here Thanks Myleen

The Malice of Crabs

Postcard insert radness from Aya Nakamura. A dodos cover that Adam made extra nice here (along with a super Octopus Bros snapshot) Sharing is tough but F*ck it man, we are doing this Sh*t for LIFE!. Again, everything coming in Malice is ... F*Ckin A awesome. Oh and an Unpiano Scrabbel post Tigers trying to ruin my slacker rep. Don't believe the hype! Damon is cooking up a computer surprise but it's not ready

Love and gratitude

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more
-Brother David Steindl-Rast

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
-Albert Scweitzer

Welcome Parker!

Simone and Ryan had a beautiful baby girl this weekend. Congratulations! Thank you for the picture Jeff.

New Jim Jeffers site

Jim Jeffers, a fellow UCSC printmaker, put up a new website and blog. Approximately 12 years ago we ate Chinese food together at Pearl restaurant in Santa Cruz.

What is

Parkour?.. The chase

Crab malice thanks you

for so many moments of glee today. seeing pictures, reading stories and listening to wonderful songs. Thank you so much. Laggers, you got til May 10th.

Submissions coming in

I want to share each thing with you as they come in but it's best if we wait til it's finished. I feel like I am hoarding treasure.

information sharing

interesting
rotten

Pandas may distract you

Do you has the flavor?

Music notes / no more hypertext

I love you Saturday

Come warm it up tomorrow.

American Illustration Annual

Dear Nathalie Roland
We're pleased to inform you that work you submitted to American Illustration 27 has been CHOSEN with at least two votes to appear on disTRIBUTE the ai-ap.com web gallery.

While your image will not appear in the book, it was one of only 294 images from 7,500 submitted to receive at least 2 votes and is therefore eligible to appear permanently on our web site - where over time illustrators can build an online portfolio of their AI winning images and where creatives can make direct contact with them. disTRIBUTE is being redesigned with advanced image, artist and client search capabilities and will be launched in November.
...

Thanks for encouraging me to apply.

four twenty in five twelve

Attention ladies and germs.

Your resident goon*, Nathalie Roland, has gone and carved out a teeny tiny print shop over at Activspace on 18th and Treat in the mission. That's right, Friday Capone, the green line-o-scribe table top relief press, has a new home. She sits in the sun by the window awaiting ink, woodcuts, linocuts, copper engravings, paper and strong arms.

Come by Sunday April 20th between 3-6pm to warm this new spot. We can see how many people we can fit in there, like sardines in a small child's shoe... Let me know if you are coming so I don't wait there all by my lonesome drinking all the tap water. -oshare@gmail.com

Sunday April 20th
3150 18th Street suite 512 At Treat street.
Ring #512 at the intercom entrance on Treat.

If you can't make it Sunday please feel free to stop by anytime or arrange a meeting. Consider yourself welcome to bring your coffee, beers and/or arty projects over and breath ink with me any time. I'll be participating in SF open studios the following weekend as well.

Big ups to my extra muscle and back up dancers- Leslie, Dan, Chris, Aya, Damon.

Love and hugs and hearts all over your face,
nathalie

* A fool: someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.

La nina

The wind is so strong it sets off the car alarms.

Hello, hello, I know hello

Hello! Hello! I know Hello. Hello hello hello
My heavy rotation
Dodos- Visiter
Imaad Wasif- Strange hexes
Orchestre National De Barbès
Beach house - Devotion
Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
Nick Lowe - Jesus of cool
Kashmere Stage Band - Texas Thunder Soul (1968-1974)
and still....
Sharon Jones - 100 days 100 nights.
Tunng - Good Arrows
Caribou - Andorra
Donny Hathaway - Live!
Panda Bear - Person pitch
Irma Thomas - Time is on my side

Got a haircut. Rode my bike. Met some friends. Drank a ginger ale. I'm a party animal.

Many many projects.

Warm it up!

I'm the only person to turn in their info for the directory so far. If you are at Activspace send your stuff in.

5+1+2=8 Let's warm this place up on 4/20 from 3-6pm.

Crab Malice

This is my dream come true

Studio is readier than ever

A little sun halo around Tony's chair

You are welcome here

Drying racks - "chances are it's mutual" print drying with a part of "Asakusa defense study #2" in the back.

Aya drawing cats

Hellen drawing

plenty of ink.