i heart seattle Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down. ~ Julia Cameron |
Back home in a neighborhood called Oakley in Cincinnati, I visited, Nest, a lovely gift boutique shop on 3184 Madison Road. The place was beautifully decorated, with old nostalgic cabinets full of jewelry, fancy soaps, and caged sunflowers. I got a pretty feather hair pin and some birthday cards.
Leetspeak, an awesome indie/electro/pop band based out of Seattle, WA & I are working together on fusing art + music! They have have released their debut EP “Alpha” where my art work is their featured cover art. And we hope to work together much more in the future!
The symmetry between their sound and my art was crazy smooth, I was approached by bass player, Bryce Gifford, to maybe do a collabo for their first album cover and the band looked thru my art work to find the piece that resonated most with this album and we could go from there. They really loved the piece unnecessary 3, as is… so I altered it a bit and it worked out perfectly for the cover! Listening to their music has even inspired more developments on the Unnecessary series… their tunes and topics match so much with what I’ve been feeling lately and what that piece represented.
Alpha is a pretty awesome CD and is now available now for free… from their site, http://leetspeakmusic.com/. Just provide your email, give the link to the music, and get added to the Leetspeak mailing list. Physical compact discs and live shows in the Seattle/Tacoma area coming soon…
Tracks 01 You’ll Have My Heart, 04 Wave of The Future, 05 Nothing Left to Say, & 06 Alpha.rmx are my absolute faves!! The whole album is on repeat for me. Enjoy!!
My orange action book from Behance just came in the mail. I’m soo excited. I’ll be creatively organized in no time. I’ve already plotted down some goals for my “32 before I’m 33 list” and jogged down notes and sketches for Nimmy Saustra & Tallie designs logo. It’s been my best bud these first few days 
Check out the spread:
Also got some cute action stickers for my planner:
What makes Seattle artist, Nicholas F. Kamuda, oh-so awesome? Well, not only is he quite skillful with ink on vellum and well-verse with felt tip marker on anything from Esquire to Entertainment Weekly’s, but he is just as clever when it comes to just about anything else, like say… business cards!
Nicholas will be a featured artist in Seattle’s Best section coming soon to the site, so stop back to check out Nick’s interview this Fall.
Our first Seattle mural hostel, the City Hostel is alive and well! They had an awesome opening, that I sadly could not attend, on August 14th @ the Belltown Art Walk. I hear it was madness! Luckily the wonderful Bedlam Coffee took some yummy photos of the rooms for us to enjoy!
So you want more?!? You can find videos of the rooms being creatively mastered by the 47 AMAZING Seattle Artists and more juicy goodness on the Hostel Art Collective blog site. Find out more about the City Hostel like rates, reservations, and how to get your hands on some of this amazing original art too! I can’t wait to go pick out my room for my next in-city vacation!
City Hostel Opening (photos via BedlamCoffee's Flickr)
i heart seattle Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down. ~ Julia Cameron |
