you hooked me in with your sweet robot moves and cat shirt. none of that grinding stuff, just natural robotic talent. you said ‘‘hey, you’re cute.’’ and i said, ‘‘you, too’’ and then i elbowed you in the ribs because i’m not very smooth when it comes to romance. i thought this exchange meant we agreed on a sloppy bar makeout? whenever i busted out the robot arms, your robotic arms chopped mine in half. kept looking at your cat shirt thinking, ‘‘yesssss, i can see us marrying and having lots of cats.’’ went to dance on stage with friends and then lost you?!?myfriend said you got shy, which makes you and your cat shirt even more cute!!! spent a ridiculous amount of time searching for your pussy shirt, but alas, i lost both you and my heart on the dance floor. find me cat shirt guy, find me. p.s. i also put up ‘‘LOST: cat shirt guy’’ signs for you.
ana s., brookline
from Missed Connections by Sophie Blackall
finally, mine
The Native Americans had incredible stories, this embroidery is part of the illustrated story about how whales used to be wolves. So you can see a wolf-head inside the whale itself.
A Haida Legend
Once a man found two wolf pups on the beach, he took them to his home and raised them.
When the pups had grown, they would swim out in to the ocean, kill a whale, and bring it to shore for the man to eat.
Each day they did this, soon there was too much meat to eat and it began to spoil.
When the Great Above Person saw this waste he made a fog and the wolves could not find whales to kill nor find they way back to shore.
They had to remain at sea, those wolves became sea wolves (Orca).
my friend Daniela weaves beautiful folktales into wearable art with maaad skillz, oh my great above person
come to meeee
‘Cheyenne’
pen on paper
done by: Heider Ismail.
for friends bound by wanderlust and sloppy self-portraits
Hassan Massoudy, “La femme est un rayon de la lumière divine”, 2007.
Nick Sheeney, “The Crowd”, pencil and acrylic on paper, 2011.
