I peeped in on the Fabulist the other day, eyes shining with nostalgia, wiping the windows and blowing the dust off the furniture. And look! You guys are lovely! People are still leaving comments, and saying nice things. We have the nicest readers *ever* :D
Our hiatus is nearing an end, and soon we shall break free with song! and art! and as much brightness and light as we can grab by the armful. We'll gather back at this point, and tumble forth for a Brand New Adventure, and we can't wait for you guys to come with us. New site ahoy!
In the meantime, though, things are awfully quiet around here. It seems that the mailing list got broken (sorry Roger!), and it seems sensible that we should wave, and let you know where to find us (and where we'll post updates along the way).
We eachhaveTwitter accounts, which is where we hang out during the day and shoot the breeze. Do come and say hello! There's also a direct Fabulist Twitter all of its own, which we'll use as a de facto mailing list (mailing lists are so Web 1.0, dahlink). We love hearing from you, and if you've ideas or suggestions for the new site, do send them in. We're friendly folk, and we like to natter. Olga can also be found at her music website here.
Thanks for being awesome, and patient, and understanding that we needed to reshape things. We'd much rather take six months off, and reimagine what we're doing (and why we're doing it), then let things fizzle out ignominiously. Things that should fizzle include: rock shandy floats (when the ice cream hisses against glass), sparklers and the tail end of a rockets, pushing against the sky. Websites, we felt, most definitely should not.
So we got out our clay (and our mála) and we're building a better home for our art. It feels very, very good :)
This is to say: thank you. Thank you for being awesome, and for sending us emails and comments. Thank you for understanding. Thank you for sending us beautiful things. We'll be back soon :)
So we haven't posted for a while now. And I swear there's a reason for that. I'll get to that in a minute.
Walking around my neighborhood a couple of months ago, I saw the tree pictured here, with a little smiling paper face on it. It had nothing to do with its surroundings, which were decidedly not whimsical, but it seemed to look at me with such friendliness and reassurance. Just the fact of its being there, of knowing that someone went out of their way to design a face, pick the right tree on the right street, and climb up there and add a touch of joy to the world, filled me with a sense of wonder.
And I thought to myself, I'd love to share this on the Fabulist. I'd love to talk about how this made me feel, and ask everyone what everyday surprises fill them with wonder. I'd love to have an ongoing dialogue about wonder and everyday magic and creativity and surprises and little things that bring us joy.
But I felt restricted by the current mission of the site. And I talked to the other contributors, and realized they've been feeling similarly. We've all had a nagging, subconscious feeling that this site, in its current incarnation, isn't an accurate picture of what we're truly passionate about.
So we're going to design a site that is. And it might take a little bit, and we hope you'll be patient, because we think you'll like it. And we hope you'll have a part in it, too. And when it's ready, you'll be the first to know. Just sign up for the mailing list. And keep an eye out for friendly trees.
It's true. I haven't posted in a while. I was just lounging around in my backyard on my giant bed of pink fluffy cotton candy, when...well, you'll have to watch the video to understand the rest.
NSFW due to masked gimp Hello Kitties and mild BDSM-themed kitty business.
Valentine's Day is in the past, but because I'm a hopeless romantic, I have a few little odds and ends from Valentine's Day I wanted to put up. So here's the love story of Tim and his wife Claire, in pictures, as he's made a beautiful photo card for her each Valentine's Day for the past ten years. And they're each uniquely lovely.
Tiny Run is treating us to another helping of glow-in-the-dark bacon shirts to remind us what makes it worth getting up in the morning. So if you are the kind of person who wants a slice of bacon glowing on your chest in tribute to the wonder that is bacon (AND YOU SHOULD BE!), you're in luck!
But they're only available for a couple more days, so hurry on over there, you!
Go here and watch this video for Shenandoah Davis's "We; Camera" in high quality. Listen to it on headphones. Listen to it again.
Here's the bio behind all this wonderfulness:
"After a childhood spent being homeschooled by her mother at the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, Shenandoah Davis began teaching herself piano at the age of three and continued her classical studies up until college, where she decided to audition as a classical voice major despite having no prior vocal training because she worried that her self-taught technique would not be enough to gain her admittance. Studying classical voice, piano, jazz guitar and harp during college, she became frustrated with the 'tunnel vision' and politics of academia and, swearing off classical music after completing her degree, she began composing on her own. In the winter of 2006, a series of travels and tribulations led her to Seattle, where she currently resides.
In Shenandoah's American-gothic inspired songs, she weaves together strains of classical, ragtime and klezmer piano. 'We; Camera' was recorded in June of 2008 and has received rave reviews from Seattle's The Stranger, Seattle Weekly, Sound Magazine, as well as radio airplay up and down the West Coast and in her hometown of Boulder, Colorado. She is attending the Art Monastery this July in Umbria, Italy."
I get so excited hearing music by people with so much classical training, seeing how they employ their background in their own music. And it shows through here in all the best ways, while retaining this remarkable originality. I am amazed at how something can sound at once so familiar and so marvelously unique.
I am helplessly smitten with Johnny Flynn, and you all already know how I feel about Laura Marling, so here's a video of them together, doing "Travel Light" by Jeffrey Lewis and Diane Cluck. Plus, there's whistling.
So the Great Valentine's Day Giveaway of 2009 is finished, and the prizes are snug in the post. A big congratulations to winners Sarianna, Karrisa, and Andrea, and a big thank you to all you wonderful poets who entered. Hopefully we can do more things like this in the future!
A very heartfelt thank you also goes out to sponsors My Favorite Mirror, Hoopla, and Untamed Menagerie. Along with making beautiful things, they are also extremely generous. My most happy of happy Valentine's wishes to all!
The Museum of Broken Relationships, a museum in Croatia dedicated to -- you guessed it -- broken relationships, is touring the world and will be in San Francisco just in time for Valentine's Day this weekend. But you can see some of the exhibits online right here, and even submit your own.
And the story that goes with this sweet teddy bear?
"„I love you“ – WHAT A LIE! LIES, DAMN LIES! Yes, it's like that when you are young, naïve and in love. And you don't realize your boyfriend started dating you just because he wanted to take you to bed! I got this teddy bear for Valentine's. He survived on top of my closet in a plastic bag, because it wasn’t him who hurt me, but the idiot who left him behind."
Don't come at me with your geographical proofs and whatnot -- as long as I can believe it's Tuesday somewhere, I won't feel so bad about being late on this, as usual.
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