alien friends hanging out on lazy days

A little doodle from my sketchbook. I added colours in Photoshop.

I've seen a film: Avatar

I woke up this morning with a feeling that I *had* to write a film review of Avatar, and so I did, even though I find it kind of strange that I had a feeling it was necessary.

When I first saw this picture of some blue elfin alien tribal girl in the newspaper I thought it was the most beautiful picture ever, and I was so excited that there would be an entire film just like that picture. As soon as I realized that Avatar was a Big Thing, I pretty soon grew tired of hearing about it. What? More than three people have heard about it? Fuck it, it's not underground enough for pretentious little me.. I don't want to be pretentious though, so I gave it a chance. Kind of.

When I went to see Avatar, I knew I'd love the visuals but suspected that the story would be full of things I'd complain about. And I was right.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVED the film and I even liked parts of the storyline, but I always have stuff to complain about, so here we go:

photographic silkscreen/vinyl by Barbara Kruger

Avatar is full of bad clichés.
Of course it takes an American white male to save the day, and of course he gets to sleep with the prettiest N'avi. And she's really pretty. I mean, it wouldn't have been the same if she looked like Walt Disney's Goofy or something. She's also tribal, kind of like a native, and in addition, animal-like. A blue version of The Other.

What seemed to me like the second half of the film was a really boring war sequence, with people running and chasing and doing battle stuff. My younger brother says this is the best part of the film. I think the best part of the film is where they just walk about and look at the pretty scenery, and explore the amazing ways the planet works.


In fact, I think Avatar would have been so much better if they skipped the storyline altogether and had more of the "ooh, look at that beautiful tree, it has glowing lights on it, and it's like a collective consciousness central thingy", "woha we can connect our neurons with animals!", "ooh and look at that pretty flower and that floating bit of land in the air, how weird and amazing, the world is a great place, and it's all connected, so lets take better care of it!".


It's a shame that I feel that the storyline doesn't live up to the visuals, as it's sort of annoying with something that is so close to being perfect, yet is not entirely perfect. It feels wrong to complain though, as Avatar is such a fantastic experience of lush beautiful imagery, and I'm glad I've filled my brain up with pretty pictures of imaginary alien botany from Pandora.

vector alien

I've been checking out the pen tool in Photoshop, and have made my first vector drawing based on one of my sketches. I always make such a mess when I do anything creative, so it's very satisfying to be able to make something so neat and clean and perfect. I'm sure the novelty will wear off soon.

The eyes are sampled from a picture of some eye disease I found, it sounds nasty but I think it looks pretty.

real alien pictures

Yes they are real pictures. The aliens are probably fake though. That's ok, I have a fluid enough perception of reality to be satisfied by imagining and pretending.




Still.. it would be more awesome if they where for real. If any aliens reads this, please get in touch for conversation and a photo session for proof, and make sure you turn up to my house looking more believable than in these photos.
Ps. I come in peace.

A Visual Guide to Alien Beings

I know I'm not supposed to judge a book by it's cover, but if this particular book is anything near as good as it's cover then it must be really, really good. I want it.
The book is based on interviews of abductees who has explained what the aliens where like and looked like and such. It's fun to see that lizard people/reptilians has been included as my boyfriend has been telling me about this particular alien specie for a while. Also, mr. Chace claims he has been lucky enough to meet a reptilian alien lady, so he must know what he's talking about ;)


The cover reminds me a little of Päivi Laakso's elf paintings (blogged here).

I've read reviews of the book where people has said that they used to be sceptical about aliens but now they believe it all. Oh wow, I also want to believe in lizard people! Someone please buy me this book!

The Holy Grail

I've knitted my first pair of socks, following the sock knitting instructions on Knitty, and designing an alien pattern for them. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, but knitting man-sized socks was a tedious task and not a "quick knit" as I was told it should be.

I exptected to feel really proud when I mastered the sock knitting. I was hyping it up, bragging to my friends about how proud I was going to be when I had finished my socks.



But now that I'm finished, it's a bit of an anti-climax. I thought I'd get a euphoric high, a confidence boost, a feeling of being a new and better person. But all I'm left with is a pair of socks. And they're not super natural socks with glitter sparkles and a halo of wonder and magic around them, they're just socks. I feel cheated somehow. Maybe my expectations weren't very realistic.

alien aceo

one of my goals for my lucid dreams lately has been to meet aliens. last night i DID meet some aliens in a lucid dream- but they weren't friendly&smiling like this guy here.. i'll have to try again! and remember that they are/should be friendly..


ink drawing on water colour paper.

ambassador aceo

weey it's the ambassador... AGAIN! he keep turning up in my drawings - he must be a man of importance.


this time he is a marker drawing on water colour paper. i love the simple lines and the slimy alien vegetation. drawing with markers is fun - there's no room for mistakes! once you've put a mark down on the paper, that is it. the mark stays.

poll closed

so the poll is closed, and i'm shocked at the result;

64 % said they believed in aliens
10 % said they didn't
and 28 % said they were aliens.

i think someone must be joking with me, and this is the time to come forward and admit to this joke. leave a confession in a comment. i refuse to believe that 10 %, (THREE of my blog readers), do not believe in aliens.


the universe is infinitely vast, and nature is a repetetive pattern, like a massive fractal. it just wouldn't make sense to think we're alone. also it would be less fun and it would ruin my daydreams of being picked up in a ufo and taken to my home planet for a tour i'd never forget. i bet i'd forget to take my digital camera if that ever happened (see, i'm already thinking about what to bring).

on the upside, i'm so grateful to have 8 actual aliens reading my blog! although i voted from three different computers saying i was an alien (i AM!), so i guess in reality, there's only 5. i think that's pretty good though, and i bet some of my alien readers didn't even bother to vote, so maybe there's more?

alien kitten aceo

Victorian Alien

Victorian Alien started out as a quick painting on an envelope for my friend Elsa, but has undergone some improvements in Photoshop with my boyfriend's neat electronic pen-thing that lets me draw directly into the computer. Digital playthings are good fun.

ocean aliens

i only started to appreciate fish a year ago. well that's not entirely true, i've appreciated them for dinner since i was a child, but i've never found them interesting if they weren't cooked.

but suddenly, last year, i realised how fucking WEIRD they are, and instantly got a fish tank. they truly are alien creatures.

"Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale."

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1962

i wish my fish tank would be big and salty enough to accommodate some of the weirdest creatures of the ocean, but just knowing that they are out there somewhere will have to do for now.

i remember seeing a cowfish like this one in a shop and he had me mesmerised for quite a while.
these are cucumber fish. they're no beauty queens:
i don't know what type of fish this is, but i like his teeth:lumpfish:
if there is a god, i wonder if he laughed or cried after having created this blobfish:a bit of an update on the blobfish photo; i was on the tube the other day when i saw a woman who looked JUST like this blobfish. it was absolutely horrible, she had the same pale watery complexion, a blob-like figure clad in white and dirty pastels and the same empty sad expression in her eyes. oh god, her eyes, she will haunt me in my dreams.


i bet this anglerfish played in a black metal band in his former life:
my brother says this is a "sea cow". i've never seen a sea cow before, but it looks very cuddleworthy and maybe a bit naive??:

alien elf

pencil on paper + computer colouring

the space rabbit sees the secrets with her third eye

a painting i did on the back of an envelope for my friend julie.

alien prayer

it's very very pretty!
http://volovo.deviantart.com/

earth ambassador

i'm actually really pleased with this doodle, it's one of my favourites !!

alien erotica

The girl in the last photo looks a bit like me!

my cat is an alien