Im.Perfect
Alan Vega
I shot this a few years ago at the Ramones Beat on Cancer Benefit. Just listen to the scream!
Rock and Roll,
Melissa
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Cocomero
Woof Wan-Bau’s “Watermelon Love”
As a vegan, I love watermelon. I loved watermelon since I was a little girl, but now I can eat it endlessly and with utter abandon. “Watermelon Love” by Woof Wan-Bau illustrates this sweet fruit so well, with a seductive and giggly main character I find very cute.
Yummy, sweet, juicy and red. [...]
Vegan For Life
Food Is The Cure
The Wager is over. I’m 12 pounds lighter, a pants and cup size smaller, and my body chemistry has been drastically altered.
Eat To Live is a fantastic guide to going vegan. I followed it carefully over the past six weeks, and read it from end to end. The results [...]
Daddie’s Shakti Flower
I am Daddie’s Shakti Flower
I am his moon and his stars
and his stain unclaimed
when the riddle unravels
first on my skin in freckled code
later in DNA stripped bare
petri me attached and new
Daddies are plenty
Fathers are rare
I in faith renew
my search for you.
- M. Ulto, August 2007
This poem and digital art came together fast, as I have [...]
The Wager
Healthy Food by MiraRuido
Today starts a six week wager with my friend Brad. I’ve been complaining about getting in shape and getting healthy for months now, since moving and general life chaos took me off point. But I haven’t done anything about it – I’ve just been sort of stuck. So [...]
These Words…To You, Wherever You Are…
Rock and Roll Love Search – M. Ulto 2007
Yah, dating…um…yah…
What can I say? Its never easy for anyone. And I have less patience and time to spare than most. I skim deep dialectics in minutes, absorbing and comprehending meaning instantly. Yet men – can’t read them or figure them out at [...]
Industry as Pygmalion
The beauty industry sees all photography subjects as raw clay to be molded. Even beautiful young women who are already amazing to look at.
So don’t be discouraged, ladies, when the image on the magazine makes you feel just not quite so. That feeling comes from recognizing you are not looking a human, but an [...]
Rainbow Choices
I created two versions of a Mandala video art experiment. One is the entire color spectrum, the other is created of hues of love – pink, gold and white. Still wondering which version is more interesting.
Let me know what YOU think. Bonus points if you can identify the song used to animate the Mandalas by.
Peace,
Melissa
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Notes On Father’s Day
ICE T @ Hip Hop Odyssey Festival Awards – M. Ulto
Last night, I went to the Hip Hip Odyssey Awards with my collaborators on “The Art of Love & Struggle” – Director Jessica Habie, Performer/Writer Bobbi Williams and Composer Spiritchild.
It was where Hip Hop lives – the real culture, not the parody of it in [...]
Bubbling Up
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Marcus Aurelius
Meditation lately has yielded a vibrant connection to the universe. My mandala art reflects this inner bubbling up of joy. Prayer is more dialogue than passive smoothing out of mind. [...]
Sleep vs Shoot
Shooting with Christi Smith from PFF Entertainment
Last night I shot a couple of interviews for the next edition of SheStory.tv – the theme being passionate persistence. Christi Smith, from PFF Entertainment, lives, works and partners with her passions. She started her business around a board game she created, PervArtistry, a charades/pictionary type game, [...]
A Spring Heart
Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
Marcus Aurelius Antonius
What keeps an artist going is the joy at being able to express with great faculty their thoughts. To create tangible expressions of their inner world is a great [...]
What’s Your Spielberg Moment?
Since doing this On The Lot thing, I’ve been pondering the films that had the most effect on me. Steven Spielberg is a prolific filmmaker, but one of his first, JAWS, really sucker punched my imagination awake.
I love Spielberg’s films – from Saving Private Ryan to Close Encounters of The Third Kind – so many [...]
Happy 2007!
Gama Rama Fun Fest
The arts must be considered an essential element of education. They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future.
Shirley Trusty Corey
I am blessed. Last year, 2006, was a litany of lessons and challenges, aligning my intentions, skills, talents and passions. And returning to [...]
The Season of Miracles
“And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant heavens, and lay the foundations of earth, and say to Zion, You are my people” (Yeshayah 51:16)
I am grateful for a challenging, productive, complicated year. I have been pushed and [...]
Let Your Light Shine
Philly Fountain – M. Ulto 2006
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You [...]
Shifty and Shifting
Pink Core – M. Ulto
Depression sucks.
I’m wishing I could sleep for days until the clouds pass.
Just sit back and let the universe do its work on me.
Heal enough to stand, take deep breaths without suffocating, without pain.
The energy seems not to exist.
Waiting for my core to heal, and start spinning again.
The last kick to my [...]
Peace of Small Moments
Mother & Son, Sister & Child – M. Ulto
While wars rage, greed and egocentric behavior flourishes, hate grows and misery spreads, there is the peace of small moments to reflect on.
Love in a touch – the touch of an eyelash on a child’s cheek – butterfly kisses.
Peace in a touch – the soothing of cool [...]
The Woman Writer – Pillaged for Talent, Raped for Content
Sophia Stewart, Mother of The Matrix
I watched “V for Vendetta†last night, and was moved, but also wary. The art is excellent, but the people behind the art are flawed, deeply flawed. The Wachowski Brothers seem to be very derivative in their works. Some have accused them of outright plagiarism, including Grant Morrison, creator of [...]
Virtue & Truth Are Never Convenient
Durga: Avenging Goddess, Nurturing Mother
But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame
Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same,
And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail,
The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.
She who faces Death by torture for each life [...]
Creativity – The Force For Everything
The Goddess of Creativity, Saraswati
Sometimes I wonder why I bother with creating, especially when that creativity is abused. I create tangible wonders and fantastic art. And I only ask simply to be paid a fair wage, in a timely fashion.
I’ve been putting up with intimidation and threats lately. I’m broke as a church mouse, while [...]
