Two by Steve Frenkel

Costa Extraña, 2009
Originally uploaded by steveartist

Steve writes, "This little painting is an acrylic, 6 x 6 inches on canvas. The image area is closer to 5½ x 5½, due to a white border. Costa Extraña means 'strange coast' in Spanish."

Isla Oscura, 2009
Originally uploaded by steveartist

Steve writes, "This little painting is an acrylic, 6 x 6 inches on canvas. The image area is closer to 5½ x 5½, due to a white border. Isla Oscura means 'dark island' in English."

Steve Frenkel's website.

Antti Laitinen "It's My Island"

Flavorpill writes, "Helsinki-based artist Antti Laitinen offers an absurdist take on the notion of property and nationality with his solo exhibition of video, photography and installation work. The artist painstakingly built his own island in the Gulf of Finland out of 200 hand-filled sandbags..."

Music for Your Studio; Vol. 22

Music from the Reluctant Aquanauts - a now defunct instrumental surf outfit who posted this album called "Aquanauts Can't Swim" on the SurfGuitar101 forum. Here's the link for the album and here's the original forum post and their myspace page if you want to give it a try before downloading it. I'm really glad I stumbled on this and I'm excited to share it. It's perfect summer music. Highly recommended!