<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12182848</id><updated>2011-07-20T10:53:27.280-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Vibrant Girl</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vibrantgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12182848/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vibrantgirl.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Kristine Ova</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12182848.post-111355966249429729</id><published>2005-04-15T03:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T03:56:13.910-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Coffee</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank You, Laura. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Bon Vivant's Menagerie"&lt;br /&gt;(gallery 4, Image 1)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;was inspired by a certain&lt;br /&gt;Pretty Boy, with a certain anatomy issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end of one of those sleepless &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;weeks during the summer,&lt;br /&gt;I found myself testing the&lt;br /&gt;limits of "Bottomless" coffee at Denny's.&lt;br /&gt;Across the table from me was Pretty Boy. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pretty Boy with his pretty poetry.&lt;br /&gt;He wanted me to read/comment on his new work -&lt;br /&gt;all I could do was stare, absorb.&lt;br /&gt;Finding actual words to speak to him was impossible.&lt;br /&gt;I was on the plummeting spiral &lt;br /&gt;of a Caffeine high gone wrong.&lt;br /&gt;All I could do was draw him a picture.&lt;br /&gt;A visual emotive response to his&lt;br /&gt;heart breaking psyche, on paper.&lt;br /&gt;His words were severely ... beautiful.&lt;br /&gt;Bon Vivant is the first picture I drew for him,&lt;br /&gt;duplicated/pasted together by the number  of times&lt;br /&gt;I read a poem of his.&lt;br /&gt;He was my Bon Vivant,&lt;br /&gt;The Menagerie is mine for him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12182848-111355966249429729?l=vibrantgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vibrantgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/111355966249429729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12182848&amp;postID=111355966249429729' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12182848/posts/default/111355966249429729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12182848/posts/default/111355966249429729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vibrantgirl.blogspot.com/2005/04/coffee.html' title='Coffee'/><author><name>Kristine Ova</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12182848.post-111352713968919259</id><published>2005-04-14T17:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-04-14T22:14:37.440-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Behind the Art</title><content type='html'>When I get a chance, I will post some&lt;br /&gt; comments about&lt;br /&gt;each of the pieces I have done.&lt;br /&gt; Some are well, self- evident:&lt;br /&gt;"Second pot of Coffee, Second pack of Camels".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12182848-111352713968919259?l=vibrantgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vibrantgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/111352713968919259/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12182848&amp;postID=111352713968919259' title='66 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12182848/posts/default/111352713968919259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12182848/posts/default/111352713968919259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vibrantgirl.blogspot.com/2005/04/behind-art.html' title='Behind the Art'/><author><name>Kristine Ova</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>66</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12182848.post-111352654486255131</id><published>2005-04-14T17:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-04-14T22:15:08.610-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Check Out</title><content type='html'>I just added new art that can be found @&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digitalabstract.com/kristineova4.html"&gt;http://www.digitalabstract.com/kristineova4.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12182848-111352654486255131?l=vibrantgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vibrantgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/111352654486255131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12182848&amp;postID=111352654486255131' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12182848/posts/default/111352654486255131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12182848/posts/default/111352654486255131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vibrantgirl.blogspot.com/2005/04/check-out.html' title='Check Out'/><author><name>Kristine Ova</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12182848.post-111352201622575127</id><published>2005-04-14T16:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-04-14T22:12:37.696-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Art By Kristine Ova</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Check out my new collection of art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;@ digitalabstract.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12182848-111352201622575127?l=vibrantgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vibrantgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/111352201622575127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12182848&amp;postID=111352201622575127' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12182848/posts/default/111352201622575127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12182848/posts/default/111352201622575127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vibrantgirl.blogspot.com/2005/04/new-art-by-kristine-ova.html' title='New Art By Kristine Ova'/><author><name>Kristine Ova</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
