Gallery Nucleus located in Alhambra, California opened its Curiouser & Curiouser: Inspired by ‘Alice in Wonderland’ exhibit last February 27th. The exhibition will be in view until March 29, 2010. And apparently, many of the artworks featured in the exhibit have already been sold. Too bad, I really do want an artwork from this exhibit! Not only are the artworks very pretty but so are the frames!

“It’s been more than a century and Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland’ continues to enchant children and adults. With the highly anticipated film adaptation by Tim Burton and Disney Studios looming in the horizon, Gallery Nucleus presents a captivating exhibit as artists of the film and beyond create their vision of the iconic story and celebrate it’s lasting legacy.

Featuring work by Amy Sol, Chris Appelhans, Kukula, Naoto Hattori and more, a superbly talented and diverse roster get curiouser and curiouser with works that range from the gothic to the whimsical. Glimpse into the creative brilliance of Disney Studios as exclusive, never-before-seen concept art, production, and film stills will be shown from the upcoming Alice In Wonderland film.” - excerpt from the Curiouser & Curiouser press release

Below are some of the works featured in the exhibit.

Advice from Caterpillar by Kei Acedera

Alice In The Rain by Lorelay Bove

Eat Me/Drink Me by Vera Brosgol

Un-Tea Party by Trey Bryan

Dude, What Are You Wearing? by Bill Carman

Down The Rabbit Hole by Alina Chau

The Caucus Race by Clio Chiang

The Cheshire James by Cory Godbey

I Wander by Naoto Hattori

Young Queen Of Hearts by Mall

Running Late by Jake Parker

Tea Time Of Incredible Curiousities by Jake Parker

La Petite Porte by Marguerite Sauvage

The Mad Hatter by Stephen Silver

Down The Rabbit Hole by Marmite Sue

Tea Party by Jing Wei

Sketch For 'Pool Of Fears' by Jaime Zollars

For more information on this exhibit, go here.

And on a final note, I still haven’t seen Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.

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Anticipating: Alice in Wonderland this coming week! Also, Paramore Live in Manila this coming March 9! My friends and I already have tickets to the latter and we’re very, very excited!

Delaying: My thoughts on the musical, Rent, which I saw last February 6. I sure have lots to say on this one. I’ll most likely post them any day this coming week. Also, Project 365. I’m fully aware that I haven’t uploaded my pictures for February. I have a month’s worth of Project 365 photos currently stored in my digital camera that I haven’t uploaded yet. Whoops. I’ll work on that ASAP.

Eating: Gummy Bears and Oreos. I miss eating both snacks as they happen to be two of my favorites.

Feeling: Happy and stressed at the same time. Happy because I won as Councilor in our college’s student council earlier this week and stressed because I have an exam, case study and a story book to worry about this coming week.

Listening: John Mayer’s Battle Studies and Adele’s Live from Soho. I don’t think I’ve listen to a lot of artists this month as I was so busy doing other things and my iPod earphones broke so I need a new pair.

Wanting: A new phone. I believe it’s time for me to have a new one as I’ve been using a second-hand phone for a year now. It has a short battery life which really annoys me so I really need a new one with a longer battery life.

Watching: I’m actually having a Lord of the Rings marathon. Since I don’t know where our DVDs were, Papa ended up buying a new boxed set of the trilogy. I can’t remember the last time I had a LotR marathon. I surely missed the Middle-Earth gang.

To start this off is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson General (2009) - This is the book cover that I own. :)

Penguin UK (2008)

Hardcover in Russian with Dust Jacket (1998)

Publisher and Date Published Unknown

Companhia de Bolso, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2007)

Penguin (Red Classics), London, UK (2006)

Yiwen Press, Shanghai, China (2005)

Muza (BB), Warsaw, Poland (2003)

Paseka, Prague, Czech Republic (2003)

Penguin, London, UK (2000)

Random House (Vintage), New York, USA (1997)

Bertelsmann Club (Jahrhundert-Edition), Gütersloh, Germany (1996)

Büchergilde Gutenberg, Frankfurt, Germany (1990)

Eesti Raamat, Tallinn, Estonia (1990)

Putnam (Perigee Books), New York, USA (1980)

Guilde du Livre, Lausanne (1966)

Mondadori, Milano, Italy (1964)

Gummerus, Jyväskylä, Finland (1959)

Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1959)

CONTEST ENTRIES
The following were submitted for the Lolita Book Cover Contest held last year.

by Justin Chen

by Iaia Cocoi

by Erica Thompson

by Elina Nakano

by Egor Krasnoperov

by Catherine Earley

The rest of the contest entries can be found here.

Dieter E. Zimmer’s online exhibit, Covering Lolita, is the source for most of the published covers.

1. currently on sale, no longer in stock and even contest entries

Interestingly enough, I got something last Friday. One of my girl friends gave me a chocolate shaped like a rose and our guy professor gave all the girls in his class a heart-shaped pink candy. I’m very thankful to both of them for their thoughtfulness and sweetness. I also find it amusing that while working on this post Notting Hill was being shown followed by Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. There goes some love inspiration, I guess. And so without further ado, I’m going to spam you with several love-related photos.

Lastly, I’m including this super duper fabulous wedding invitation. Whether you’ve already seen it before or not, it’s still worth sharing in this post. Who doesn’t want such an awesome wedding invitation?

Credits: Photos without a click-through link were taken from WeHeartIt.

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There were 2 other images I didn’t include in this post since they weren’t included in the PDF file I downloaded: Cloud Computing and Stimulus. But you can see them in the Smarter Planet part of IBM’s website. You can visit the link too if you want to know more.

Disclaimer: The Smarter Planet art and all images used in this post belong to IBM.