Thursday, November 6, 2008

obama!

it just feels so good!

and this feels good too:

Sunday, October 26, 2008

broadside for the center

first image of the poetry broadside i printed for the center, october 17.
"drowning in paradise"
(on the left)
click here for the center's flickr page.

almost famous


so, the new york times featured the facade of a house in bushwick. a house erik painted. rad.
here's the house. and the link too!

chocolate chip banana bread



i made some banana bread with walnuts and chocolate chips. not because i like bananas but i kept saying i would make it at the house. baking is a different, and healthier experience when i don't end up eating half the dough/batter. when it came out of the oven it looked so cute i made erik take a photo of it by the flowers before he ate any!!

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

sunprints


so a few weeks ago.  or maybe months now (time is flying by) megan and i did some quality research at work on Sunprints (don't know what this is? click this yo!)... with an entire toy store full of items to lay on the the light sensitive paper we had so much fun. plus it was nice and sunny out! as we took turns standing guard with our prints, not ONE person asked what we were doing. if i had stumbled upon us, i would have asked. 

while working at the toy store, selling numerous "open ended" play items i try to remember when i was a kid. a real kid. not a quarter of a century old kid. anything that was a "kit" i was into, constructing with blocks, making potions, the more i sell toys the more i realize how AWESOME it is to be a kid! it's another world and it's so easy to forget how simple things could be if we just played a little more!  so megan and i ran around the store and we ended up laying down transparency cards with awesome images, plastic animals, prisms, tape, tape measures, nets, tea bags... we tried everything. and we played. and it was awesome!

Sunday, October 19, 2008

frontin' on books

here are a few books i have been making in classes as the center: lots of layers and collage went into these. using japanese mulberry paper, adhesives, and beeswax these books have a soft and muted sort of look. and i love that they smell like beeswax. yum. (these are just quick scans on a secret scanner. i will go for photos soon, so you can see the texture of them!)



Tuesday, September 9, 2008

happy birthday megan book

new york city.



Tuesday, August 19, 2008

business cards




a mini photo resume...

Monday, July 21, 2008

thanks to buZ blurr


i finally got to meet buZ blurr- and even have this to remember it by...

Thursday, July 10, 2008

coney island!


took the train to coney island on july 4th this year- a good dose of america!! the first thing on our agenda was HOT DOGS and the mission was completed with glee. every ride has music blasting out of it's speakers...kids, families, "freaks" (both the freak show and the one you shoot), a beach packed full of new yorkers soaking up the greyish polluted air. ummmm... america at it's finest. coney island is an amazingly trashy sort of novelty. it is so werid out there. perhaps some of the finest people watching i've ever experience. a headach inducing wonderland of cotten candy, clown shaped garbage cans, rides and humans.
http://www.coneyisland.com/

grandmother is also there dishing out her prophesies for just 25 cents.
here's mine:

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

calling card


wood type business cards. march 2008
first time using the guillotine- results a little off centered...c'est la vie

Thursday, March 6, 2008

polaroid love.



top right: kayluh & amanda, willamsburg water front
top left: virgin mary figurine in barbwire, bushwick
bottom left: erik? in disguise in my favorite photobooth, manhattan
bottom right: me wiating for a train, broadway junction

my project: www.polaroidexchange.blogspot.com

platen jobber


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platen press printin'

my first work on the platen press!
(an exclamation point: for my exciement at the act of printing,
not as a reaction to this haiku i printed...)

(i took a workshop at the center for book arts this past weekend.)

printed on a small hand press like this:








many of these small presses that sit on the table with a handle were made and sold as toys for kids- or as a useful household item. rad.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

the vandercook press


hours and hours have been put into these things. the vandercook press! on a busy day at work there are 10 or so printers each using a press to craftfully print the junk mail of america's rich and famous.... i'm sounding so cynical. these old presses were used to proof the hand set lead type before hundreds of copies would be printed- at soho letterpress we print all jobs from start to finish on these babies....the final product is a hand mixed ink color pressed into the paper- a finished look that one can see and feel. the best of printed matter.

valentines.


the day started out sunny. friends in town from boston. my favorite french toast for breakfast and an endlessly full cup of coffee. big plans for a sunny day with no work; tour of the neighborhood, bike riding, getting lost in the chaos of manhattan.... alas, i started making some valentines and spent the day inside. the blue sky was washed away with grey, the wind picked up and then the snow came. it's now entirely freezing outside, dark and my room is a mess! happy valentine's four days early!





Saturday, January 5, 2008