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!)