geek…

Now by no means is this perfect but it’s pretty wonderful. Sometimes two seperate and uniquely wonderful things can come together and be just as wonderful as when they are apart.

Justin came across this and excitedly shared it with me today. I love an animated series called Gargoyles and we just finished watching season 1 and up to season 2 ep 26. I love this cartoon. It has really good stories and this particular one is an Illuminate episode.

So what you do is play the episode stated below with the volume on mute, while simultaneously playing the song (also stated below). If you are familiar with this episode then you need to turn off the part of your brain that remembers the dialog and just listen to the song lyrics. At moments they seem to have been made for the other – as a score or as a music video.

Press Play
Track time 1:07 of Gargoyles DVD- Season 2 Episode 15 “Revelations”
at the same time as
Track 15 of Meat Beat Manifesto CD Subliminal Sandwich Disc 1

Listen and watch until you hear the sound of a rotary phone being dialed and then ringing around track 17.
Justin somehow missed this cartoon when it was first on but I think he loves it as much as I do.

this moment brought to you by the letters A & J and the number 2

some episodes can be seen here

octopie is a cutie pie…

I am so happy with how this turned out. It’s the first one so it took me a couple of hours to make and figure out his construction. I love him!

He is made from a soft polar fleece with hand felted details (like his eyes and spots). He is a wonderful orange color though very hard to photograph. He is a creature pillow so you can rest your head on his.

Comments and suggestions are welcome. please let me know what you think of him because I am thinking of selling Octopie on Etsy.

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friend gocco …

I finally got around to making my first gocco print. I was actually a little nervous right before I made my first master screen.

I had been wanting to purchase a Print Gocco for awhile now but for one reason or another I never got around to it. Until one day my best friend got engaged and as a matron of honor, I would plan a shower for her. We are throwing a Tea Party shower for her, loosely and tastefully based on Alice in Wonderland. We are having it outside in a garden/backyard. I wanted to make her invitations unique and special, since paper and design is something we both love and appreciate. I thought the gocco would be perfect for what I had in mind.

But never having owned it or even known someone who owned it, I needed to do a trial run first. It took me some time to figure out which one of my sketches to use because i was being cheap. Yes I said it, cheap… with myself. I just didn’t want to waste the screen and the bulbs even though I knew that would be inevitable. So after thinking about it for I don’t know how many days, I decided to make a 2 screen print of this Jellyfish I had drawn to make into a plush pillow. I wasted one screen adn 2 bulbs. I think one of the bulbs didn’t work therefore not producing enough heat to make the screen. Does anyone know if you can reflash a screen that has already been flashed?

I definitely learned a lot from this first printing and I really enjoyed the process. I still need to learn more about multiple screen prints before I can be satisfied with the results but I am please with this first effort. What do you think of my little Jellyfish?

paper is art …

I have been doing some online research recently and trying to gather together some ideas I have for a series of silhouette themed products when I came across this artist Peter Callesen. He makes amazing pieces with paper cutouts and I am blown away by the construction. Their seeming simplicity is a testament to how well they are assembled and represented. He wrote that he was inspired by fairytales and romanticism exploring the relationship between two and three dimensionality, between image and reality.