By now we've all shared our hurricane stories and we're on to the next unfolding drama...but my life has been a little chaotic for the past few months and may just maybe be settling down, so I'm getting to this now...
As word of the impending hurricane spread across NYC, people ran out to stores buying up bread, batteries, and bottled water. Meanwhile N and I sat in our apartment and wondered if we were making a mistake, since we had failed to make any type of preparation. We decided to venture out into the rain that was just starting up, in search of bread and cheese puffs, neither of which we ended up finding. We returned home empty handed and settled on the couch with dark n' stormies, waiting, like kids at the movie theatre for the show to begin.
The rain came down and N soon retired to the bedroom where he began a 6 hour nap leaving me to my own devices. This of course, means craft time. I have a habit of pulling boxes of things out, magazines, paper, photos, markers, paint, glue, glitter, stickers, stamps, ETC and making a huge mess, but not using most of it, so this time I decided to keep it simple. Here we got some acrylic paints, some cut-outs of lucha libre found on the streets of Mazatlan and a guy from a new age 80's dance exercise book. I wouldn't say it's the most fabulous thing I've ever made, but I think it captures my evening pretty well.
On a more serious note - sending my thoughts out to those who are still dealing with the aftermath, especially those who were already struggling financially before the storm hit...
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Craft Night: Metro Card Art
Heyo! Unemployment: being broke is rough, but having lots of free time is amazing! While I know several people who are unemployed and struggling with the extra free time, bored is one word that does not describe my current mental/emotional state. I've been keeping myself busy doing lots, although I can't recount most of it because my memory of it evaporated into a hazy dream with that heat wave. I did recently make pickles with everyone's favorite Jersey based pickle masters and yesterday I made some intense banana bread with twice the required amounts of bananas, chocolate chips and yes, sour cream. mmmm. Other than that, I have sadly not fulfilled my crafting dreams this summer, but hopefully will be back on the train soon. For now, I am finally scanning in images from a craft night that we had a while back. The theme was metrocards as inspired by work such as this: http://singlefare.blogspot.com/ Don't worry, fatty booms made sure that we doused the metrocards in rubbing alcohol (to sanitize them), which he believes is the cure for everything including back pains and old age. Enjoy!
Try your own! It's free! All you need to do is go to your favorite subway station and grab a discarded metrocard. Then get wild. Don't forget the rubbing alcohol.
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| My friend S did these and I think they're wonderful :) |
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| And here's the back of them. |
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| And here's some by G-face - some have the essence of Basquiat... |
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| Can you guess which architect made this? |
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| And here's the back of the one above - yowza! |
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| Something's not quite right about this card... |
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| And here's the back of it. Also I like that inspirational message. |
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| Another product of GSAPP can't put the exacto knife down. |
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| And now some portraits from those crazy lovebirds... |
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| This is mine. Everyone else was more productive than I was! |
Friday, May 27, 2011
WCFM - page 8...and FREEDOM!
hello!
This collage does not accurately describe my state of mind right now. "Hello! I'm bored!" was found on a scrap of paper that one of our campers was doodling on during an educational activity at our socialist hippie camp. Statistically speaking, the activity was most likely about the horrors of sweatshop labor (a camp favorite), but hey, it's hard to keep 'em happy all the time.
As for me, I am done with school and freeeeeeeee - until I find a job. I have lots of fantasies about the ideal job, but due to the fact that we are still a capitalist society, I will need to find a job that pays, so I might not get to be so picky. A little bit of freedom does mean more blog time, so I'll try to make up for lost time when I got sucked into the black hole of final papers.
PS - I think I subconsciously chose the model because she reminds me of Tori Amos. You never forget your first love :)
This collage does not accurately describe my state of mind right now. "Hello! I'm bored!" was found on a scrap of paper that one of our campers was doodling on during an educational activity at our socialist hippie camp. Statistically speaking, the activity was most likely about the horrors of sweatshop labor (a camp favorite), but hey, it's hard to keep 'em happy all the time.
As for me, I am done with school and freeeeeeeee - until I find a job. I have lots of fantasies about the ideal job, but due to the fact that we are still a capitalist society, I will need to find a job that pays, so I might not get to be so picky. A little bit of freedom does mean more blog time, so I'll try to make up for lost time when I got sucked into the black hole of final papers.
PS - I think I subconsciously chose the model because she reminds me of Tori Amos. You never forget your first love :)
Monday, February 28, 2011
WCFM - page 8 - It's Getting Bigger
This pile of human consumption is taking over my life. Figuratively speaking that is.
Animals are lucky. They don't have to deal with stuff. I like how the lizard's color is mimicked by the CD, sunglasses and letters on the computer screen. As humans we create a lot, and get lost in it all, it's hard to see it with our human eyes - I wish I could understand our stuff from his perspective.
By the by - thanks everyone for the awesome feedback, I love hearing what you think!
Monday, February 21, 2011
WCFM - page 7 - Things that scare you
Although animals usually appear in my dreams as friendly or at least harmless, when I saw this bird staring at me from the pages of a magazine, I knew it hinted at the dark side of the animal world. Something about the tilt of her head, proud, and not about to take anyone's sh*t.
The words are from the same game that supplied words for the previous collage. I like the words on either side of the bird re-imagined as things that could be scary. "Things on the floor"? Yeah, those scare me. "What you do to an egg?" Frightening! I know the plume coming off the page is a little tedious since it could easily be ripped, crumpled, etc., but there's no way I could insult the bird by cutting it off.
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