Due to outside circumstances, I’ve lost internet and phone for a while, so I won’t be online as much until I get things sorted out. Until then, if you want to know what’s up, please check my TWITTER FEED.
Bananas!
February 19, 2008 at 12:30 am (news)
Tags: bananas, Give Me Bananas or Give Me Death, npr
On my way to work, I heard a show on NPR about bananas. There was an anecdote about how when bananas were first introduced to the US in Victorian times, they had to have an ad campaign to show women that such a phallic fruit was ’safe’ to eat. Hah.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19097412
While trying to find the advertisement mentioned in the story, a search for ‘Victorian banana postcards’ ended up getting me Victorian Postmortem Photographs. Gofig.
Just a quick update
February 18, 2008 at 4:14 pm (Uncategorized)
Working on setting up the Godcraft Blog for Kat and I, sorting out notes for it, and for Trader between doing a massive amount of homework and actual work, and realizing I did dishes for nearly 30 hours this week. Wow.
Keychain
February 16, 2008 at 3:08 pm (Art, Craft time)
Tags: USB Keychain
Finally finished the USB Keychain; Formerly was a busted USB-Wireless stick.
Kerri Finlayson - Across Africa
February 13, 2008 at 2:54 pm (Other Sites, news, rambling)
Tags: African Biking, Kerri Finlayson, Tourdafrique
Kerri Finlayson was one of my teachers at NCMC; and taught the first class I took there when I was a wee, dual-enrolled highschooler. She’s also one of the most intelligent people I have met, and is very kind, and thoughtful.
Right now she’s biking across Africa on a trip from Jan 12- May 10.
Check out her blog:
http://www.tda2008.blogspot.com/
Lots of pictures, including pictures of camels (living and dead). Huzzah, Camels!
Art Stolen from a Zurich Museum
February 12, 2008 at 1:02 am (news)
Tags: art crime, art theft, zurich
Bandits in ski-masks ran off with several famous paintings today from a museum in Zurich.
A reward of $90,000 was offered for information leading to the recovery of the paintings — Claude Monet’s “Poppy field at Vetheuil,” Edgar Degas’ “Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter,” Vincent van Gogh’s “Blooming Chestnut Branches” and Paul Cezanne’s “Boy in the Red Waistcoat.”
Many pieces of art are stolen each year. Apparently it is a very proffitable thing, the trafficing and copying of famous paintings to sell. I hope the pieces are found, but I really doubt it; most just seem to vanish, as if they never were.
Projects- Headphone Mod
February 10, 2008 at 1:43 pm (Craft time, Creative Process, Other Sites)
Tags: giger, grinding.be, porkshanks.deviantart.com
Inspird by http://porkshanks.deviantart.com/, the previously mentioned keyboard art, Giger and Grinding.be, I’ve started modding some of my own stuff around the house with what I have, adding my own twist to the aesthetic. Biomorphic necromantic dystopian swag, anyone? I have no idea what to call it, but I’m having quite a bit of fun.
Here’s a quick, and rather crappy photo of the modded mic of the headset of this project; gesso’d, painted, sealed, wrapped with wire and bone beads.
datamancer custom keyboards
February 9, 2008 at 3:42 pm (Other Sites)
Tags: datamancer.net
http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm
I’m rather surprised this hasn’t made it to grinding.be or warrenellis.com yet, but here is something I found; datamancer. And oooh are the keyboards pretty. Datamancer has a lot of wonderful, gorgeous, custom stuff and… I’m drooling at it. The whole page has me inspired and grinning like an idiot.
Hanging Around
February 6, 2008 at 2:27 pm (rambling)
Merrick
February 3, 2008 at 11:36 pm (Art)
Tags: Art, Joseph Merrick
Just my answer to Kat’s sketch. Quick drawing in pencil & ink, coloured in painter.
