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I helped my friend pack her things…

all by itself. i decided to document it as it lay there, stranded and alone.

The past few days have been very challenging and I have been working so hard–perhaps it is the last mile that is the hardest mile. I did however come up with a new illustration style and technique, and have been writing my thoughts out, while finding new ways to present some of my ideas…

Yesterday I made this drawing as I was thinking about Zoroastrianism. I think the whole idea of Right thought, Right words, Right deed is wonderful and something to contemplate.

Today I made some Stickers at the Sustainable South Bronx Fablab. I used this machine:

The sticker is the blue arrow like thing to the right. The SSBx part is lightly engraved:

I made a bracelet out of some laser-etched leather. The etchings are from one of my illustrations.

I cut the leather in a swirly asymmetical fashion, and added one of my rose hair decorations to attach the two sides.

I wrote a letter to my grandmother (in Farsi) and my sister (in English).

I have been drawing a lot of silly doodles the past few days, one of which is posted here.

Yesterday I spent my day working on an installation in Max/Jitter, with a friend, still in progress.

A new development with Sustainable South Bronx and the Fablab is turning my illustrations into prints

this story has many versions, and is told around the world. I am not sure who wrote this first, but my sister was the first to tell me this story.

These socks were a gift from my sister. Inspired by this post by dyslexia, I decided to use the cute valentines socks my sister gave me as arm warmers as well. I like them better as cuffs. I simply cut and hemmed the end.

February is traditionally a time for fertility celebrations. In the spirit of this, I made earrings (via a lasercutter) that act as a physical hyperlink to the wikipedia article for the Fertility Goddess. Taking a photo of these earrings using a qr code reader on your phone will take you to the mobile version of the page. I generated the code using Semapedia.

Unfortunately, the ones I made without writing “Fertility Goddess” (so just the code) didn’t turn out dark enough…but this works to show the concept.

I created some patterns out of my illustrations to be interpreted on leather bracelets. For this particular pattern, I used this illustration. See it large.

The new labels came in today (Day 11). Celebrating with a post about the new labels.

This is how the QR codes work. When you use the image with your QR code reader it takes you here.

i am posting video from iran here…enjoy!

I made red velvet cupcakes today. Some of them spell the word “LOVE”. Those are the last four I left in the oven too long.

 Though yesterday I skipped my thing, today I spent a few hours researching some of the most beautiful jewelry in the world. I came up with a bunch of ideas for necklaces, this pattern is something I imagine could be worn on a neclace, or maybe even as part of a bracelet.

I started this a while ago, though today I added the finer details. Every time i looked at it I felt like it still needed work. I used ink and a paintbrush for the yellow and red. For the black I used ink (with a paintbrush) and pens with various line weights. I still feel like I can add more, but the whole piece would change. Here it is now.

Deepak Chopra, quoting an inspirational text in “How to Know God” (p. 136)

Today i went to the South Bronx to check out the SSBx Fablab. The Fablab is a collaboration between MIT and Sustainable South Bronx to empower the local community to make what they need at a grassroots level (also now accepting fellows). Today for my thing-a-day I took this drawing of mine and lasercut the surface of this wood as an experiment. More on Flickr.