I guess I could reword and repost it here, but why don’t you just head over to my own blog and read my little re-cap and requiem for Thing-a-Day 2008. And you can find out what the hell this thing is:
Thanks for a great month, everyone!
wish good beginnings to all creative spirits!
and here is my thing for today:
and today’s theater shot:
Woo! I made it! Each of the past 3 days I spent some time working on finishing up these humongous, hideous slippers that will be felted. (My husband wanted these colors!) How apropos that I finally finished knitting this project tonight, the last night of Thing-A-Day.
I really hope they shrink down to a decent size. They are too ridiculous.
Also Leap Day.
Saw many frogs on papers as they leap. Somehow, since the end of last year, I had been attracted to them. I am not a creature type of person at all, but I got this cute cup because of that.
← Cute, eh? Of course Made in Japan.
I have a feeling that the year 2008 lets me jump to a higher place in all the areas in my life. I am making baby steps, one step at a time, but these are what I had never done before.
This thing too might open another door. I quite enjoyed creating anything that came my way and also interacting with artistic people who inspired me.
What a difference a month made? Loads, actually. I no longer feel crap about the probation. I think this is a great opportunity to be close to my dream.
Here are some photos I took today. Seattle’s famous Pike Place Market. I love this place. I got purplish-pink tulips and branches of pussy willow (does anyone think about the 007 film?). It was fun to watch more tourist start coming back. I saw a bunch of cute Japanese girls in front of the first Starbucks.
Thanks everyone. Hope to see you next year. Happy spring!
It’s a dog. Eating from a metal bowl and then fighting with the blankets, he sounds like this.
If you’re in NYC and you’d like to meet this or other instruments-of-the-day, check this out.
I’m going to continue with the instrument building, one a week for as long as I can stand it. If you wanna keep up with the noise, bookmark or subscribe to my homepage. Thanks for putting up with the cacophony!
ok, so i guess this is it…. etsy was on martha today, and love her or not, it can only help sales… i listed this today, hoping it will find the right home! =)
click the pic, and i hope you’ll be sent to my etsy shop. if not, try this:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9918546
and with that, i bid you a happy march, see you next year! *mu-wah!* byebye, thing-a-day!
This is dated the 29th, but it is actually my thing for the 28th (it was just after midnight when I put the date in I guess). We get one more last one tomorrow.
again concert after work, so not much for today:
and a concert sketch
I had a moment today when I was filled with gratitude to be where I am today.
I love my beautiful Emerald City, where I have grown up spiritually.
One day remains to do the thing. I am going to miss it.
My least favorite haircut ever, especially on corporate dudes who thinks it heps up their suit.
I see this every day and don’t know why it hasn’t dawned on me to use it as a feature on TAD. This was a Christmas gift from Lil Mel a couple years ago. I’m cheating a little bit but giving props too so, it evens out.
A girl who looks like she’d be a patron of the revolutionary Biba store in the early 70’s. Apologies to Andy Warhol. Just a doodle with some color applied.
Yesterday I got an amazing new knitting book, New Pathways for Sock Knitters by Cat Bordhi, which blew my mind on every page. I knit a little practice Coriolis sock, which is like a regular baby bootie with a ribbed spiral going up the foot. Awesome.
Doodling a character for an animation. Little Indian girl, still needs a name.
(I’m rusty with people and faces, so this was a good exercise)
Other doodles:
<– Mole men in the office
<– Large owls
<–Small owls
<– Gerbil powered solar system model
And this is my 3d assignment for tomorrow, playing with dynamics. It’s nothin’ special, but it’s not a big assignment:
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So I’ve got a whole bunch of the Whitewash City papercraft Old West buildings constructed, but no cowboys to run around in the town for when I run my game. Enter papercraft miniatures.
There are actually several vendors of these and some free ones you can find on the web. After checking out many of them, I ended up buying the Western Set from Arion Games. The pictures are high-quality and they came out good when printed on cardstock in color.
Jocelyn has been experimenting with shrink plastic, so I thought I’d try to make a shrinky-dink miniature. They shrink to about 5/8 of their original size, so in order for it to come out at the 28mm size like the others, I drew it about 45mm tall, as well as a cross-brace. I put it between two glass plates in the oven, to keep it flat, and it shrank down perfectly. I glued the cross-brace on and now I have a nicely-scaled, but pretty crappy-looking, miniature. Clearly my Old West illustration skills need honing. Still, it was a fun exercise.
I’ll probably end up gluing or sticking these miniatures to pennies to give them some added weight, which will help them stay in place on the felt mat.
