This is my submission for Loobylu’s July’s Month of Softies, a sock monkey. I’ve been curious about sock monkeys since first reading about the tradition a year or two ago, so I’m glad to have tried it out. This one started out plain and ugly, and I nearly abandoned him altogether, but I kept going [...]
Monthly Archive for July, 2005
Green Cape Lighthouse
Posted in photographs, photography on Jul 29th, 2005
Green Cape Lighthouse in Ben Boyd National Park, on the south coast of New South Wales. Built in 1883.
Two other photos here and here.
Happened across Duct Tape Rachel, a bold photo of the process of making a self-form-fitting duct tape dressmaker’s dummy. It links to an article called Clone yourself a Fitting Assistant by David Page Coffin, which in turn shows you four ways of making your own dummy:
Duct tape dress form #1
Duct tape dress form #2
Molded papier-mâché [...]
Speaking of Carpets
Posted in street art, visual art on Jul 25th, 2005
I do love public and community artwork! A few days ago the Wooster Collective pointed to the public art of Seyed Alavi. There are lots of great projects to browse through, but the Flying Carpet, an aerial view of a 50 mile stretch of the Sacramento River translated into woven carpet, which was made for [...]
My husband’s grandfather had a wide notion of what might be fixed with paint, and it got more extensive as he got older, until he was happily fixing stains in upholstery and carpets with dabs of paint. I’ve been thinking about him today, because I have been spraypainting a border pattern onto a large piece [...]
Moss graffiti and secret worlds
Posted in make, materials, street art, tutorial on Jul 15th, 2005
We have been deep in drought for some years, but in just the last few weeks we have had enough rain to encourage small patches of green to peep through, and suddenly there are beautiful verdant mounds of moss appearing in nooks and cracks in the pavement, and around trees in the gardens. I’m [...]
Ronnie Burkett’s Paper Mache Recipes and other things
Posted in craft, make, materials, portfolio, sculpture on Jul 14th, 2005
Having seen Ronnie Burkett’s amazing Tinka’s New Dress in its last season at the Melbourne Festival in 2002, and heard him speak so inspiringly at the Puppetry Summit there at the same time, I was interested to see Burkett’s article on paper mache (via Puppetry News and Views).
The article talks about recipes for making [...]
Last week my son and I cracked up when we happened across a video clip of Bud Light’s Real Men of Genius: Mr Giant Taco Salad Inventor (’I don’t see no lettuce!’). I had no idea it was part of a series of Bud Light commercials but yesterday my friend Amy serendipitously blogged about a [...]