New Projects

I'm slowly trying to accomplish new projects.

One of which I have pieces completed, here's one piece:

 

Plexiglass box, syringes, crappy cell phone picture

I am also making a couple coptic stitch books. Kind of like this book on my etsy. But not quite like it. These two books are made out of scrap paper from other books and wood covers. As soon as I get around to drilling the holes they'll be done soon after.

I also want to make some mini versions of the 16mm covered lightbox that was part of my thesis show a year ago. I think I want to go with those led lights you press to turn on, but I'm trying to find the right design for it... I'm working on it.

I'm also a slow and bad Portuguese student. But I'm working on that too.

Sunspot Café

I will be working at the Sunspot Café soon. As soon as it is properly inspected and all the employees are trained that is. I've been helping out in the decorating and painting of the place in the last few weeks. I've also designed a coupon and two gift certificates that will be printed and used once we've opened. I'm really excited to start working there, it's going to have fantastic, mostly vegetarian food, treats like cupcakes and gluten-free baked delicacies. And it's a two second walk from my house!

Here's what I've designed:

coupons, doubled up to fit on 8.5" x 11" paper

Gift certificate, postcard sized

Gift certificate, dollar bill sized

The logo is different in the certificates because it changed, and I didn't design the logo, I'm pretty sure the owner did that. It was nice to work with.

Please don't try to print these off yourself. One, because we're going to print them on specific paper and two, because that's rude.

2011 Artwork

So those post-it notes didn't go very far after I posted about them. But I did continue to collect security envelopes from my former employer.

I used most all of them to fold into shirts, my favorite thing to do with paper I collect.

Here's a sampling of some:

Shirts

I submitted my proposal to use them in a wall installation of 100 shirts, behind them will be a graph, filled in red for the percentage of unemployed people in the United States at the time of installation. Right now it's at 9% (and that's a drop).

With the remainder of the shirts I made a piece reflecting on the wastefulness of mailings and paper that gets recycled or even filed in office settings. It's a waste of time and space in my opinion... but for records it's necessary.

full piece

detail

I submitted these pieces to the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy. Which is a pretty nice space.

Paper

As I mentioned, I've been making some post-it "art" aka doodles at work. Not a whole lot, but enough. I'm currently more interested in figuring out things to do with the security envelopes I've been collecting.

pile of shirts

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pile o' shirts

this is not a fax silly

Vimeo

I cleaned up my Vimeo account a bit.

I just wish there was some way to make it obvious that I am credited in other videos that are not on my account. And I wish there were ways to organize the order of the videos.

(my other credited videos are here)


Vimeo is a little too much it's style and not enough of my own.

Sounds like it's about time I look into building a website for myself.