9 posts tagged “art”

Cool post about screenprinting. Thanks to my very cool mom, I actually know a bit about (old school) screenprinting, and the first thing I thought when I saw his proof was, "OMG, he cut that with an eXacto?" Turns out technology is our friend and you don't have to do it that way any more :-)

Tunktacles!!

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Last October I had the pleasure of taking a screen printing class with Steve Walters of Chicago’s Screwball Press. This is something like having a piano lesson from Chopin. After seven or eight hours in the Screwball studio, I had my first 11” x 17”,...

Sugar Frosted Goodness!: Hats

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an awesome drawing from one of my favorite artists, irisz

More here.

The MO and I spent the evening at the DiverseWorks Art Auction.

DiverseWorks Art Auction 2007

The deal is, you buy an "art chance" ticket and they raffle these off, bingo-style. When they call your number, you have a limited amount of time (15 seconds, this year) to claim the artwork you want.

We got called about half-way through, and happily, the MO got something he'd had his eye on....

DiverseWorks Art Auction 2007

It's always a fun evening, and this year was no exception. Plus I got to wear some cute new shoes:

new shuz

It really is a mob scene. I used the Elph to take a video, and it came out pretty well, but I've just waited over an hour for it to upload with no success, so at this point, you just gotta take my word for it :-)

We had a drag queen raffle-ticket-announcer, some of whose comments were gold. My faves I texted to myself:
"If he's not gay he's very metro!" (about a very obviously gay dude in plaid pants)
and
"I love the Converse, very nice for a straight man!" (about my very own husband)

That's my man. Everybody loves him :-)

Naomi Barker,
originally uploaded by chuckwheat.

The MO and I were out at our local pizza place tonight, and as we were finishing up our dessert, the MO noticed a girl at the bar. "I think I know her," he says. Well, the MO knows everybody, so this is not surprising. After a few more "I think that's her" type comments, she comes over to our table, and well, yeah, he does know her. In fact, we have a diptych of hers over our fireplace mantel. This is the chickee in question, obviously ;-)

Thanks to a random sighting on flickr: tinymeat

But you cannot have this, cause I already bought it :-)

Thrush thrush from tinymeat

I have to admit I never thought about the labels in this much detail:

...Pilsner Urquell and the less common Staropramen, are equally, if not more, elegant in their label designs. All three employ the same essential elements. The name is set on the slant with a thin drop shadow to lift it...

[Rick Poynor for eyemagazine.com. See the full story here.]

but I do agree that the PU is a fine beverage.

cheers!

I've just discovered Irisz Agocs via Sugar-Frosted Goodness. Is not Numeral Cat just the sweetest thing ever? I covet Numeral Cat....