Electro Uncilated Blurb

Wooo! Don't know where I have been but I have lots to talk about today. Yesterday I was leafing through a copy of Quilting Arts and came across their ad for a challenge of vacation postcards so I read it through and realized I have LOTS of ideas, and materials, to do this. So the first thing that came to mind was my huge collection of bridge images. Every time I get in the car I have my camera aimed up at the sky **just in case** a bridge appears. My iPhoto album of bridges is getting somewhat unwieldy, so finally a use has appeared!

Here are three of the original bridge photos:



The first one, of the steel beam, became the cover with the title over it, the two others became pages, here:


I printed them all on white cotton that had been dyed (more still of the endless Mickey Lawlor stash!) and ran into so much trouble with the printer I couldn't believe it- ended up changing all the ink cartridges- another $100 bites the dust- before anything would print without skipped lines, and I was doing a head cleaning before every print. But finally I got it done and fused up back to back and sewed in tiny eyelets to connect the pages. The criteria are for four pages both sides, but I have a few extras to stick in when they send it back. All in all it was fun, it weighs way less than the 5# limit, and I will get it off to the magazine as soon as the glue dries up.


Yesterday I put on these shoes from the bottom of my closet:

I had bought them at the beginning of the summer at TJMaxx and worn them many times. Well I have a habit of leaving my shoes next to whatever chair I am sitting in, and as usual I misplaced them, but there they were in my closet so I put them back on to walk the dog. Got back, flopped into a chair and there were my shoes next to the chair AND on my feet. Yes folks, dementia has struck- I have purchased the same shoes twice. I must like them, eh? I'll take one pair to FL so they will be well used, but geesh.



Now, because this blog is supposed to be about art, not my shoe stupidity, here are a few things to follow, all worth a few minutes of your time.

Here's the new Post Secret video- Have you sent your secrets yet?

Bag Art, by a Japanese artist who takes advantage of the gusts of wind coming from the subway grates in NY.

Japanese Performance Art/Interior Design/Graffitti:


Tar as an art medium:

A whole site for Color Lovers!


Chocolate sculptures


The poster of this picture claims it to be the single worst name for a business- Ha. Little does he know I have lived with it as my initials for 35 years. Needless to say I am not into monogramming.

That's a wrap.