Green Piece, 2009 (installation view)
Green garden equipment.
Dimensions: 0.6 x 0.6 x 0,6 m.
Artist's website
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12.26.2009
Michael Johansson
Green Piece, 2009 (installation view)
Green garden equipment.
Dimensions: 0.6 x 0.6 x 0,6 m.
Artist's website
12.01.2009
plastic snowflakes
Clever little snowflake made from six-pack rings. This project inspired me to create a new label, "Why didn't I think of that??" Full instructions are here.
11.27.2009
Happy Black Friday {aka 'Buy Nothing Day'}
This link popped up on my daily wiki-how gadget:
How to Escape Materialism and Find Happiness
How to Escape Materialism and Find Happiness
11.18.2009
Esme Kenney Memorial Sculpture Project
{drawing by Jessie Henson}
A project that is near and dear to my heart. Read more about the project in today's article in the Cincinnati Enquirer and be sure to check out the project blog.
11.17.2009
11.12.2009
vuja de
"Vuja De" is the inverse of "deja vu;" it's looking around at very familiar territory with new eyes; "like a traveler." Inspiring lecture about how to pay closer attention and observe details that are easily overlooked.
11.03.2009
double fortune
I got a fortune cookie the other day with 2 fortunes!
"Appreciate the caring people who surround you."
~and~
"Don't give up. Your problem gets better next month."
"Appreciate the caring people who surround you."
~and~
"Don't give up. Your problem gets better next month."
10.28.2009
TIMON TUPPER ART TRADE
My friend Timon Tupper brought me his damaged jacket (pictured above) and proposed that I patch it for an art trade. The wedding of my friends, Brit and Paul, was fast approaching, so I asked him to do a painting that I could give as a wedding gift. Here are the results. (P&B were thrilled!)
9.12.2009
SCHMISCHMELLE SCHMILLER WEEK
2006 Winner Stuart Hyatt
2007 Winner Adam Krandle
2008 Winner Kris Rusch
It's that time of year again, the time when we gather together at a bowling alley and compete for a handmade trophy in a tournament known as "Michelle Miller Week." This year's event will take place Monday, September 14 at Pine Grove Lanes in Howards Grove.
The first "Michelle Miller Week" took place at the end of my JMKAC/municipalWORKSHOP internship in Sheboygan, August 2006 and was loosely modelled after LebowskiFest. In August 2007 the tradition was kept alive to celebrate my move from Sheboygan to NYC. That year the name changed to "Elle Miller Week." In August 2008 I was in Delaware with the munici crew and another "Elle Miller Week" was observed. This year I'm not in transit (a highly unusual phenomenon) and so we will bowl.
(Oh yeah, just to make things more confusing, it's called "Michelle Miller Week" again.)
2007 Winner Adam Krandle
2008 Winner Kris Rusch
It's that time of year again, the time when we gather together at a bowling alley and compete for a handmade trophy in a tournament known as "Michelle Miller Week." This year's event will take place Monday, September 14 at Pine Grove Lanes in Howards Grove.
The first "Michelle Miller Week" took place at the end of my JMKAC/municipalWORKSHOP internship in Sheboygan, August 2006 and was loosely modelled after LebowskiFest. In August 2007 the tradition was kept alive to celebrate my move from Sheboygan to NYC. That year the name changed to "Elle Miller Week." In August 2008 I was in Delaware with the munici crew and another "Elle Miller Week" was observed. This year I'm not in transit (a highly unusual phenomenon) and so we will bowl.
(Oh yeah, just to make things more confusing, it's called "Michelle Miller Week" again.)
9.08.2009
JOIN THE BUCKET BRIGADE!
Kate and I paced it out. We need 96 people to really make this work. And it will...
8.31.2009
8.27.2009
LYRIC
“Go on, go on, and scream and cry,
you’re miles from where anyone will find you.
This is nothing new,
no television crew,
they don’t even put on the sirens.”
from Star Witness by Neko Case
you’re miles from where anyone will find you.
This is nothing new,
no television crew,
they don’t even put on the sirens.”
from Star Witness by Neko Case
8.25.2009
8.12.2009
8.10.2009
PLASTIC BAGS IN THE PRESS
A couple recent news stories from NPR featuring my favorite medium-the plastic bag.
Seattle's Plastic Bag Debate
How Green Are Reusable Bags?
It may seem odd that as a collector and crocheter of plastic bags, I am totally 110% in favor of a fee that would help motivate buyers to bring their own bags. My relationship to plastic bags is one of divine dichotomy; I am drawn to them, inspired to experiment and play, while simultaneously I curse their existence. The Seattle article mentions the 'Great Garbage Patch' of plastic circulating in the Pacific Ocean. I first learned of the GGP from the book The World Without Us, and the idea of an island of plastic in the ocean is what keeps me coming back to the plastic bag as a medium. This stuff isn't going anywhere! We've got to figure out something to do with the bags (and other discarded plastics as well). And so I crochet...
Seattle's Plastic Bag Debate
How Green Are Reusable Bags?
It may seem odd that as a collector and crocheter of plastic bags, I am totally 110% in favor of a fee that would help motivate buyers to bring their own bags. My relationship to plastic bags is one of divine dichotomy; I am drawn to them, inspired to experiment and play, while simultaneously I curse their existence. The Seattle article mentions the 'Great Garbage Patch' of plastic circulating in the Pacific Ocean. I first learned of the GGP from the book The World Without Us, and the idea of an island of plastic in the ocean is what keeps me coming back to the plastic bag as a medium. This stuff isn't going anywhere! We've got to figure out something to do with the bags (and other discarded plastics as well). And so I crochet...
5.28.2009
QUOTES FOR A THURSDAY
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like" -Will Rogers
"People wish to be settled. Only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." -Emerson
"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly." -Bertrand Russell
"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life." -Herbert Otto
"The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's hum drum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity." -D.T. Suzuki
{Gathered from Zen and the Art of Making a Living, Laurence G. Boldt}
"People wish to be settled. Only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." -Emerson
"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly." -Bertrand Russell
"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life." -Herbert Otto
"The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's hum drum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity." -D.T. Suzuki
{Gathered from Zen and the Art of Making a Living, Laurence G. Boldt}
5.20.2009
MONDAY EP
For their Monday EP, Brianna Lane and Cahalen David Morrison (together, Harbor Collective) deconstructed an old atlas to create unique, handmade CD sleeves. A customized name stamp adds the finishing touch. Get your own at CD Baby.
5.12.2009
LETS
Local Exchange Trading Systems. Most of my graphic design services are offered on a bartering basis, so I'm very interested in LETS. Anyone have any additional info?
5.10.2009
MADE FROM SCRATCH
A recent new purchase has been the book, Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life. Jenna Woginrich is my age, works a full-time desk job, and has written a very practical, easy-to-read memoir about her adventures in self-sufficient living. A lot of the chapters aren't quite applicable to me in my yardless studio apartment, (beekeeping, chickens, house dogs, etc), but I mostly wanted to support a 26-year old writing about homesteading. Check out her blog, Cold Antler Farm.
5.06.2009
USING THINGS UP
Came across a post on one of my favorite blogs, Re-Nest, about spring cleaning by means of using things up. I recently overheard some friends discussing skipping a week of grocery shopping and using up everything collecting dust in the cabinets. Brilliant.
I'm also reminded of a story I once heard about a girl, let's call her Betty. Betty was moving to the big city and knew that she would not be able to buy new clothes often because the big city is freakin' expensive. So Betty, being such a clever girl, divided her wardrobe into 3 mini-wardrobes. She took one of the mini-wardrobes with her when she moved to the city and when she got to that point where she felt like she had "nothing to wear," she had her mom ship her another wardrobe. Free new clothes! And Betty and her 3 mini-wardrobes lived happily ever after. (Until she got sick of the city and moved back to the Midwest).
I'm also reminded of a story I once heard about a girl, let's call her Betty. Betty was moving to the big city and knew that she would not be able to buy new clothes often because the big city is freakin' expensive. So Betty, being such a clever girl, divided her wardrobe into 3 mini-wardrobes. She took one of the mini-wardrobes with her when she moved to the city and when she got to that point where she felt like she had "nothing to wear," she had her mom ship her another wardrobe. Free new clothes! And Betty and her 3 mini-wardrobes lived happily ever after. (Until she got sick of the city and moved back to the Midwest).
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