god is watching

God's Eye

First of all, more people should come to Church of Craft. Tonight was quiet, and a little odd at moments, but pretty awesome. Tristan made a 10 foot monochord this weekend--he set it up on the bar and plugged it into an amplifier and let everyone bang on it. BIG sounds. Steve learned how to patch his own jeans and played piano (which inspired me to be listening to my Erik Satie station right at this very moment) on a big white grand piano. Some guy made buttons out of string, another guy made an erotic statue out of obscure german lego-esque building blocks, and I made a very large god's eye. I just don't understand how people could choose to miss this shit. It just gets better and better every month.

I don't think anybody gets the god's eye. Not that there's so much to it--it's really just a ubiquitous childhood crafty weird church camp kind of thing (not that I have ever been to church camp) that I thought would be fun to try on a large scale. It makes perfect sense to me, and I think it looks awesome, but maybe I'm just odd. I did a little research to see if anyone in the art world has touched on the subject, and lo and behold:

By Arianna Stolt

From a window display at Craftland by artist Jen Corace.

So yeah. It's not a sweeping trend or anything, but I suspect maybe it will be. I think I'm going to make a bunch and create a totally church campified stage set for the fauxbois record release. You'll see.

rethinking

letting go of an idea that i'm attached to is a really hard thing to do. and that's why i'm going to do it here, in a semi-public sphere. to make it *official*. goodbye big beautiful dilapidated building. i will think of you often.

colouring

in the spirit of wasting time, i thought i'd visit colourlovers, which i haven't messed around with for a while...so much fun to be had on the internets. too much. here's a color palette:

based on this "inspiration" photo:

fashioning

uh oh. found a new time-waster.

Welcome to Polyvore! by csnow featuring Forever21

collaborating

I was just browsing around my friend Rick's blog and was reminded of this project that we did together a while back. I miss the little ghosties. It was an extremely fun and satisfying project--the kind of thing I could do all the time.

helping

I am so happy to get to practice my rudimentary design skills for friends with cool businesses...