I made a bunch of inkblots while creating the Rorschach Inkblot Valentine,
so I’m posting them, since I found the process relaxing and the product amusing.
Tell me what you see, and just like when administered by a psychiatrist, if you get the right answer, you’ll win a prize!
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I painted/photoshopped this Valentine card for TSB. Click the image to see the inside of the card.
I’ve been toying with this image for a long time and finally got it burned onto screens. Sorry the photos aren’t top notch, but I wanted to get them up today for thing-a-day. Now I need to buy decent t-shirts to print them on. The image on the right is actually a print on paper that I made for my little brother, who needs stuff to hang on the bare walls of his new apartment.
I got a number of requests for a report on (and video proof of) how well the Whisk-Drill works in the kitchen. It works remarkably well. Sorry about the bed-head.
As two of my favorite pastimes are cooking and designing furniture, you’d think I would have tried this sooner.
I’ve told a bunch of people to save the date, but never got around to sending the invitations.
It’s the year of the Ox, so of course there needs to be an ox. The rest of it is pretty random.
I just registered for thing-a-day 2009, the challenge to create one new “thing” every day for the month of February and post it on the site. The concept grew out of an assignment from a class taught by Ze Frank at NYU early in the millenium that was resurrected by some of the students in the class in 2007. Neil just reminded me, so I can sign up on time for once.
I can’t quite tell what counts as a “thing” since the site is more or less down right now. Anyone know the rules? So far, I am stock-piling ideas including food, sake, beer, infused booze, photos, videos, animation, book arts projects (I’m taking a class), silkscreen t-shirts, drawings, a crossword puzzle, furniture, picture frames, a party, a case for my new netbook (grey flannel maybe), a bacon-porn website, a shiny wood-veneer shell for my netbook, a coat rack, a bomb (just kidding), and trouble (does making trouble count?).
You can find my posts by clicking Quinn on the Participants page or just by clicking my linked name on this line.
What else should I make?
As I tried to explain the beer brewing process to TSB a few weeks ago, I remembered that she is more of a kinesthetic and visual learner, and not so much auditory. I knew she’d get it once she tried it, but since she asked me to give her the gist in advance, I drew it on a napkin for her.
I finally printed the first Pirate Santa Bandana, but complications with exposing the photo emulsion left the final result moderately crappy, and without time before I head to the East Coast, I am putting the project on hold. I may have late Christmas presents wrapped in bandanas for folks in the west when I get back, or I may postpone altogether and make them a feature of Christmas 2009.
Although gifts themselves, I’m also using them as gift wrap to cut down the amount of paper my loved ones will be throwing away this holiday season. Thanks to the Japanese Ministry of the Environment for this Furoshiki guide sheet.
I’m finally building a front page for nermo.com and while I was at The Lab‘s annual Post-Postcard show Friday, I was reminded of the Home Fugu Chef Kit I designed for the show 2 years ago, and of the Mr. Yuck-inspired “tetrodotoxin poisoning” sticker for the chef’s guests to put on their foreheads before dining so paramedics would know how to treat them once found, and I painted a cute little picture of a pufferfish with a sumi-e brush for the sticker. I need to clean it up, but here is the original sticker and a few site logo ideas:
Your thoughts?
