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wooden flashlight kits

anne — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:34:12 +0000

Little kits that let you build an impractical wooden flashlight… it’s a soulderless simple circuit you can put together using only wood glue. Someone suggested “Victorian Flashlights”; I thought about “hipster flashlights”, but whatever they’re called people seem to really like them (especially chicks). I’m thinking of reinvigorating my etsy store and selling these kits online (as well as more complex kits that are in the works!).

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jellyballs!

anne — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:26:02 +0000

Water-absorbing-grow-jelly-ball-thingies! They’re neat.

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doodles

anne — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:18:52 +0000

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EAST 2011

anne — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:51:06 +0000

East Austin Studio Tour time again! This year my housemate Aaron Bir was supremely prepared for EAST, and had a great first showing. Read all about it here. I did the rounds again, and after attending for three years now, found that many artists either had the same work, or were doing new work indistinguishable from the old. There were a few great exceptions, and some exciting new artists, but I didn’t catalogue my finds like I did last year. I encourage anyone who hasn’t yet checked out the event for themselves to explore next year. There’s even a possibility kicking around that you might get to explore our own house studio…

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paint, real paint

anne — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:11:34 +0000

Exploring some real paint again.

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Arthur Pindragon

anne — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:07:36 +0000

I have the terrible affliction of not being able to resist a good pun, or a bad pun. (I’m not sure there actually are any good puns….) So when I needed a pincushion, I didn’t go out like a sensible person and buy one, nor did I make a cute, easy little strawberry or pumpkin, no! I couldn’t get ‘Arthur Pindragon’ out of my head, so I spent several hours cracking myself up, sewing this little guy. At least someone had fun.

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Perdenales State Park

anne — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:15:13 +0000

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Art Outside 2011

anne — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:38:37 +0000

This year I created an installation art piece (last year was press photography). The installation was my biggest hole-stone tree yet! I found a perfect live oak with branches just the right height and secret hollows in the trunk. Three of the hole-stones had pockets big enough to fit LEDs, as did the trunk hollows. It turned out spectacular – mysterious, serene hanging stones and subtle fairy lights. Though it was too windy for me to get any good shots of the glowing stones at night.

And the rest of Art Outside was amazing as well. I must say my favorite bit was Maestro (Austin local!) and NicoLuminious on the open mic sometime around 3am Friday doing beatbox/live production acapella dubstep. I think they may have just created a genre.

And we finally got rain! After months and months of drought, the rain chose this one weekend. The sentiment was something along the lines of ‘we can’t really be pissed because rain is great, but why this weekend?’ My tent flooded.

Now I’m wondering what I’ll do next year? Perhaps impossible, but I can’t stop thinking about POV poi…

Art Outside 2011

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Holy Glowing Stones, it’s Art Outside!

anne — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:20:47 +0000

This year I’m doing an installation piece! Above is a sneak peak of what you might find. And probably press photography as well. Here’s a link to my AO bio.

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Sorting Rocks

anne — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:59:44 +0000

It’s that time of year again – moving time! One day we’ll find a place that works out for more than a year. But for now, I have to sift through clothes, books, domestic wares and all the etcetera associated with living to see what’s worth shlepping with me again.

This weekend I found myself in the rather ridiculous activity of sorting rocks. Not fancy rocks that might actually be considered valuable, no, but crap I picked up because it was ‘interesting’. (In my defense, they really are interesting – some of them even have fossils!) And this I find is a theme. It has come down to what, of the flotsam I have collected, will be useful to me; and moving time is usually a time of increased artistic output because hey, if I ain’t gonna use it, it’s getting tossed.

So it was with the assemblages above. What to do with mouldering dried things? Put them inside other things! I would like to add as an aside that the butterflies were humanely preserved – I picked them up in their final flutters, and waited until nature had taken it’s course to pin them.

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