Instagram Friday

Friday Instagrams: A lot of kitsch and a little bit fascinating.

Hipstamatic/Instagram Thursday

Seven snapshots from my Thursday:  At work.  At home.  At red lights.

Out There On The Ice Again

Recovering from a cold... and the weather is giving me cabin fever.  My neighborhood is a dripping, slippery mass of ice-encased suspended animation.  Dangerous, yet beautiful in parts,  I thought I would bundle up and put this "stop, look and listen" moment to good use.  Incidentally, the sound of this day is what I call "crunching liquid glass". 

In Progress: Shiny Brite Design Machine

 

This is not a series piece for sale, but instead a piece that I am building for my home.  I have been collecting specific items (stored separately from my source material for other pieces) for about three and a half years and decided that this week would be a good time to build something new for myself.  Being extremely picky about what goes on my walls, I scrutinized and considered each and every element here very closely before committing it to the boards I bought and prepared to house this piece of work.   While there are some other small considerations to make, other small items to be added and a final coat of matte medium to be applied, all items have been affixed to the boards for the most part.

Click. Flash. Click. Flash.

1960s box of General Electric photo flash cubes.  Yet another cool vintage find that was given to me by my friend (and everyone's friend) Steve Sizer.  Many of these have ended up in assemblage pieces and some were repurposed as magnets for myself and friends.  

Childhood Illustrated, Circa 1910

 

 

While working on one of a series of large collages that I plan to sell, I was digging through a box of large, flea market-bought items to edit and clip down into manageable individual pieces.  In doing so, I was reminded of this rather damaged, but still amazingly beautiful item that I snagged about four years ago:  A 1910s children's book that was used for both coloring and story-telling.  I'm very glad I rescued it from the pile on the ground beneath a folding table in that outdoor flea market in Saylorsburg, PA.

And February Said...

Severe winter weather is now a weekly occurence... It is what it is.  2 February 2011.