Exquisite Corpse

David A Smith - Sign Artist from Danny Cooke

more exquisitness found here:

http://www.workingformorework.com

Before and After: Outdoor Living

After

Before

When I moved up to the bay area I was looking to furnish my new place with items on the free section of craigslist. I came across the following items:

Steamer Trunk found in work colleagues garage (not vintage...but after a few damp days it began to create its own patina.)

Hide-Away couch- found on the curb and after reupholstering with fabric almost donated by an Ikea sale ..it became a perfect out door seating arrangement.

Eucalyptus Logs - found in friends backyard and are now perfect end tables / cat scratching post.

Special Thanks to Lauren Henley for her help and design skills..including her awesome help with the upholstery!

Faile

Faile

Keywords: Pulp, vernacular, wood work, collage, pop art, sexy, funky, urban, pattern, textural, contemporary, vintage, typographic, illustrative, comic, advertising, experimental, humorous.

The Crown Center

Our new album is out. Hand made screen printed just for u:

Topaz Rags

The Crown Center

NNF198—7" ($5)

West Coast ghost squad Topaz Rags stalk back into the deadlights with a fresh vinyl single, their first new material since the Capricorn Born Again LP. Recorded in the heart of winter in a room with one blue light bulb, “The Crown Center” is pure nightprowler music: quaking bass, grime-jazz keys, dusty drums, witch choirs floating through the smog and into sleeping homes with the power lines cut. The sound of crime to come. The flip (“You Go On”) slips deeper into the psych-psycho psyche, a bleached-brain riff-rhythm grinding away endlessly while voices and electric piano stabs arc across the stereo field, raining ash. A grimmer twist on the Topaz formula, the dreamer’s dream turned dark. 33 RPM 7 inches of variously colored vinyl in hand-silkscreened cardstock sleeves. Edition of 345.

Bits & Pieces

Pixelated Sculptures by Shawn Smith

What would Ed Fella Do?

Fella Collections

Designer People - Ed Fella 

Hyggelig

 

Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art

That Roundhouse

Heidi Treehouse Chalet

needle and threads

For his graduation project from the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Siggi Eggertsson designed a quilt based upon his childhood memories (obviously a Michael Jordan fan). It’s 2 x 2.5 metres and made from 10,000 pieces. The quilter, Johanna Viborg took 250 hours over six weeks to complete it.

link provided by: 30gm

Ray Materson

Ray Materson began making his intricate needlework pictures, which measure about 3 by 2 inches each, from unraveled socks. He was in prison at the time, serving a 25-year sentence for kidnapping and robbery after becoming an alcoholic and drug addict. His unlikely life story of redemption through art is aptly, if punningly, told in Sins and Needles: A Story of Spiritual Mending, written by Materson and his wife Melanie. www.raymaterson.com
 

 The Prisoner
1991

House on York Road
1994