Thanks to making creatures, creature containers, and my upcoming assemblages, unusual things have been arriving for me in the mail. I love Ebay for the sheer expansiveness of the long tail: no matter what you need, somebody will be selling it. Recent arrivals have included antique square nails: … and tiny antique phlebotomy test tubes…
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Unready and Unhot.
Last night, Michele and I ran to Wal-Mart for a few things right after she picked me up at the station. Nothing had been started for dinner, so we decided to pick something up. Big Daddy’s is a hot-and-ready pizza place (except they have to call it something else, because that’s a Little Caesar’s trademark). …
An embarrassment of riches, and a work in progress.
I took a trip to Smith & Edwards Superstore this morning, where the motto is “We Have Everything You Need… If We Can Find It.” It began as a military surplus store in 1947, and while it has expanded out to hunting and gun supplies, fishing and camping, hardware, housewares and various bargain store bric-a-brac,…
And now, a Twitter discussion that got too big for Twitter.
Dwayne Johnson Fan: The Rock is absolutely the first wrestler to become a real movie star! Roddy Piper Fan: Hey, Junior, lemme school you. Santo Fan: You’re both a couple of whippersnappers. Tor Johnson Fan: Sellouts, all of them. (Sob.)
Bloodworms by the boatload!
I ran out of the small spice jars I had been using for the Siberian bloodworms, but I found these on Ebay for about a buck each in a case of twenty-four, including postage. Also, O what a difference natural light makes!
And now, a specimen of a different kind.
Varying a bit from my fantastic grotesqueries in jars, here’s a historical grotesquery in a box: If you can’t read the label, it says, “Witch finger’ amulet to ward off evil.” I’m almost as proud of the box as of the finger: When I started, it was a plain balsa wood box from a yard…
Assemblages Assemble!
Writing about art is famously like dancing about architecture, but I’m gonna attempt it anyway. The first part, not the second. Though you should see my Frank Lloyd Wright jitterbug retrospective. Waaay back, I got an Art Minor with my Lit degree, but I never felt invigorated by the possibilities of my own work. Despite…
A veritable infestation of creatures!
On the left, a septic parasite; on the right, more Siberian bloodworms, as the label clearly states. These will also be for sale at CONduit on Memorial Day weekend. (I’m planning to have an oodle of bloodworms; everything else will be one of a kind.)
More creatures!
Using Photoshop to help correct the flaws of my poor photography… By the way, all the creatures I’ve posted, and ones yet to come, will be for sale at CONduit at the end of May.
Creeeeee-tures!
Justifying the “I make things” part of my subtitle, here are a couple of things in jars that I made recently: Yes, I know, I am a terrible photographer. They look much cooler in person.