From the category archives:

inspiration

Words Found Today

11 June 2008

In the cor­ner of the page con­tain­ing a pat­tern for cut­ting out a jointed paper doll.
1. Enlarge or reduce tem­plate to desired size.
2. Cut out.
3. Embell­ish and attach pieces together.
I think these may be the lost direc­tions for life.

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Shoes

30 April 2008

There’s an mag­a­zine called Antenna, that show­cases “street wear” Some­thing that, as a mid­dle aged white lady, I know lit­tle or noth­ing about. How­ever, the mag­a­zine is a trea­sure trove of images of things (shoes, sweat­shirts, tooth­brushes(?)) laid out against a white background.

Each issue has sev­eral pages of — shoes.
Some of which were cut out and […]

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TV Shows from Way Back">One of My Favorite TV Shows from Way Back

4 April 2008

Back in the day (newly mar­ried) the DH and I used to watch a lot of the dis­cov­ery chan­nel. One of the most charm­ing shows was The Secret Life of Machines.

Every­day items like vac­uum clean­ers, wash­ing machines, and quartz watches explained by decon­struc­tion and wacky lit­tle ani­ma­tions. A lit­tle like the David Macaulay books.
The full […]

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Inspriation: Zapotec Designs

25 February 2008

We spent Sat­ur­day with our friend Demetrio Bautista Lazo the weaver. In addi­tion to eat­ing too much. (Gra­cias, Mari­bel por la comida muy deli­cioso!) We went walk­ing around the town of Teoti­t­lan.
That’s Demetrio show­ing me a tree of life rug that he’s working on.

This the dome of the local church..

As was com­mon when con­struct­ing colo­nial churches […]

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