Sukkah City

Fall is coming, that means religious holidays are almost here!  Start preparing your Sukkahs, New York City wants the most inventive ones for a Sukkah City.  Religious design, take note.

Academic Postcard: Richard Stallman on Apple

February 2010, William Pitt Union, Richard Stallman talks

Postcard from Belfast, The Secret Garden

Drawn Shirt: Out of Palo Alto

So is it really that Last Gasp time already? Let’s hope I have another weekend at least of art-time, but if not, I’ve been squeezing as many drawings out as the week allows. Here’s a composite Palo Alto shirt — the truck and palm from an abandoned lot on College Drive, with one of the archway arcades from Jordan Hall on Stanford’s Serra Drive. Done in the sauna of the past two days, I’m happy with the white on light turquoise. Medium t-shirt, up for sale on Etsy!

Panda The Tote Bag

A red upholstery tote bag (fabric from the Ida collection) featuring a panda popping out — the white body appliqued firmly on, the lightly stuffed ears, arms and legs ready to move around.  Big, durable, panda — for sale on Etsy.

Art California: Mural Alley of the Mission

Over Mark’s clucks of anti-tourist disapproval, I went photo-crazy in the Mission District of San Francisco.  Whole alleys full of bizarro murals!  I don’t regret it, tourist or not.  Go find it, the Clarion Alley Mural Project, grown out of lowbrow urban rustic Mission Schooldom.

A Cem Karaca Shirt for the Masses

Now that Ciaran has requested some shirts, and California has denied me any affordable DIY screen-print studio (!), I’ve given in to Spreadshirt to be the force to send my Cem Karaca out into the world.  I’ve set up 2 different men’s and women’s styles — one a little more fitted (for some extra dollars), the other the basic t (for a more standard price).  You can find them –and choose your colors as you wish!– right here at Spreadshirt.

Wildflowered Soft Purses

Two shoulder purses made from felts and plush fabrics, some canvas and upholstery ones too, both featuring pops of wildflower appliques.  I made the bags a few years back, but only completed them with flowers this year.  Now for sale on Etsy!

Day of the Dead Skull Skirt

California has invaded my brain!  After two weeks of seeing Day of the Dead skulls around (well, none yet in Silicon Valley, really just in the best corners of San Francisco), and of receiving my new favorite wallet ever in the mail, this is what I produced last night.  Fueled on Turkish-feast-food, I almost finished my new favorite audiobook The Help while skullifying this new demure black skirt.

It’s the first of three black swing skirts, knee-level or below, that I found while Goodwill Hunting last weekend.  I was going to do a skyline or street scene, but skull drawing was more addictive than buildings, at least for now.  I’ve been thinking whether to add any more to it — dots or lines circling the skull, some other skulls, a table scene.  But I think I like the pop out of the skull, kind of like Poodle Skirts of old America, but with a little more teeth and crazier eyes.

For sale on Etsy now!

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