July 2008
11 posts
Vintage loot. Miniature birdcage, wooden letter stamps, antique Hohner accordion!
I’m expecting baby snails! Emergence from the soil should be in about two weeks and the plan is to keep a few and release the rest near the river. Have been a little obsessed since finding my gastropod buddy on the sidewalk near work. Thankfully people have been most tolerant and hopefully a little amused by my overly enthusiastic tales of its activities. I’m pretty sure it is a Grove...
Soviet food posters from English Russia in anticipation for the русский язык party this Thursday. Appetizing? Not entirely convinced, myself.
Specimins arrived. Trying to come up with something to do with them other than a display of delightful globby-things on my shelf.
Below L-R: Crystal Jelly (Aequorea victoria), Moon Jelly (Aurelia aurita), Sea Gooseberry (Pleurobrachia), Portuguese Man o’ War (Physalia physalis), By-the-Wind-Sailors (Velella velella), A Sea Monster
Vasco Mourão
Some of the artists at the international collaboration next weekend sound interesting: Arthur Ganson – sculptural machines – Stoneham, Massachusetts: Exhibited at the Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art, Trondheim, Norway and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Inventor of the toy Toobers and Zots and a co-founder of the Hands On Toy Company. Some info here. Really neat sculptures:...
Anyone can be classy wearing steak earrings and a breakfast necklass. Also, who doesn’t want their very own miniature asian butcher stand?
