Sculptural landscapes

Guy Laramee makes intricate sculptural landscapes from books:

Guy Laramee

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How does anyone have the patience to do this?

So great, though.

 

Via

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Last chance to visit Present Day!

Present Day at Pleasant Plains Workshop is still packed with great gifts made by local artists.  I popped in yesterday and saw everything from tea towels to jewelry, plus tons of prints.  Stop in this weekend or come to the closing party Tuesday!

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Furthermore Editions Sale Tonight!

I have a few things in the editions sale at Furthermore, which opens tonight at 1019 7th Street, NW (3rd Floor) in DC.

My tennis partner Natalie of SP Weather Station organized the show and I can’t wait to see their weather-inspired editions. Each month a different artists responds to weather data collected at the SP Weather Station in Long Island City, Queens, New York:

SP Weather Station

 

Here’s the scoop on tonight’s event:

Opening Reception: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 | 6 – 10pm

The Studio

$10 donation at the door – Open Bar & Editioned Giveaway

A holiday event celebrating Furthermore’s inaugural kiosk of artist-generated zines, newspapers, and books - as well as:

  • Recent Editions with Progress Report, Flashpoint Gallery, Present Company, The Studio Visit, and Pleasant Plains Workshop
  • SP Weather Station’s annual box set by 12 artists, SP Weather Reports
  • RPM 001, the first in a series of artist book publications by Furthermore
  • Publications selected by Natalie Campbell and Maddie + Lauren VHS
  • A limited-edition poster by Nilay Lawson & Casey Smith

FEATURING:
Anita M-28 (Sally Alatalo), Peter Arkle, Inna Babaeva, Brian Balderston, BOOKLET, Wilson Butterworth, Patrick Brennan, Content, James Copeland, Christopher Cunningham, Color & Color, Lisa Dillin, Michael Evnen, Amanda B. Friedman & Elizabeth Hirsch, Adriene Garbini, Half Letter Press, Halsey Hathaway, Christopher K. Ho, Iconoclast, Implicasphere, the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, Nilay Lawson & Casey Smith, Shana Lutker, Graham McDougal, Moira McCauley, Rick Myers, Heidi Neilson, Emi Okabe, Possible Press, Post-Production, Present Company, Birgit Rathsmann, Bonner Sale, Chad Stayrook, Luke Stettner, Tattfoo Tan, Champneys Taylor, Alan Turner, Simon Vega, James Walsh, Jing Yu, Liz Zanis, and more…

Inaugural display will be ON VIEW for one week and by appointment thereafter:
December 15th – 20th  |  Hours: 2 – 7 PM

Image Captions (clockwise from top left):
Chad Stayrook, Vault (detail), 2010
SP Weather Reports, 2008 (detail: Michael Geminder, Katarina Jerinic)
Nilay Lawson & Casey Smith, Excise Ipso (detail), 2010
Michael Evnen, Maggie (detail), 2010

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BUST Holiday Craftacular in Manhattan

I’ll be here all weekend.  Come visit!

BUST Holiday Craftacular

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New mermaid shirts!

Printed a few with a new mermaid.  They should be up in the shop shortly!

mermaid shirt

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Tech support in the age of the book

I need to make a tech support call today but I’ve been procrastinating by watching this instead.

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Present Day at Pleasant Plains Workshop

Present Day, the holiday shop at my friend Kristina’s Pleasant Plains Workshop in DC, opened last weekend.  I stopped by post-brunch to check it out and the place was packed with shoppers and with fun gift options, like tote bags, prints, shirts, jewelry, locally printed magazines and more.

Pleasant PlainsSome mermaids were hangin’ out.

Shop for locally made artwork and gifts Thursdays-Sundays now until December 21 at 2608 Georgia Avenue NW!

Present Day at Pleasant Plains Workshop

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Handwriting

Have you read Ann Wroe’s excellent elegy to handwriting?

[F]or all the talk of fluency, balance, harmony and beauty in handwriting—for all the distrust of serifs, curlicues and fussiness in it—it is distinctiveness that we treasure it for: the degree to which it falls away from the copybook, and becomes part of ourselves.

Strangely, it becomes increasingly possible to get to know someone without knowing what their handwriting looks like.  Rarely is a phone number scrawled on a slip of paper, as it used to be.  I keep these in my wallet because I like the idea of sharing handwriting right away.

Calling cards

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Mermaid shirts are here!

Finally got the mermaid shirts up in the shop!  Check ‘em out:

Mermaid shirt
purple mermaid shirtgray mermaid shirtolive mermaid shirt

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