While we are on the subject of very cool bug, -e- sent me a link to The Zymoglyphic Museum Curator’s Web Log: “Designer” Jewelry with Insect Larvae which features the art collaboration of Hubert Duprat and a caddis fly. The caddis fly larvae create a wearable tube out of the materials in their natural environment. […]
Jay Lake mentioned the Anthology of New Weird, which has a very cool clockwork bug on the cover. That bug is made by Insect Labs, which combines antique clockwork parts and actual bugs to create confections of neo-victorian clockwork. There are also some “higher tech” ones with LEDs. These are very, very cool. Go check
I’ll be in Brooklyn building puppets for the fabulous Emily DeCola and a production of Serendib. I’ll be building monkeys from February 6th-February 22nd. Consider yourself forewarned.
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Examine this photo. Can you deduce how I was supposed to spend the day and what might have taken some of my attention?
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I spotted this on Boing Boing. Andy’s a smart man.
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Rob and I went to see Inland Empire David Lynch’s new film. My review is three letters long. WTF? I will elaborate. I defy anyone to tell me that if they had seen this movie without knowing who the director was–if they had walked into a student film festival and saw this exact film, that
Sandro Castelli has created a stunning cover illustration to go with n. a. bourke’s story “Juana and the Dancing Bear.” Here’s the table of contents to give you a taste for the other stories inside Shimmer‘s Winter 2007 issue. Juana and the Dancing Bear by n. a. bourke Duets by Philip J. Lees Tom Cofferwillow
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I was looking out the window and an entire flock of starlings landed in my yard, dropping straight down like rain. For about thirty seconds, the ground became a writhing mass of black and brown then they lifted up again and were gone so fast that I wondered if they had been here at all.
Today was mostly spent tidying and sending things away. Folks from various corners of Portland came and picked up various things, slowly creating more space in the house. I also made snowcream tonight with the snow I saved in the freezer. Snowcream, for those of you who didn’t grow up with it, consists of a
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This is the last of these re-run posts. The Rabbits, Carrots and Whales tour was very short, but I used to tour nine months out of the year. I don’t do that anymore. At least, not the same way, but it does seem like I’m gone an awful lot. Friday, October 22, 1998Day Sixteen This
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If you’re a Tolkien fan and live in the Portland are, head over to McMenamins’ Kennedy School for J.R.R. Tolkien’s Birthday Bash. Saturday, January 20 J.R.R. TOLKIEN BIRTHDAY BASH With jugglers, live music by the Scraff Orser Band, the entire LOTR trilogy and more! Come in costume to compete for prizes! 11 a.m. ’til close;
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For some reason, writers can’t seem to get together without calling it a con. I guess so we can write it off. Tonight, Ken Scholes invited a slew of writers down to the Barley Mill Pub to meet Aimee Amodio, who is every bit as funny and delightful as Ken promised. So nice when a
My cat Maggie is sitting on my lap while I write for the first time since Monday when Zamboni arrived. Zamboni is a very well-behaved, but exuberant black Labrador. She hasn’t met cats before, so her natural reaction is to lunge and back. We’ve been bringing Maggie downstairs and praising Zamboni is she doesn’t lunge
Thursday, October 22, 1998Day Fifteen Ah- life on the road… Sungura broke again. But it was a new problem this time! How exciting. He has two joints in his neck. One at the base of the head and one at the base of the neck, where it joins his body. Up until now I’d been
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I’m not sure I’ve ever heard Rob laugh as hard as he did while watching this video of cars sliding down Salmon and 20th on our snow day. It satisfies me in some way, that the only car which successfully navigates the turn was not an SUV, but a simple sedan.