While I am in the midst of learning how silicone caulk works (so sticky!), I made a video about the sensual thriller Basic Instinct.
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Jessica Describes Stuff – NSFW. Basic Instinct.
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021PTAC improvement, Part 2.
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021Okay! I went to the local hardware store (support your local hardware store) and got that foam filler as well as white silicone glop. I cut all the foam to fill in all the gaps. Look at that love, that care.
Then I cleaned off the housing and good Lordt, the grime. Look at these swiffers.
Now, because removing the caulk ripped off a lot of layers of wall, I took small bits of paper and put it back with glue so I’ll have a relatively flat surface to spackle on. Remember, we’re not going for flawless, we’re going for not so wretched that it catches your eye.
Next I do a little spackle-y spackle-y, and little sand-y sand-y, a little paint-y paint-y and then the silicone glop. We should be good then.
Artists I am feeling right now.
Sunday, May 16th, 2021Heather Penn. If you ask me you will learn that I can draw many things, and many things very well, but I can’t draw rocks. Cliffs, piles of rocks, I suck at them. I mean, I can draw them, they just don’t look like rocks. Sometimes they look like pillows, sometimes they look like potatoes, it varies. Therefore I am smitten and not a small bit envious of Heather Penn. Look at her lush artwork. It draws you in.
Heather sells calendars and is starting to get into 3D, I think she’s creating a game studio. https://www.instagram.com/heatpenn/?hl=en
Kazuma Nagai. I first learned of this Japanese artist when I saw the silver slugs.
I dug a little deeper into his work and he gets weird. I love it.
I don’t where he sells his work but you can follow him on his instagram as well. https://www.instagram.com/slughorse/?hl=en
You know what soothes the soul in times of strife? Charts.
Sunday, April 18th, 2021
New rotting fruit art!
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021I’ve spoken about the amazing work of Kathleen Ryan before. It appears she’s made new fruit and I love them.
I assumed the fruit was larger than life but I had no idea how much larger. It makes me wonder how big her beads are. My beads, even my biggest ones, would not cut it.
Beaver Skull. Here we go.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021Remember Deer Skull? In a moment of weakness I bought a beaver skull. C’mon guys, it was on sale! I got it for cheaper because the front teeth, the most valuable part of the skull, were broken at the tips. I’m going to cover the whole skull with beads similar to the deer but in gold and jewel tones. I have a lot of beads left over from the acorn necklace.
And after my dad died I submitted a 6″ x 6″ tile to the Museum of Beadwork, I used more of those metallic beads there.
So for this skull instead of matching the color of the bone I’m going hard in the opposite direction. I painted the everything except the teeth blue and put blue and green felt on areas where I might want to shove in some decorative pins. I need a substrate to shove the pins into and bone is notoriously resistant.
I used Apoxie Sculpt to mold clean ends on the teeth. I can cover those bits with beads and you’ll never know they were janky and broken. Fun fact: The reason the fronts of the teeth are orange is because that’s rust. Their teeth are covered with iron.
I want there to be a gold line going from the forehead to the back. Lord, this has been a journey. I first beaded a beautiful strip. I couldn’t believe the richness of the gold color. Then I realized the richness is due to the beads being covered in 24K gold. I had forgotten I had bought them. I am very much not using those beads on a frikkin’ beaver skull so I took it apart.
Attempt #2. I decided I wanted it to be a pointed stripe fading into dark blue. The color blend was too chunky so that one was scrapped.
Attempt #3. Nope.
Attempt #4. YES.
I will clip those loose threads and I can fix the wobbliness when I glue it down by pushing it around until it sets.
That took a solid week to make one strip. This learning curve needs to pick up but I’ll get there. Eventually.
Let’s start the 2021 on the right foot. With charts.
Friday, January 15th, 2021Several of my favorite charts, the Venn Diagram, which pleases me.
And check out this extremely beautiful infographic. I love it.
Art and design. Choices are made. Not all of them are great.
Thursday, January 7th, 2021Design is my career so I unintentionally look at everything and check spacing, check colors, check legibility, check line breaks, etc. It’s maybe not the best trait because I can’t ignore bad art and design which is all over the place. Allow me to share.
Swishy brush fonts are tough. Too much swishy and it looks like a different letter. And sometimes the swishies between two letters touch and you get problems. Let’s not forget the “Clint” nametag incident. “Curt” isn’t workin’ too good either.
Back when we could go places I used to frequent a Korean takeout place. This was the packaging for their chopsticks.
I thought it said OW! for way too long.
Good To Go! A lovely cafe in White Plains where I live. Look at how the tree is nestled between the D and the T. That works.
So why is your overhang this? Why? With the tree as the T? Which is a similar brown to the sign so you can’t see it? It you made the tree white it might have been fine. Please get ladder and fix. Please. It hurts my heart.
I used to pass this in Grand Central Terminal every day.
Perfect. Papyrus, now with the addition of Comic Sans. It’s circled back around to glorious.
And finally…
Everything. Everything is wrong with this. And I had to stare directly at it when I went to the bathroom. Truly blessed.
Addendum: I love how each animal gets crappier as your eye slides down the painting.
My dream tile.
Monday, December 21st, 2020I collect art nouveau tiles. I’ve talked about my Wall O’ Tiles previously. I periodically buy new tiles and swap them out with tiles I don’t totally love. I usually spend somewhere between $25.00 – $65.00. I’ve found some real treasures but there have always been a few I knew I could never have. The primary one is a flower that shows up in every “check out these baller tiles” collage.
One day I was hanging out on eBay looking at tiles when… there it was. For sale. With 14 people bidding on it. So I decided that’s it, I’m going to bid on it, and I did some aggressive soul-searching on what I was willing to spend on it. I went with $350.00 and walked away. I would let the eBay gods decide if I won or not. I cannot convey to you how psyched I was to get the “You’ve won!” email. The bidding ended at $306.00.
I own it, guys. I own the dream tile. I also found a the same tile with a different glaze and it was like $55.00 because you totally can’t see those sweet little flowers in the background. I wanted to have the lesser version to show why the great version is so great.
Dribs and drabs of awesome stuff.
Saturday, December 19th, 20201. I joined a group on Facebook called Crustacean Memes for Crabby Fiends.
I love when a someone invents a pleasant but irrelevant meme and out of nowhere it catches on and then it becomes its own thing. That is how we got Reginald.
Seems pretty innocuous. But he seemed to touch people’s hearts and a Life of Reginald was born.
Update: The Crustacean fan group is at war with the Ant fan group! And now the Snail fan group is getting involved!
2. When I worked at Publicis I walked past the H&M store on Fifth Avenue. Their window displays were well-designed. However, there are always choices made that are, I don’t know, odd. Counter-intuitive. Allow me to present you with an example.
Wrapped gifts! How nice. Oh, ice skates and a robot!
And a globe! Globes are a great gift. So round and informative.
Wow, a motorcycle!
Musical instruments!
And an enormous cactus. In a bathtub. Wrapped. Like gifts.
That threw me for a loop every time I saw that.
Also in the Rockefeller Center is a Cole Haan store. Cole Haan is pleasant, I loved a purse they had twenty years ago and I loved their summer lobster flip flops a couple years back but that’s pretty much it. Again with the however, they were doing some all-over approach with spikes and I am here for it.
Those shoes are great. If they come in black I will struggle not to buy them. So minimal but then spikes.
3. I don’t know what I’ve clicked on to get Facebook to get these news articles but I am a-okay with it.
4. Billie Eilish is a musician that’s very popular right now. Someone did a cover of one of her songs on a variety of pumpkins and I might like it better than the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlzqHmUqrfM
5. I saw a man walking his chicken on a leash in New York. It was a very good-natured chicken.
6. And finally, at first glance I was CONVINCED this was someone massaging legs that were horribly broken in a car accident, not someone making bread.
