im quite impressed by this. swag. great use of social media.
This is genius but also kinda creepy.
But also amazing. Smart marketing folks!
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“A great teacher can offer an escape from poverty to the child who dreams beyond his circumstance. Every person in this chamber can point to a teacher who changed the trajectory of their lives.”
— President Obama, SOTU (via girlwithalessonplan)
Hi all! I’m incredibly honoured to announce that I’m taking part in this art exhibition! You can see the poster for the details of when and where, but it’s in Toronto - sorry out-of-towners! The lineup is absolutely phenomenal, having that many talented folks come together in one room is going to blow my mind. From the website, here’s the show description:
“Menagerie” is an art show that engages the imaginative exploration of anthropomorphism – the attribution of human qualities to nonhumans. Through visual study, nineteen local up-and-coming artists will explore the idea of anthropomorphism as a form of self-extension. As we “humanize” nonhuman entities, personal relationships are established, and a special - sometimes disturbing - attachment is then applied to the animal or object. This can be seen from our naming of pets, to drawing faces on inanimate objects, to shouting at a car when it has broken down. Through us, the animal/object takes on its own humanity. The result of this visual exploration is a modern bestiary - a collection of creatures, human and nonhuman, situated and interacting in contemporary society.
I couldn’t be more excited! Put this in your calendar! And Google all the artists, they are all fantabulously amazing. Their work will make your brain explode (in a good way)! Hope to see you there!
I finally got around to taking cute pictures of these little guys!
These sachets were such a blast to make, and were really a labour of love for me. I hand-dyed the fabric with yerba mate tea, hand-carved animals into found wood, and then printed away! They’re hand-sewn and stuffed with a fun mix of organic herbs. In folklore, bears are often associated with healing and protection, and the herbs in this sachet speak to those qualities. The bear sachets are lovingly filled with rosemary, fennel, oak moss, and angelica. These have a bit of a sweet smell, and even remind me a bit of honey!
They’re good to keep in your sock drawer or just hold onto for good luck. At the Book Arts Fair in December someone bought one of these with the idea of keeping it in his car as an air freshener! I thought that was an absolutely fantastic idea, as these organic herbs will stay fragrant far longer than cheap artificial scents.
Anyway, if you’re interested in seeing a few more pictures of these babies you can click on over to the Graceful Place online shop!
I’ll be posting pictures of the owl and buffalo sachets shortly!
Also, just wanted to remind everyone in Toronto who is looking for something to do on Saturday the 28th - come and learn how to stab-bind with me! It’s an amazingly easy and durable form of bookbinding, perfect for sketchbooks, journals, and notebooks for the student, writer, and artist. Click here to be whisked away to the fun Eventbrite page for some more information on the workshop!
Here’s this one’s fun write-up:
Fruits of Love: A Book of Lore and Magic is a zine about the folklore of three fruits in Western culture - the pear, the plum, and the apple. These fruits have represented different types of love in mythology and folk culture, and have a lasting impact in many stories and cultures. The synopsis of each fruit contains folk knowledge of the fruit and its archaic uses, as well as short modern magical ideas to incorporate the love energies of each of these fruits into your daily life.
All written content is my own! Hand-stitched. $10!
Now available for sale at the Graceful Place etsy shop!
hellooblivion asked: You should apply! I just talked to them today so there might be spots left.
Awesome! Thanks man I JUST sent over my info - fingers crossed! Congrats for getting in, Cloyster is a sweet Pokemon to get! Though I gotta say I’d be happy with any of them!
This Hilarious Video Says More About The Photoshop Debate Than Any Article Could
“Over the past few years, many have assailed magazines and advertisers for their over-reliance on Photoshop and digital retouching that alters their subjects almost beyond recognition. And we get it. We’re not into the idea of creating a false and unhealthy standard of beauty.
You know who else gets it? Filmmaker Jesse Rosten. As you can see for yourself above, her spoof commercial advertising the new product “Fotoshop by Adobé” is pitch perfect, saying a lot more about the issue than 5,000 words of pointed commentary could. Even the voice over is dead on. “Pro-pixel intensifying fauxtanical hydro-jargon mircobead extract”? Bingo! (Telegraph UK)”
(Source - Refinery29)
^ Yep!
(via girlwithalessonplan)
Magic is in the eye of the beholder. This zine was created around shifting concepts of mundanity and magic, and questions what separates the special from the everyday. What seems unusual to one is cloaked in the invisibility of the mundane to another.
These zines are 13 pages of silkscreened goodness, stab-bound by hand, with covers printed digitally. They’re 10 bucks a pop over at my online shop! Go take a look!
Sup everyone!
I’m teaching a new DIY bookbinding class at Site 3 CoLaboratory in Toronto at the end of the month! And I think you should come and hang out and learn a new rad skill. I’ll be teaching Japanese stab-binding, which is actually a super amazing and easy bookbinding technique. Two things I really like about it is that there’s no glue or messiness involved, and you don’t need to fuss with signatures - you can bind single pages, so it’d be easy to just bring a bunch of 8 1/2 x 11 printer paper and bind a quick notebook. The class is $40 for all the beautiful paper and materials you could want - but feel free to bring some stuff of your own if it has sentimental value or there’s something specific you have in mind to make! Whatever it is, come hang out and make books with us! You need to register and pre-pay first - click here to be whisked away to the fun Eventbrite page for this event. You can also share the Facebook event link with any pals you think might be interested!
Here’s the Site 3 write-up:
Do you dream of sketchbooks big and small? So do we! Learn some of the fastest and simplest bookbinding techniques used today. Choose from an array of handmade and hand-dyed papers, and bring some of your own to add a personal flair!
Stab binding is one of the simplest ways to bind a book, cover and all.
This is the second of three levels of bookbinding class we’ll be offering this year, but no previous experience is necessary. Class is appropriate for supervised children, or 14-plus.
Hope to see you there!
