Wordplay

Yea, so Valentine’s Day is a “sham created by card companies to reinforce and exploit gender stereotypes,” as Liz Lemon would say. But isn’t every holiday a corporate attempt to get consumers to spend money on nonessentials? So why fight the man? Some good notes:

Clockwise from top: 2 from 1000 words, heart from owlyshadowpuppets, mixtape from heatherjeany

Clockwise from top: Motherboard from candyspotting, Eyes from triggersandsparks, Glucose formula from rawartletterpress, golden gate bridge picture from davidselsky

” I’ll by some cookies, but not for Valentine’s Day. Instead, these cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette…Happy Anna Howard Shaw day to us all!” – Liz Lemon

A Field Journal blogged about their awesome craft closet in the making a few months ago. See kick-ass sketches with watercolor:

And who doesn’t want a kick-ass tiny-space office closet? Especially when all you have is a corner to call your own? So I did some digital dreaming and found some things that would make me happy in a home office. Now I just need a wardrobe big enough for a desk and all my clutter aka possessions…

a. Orange Yuan Lamp from Anthropologie: b. Inspiration office from Martha Stewart; c. Large 1950s Orange Canister from Etsy shop PardonMyVintage; d. LINNARP desk from IKEA; e. Vintage Canister Set from Amazon; f. Natural Magazine Files from The Container Store: g. Hi print from Etsy shop TheLoveShop;  h. Terai Folding Chair in Cleopatra from Anthropologie

**ADDED LATER…

So, as fate would have it, after I’ve already published this post, the most adorable little office found its way across my Safari window and showed her pretty face. Via Design Sponge, this is the office of Emily Johnston Anderson, who takes lovely photos, which you can see here. This office is practical, warm and smart. The chairs have wheels, which I realize may be the key to keeping the peace in an office built for two (the scooting and scraping of pulling out chairs is not conducive to creativity or mindless web browsing I have found).  Now, only for an open wall…

Browse: Pretty Americana pictures from talented Lonny (photographer Patrick Cline and designer Michelle Adams), in the spirit of this weekend’s festivities. Because piglets and America go together like…

…I’m still thinking…

Image, Lonny

This is the cover of The New Yorker for June 1, 2009. Pretty nice, eh?

Artist: Jorge Colombo

Medium: Brushes iPhone app

Did you get that? It’s an iPhone painting. Made only from Jorge’s meticulous fingers. Imagine that. Go home, painters. Let your paints dry. Let your canvases collect dust. Sans iPhone and Brushes knowledge, you are nothing.

From The New Yorker:

“I got a phone in the beginning of February, and I immediately got the program so I could entertain myself,” says Colombo, who first published his drawings in The New Yorker in 1994. Colombo has been drawing since he was seven, but he discovered an advantage of digital drawing on a nighttime drive to Vermont. “Before, unless I had a flashlight or a miner’s hat, I could not draw in the dark.” (When the sun is up, it’s a bit harder, “because of the glare on the phone,” he says.) It also allows him to draw without being noticed; most pedestrians assume he’s checking his e-mail.

Here’s how he did it (an app called Brushes Viewer makes a video capturing each step of the process):

Oh, did you want to buy one of the artists iPhone prints? Because you can. A 16 x 20 is only $200.

From theloveshop.

WHY DO ANYTHING ELSE…

Just a thought to brighten an otherwise insanely cold Monday from Wears Heart on Sleeve.

Life’s funny like that. Not saying the person who I love is in anyway like a balloon or a sharp tack.

…

Ok, maybe the tack. Would that make me the balloon? Oy.

Such a cute print:

Goodmorning Sleepeyes by bluebicicletta

Because once they’re forgotten, all you have left is a sad reality full of small paychecks, big bills and nothing worth fighting for.

Made By Girl showed off her beautiful framed art wall yesterday and now I’m ready to start collecting for mine.

How great is this smattering of printed goodies?

Images from Made By Girl.

Perhaps I’ll star with these…

Clockwise from top left: Healing from Shirae::perCEPtion by vincenzorizzo::Paint piece from Jacksonville, FL artist Clay Doran, found via ScoutieGirl::Indian Summer from JKphotography::Alienation from JenMcCleary 

I’m not sure if wearing green helped, or if it’s because St. Patty’s is around the corner, but good luck seems to be abound lately. 

Luck of Green Love  print from Ajawin’s etsy shop.

Or maybe it’s because I live in the throes of what would be little Ireland, if one existed in Manhattan.

Willa necklace from thepebblecollection’s etsy shop.

Enjoy you week of green and good luck catching your leprechaun.

Recession special: monthy free art from Indix Fixx and the Feed Your Soul Free Art Project.

She’ll be featuring a new print each month from her participating artists–free for you to download and “even just thumb tack to the wall.”  I prefer to put much bigger holes in my rented walls, so maybe I’ll hang mind by a gigantic J hook.

Here’s one of her first featured prints by Samantha Hahn.

About Samantha Hahn: Samantha Hahn is an illustrator, surface pattern designer, crafter, blogger, and art teacher. She also writes the blog Maquette where she writes about art, design, craft, and eclectic style. She also often shares her daily drawings there as well. Samantha has done commercial work for: Glamour Magazine, Craft Magazine, Hallmark, Mankind Magazine, Blanket Magazine, & Lovely Magazine among others.   To purchase prints of her work, visit her etsy shop,  Little Paper Planes and Shiny Squirrel.

Two more are waiting for you on Indix Fixx. Happy printing!

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