Sunday, August 31

Walk in colonia Roma

I love walking. It is definetely one of my favorite things to do. So when I'm walking I usually like to take photographs. This pics are of my walk through colonia Roma. It's a really nice neighborhood here in Mexico City. Quiet, yet bubbly. Posh, yet traditional. I think of it as very Mexican old-school.










For more go to my Flickr...

Saturday, August 30

Featured EtsyBlogger: TulipsTreasureBox

So, I just joined this real cool group of people over at etsy. They're called the EtsyBloggers. One of the things we do for each other is blog about the featured seller of the month. So here is it TulipTreasureBox.

The things I like best on her shop are these...



They are the teetotes... "RePurposed OnPurpose" tees that are made into totes. Upcycled and green and a lot of other colors too...



A real clever idea if I may say so...

**And she has real cool pictures...

Blogosphere review...



'Huacales' are wood boxes used for produce. That's how we call them here in Mexico.
Recently, a 6m-side cube was built out of colorful huacales for an exhibition in the Mexican city of Merida. Really nice...

via antidomingo


Umbrella houses.

via we make money not art


Lightboxes by stephen hendee

via dear ada



Chernobyl'd Matrioshka by Jaime Pitarch

also via we make money not art

Thursday, August 28

Paint bombs...

I generally hate advertising it is so bland and boring, so when there is a cool ad I think we should acknowledge it. This ad is for Sony's Bravia. It's a little old I know but I really really love it.



The music kind of reminds me of Clockwork Orange, though.
Here's the making of the ad, too. Quite interesting, I say...





SPOILER!!!

It had never ocurred to me when I had seen it before that the clown running had actually done the whole thing.

Tuesday, August 26

Obamanomics



Real cool pictures in the NYT Magazine. I'm currently reading the article...







Photo Illustration by Victor Schrager for The New York Times; Prop Stylist: Megan Caponetto

Sunday, August 24

The typewriter...

I'm back to school and the typewriter comes to mind. I know it makes no sense since I use a computer instead of a typewriter, but those are so beautiful. I love mine like no other thing...

So here's a selection of typewriters on etsy...

KeysAndMemories a fellow member of the Trashion Team

TrackAndFieldDesigns

bubbo

AliciaBock

WhiteElephantVintage

VintageInspiration

NatureMadeScents, another fellow Trashion team member

Wednesday, August 20

Working on something new...

Gray241-Sexual dimorphism (two forms)

I'm working on some anatomic drawing brooches... I'm really excited about them...

I hope to be posting about them this week...

above picture is a Gray's Anatomy plate... Yeah, the name of that book is like the TV show... I was impressed at first too...

Sunday, August 17

Urban advertising....

So I made this over at photofunia... so much fun...



And a nice blog...Le Train Fantôme


Wednesday, August 13

A quick view of the blogosphere...

So I found this cool, cool things in the blogs I frequently read...


Panopticons in antidomingo. Here's also the link to the panopticons site



Tulip stripes which I found on dear ada, who found it on stripes and dots, who found it in the daily mail.


A day in the life of Sandra Juto over at Design for Mankind. Sandra's blog Smosch is a beauty and one of my favorites.

Featuring: microcosm

I found this shop on the Etsy front page today. The idea: woven wire sculptures. It really amazed me...

I came back later and read everything there is to read. This woman called Simone Russell from New South Wales, Australia has 3 etsy shops!!! The other ones are as cool as the first... She's got sculptures, housewares and prints.

So here there are, her three shops...





Raindrops are falling on my head...

B.J. Thomas wall art

As an etsy seller you are welcome to join teams. I am part of the Etsy Trashion Team. We are a team of people who make cool things out of other people's trash. It sounds weird, I know, but behind it there's this real great consciousness of the world we live in. We don't recycle; better yet, we upcycle!!!

Anyways, over at our team blog they decided to feature me on this really cool post about the birth of the phonograph. We were given a little heads up and I decided to actually make something for a change instead of just lurking on the internet.

So I made this... It's a piece of wall art made from a record I found on a thrift store. The artist is B.J. Thomas and the song is "Raindrops are falling on my head", which you all probably know...

Friday, August 8

Design This Design That ezine

I found this really cool project from a fellow mexican her name is Ariadna Ramley. I first spotted her on Etsy but she has since stopped selling there. However she keeps her blog and has started this ezine. The first issue is about photography. You should go check it out!!

Wednesday, August 6

Let's talk art....


Everyone has a different definition of what art is. That's true. I'm not talking museum art, which is kind of a given. I have no definition to end all debate.
I think that art is what you don't mind being surrounded by, what gives you an emotion, what makes you think... what makes life worth living

I know... not everyone will agree with me but that is how I see it.

However, I cannot search through etsy for things that make my life worth living. What search term would I use?? So instead I brought you some conventional art. Photography, illustration, collage, painting. Hope you like...


Caracarmina... a fellow chilanga (that means a native from Mexico City)


PegGradyArt: a fellow member of the Etsy Trashion Team


benconservato

Monday, August 4

On star pets

It all started with the infamous Tinkerbell, Paris Hilton's chihuahua, and since then dogs have been all over the place. They were hailed as the most fashionable accessory on magazines.

But what about those of us that don't see our pets as jewelry?
We, at my home, are pet people. Currently, four dogs and two cats are the joy of our home. There's no doubt they have become the real owners of the house. We look at them all day. We live for them. But it had never ocurred to me to bring them over to my other past time, the internet.

Morran, a little beautiful dog is Camilla Engman's blog star. Oh, and you can also see art on that blog. Morran's also featured on other blogs gets lots of comments... what's up with that??

Morran is also on flickr

Yeah, I'm a declared Morran fan, so what...



Can one bring their pets to the blogosphere and turn them into stars?? I've also been seeing lots of pet pictures on flickr (7, 936 groups).

I promise I'll throw my pets into blogosphere stardom soon... when blogger wants to upload the pictures

Sunday, August 3

The best thing since sliced bread...

I know nothing about marketing. I admit it, but I'm not proud of it since it hurts my etsy store.

You might have heard about Seth Godin. He's kind of an internet marketing guru. So I brought him over, on video, to tell us somthing about sliced bread, our etsy shops and advertising.

The video is quite long, 17 minutes. Much longer than your average youtube video, I know, but it's also much more enlightening.

So here it is...

Why do you let me stay here??

This song is beautiful. Sung by the duet She & Him, composed of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward. I found it a while ago on a blog and I can't stop listening. Now the video is out... It's a bit weird though...

Second Sale

So today I made my second sale on etsy!!!

I'm so happy...

I sold these Rose-colored 80s vintage eye glasses:



I've got more over at my shop...

Friday, August 1

Drawing Byron...

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meets in her aspect and her eyes;

So, I'm attending a printmaking class which is quite awesome. We've been working with linoleum and acrylic. I had previously used linoleum and wood, but I had never tried the technique of dry point, which is the one you use on acrylic.

I tried it finally, and it turned out pretty well. The first one I made was a bicycle. But I liked the second one best. It is kind of inspired in that fragment of the Byron poem above.Oh, and I scanned the plate so you can see it. Don't mind the blueish haze...

When it is all printed, I plan to color it with watercolors...

Hipster...

First of all, since when has the term hipsterdom existed??

Second, has this become true??

We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but too afraid to become it ourselves. We are a defeated generation, resigned to the hypocrisy of those before us, who once sang songs of rebellion and now sell them back to us. We are the last generation, a culmination of all previous things, destroyed by the vapidity that surrounds us. The hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture so detached and disconnected that it has stopped giving birth to anything new.


Third, I had been thinking about this for a while but this article sums it up best.

Hipster: The Dead of Western Civilization
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