My friend JWitt just released his first EP, "Crystal Sunsets". I did the cover art and hand made the CD cases. After much hard work and deliberation, a great result! Listen to/buy his CD here

A Gradient of Eggs

Couldn't help but notice this funny assortment of eggs this morning in the kitchen. 

beads

ok so for the LONGEST time I've wanted to make something fun with pony beads. I got the idea when my friends and I were making bracelets before ETD POP 2012. 

I then utilized this craft further when the key for the pod on top of my car wouldn't come out, and we were due to drive from LA to Palo Alto. It would have been really bad if the pod flew up on that road trip. 

Secured and Solved! 

Then I taught myself how to make a cuff: 

Then I started out with the idea of making a vinyl record. 

Attempt #1

This started from the center, around a bracelet, and grew outward. It didn't work because as it expanded, it grew big holes in certain spaces and it wouldn't lay flat. 

I started over, using a peyote-bead stringing method (going across by rows). It was hard to come up with a perfect circle design, but ultimately I found some helpful sites and tutorials. 

Final Result

The record "melts" off like a Dali-esque clock. I hired my friend and we did a photoshoot. So fun and thrilled to have completed and designed my first art-director projected! 

Happy Friday! Go do something creative, it's not hard at all!

Update on Jars.

Oh, the Joy of Jars. As you can see in earlier posts, I conceptualized my initial design as a very flat image against a black background with the idea of using an ink-tape-transfer technique. But because of my DIY-esque method, it was very hard to read against the spices inside. That's the problem with clear backgrounds.
Fail early, fail often, they say....

So, new design, new technique.