Marking down on to-do list:

Make a reproduction of this APoD eclipse photo using cork moai the next time a solar eclipse rolls around.

FOR GREAT WIN, Y/N?


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Because it is Appalachia, there must be some sort of bluegrass representation on hand*; because it is Shepherdstown, the banjo player is dreadlocked, pierced and tattooed and generally awesome. That is how we roll.


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Well. I seem to have carved another cork moai. That must mean it's September and NaArMaMo is over with.

Let's all breathe a sigh of relief, shall we?

Pictorial documentation, &c to follow.

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I spent a spare hour between shows in a university bookshop. Casually picking up a heavy art book, I opened it at random and read these words: "INDIAN YELLOW: an obsolete lake of euxanthic acid made in India by heating the urine of cows fed on mango leaves." And then these: "EMERALD GREEN: the most brilliant of greens, now universally rejected ( Read more... )

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Perhaps it doesn't count as a naarmamo project, but then I did spend all day in Adobe Illustrator arguing about layout and typesetting, so that's got to count for something, yeah?


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