Pirates, Vikings, Wampas & More!

I love Christmas and the Holidays, I always have (I think especially since my birthday is in late December as well)! Well a couple of years ago I went off to Savannah, GA to go to grad school at SCAD. I had this nice place with a huge mantle and when the holidays came around I didn't really have any money to decorate. So I improvised by building my own decorations out of LEGO. Hence my annual LEGO Xmas town was born. Each year it grows and grows :) You can see more shots of this years over at Flickr. Enjoy!

Happy Holidays 2010

I love designing a holiday card every year and this years was quite a feat. I wanted to do more than just the ambiguous "Happy Holidays" but somehow still create a card for everyone. So I put together Festivus, Christmas, Hanukkah, Navidad, and Holidays each with their own positive expression and then cut the words up so the illustrations in the card could be mixed and matched. The result is you can celebrate everything! They are 4-color process on 65# Cover French's Parchtone Mist with A7 French's Poptone Blue Rasberry envelopes! Only 50 cards were made so if you got one Enjoy!

Halloween

So Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I also see it as a chance to try my hand at something new. As in the case of last years There's Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself. So this year I ended up running down to the wire and decided to push myself even more. You see the Sunday before Halloween I bought a sewing machine. Having no clue how to use one I taught myself that evening. On Monday I cut fabric from a pattern I bought (which honestly figuring out the pattern instructions was more cryptic than the DaVinci Code and harder than learning to use the machine). Wednesday and Friday I put together the pirate coat and vest. The shirt and pants I had from another costume years ago. And Viola! Now I'm set for Renn Faire next year as well :)




I used this story as a parable to my freshman students that you can never think that you can't do something. Just fucking do it!

HA HA HA Happy Holidays!

My 2009 Holiday card and series of desktop wallpapers to celebrate the season. Enjoy!
1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024, 1600 x 1200, 1680 x 1050, 1920 x 1080, 2560 x 1440.

There's Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself

My version of The Scarecrow from Batman Begins. From sketch, to stitch to execution. It is not true to the movie, because well let's face it if you do true to the movie it falls flat. Why? Because you do not have a film crew, lighting crew, fx artists, make-up... That is why I don't go for making it look real. I go for making it look sexy. The mask also glows-in-the-dark, a direction I got from the party theme and the Scarecrow LEGO minifig.

You can see some photos of my process and the result here.

Xmas

Since I was away for the holidays and came back straight into grad classes I figure I would take this opportunity to share a few treasures from the xmas. First what I gave out from my exhaustive "Santa's Workshop" enterprise. I began last year by trying to make all my gifts by hand and did so as well this year.

First up is the "Ping: The Drinking" mini-bar mirror I made for my "brother from a different mother" Ping.


Next is the "Bar Sweet Bar" bar mirror I made for Rob. (Sweet custom letter).


And lastly is the grand finale. A 14 in. Geisha softie I created for my girlfriend.