Friday, January 16, 2009

Chicago MG Fest

My video Snowfakes will be screening in Chicago next Saturday, January 24th as part of the multi-city Motion Graphics Festival. Snowfakes will be playing during the "Mashitude" event, which looks really interesting. It's an installation showcase, which sounds like much more fun than a plain old video screening. I wish I could go, but alas! I am far from Chicago, and since they just informed me of this today, it's short notice for me. But if you're in Chicago, I would definitely recommend checking it out if you can stand to go outside without your limbs being frost-bitten off.

Also, Channing and I will be jet-setting (or, um, Geo-Prizm-setting) to LA in a few weeks to be dancers in an episode of this show:

We are very excited.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Barnaby Bathes

He had some loose furs after he was sewn, so he had to take a bath. He still has quite a lot of loose furs, to be honest, but there's plenty of bathing time left before he goes on stage/film.



He's named for my childhood bff cat Barney Anne Foster-Stiltsken, to whom he bears a striking resemblance. I changed his name to Barnaby because he's a boy and Barney is clearly a girl cat's name. Barney was named after Barney the Bear when I was like two or however old I was when I decided to start talking. An example of Barney the Bear's work:

Monday, January 5, 2009

Thursday, January 1, 2009

I wish you non-seasonal happiness

We didn't go out for New Year's Eve. I have a somewhat irrational hatred for this "holiday" as it is so terribly arbitrary. Maybe it's just because I'm constantly making resolutions that aren't year-based. Or because I think it's just an excuse to get drunk, and if you want to get drunk why do you have to wait until December 31st anyway? Or maybe it's just that my heart is three sizes too small.

But I love Christmas. See:


Yesterday we sent 31 variously-sized pieces of mail, including some New Years Cards which I felt it necessary to make instead of printing more Christmas cards after Christmas was over. I'll post a photo after the packages start to arrive. There was a terrible line after us when we left the Post Office. Channing said "that was really fun, but it would be more fun if someone mailed us back." Which some people sometimes do, and it is indeed very fun.

One of the packages was this tiny baby hat, which is not completed in this photo:

It's for a tiny baby, so it didn't fit on my head once it was done. But I think I may have made it far too big, so it might not fit her until she's five or something. I've never made a hat for a human before, so it would have been easier if I'd had her to try it on instead of using an approximately baby-head-sized mixing bowl.

I stuffed my giraffe.


And I had this amusing holiday dream, but it's taking 1000 hours to upload, so you can just look at my youtube channel in a while if you want to hear me talking about Jimmy Durante kittens. (Update: it finished! )

Maybe we will paint the living room sometime in the next four days. We are finishing up the "small" home improvement projects now, so maybe we'll have leftover energy for moving on to the main project. Maybe tomorrow would be better.