hillyhill (a talented artist in her own right) sent me a link to these incredible sculptures. i love the way amy uses jump rings to make the legs wiggle-friendly. the things that some people can do with polymer clay astound me. clicky.

listen to this awesome song by the inspired and inspiring jonathan coulton while you fill your etsy prescription!

top left: “Fly Away Be Happy Now” print by berdnerd

top right: crystal and amethyst pill box pendant by ivydionne designs

under that: needle felted pill cuff by i dunno.

middle left: pill charm bracelet by ben can dance (i love the charm. it reads “fix me!”)

middle middle: “drink me” book board pendant by pretty theory

middle right: “medicate assimilate” skirt by aorta (it’s on sale, people!)

bottom: “medicine” original painting on masonite by emma klingbeil

this weekend! the first 100 folks get free goodie bags…both days! doors open at 11am.

i’ll be smack dab in the middle with all my felty goodness and i get scared in crowds so come and say sweet things to me. it helps. clicky.

not a lover of most social networking systems, facebook has always been the one to make me itch the most. i don’t like the feeling i get while using it…maybe it’s because i’ve always been something of a huac fetishist: i don’t want anybody creating databases linking me up to every friend, coworker, fellow alumni, etc., complete with dates and organization names and all. not to mention a system where i can’t delete my account…EVER. sure, i can “disable” it but it’s still there, mocking me. so, for me, that’s bad enough.

and then you get this:

from gigaom: “…this is a privacy disaster waiting to happen. The javascript on the Fandango site pops up a little screen which asks if you want to publish the information on Facebook. If you say no, your friends won’t see the information, but apparently Facebook still receives it. This means that if you are a Facebook member, Facebook will know what you are doing on each of their partner sites. And there is no way for you to opt out of that…” (clicky.)

from cory doctorow (on informationweek.com): “…If there was any doubt about Facebook’s lack of qualification to displace the Internet with a benevolent dictatorship/walled garden, it was removed when Facebook unveiled its new advertising campaign. Now, Facebook will allow its advertisers to use the profile pictures of Facebook users to advertise their products, without permission or compensation. Even if you’re the kind of person who likes the sound of a benevolent dictatorship this clearly isn’t one…” (clicky.)

from brainsturbator: “…it’s not an exaggeration to say that there are very real ties between Facebook and CIA—and there’s a whole covert landscape of semi-legal databases, companies selling private information, and the new horizon of computer-driven “Data Mining”. ” (clicky.)

so i know that “privacy” and “freedom” and “democracy” are concepts that have all but choked on their last breaths of life, but i’m dumping facebook. so there.

don’t you love it when artists say the things you need to say but don’t know how to say them?

there’s more, you know. clicky.

i used to be obsessed with drawing light sockets and plugs. truthfully, i still doodle them a lot. wait…now that i’ve written this down it seems really deviant and weird.

anyway, KnitKnit has created a knitted cord to use as a skinny scarf, belt or decoration. i love it. clicky.

finding work like this is why i love the internet website computer machine.

this is from helen barff’s “things from the thames” felt series. she says:

The process of covering things in a skin of felt makes the objects become tactile and puts the emphasis is on their form. The felt covers the entire surface of the objects. It makes them appear both abstract and weightless.

beyond the felt, i identify exploring the shapes of simple and not so simple objects that we don’t think much about. i think that’s what i am attracted to when i take on needle felted replica sculptures.

helen draws too. oh, and the pinhole photos…you need to see those. clicky.