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fun: fat bottom clips!

Susan Lomuto — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:10:19 +0000

I’m ready for some fun this afternoon. Come with me to a little home-based shop in Paris where discarded plastic and colorful pages from old magazines come together to become fun Fat Bottom clips.

I love that Mon Ami Vie looks at the bottoms of plastic bottles and sees flowers in full bloom.

[read about them below!]

These clips are made from the very bottom of the plastic bottle. The center is a vintage button securely sewn on to a piece of salvaged fabric, then super glued to the plastic bottom. Under, there is a new clip that is also super glued to a small piece of salvaged fabric and then glued to the plastic! This clip has been decoupaged with random pieces of a magazine. The result is amazing, like a mini collage you can wear!

drawings by craig frazier. words by you.

Susan Lomuto — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:12:12 +0000

Craig Frazier has just illustrated a book and he needs you to write the captions. Yes, YOU! For the next year he will post a new drawing every week and he is inviting YOU to write a caption – no more than 30 words – to capture the essence of the drawing. Click on the image to read more.

via swiss miss

virtual coloring books

Susan Lomuto — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:00:09 +0000

If you are looking for a Wednesday afternoon break from your less-than-colorful routine, try coloring outside of the lines with these virtual coloring book links from Colour Lovers.

brylcreem commercial is brylliant!

Susan Lomuto — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:15:45 +0000

I don’t watch television commercials. I don’t even watch television. But Sam Veale’s silky smooth tricks make this Brylcreem commercial a work of art and worthy of one minute of my time. They wanted someone who could make life seem effortless. They got the right guy.

Watch how they shot the video (decidedly NOT effortless) here.

Do you feel like you’ve got too many balls in the air? Veale makes that look effortless too (click on #1). I’ve got a busy week ahead – if I drop the ball and miss a post I hope you’ll forgive me!

links via haha.nu

flickr symmetry explorer

Susan Lomuto — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:08:24 +0000

Pick a tag, topic, subject – heck, pick a word, any word. Pop it into the Symmetry Explorer search bar and Flickr will find pictures and automagically create mirrored pairs. The results range from interesting to downright weird. If you don’t have time to waste, do not click on the link! Symmetry Explorer

This looks like an interesting idea for a ring, yes?

Here is the original image from Arwen Abendstern’s Flickr photostream – a coffee mug with a single stem of chrysanthemum.

Might be a way to explore unusual shapes and patterns – take a look at the results from the word ‘felting’.

neo cube

Susan Lomuto — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:15:06 +0000

The Neo Cube might be a new tool to help you design your next piece of jewelry. Made up of rare-earth magnets, this toy promises hours of fun.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWsT12KWDRY&feature=related[/youtube]

Might even help me come up with a few ideas for vessels or beads. The Neo Cube is a little pricey, but I think I see one in my future…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt-PYN1ftrM&feature=related[/youtube]

cat cuteness

Susan Lomuto — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:15:27 +0000

I try to keep my cat-fancying ways to myself, posting only the occasional picture of my fluff-ball boss, but when an old friend sent this image it was so damn cute that I couldn’t resist- the cat looks just like a miniature version of my Chloe and the picture made me smile.

At my house, it’s business as usual when the cat takes over my computer…or anything else that takes my attention away from her.

Humor me. Indulge me. I won’t make you suffer through pet-posts for long. I’ll get over it and back to my art-loving posts tomorrow!

I can’t respond to any emails today. Something has crashed on my computer and the mouse is missing.

Thanks Jean!

the human flipbook

Susan Lomuto — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:15:51 +0000

I started collecting flipbooks for my daughter when she was a toddler and I am still mesmerized by them. When I saw that Erbert & Gerbert’s Subs and Clubs, a sandwich chain based in the Midwest, decided to create the first human flipbook as a way to brand their product for television and online audiences I had to take a peek. This video shows the process and the end result…which is well-done and delicious!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AulVwjcnJhI[/youtube]

music anyone?

Susan Lomuto — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:17:50 +0000

Friday afternoon…the weekend is almost here. Why not start playing now? Shh…if you don’t say anything I won’t either. Besides, music is good for the soul, right?

Click on the picture to play the toy piano. I actually remembered how to play ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ from my fourth grade piano lessons and that was a loooooong time ago!

via Ample Sanity

last minute valentine

Susan Lomuto — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:35:58 +0000

This tutorial caught my eye when I realized that I own the Martha Stewart craft punch Zakka Life uses to make the cute little candy holders. Thought you might like the idea as a last-minute Valentine for someone you love. Here are two more quick and easy Valentine candy ideas from Zakka Life.

Come back tomorrow when I will have a Valentine Surprise for you!

swarm sketch: collective sketching

Susan Lomuto — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:05:23 +0000

Started as an honors project for college student Peter Edmunds, Swarm Sketch quickly took on a life of its own. From the website:

SwarmSketch is an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses. Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week. In this way, the collective is sketching what the collective thought was important each week. A new sketch begins after one week, or after the previous sketch reaches one thousand lines, whichever comes first.

The project has been live for 865 days and there are more than 200 sketches in the gallery – some of them truly capture the likeness of the intended word(s).

You have 5 more days to contribute to the Gypsies sketch. Go play. For more collaborative art fun, check out the links page.

pick your nose cups

Susan Lomuto — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:12:47 +0000

OK – maybe I’m pushing it a little, but it is Friday and I couldn’t resist. The name alone made me look and then the name of the website selling them made me laugh and then the cups themselves? Well, I think somebody had too much time on their hands!

Pick Your Nose Party Cups as seen on Perpetual Kid

stamp cup

Susan Lomuto — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:06:20 +0000

Barnaby Barford wasn’t thinking about polymer clay when he created these bone china coffee cups. He designed the stamp cups in an effort to create a more pleasing pattern than the always-annoying coffee stain ring that cups and mugs leave on furniture.

If you can’t fight ‘em, join ‘em, right? Clever, clever, clever!

You can buy the cups here. A bit pricey, yes, but do you see the polymer clay possibilities? Still chuckling? More from this designer here.

montage-a-google

Susan Lomuto — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:16:10 +0000

I need to do something right now that doesn’t require too many brain cells. Grant Robinson has developed a passle of fun web toys for people to play with – just the ticket for me today. My personal favorites are the Onion Skin Prototype (a very, very simple animation tool), Scribble and the popular Montage-a-Google, featured here.

Montage-a-Google uses Google’s image search to generate a large grid of images based on keywords entered by the user. Not only an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to create desktop pictures or even posters.

Bet Lisa Clarke would have had fun with this when she was trying to pick her latest color scheme.

Want to see a gaggle of Google montages? Flickr baby, Flickr. Go play…

tartan maker

Susan Lomuto — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:30:47 +0000

Looking for some pattern inspiration for your next cane? Patterns for image transfers? Try the Tartan Maker.

Don’t feel like playing, but still crave a little pattern inspiration? Check out the gallery. Fun.