art show

For anyone wondering, the art opening last week at Utilikilts went smoothly–tons of lovely people showed up to drink wine, sample chocolates, and gawk at the hot chicks on the walls.  A handful of kids started a dance party in the back of the store–how many art openings do you get to attend with their own hip-hop dance floor?! I met a number of interesting individuals including several gentlemen in bowlers, double-breasted vests, and handmade hakama (we smoked fat cigars and talked about how clothing is really just social networking, after all).

Thanks to everyone who came out! The show’s up until the end of the month if you didn’t get a chance to drop by at art walk.

I’m also pleased to mention that I’m in the current issue of MAKE Magazine, along with a number of my dear warranty-voiding friends (that’s the handsome-pants Jake von Slatt right on the cover!)

Volume 17: MAKE Volume 17 goes really old school with the Lost Knowledge issue, featuring projects and articles covering the steampunk scene — makers creating their own alternative Victorian world through modified computers, phones, cars, costumes, and other fantastic creations. Projects include an elegant Wimshurst Influence Machine (an electrostatic generator built entirely from Home Depot parts), a Florence Siphon coffee brewer, and a teacup-powered Stirling engine. This special section also covers watchmaking, letterpress printing, the early multimedia art of William Blake, and other wondrous and lost (or fading) pre-20th-century technologies.

Issue 17 is on major newsstands right now, or can be ordered/read online.  Also, check out the final pages of the magazine, as I’ve got an ad back there for my Etsy shop (which contains instructions for acquiring secret free goodies!).

Thank you.