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Public Seed Ball Share at Nebula

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:55:39 +0000

These are images from my seed ball making party on September 24, 2011 at my ArtPrize project Nebula: A Growing Installation. The more seed balls the public takes, the bigger the installation gets.

Children love making seed balls! They made some to take home and also left some at Nebula to share with others. Thanks for participating everyone!

More pictures of Nebula: A Growing Installation here at Flickr.

Nebula on Wood TV8!

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:54:38 +0000

spread seeds stickers!

admin — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:57:29 +0000

I designed these stickers to be Kickstarter pledge rewards and also to give away at my seed ball making parties at ArtPrize.

I’ve been playing around with Geotype (old school graphic design tool, they are little wax letters you can burnish onto paper, thanks Tom!), and I came up with this Spread Seeds text:

In my sketches I had some ink drawings of plants and spouts:

Combined they created the finished sticker.

Kickstarting my Nebula Project!

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:35:32 +0000

Update: Funding was a success! Thank you backers, supporters and attendees.

I’m doing a site-specific clay graffiti installation in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan for ArtPrize. I’m so excited, it’s going to be an awesome 19 days. My birthday is on September 27th during the artsy shenanigans, it will be the best birthday ever. I get to share my new work and, at the same time, share gardening with people. Yip!

I would be as happy as a spaceship of kittens if you could help me out by spreading the word on social networks and other interweb hangouts.

90% Dumpster-Dived Pumpkin Poppy Blueberry Lime bars

admin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:57:36 +0000

These bars turned out very moist and delicious, not to mention resourceful!

How it was done:
Mix the dry together in a bowl:
1 1/2 cup of flour
Dash of cinnamon and nutmeg
Handful of poppy seeds
1/2 t of baking soda
Dash of sea salt
Dash of vanilla bean powder

Then the wet in another dish:
1 container of Arrowhead Mill’s Pour n Bake Pumpkin Pie Filling
1 1/2 t molasses
1/3 cup oil
Small lime, juiced
1 egg

Blueberries for pattern

Topping: 1/8 cup brown sugar
1 T honey
Enough water to make saucy

Mix dry into wet, pour into a greased baking dish, and press blueberries into top. Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees.
You can choose to add sugar to the batter (with the wet ingredients), the bars came out less sweet than I predicted (pour n bake pumpkin had added sugar, so I didn’t add sugar other than a bit of molasses). That’s when the brown sugar honey sauce comes in! Pour sauce over bars, wait a bit for the whole mess to cool. The blueberries can be hot juice bombs!
Enjoy!

Dawn of the Bed 2011!

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:36:02 +0000

Dawn of the Bed is a garden building event created by Growing Gardens. Raised beds were build by teams all across Portland, OR. It was a great day, tons of community activity, happy children, and fun. Everyone was working hard, rain and shine, to equip Shaver Elementary with some very nice raised beds. I was the Crew Leader for the team that built a handicap accessible bed. Go team! You guys are awesome.

More images of our productive day at flickr here.

Permaculture Design Presentations

admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:37:23 +0000

My sister Lena participated in a permaculture design program with Little Artshram in Traverse City, Michigan. Below are some photos from the student’s presentations.

More photos here at flickr.

collaborating

admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:38:54 +0000

Kenji and I drew this, we had to glue two pieces of typing paper together for maximum awesome.

dinosaurs doing human stuff: using an inhaler

admin — Fri, 20 May 2011 22:07:32 +0000

Where are your dino-pants?

dinosaurs doing human stuff: reading the paper

admin — Thu, 19 May 2011 04:14:29 +0000

This dino is so serious about reading he has TWO pairs of glasses.

yay, kitties!

admin — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:20:09 +0000

Woo hoo, let’s draw some kitties! I like the little one that’s high-steppin’ with moon boots on.

hello everyone, it’s spring

admin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:39:16 +0000

mussel hunting at the coast

admin — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:45:07 +0000

Here is my Oregon Coast Permaculture Immersion class wild forging for mussels and sea weed.

View more images here at flickr.

the Strutt’s struttin’

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:17:32 +0000

There is this awesome cafe/bar/music venue called The Strutt that I used to do graphic design work for before I moved to Portland. They are using the little rooster and baby chick logo I designed to unify all of their branding.

The logo was originally created for Strutt Records, a.k.a. Stutt Studios, a recording studio for community musicians.

The rooster and chick portion is now used in many of The Strutt’s endeavors: Strutt Records, Kalamazoo Coffee Company and the Boiling Pot music festival. It also is on all the posters printed for music events. The second image is a poster I liked designed by their new web and graphic designer JLS. You can view more posters at their website here.

I also designed the logo for the Kalamazoo Coffee Company. It is being used at the new Kalamazoo Coffee Company website.

invisible cars in the morning

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:11:30 +0000

Here’s some light paintings of traffic on Interstate 84 going to and from Portland at 6am in the morning.

website: Rainbow Lotus

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:31:03 +0000

The Rainbow Lotus is an alternative healing spa in Nehalem, OR. They also provide the community with classes, workshops and healing events. Business site built using WordPress.

faded printer beauty

admin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:12:29 +0000

i found a Canon PIXMA ip1700 for freesies on the sidewalk the other day. it had a little sign on it that said “FREE prints fine, a little streaky”. it was also a little wet because it had been raining for an hour or so. anyway, i dried the printer out, cleaned it up, put a cat sticker on it, and named it Sassypants.

the print test sheet is beautiful in its own way, faded and sans magenta.

then i thought, perhaps it would be interesting to see a drawing printed with the low cartridges. i printed my most recent color drawing.

what was a broken printer to one is an unexpected charm to another.

floating to infinity

admin — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:54:30 +0000

i participated in the artist’s program Float Creations over at Float HQ on Hawthorne. to learn more about float tanks and the benefits of floating, check out their website.

it was an anti-gravity experience, it felt surreal floating on super-salty water. since the tank can only be so big, i would occasionally drift against the walls of the float tank. i imagined large creatures brushing past on the way to infinity.

fat bee comics

admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:05:34 +0000

I was drawing a bunch of bees and it turned into these.

purple square hair

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:31:23 +0000

we are all made of tiny bits.

redwoods love a good squeeze

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:10:51 +0000

repurposed sign for Rainbow Lotus

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:45:45 +0000

I repainted an old sign to make a new sign for the Rainbow Lotus. Even though the plywood had been stored outside for a while, it was still in good shape.

rocks are purdy

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:41:25 +0000

recently i was at the Oregon coast, the beaches are so rocky and beautiful.

“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”

sweets for my sweet

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:04:28 +0000

Once upon a time, my sister Lena drew a similar picture for my father on Christmas. I believe the concept works for anytime of the year!

Happy V-day everyone!

feels like drowning, feels like dreaming

admin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:45:52 +0000

Apollo Blue F39 paint chip imaged with gouache.

polka dot blue dress

admin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:41:55 +0000

Painted with gouache on a “Juicy Orange F19″ paint swatch.

hello from the clouds

admin — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:39:43 +0000

i am in the process of getting a new scanner. i still wanted to share drawings, so I’m taking pictures of them with my digital camera. i think it worked out.