mardi gras!!!

nicole and i leave tomorrow morning at the terribly unreasonable hour of 6 am for new orleans. in preparation for our week of costumed debauchery we took a field trip to the JoAnn craft SUPERSTORE in southeast and made out with nearly 20 yards of tulle, assorted fake flowers, and a bag of colored feathers among other things. this is what we came up with:


our flower-fairy look will no doubt be complementary to matt's bearsuit.

a wocket to the moon

this is my friend mark:
he likes working with kids, the state of vermont, and pabst blue ribbon. he and i spend a lot of time together drinking coffee, doing crosswords, and using public transportation to explore portland. he is not an anti-semite. mark turned the big two-five in december and i made plans with myself to make him a present. a month and a half later i got down to it and silk-screened a shirt for him, the first i've done in a long time. it felt good.

the picture that i turned into a stencil is one of mark and nicole from this summer. we were mucking around southeast one day this past summer shortly after mark moved to portland and found this sweet turquoise wall; a photo shoot ensued. i love the photo's composition, as well as the fact that it is of two of my favorite people. i added some inside-joke text for the final stencil.

below is the original image, as well as a photo of my exacto-ing process at john and my's new desk:

here is mark's finished shirt:

i'm really happy with how it turned out, and mark is equally enthused. my favorite part is how the screened feet actually look just like their real feet.