OooOoooOo wall paper!

Virgil Marti's Bullies wallpaper (1992/2007), mounted under black light, repeats yearbook photos of leering adolescent boys across a garish toile pattern. Bullies evokes both the proverbial high school "boy's room" and the ubiquitous black-lit-night-club toilet facility, anonymous zones of males aggression and anxiety. Against the background of fluorescent garlands, the threat is gradually defused, and the stares seem to become melancholic, even precious: bullies turned wallflowers. (the fabric studio)

McConnell Update: The OFFICIAL Count........(as of jan 21 yo!)

It's funny the things that you find...

.....when emptying your jump drive- such as this crazy fuzzy moving thing that Lauren made last year. Was this in your thesis show dream Michael? It should have been.

Tom Muller Lecture

Mark you calendars Tom Muller will be lecturing at 6pm January 29th in Fleming Rm. 29.
More info:

http://www.hausgallery.com/haus/M%FCller.htm

Paper Automata

Here are a few links to kinetic paper sites, if anyone actually gets into this I would love to see what you come up with (click the kitty for some action) :

http://www.automata.co.uk/mainpage.html
http://www.opticaltoys.com/markey.htm
http://www.zuko.to/kobo/english/e-index.html

Sibell Wolle Demo Video

This is a teeny still from a demo video of the old lady goin' down! Click here to watch the full youtube video.
Good Bye old friend!

Kick the Addiction.....

Parking Meter Emancipation

This is a piece by Tim Foss done in the fall of 2007 in which he authorizes himself to free this parking meter from its narrow existence, and celebrate its undervalued excesses.

Namaste Cups

....and some India cups from your favorite non-potter potter. I'm having a great time playing with the sand-blasting, it's a nice break from all of the sewing and hot glue gun burns.

Around the Studio

Happy New Year! Can't wait to see you all back at the bake-o butch-o mat. I took some snap shots of the studios before break. What a fabulously experimental group we are!