Filed under: Animals That Aren't Cats or Dogs | Tags: capybara, giant, masterofthegrasses.blogspot.com, rodent
I feel like I’m always behind the curve when it comes it hearing about new, cool things. Like raves, Gunther, the color black, and the joys of creme brullee. Well not today! My friend told me about this amazing website devoted entirely to capybara’s (the world’s largest rodent) that his friend writes and updates daily. I feel like I’m an early adopter of something that’s going to be very very cool very soon.
My personal favorite post, called “Free, Free at last” has this picture and caption:
” Here are beautiful capybaras in the wild in Venezuela. Run, capybaras! Don’t let Chavez nationalize your industry!”
Amazing! And, in unprecedented blog news, this post has prompted me to create a new category called, “Animals that aren’t cats or dogs” which will probably shake things up around here.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: animation, cat, flying pizza kitty, kitty
One of my friends, who is constantly showing me wonderful things that I then post here, showed me the Flying Pizza Kitty today. It is simply amazing:
I recommend watching all of them and playing the games. So simple, yet totally amazing. I love it when the kitties tail flicks, such kitty accuracy in 8-bit animation!
Filed under: just silly, video | Tags: coffee, nasal irrigation, neti pot, toothpaste for dinner, whisky, youtube
I got bronchitis in October and it’s been a long slow recover that involved lots of inhalers, medicine and mysterious devices.
One of my favorite mysterious devices is the neti pot, a small tea pot shaped device used for pouring salty water up your nose. It’s not entirely pleasant but it does seem to work, and it would probably do better if I used it with more frequency.
One of my roommates was curious as to what it was, but didn’t want to watch me do it so I offered to send him a video of it on youtube. My personal favorite has a robot like woman pouring fluids up her nose. I don’t know why this amuses me so much. It just does. On the quest to find that one I found this one. Watch, and laugh very very hard:
I doubt I’ll ever be too old for jr high humor!
Filed under: inspiration | Tags: costume, cravat, fashion, inspiration, misstess, tess
What started out with my demonstrating how one of my coworkers wore her cardigan (around her neck as a big shawl/cravat/cape) turned into a cardigan cravat at launched a small infatuation with them.
The post cardigan cravat turned into the silk blouse cravat:
and morphed into the “length of fabric bought in haste at walmart pre-burning man” cravat:
I know you can’t really see the detail but they looked wonderful but didn’t do so well when they moved around (CURSE THEM! jk) and had funny lumps where they shouldn’t have them. So my next mission is to make a simple cravat, which is just a long rectangle of fabric. The mastery here is in the different ways to tie it, the design is simple (unless my 1 minute of research is completely faulty which is entirely possible) but the possibilities are endless. I then want to move onto something a little more sculptural that you won’t have to tie but will have snaps or something to secure it and keep it from shifting during important tea parties. I suppose if you don’t tie it yourself it won’t be a cravat any longer but we’ll just ignore that little detail.
Here’s a great illustration of different cravat styles. It’s a bit satirical of dandies but it still has some useful ideas:
I’ve stayed up far past my bedtime so no more cravat pictures. Imagine, if you will, the biggest and most cartoonish and/or garish cravat and that’s what I’m hoping to make. Stay tuned, I know you’re on the edge of your seat!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: "gabe and max" gabe max internet internets tess lily funny misstess
It’s been a long long time since I’ve posted here, whoops! It’s been crazy adjusting to Boston, working a REAL JOB (weird) and trying to work on and in my studio. Things are settling down a little here (cross my fingers) and hopefully I’ll be catching up on the nearly 6 month of emails that I’ve read but haven’t replied to, and maybe even make some new things for my shop or something like that!
I’m going to change the format of this blog a little bit to include costume inspirations as well as things I’ve made, news about what I’m doing and where, and pics of my animals. I’m hoping this will keep me posting more as well as being a a place to share my inspirations instead of keeping them myself.
Right now, as it’s 1 am and I need to work tomorrow I am simply going to post these two hilarious videos by Max and Gabe that teach you how to use the internet (I know someone needs to tell you!)
(the 2nd video embed doesn’t work so click her to watch it on boingboing)
I encourage you to randomly yell INTERNETS to your loved ones and pets. Don’t be suprised if they look as disappointed with you as Lily looked when she had her first snowflake:
