How can you not love this??
Nothing so heart-warming as a free-spirited skinny bearded dude wearing shiny leotards and lip-syncing in the street to Lady Gaga!
3.27.2011
3.23.2011
Altered Book: March
I received the first book in my altered book round robin!
The book is a collection of essays regarding women and changing roles in society. The cover was altered along the theme of women and independence, and it seemed to make the most sense to continue along that theme. I debated the best way to go about it, I liked the idea of playing with fashion throughout history, but couldn't think of a great way to execute it. So, I decided to focus instead on influential women throughout history.
I bought translucent vellum and printed black and white portraits of some of my favorite powerful female characters.
I had randomly purchased this hardware-patterned scrapbooking paper, and I loved the idea of pairing this traditionally masculine pattern with the photos of these strong ladies.
I wanted the photos to be featured like portraits, so used a circular punch to create a "frame" from either the book page or the additional paper. I used the patterned transparency to embellish the frame.
Also, I am a huge nerd and overly obsessed with detail. For as many of the portraits as I could, I tried to pair the woman with an appropriate word in the text. On the left is Rosalind Franklin, the woman whose work in X-ray crystallography led to discovery of the double helix structure of DNA (although the credit went to Watson and Crick). Her portrait frames the word "scientific." Ella Fitzgerald frames "music" and Frida Kahlo "artistic."
Here are a couple more finished pages:
I think I may even have it in the mail before the April 1 deadline. I love this creative outlet, and I'm excited for whatever's next in the robin!
The book is a collection of essays regarding women and changing roles in society. The cover was altered along the theme of women and independence, and it seemed to make the most sense to continue along that theme. I debated the best way to go about it, I liked the idea of playing with fashion throughout history, but couldn't think of a great way to execute it. So, I decided to focus instead on influential women throughout history.
I bought translucent vellum and printed black and white portraits of some of my favorite powerful female characters.
I had randomly purchased this hardware-patterned scrapbooking paper, and I loved the idea of pairing this traditionally masculine pattern with the photos of these strong ladies.
I wanted the photos to be featured like portraits, so used a circular punch to create a "frame" from either the book page or the additional paper. I used the patterned transparency to embellish the frame.
Also, I am a huge nerd and overly obsessed with detail. For as many of the portraits as I could, I tried to pair the woman with an appropriate word in the text. On the left is Rosalind Franklin, the woman whose work in X-ray crystallography led to discovery of the double helix structure of DNA (although the credit went to Watson and Crick). Her portrait frames the word "scientific." Ella Fitzgerald frames "music" and Frida Kahlo "artistic."
Here are a couple more finished pages:
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| Coco Chanel with Queen Elizabeth I in the background |
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| Kathryn Hepburn and Marie Curie |
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| Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart (who shares my birthday!) with Rosalind at the bottom of the page. |
3.08.2011
Honoring the 'stache
I think my current town lacks quality facial hair. My co-workers last year were admirably devoted to cultivating the perfect 'stache. (Occasionally more devoted to that than actual work.) I was nostalgically flipping through pictures, and thought, this facial hair is worth sharing.
Faces have been cropped to protect the not-so-innocent.
These men are shining examples of years and years of higher education alongside a bit of historical inspiration:
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| Colonel Sanders |
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| Sean Connery |
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| Burt Reynolds |
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| Howard Taft. The last Pres with facial hair! |
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| Anyone who pulls a rabbit out of a hat. |
Also, in my moustache research, I learned from AskMen.com that the top 10 moustache-wearing countries are:
10. Bulgaria
9. Hungary
8. United States
7. Turkey
6. Egypt
5. Iran
4. Germany
3. Pakistan
2. Mexico
1. India
Some more fabulous facial hair:
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| Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters |
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| Kaiser Wilhelm II |
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| Walter Cronkite |
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| Rollie Fingers |
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