Putting on my traveling shoes

I'm leaving for a three day trip to San Francisco tomorrow. I'm going to visit the de Young Museum to see the Yves St. Laurent retrospective. He was one of the greatest fashion designers who ever lived. There's an Andy Warhol thing going on there too. I'll be seeing friends Marcy and Sas from the Taos art retreat I went to last July. I'm leaving some unscheduled time for wandering and serendipity and I've got my sketchbook, pens and a gluestick in my backpack. I'm good to go.

OBEY! Shepard Fairey

There's a new store in Boston showing Shepard Fairey's work. He's the one that did those great Obey and Andre the Giant posters. It looks like a great space. I've seen Fairey's work all over the place, including Paris. He's the one that made the iconic Obama image that said "Hope". I read about this on Design Corner.

http://obeyclothing.com/news/?p=1308

Happy Valentine's Day!

Plastic and Light at the Museum of Glass

I went down to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma today to hang out with Barbara DePirro who is an artist in residence there this month and next. She's doing cool things with used plastic milk cartons and other everyday things we discard.










This picture was just rolled up paper against the neat orange wall they have in the studio at the museum.

Barbara's website is here: http://www.depirro.com
She is taking recycled art to a new level. She also crochets baskets and purses from recycled plastic trashbags.

Shadow Dancing

Shadow dancer from a performance at the Feast of the Winter Solstice 2007. VaVa Voom/

Stencil Love

Here's a little reminder that Valentines Day is coming up. Be sweet to your TV-head. (These stencils were seen around the South Lake Union neighborhood last year. They've since been painted over.)

Fabio!

Just found this video about Italian Tile artist Fabio Novembre. He's like a force of nature. See his work here. Click on Designers.