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The Art of Sophie Blackall (Missed Connections)

Sophie says, “Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I’m trying to pin a few of them down.”

She does a fantastic job at doing just that, pinning a few down.

Sophie Blackall’s Website
http://www.sophieblackall.com/

Missed Connections Website
http://missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com/

Missed Connections Shop on Etsy.com
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6341992

Happy Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week is the only national celebration of the freedom to read. It was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than a thousand books have been challenged since 1982. The challenges have occurred in every state and in hundreds of communities. Click here to see a map of book bans and challenges in the US from 2007 to 2009. People challenge books that they say are too sexual or too violent. They object to profanity and slang, and protest against offensive portrayals of racial or religious groups–or positive portrayals of homosexuals. Their targets range from books that explore the latest problems to classic and beloved works of American literature.

Banned Books Week Website
http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/

The Art of Rezatron

Rezatron has quite an impressive set of work so far but a man of few words. Wait a minute, so am I.

Rezatron says, “Rezatron. 26m Los Angeles s2r pics. Primarily a director at Three Legged Legs, Reza also dabbles in drawings now and again.”

Rezatron.com : Zombie Drawings and Doodles

http://rezatron.com

How to make a Mushroom Shelf

It’s not that I am against eating good it’s just I don’t include things grown on dead things nor in poo. It’s the texture man, the texture! However, using them in a good sauce or hell just sauteing them with other things really brings out a nice flavor.

Paul Baxendale over at FinderMaker does more than just that with these funny looking fungi. He has found a clever and useful way of making something productive out of them, shelves!

Paul says, “One’s active participation in this tutorial is rather dependent on access to suitable mushroom specimens, and while I regret that I’m unable to offer any specific advice on where to go looking, do just keep a keen eye in the trees (up and down the trunks, specifically) the next time you are out on a ramble through a forested area, and your diligence may well be rewarded.”

Mushroom Shelf Tutorial!
http://findermaker.blogspot.com/2009/09/mushroom-shelf-tutorial.html

Summer Is Over

Back to it….