Tuesday, April 10, 2007

E-Mail to Harvey:Harvey-

I was looking at artcars.com and I remembered that documentary I saw years ago about them. I don't know if you remember, but I did something similar to my car a while ago. You might have seen the pictures I put on my Flickr account; I glued lots of cheap plastic dinosaurs and farm animals and even some pirates to magnets and arranged them on my car. I liked the idea a lot, but they're easy to steal and some just fly off and it is harder to keep the car clean that way.

But I was thinking, what about decoupage? I could do a collage on the entire car. I was thinking cutting up images from old movie and TV magazines to make it topical to where I live and the industry I work in. The most important part to me is to work with the shape of the car. I want to have the collage figures represent, or even react to, the parts of the car they are on whenever I think that will be novel. For instance, I was thinking about having the big dent on the front bumper be a pit of hell out of which will crawl the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein's Monster and other nasties.

How are the kids?
Introducing Harvey.Harvey is a pooka in the form of a giant rabbit. He talks to me, but you can't see him.

I've figured out that I come up with creative ideas better when I think I'm talking to someone, even if there's no response. I've created harvey and I'm going to e-mail him with ideas. Occasionally, I'll copy the e-mails here.

Friday, April 6, 2007

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

My interpretation of today's CNN headlines




Furry handcuffs soiled, ball gag snapped.

4th grader with heart set on being Aladdin crushed.

Government advises avoiding exploding cats.

Other insects feared dead!

changes lasso tool to free-form

Yuppie neighbors hope hunting trip will be extended.

'And I thought it was supposed to be pocket-sized,' says onlooker.

The rest of them treated like dogs.