Day 224: Weird Spinner Thing

Tomorrow night, I'm helping with the library's kids craft booth at the Everett AquaSox game. They emailed out the craft ahead of time, so I decided to make one to make sure it was easy enough for kids to make. I figured that if I could make it after frying my brain with a research report for 6 hours after working for 8 hours after sleeping for 5 hours after doing homework for 8 hours after...you get the idea. Where was I? Oh yeah, if I could it make it with my brain in its current state, then it's probably doable by little rugrats.

I'm not sure what it is, except that it's called a Spinner. I made mine with patterned paper because I didn't have a vat of brightly colored construction paper like what I'm sure we'll be using at the game. I didn't bother with the yarn and fishing swivel because, well, I don't care.

And here it is in front of a picture of the model.


I guess they're supposed to spin in the breeze or something. Mine told me it would prefer spinning in the recycle bin. To each his own.

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Day 223: Two Monkeys Four Ways

So my brain is a bit fried. Today, I finished an 8-page report, took a final exam, and did six complex research problems (plus write-ups). Oh, and I worked a full 8 hours, including hobnobbing with the director of the entire library system. Twice. So by the time I remembered I still had yet to make something today, I didn't have much steam left. Or oomph.

So I found a picture of Boris and Pogo (my two favorite monkeys), and then I found some weird programs on the internet, and then I put them together.

Charcoal monkeys with light pastel coloring. The eyes!

Pop art monkeys. The eyes!

Lovey monkeys. Just like those crappy cloth photo posters you get at the fair.

Drama monkeys. The eyes!

I think it's time to get some sleep. I don't think I can trust any writing that comes out of my brain tonight.

The eyes!

Day 222: Abstract Art in a Hurry

Today, in the midst of homework madness, I took a very short break at some kind of online graphics playground program thing called Viscosity, where I made this beauty:

I call it Crumpled Term Paper Soaked in Blood and Yearning for the Sunlight.

You don't like it? Then I bet you won't like tomorrow's make, which will probably be a copy of my term paper on the evaluation of thesaurus-enhanced search systems.

Yeah. Enjoy today's pretty art.

Day 221: I Like It Dirty on Zazzle

Another stoneware coaster added to my Zazzle store.

You can buy a thousand of them here. Really. A thousand. Nobody will stop you. They can all be yours!

Day 220: Drinks Well with Others on Zazzle

Today I downloaded a few of the fonts I've been missing, so I was able to convert a button design into something on Zazzle bigger than a postage stamp. I decided to make a coaster (the fancy stoneware kind - ooooh) with this design: 

Feel free to buy a complete set of coasters for your next party. I'd suggest you get at least eight. Don't want anyone to feel left out.

Day 219: Boris and Pogo, Movie Stars

Today, Boris decided he needed to show the world how to make a blended mojito. And, of course, you can't let Boris do anything without Pogo being a part of it. So they went through the laborious process of making a blendito, and they documented it with photos, which they commanded me to put into a little animated GIF movie thing.

So here's how to make a blended mojito, if you can watch really fast and blink very little.

They have the taste of fame now, and I'm afraid I'll have to movie-ify their exploits again in the future.

Day 218: One More Thing to Study

The JKD evaluation is coming up in September, so it's time for me to start studying. Level 5! So today I made up a sort of cheat sheet to help me remember certain patterns that I know how to do but forget how to start. I don't need to know all of these for this evaluation, but it's good to start cramming them in my brain now, since sometimes it takes a while for things to stick.


It probably doesn't make sense to you, because it's in my own weird shorthand, but since it's a cheat sheet for me and not you, that works out okay.

Maybe someday I'll become good enough at drawing stick people to have an illustrated cheat sheet. Maybe by level 10.

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