Right after the Alternative Press Expo, I was interviewed by Hyperallergic about dorklandia. I just realized today that the article was published on Halloween, which rocks. I love Halloween. 🙂
Here’s the link:
http://hyperallergic.com/88508/rethinking-how-we-source-toys/
Toy production is a pretty big topic in my tiny universe. One of the issues I struggle with is whether to outsource production. It is very satisfying to look over my work and think, “I made every single bit of that,” but if I want my work to get picked up by a distributor and have my toys in stores, I’ll have to go from maker to designer-and-outsourcer to have reasonable production levels. But mass-produced toys lose a bit of magic. On the other hand, being a full-time toy designer would be entirely awesome! So, I keep going back and forth.
Happy November!
First of all, I will be at the Renegade Craft Fair this weekend! Come and see me! I’ll have my cart but I’ll be parked in one place. Here is the flyer:
Secondly, where have I been?
After the *amazing* Maker Faire this year, I was diagnosed with cervical spinal stenosis. Basically, some of the disks in my neck are pushing on my spinal cord. The upshot is, I am losing feeling in my hands. It’s freaky and scary but I’m going to have surgery to fix it in a few weeks. So the last couple of weeks have been pretty crazy! Don’t fret, though. Once this is all taken care of, I’ll be back to my regular dorklandian self.
So come and say hi this weekend! It’s been a while and I’ve missed you!
Tons of websites, including this one, are participating in a blackout today to protest SOPA and PIPA. Those of us here in dorklandia support this blackout and urge you to learn about these scary bills. I think the folks over at O’Reilly have summed it up well here.
You can send your senator and your representative opposition letters using the links above. It’s quick and very easy. I don’t like to talk about politics much, which is probably a side effect of growing up near D.C., but this one is real and close to all of us.
Like all good dorky girls, I love xkcd. Especially this one:
I’ve just registered for Thing-A-Day for the month of February! I’ll be posting my little projects as the month progresses. It’s a great way to fight winter.
Here’s a little video explaining how to say “more than one octopus” with just one word!
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/04/great-moments-in-ped.html
To those who’ve heard me mispronounce “octopodes” zillions of times, mea culpa.
Happy New Year!
Ohhhhhh this is so exciting! I spent some time last summer working on the amazing Raygun Gothic Rocketship. Today, it got approved to be installed on the Embacadero (which is downtown right on the bay in San Francisco, for those of you who don’t live here)!!
We probably won't be setting off quite this many fireworks or fuel...
Yay!!
incidentally, I don’t know who took this picture. If it was you, please let me know so I can credit you, it’s an amazing shot!
I went to Japantown after work today, and wound up with fishcake, sushi rice vinegar, and a book called Yum-Yum Bento Box. Impossible to resist, improbable to expect much execution of said bentos by me. But I can pretend.
Still working on presents and other surprises, but here is a picture anyway…
One crazy hippie tie-dye, and one I’m not quite done with, yet. And still more secret plans!
It’s the sparkly little seamonster, finished at last…
He has green eyes, but they’re a little lost in all that fuzz.
I’m going to try to post every day in June, since there aren’t enough pictures or posts going on here. So.
Here’s what I made today:
octofrog? frogtopus? He’s green!
