Shadow Sculpture

Designerly has photos of shadow sculpture. Really neat that they can create that.

Paper Castle

Peter Callesen Have a look also at the cardboard castle, a performance in boxes.

Fashion in Bloom

My Skinny Garden has a couple of posts about The Gardens Magnificent Mile which have a theme going for fashion in bloom. Dress models are in the gardens along this street in Chicago, on Michigan Avenue, each one has been giving a different dress. Have a look here.

Making Envelopes from the Best of DIY Blog

I really like this idea of making envelopes. I found it on The Best of DIY blog which had card dropped on Doodle Week. (Thanks). You could use all kinds of scrap and junk paper. Even all that junk I keep getting from Rogers and Bell trying to sell me more services I already have or don't want.

The only downside is that I have a ton of paper I could use up this way but very few letters I can write. It's been a long time since I was penpalling and all my Grandparents are deceased. Still, if I joined up to exchange postcards (which I would like to do) I could make my own fancy and unique arty envelopes to ship them off in. :)

21st Century Bohemians

The Poverty Jet Set is another name for 21st Century bohemians. A rag tag group of artists, travelers, writers and filmmakers riding the bad-ass pirate ship of life with a parrot on our shoulders and a little “yaaarrr, matey” in our cheeks.

The Poverty Jet Set is a term coined by Douglas Coupland, one of my favorite writers of all time. In his ahead-of-its-time 1991 book, Generation X, he defined the term:

A group of people given to chronic traveling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permanent residence. Tend to have doomed and extremely expensive phone call relationships with people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to discuss frequent-flyer programs at parties.

Vagablogging- Vagabond blogging.
World Hum- Travel dispatches from a shrinking planet.
BootsnAll- Resources for the independent traveller.
Lonely Planet
Traveler's Tales
Women traveling around the world.


Looks like the Thumbs Out site is not happening until 2008. Getting a really early start on the website though.

Halloween Dolly

The Halloween grrl came from Sew Darn Cute, a craft site.

You should also see the Weird Grrlz 1st Annual Round Robin Art Doll Swap.

ASCII Art in a Blog

An ASCII Art blog.

I'd like to do more ASCII. I bought a Halloween card for my nephew and mainly picked that card cause I would like to do the haunted house on the front of the card in ASCII. I'd scan it for you if I had my scanner hooked up.

I'd mention that I am moving next week but I have heard it too many times before.

Chinese Knotting

You can make a chinese knot. This one is a flower.

Lost Found Art and Garbage Scout

Lost Found Art - Collections of found stuff.


GarbageScout.com - Found treasure map - a recycler’s dream, a cheapskate’s best friend, and a dumpster diver’s companion

Altered Books

Altered Books

The Idea: Cut the bindings off of books found at a used book store. Find poems in the pages by the process of obliteration. Put pages in the mail and send them all around the world. Lather, rinse, repeat.


The Internet Writing Workshop

Stronka domowa Goldmoon'a

Stronka domowa Goldmoon'a

Scroll down past the halfway point and find a list of items which is a large collection of ASCII art. Some of it never comes up on the ASCII art newsgroup (or didn't when I was still a regular there) cause the artist's are European and elsewhere. Luckily there are freebie online translators if you want to know what you're reading. But, to look at the art you don't really need the words, just the text.

Strona Joli - Ascii Art

Strona Joli - Ascii Art

Really nice ASCII art here and a pretty site. Not in English but it doesn't really matter about language.

New ASCII by Me

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     ,-'RIP'-,
     | .---. |
     |( # # )_\|/_
     | | # | | /
     | :+++: |/
     |  `|`  /
   """"""'""'""""ldb


              ___
             //_\\ _
            /_|_|_('>
             "   "     ldb

Big Eyed Grrls

What is it about those drawings of big-eyed girls. Can you remember those old '70s prints by Keane, Eden, Maio and Goji? The modern Bratz and PowerPuff Girls aren't that different, they use the same basic theme. No wonder I catch myself pulling them off the store shelves for a better look. I've had some kind of kitschy fetish for those big-eyed girls since I was a kid.

These days you can find them in the odd garage sale, flea market and Goodwill. Ebay too, but then there's shipping involved. Of course, you can find the new big-eyed types in your local department store, appearing on school supplies girl's fashions near you.

If you have time to let the page load for a long time, you can see some of the original big-eyed girls from Margaret Keane. The Keane Eyes gallery shows a lot Margaret's waifs. But, those aren't the same big-eyed girls that were hanging in my girlhood bedroom. Mine were prints done by Eden, Maio and Goji, the girls were young women and often wore a harlequin outfit. Those are harder to find information about. There is a fan site for the big-eyed art. That's how I found names for them at all. I couldn't find more yet the artist's are likely still around. The '70s weren't that long ago, right?

ASCII Art by Me

Just wondering how ASCII art will post in here. These are a couple of mine.

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       ||| \\|// |||
  ldb  ||| '-|-' |||


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 "\",
 "=\=",
  "=\=",
   "=\=",
    "-\-"     ,---,
       \     _)   (_
 ldb    `   [__INK__]

Why are there always weird little kinks when you post ASCII art.
It's just plain ordinary text in a different format.

Stick Figures as an Art and a Fetish

WoT Stick Figure Art Gallery

Unique and kitschy.


Also... The Stick Cam

The Art of the Stick... should they be allowed to wear clothes?

Stick Humour

Sadly... Stick Figure Deaths

Stick Murders too.

Stick figure cartoons.

I've never heard of Screen Beans before. But I will look into it another day. I like the description, simple and cute.

Screen Beans: clip art stick figure people characters that are compact, resizable, editable, and very lovable and useful.