CuriousJayne

 I want to congratulate Jonny Pulley, one of my best friends ever, for being accepted into the Sundance Film Festival for his short film ”Move Me“. To celebrate this wonderful news, I present you with a rare and terribly low quality clip of Mr. Sundance performing “Jumper” at Glitterfish’s International Symposium Dinner Talent Show Soiree that was held last spring (before he got famous). Enjoy.

Also, congratulations to Jason Kelley (DP) and Miguel Jimenez (producer). And thank you to Elyse for providing this wonderful video.

Here are the first bags of a small batch I will be making for my dear friends of The Bodhi Tree. They are an instrumental trio from Phoenix. I hate to classify them because they have so many different sounds, but if I had to, I would say they are like the Mars Volta, but without the pretension. Check out their website and myspace.  The bags will be for sale at their cd release show on Dec 9 at the Paperheart.

The other bag I made is big and kinda floppy, so it was difficult to photograph. But, it’s cool, trust me.

More coming soon!

This was my first attempt at stenciling on canvas.  It was a little difficult because I couldn’t really iron the freezer paper onto the canvas without the iron disturbing the acrylic background that I had painted but it worked ok anyways.  The picture I stencilled is of Nate and I on Halloween when we dressed up as Jack and Meg White.  That’s why we look so freaking cool.

I made this bag as a Christmas gift for Nate last year. It’s one of the more labor intensive projects I’ve tackled, so I thought it deserved a post. The bag is huge because Nate needed a bag big enough for his enormous laptop. The design on the front is a replication of one of Jeff Mangum’s totally weird and awesome drawings.  I used a pearl white metallic acrylic fabric paint to make it.

The inside was the fun part. I just listened to Neutral Milk Hotel for like 8 hours while I stamped all of the lyrics on the lining. Here is the inside of the flap:

For the stamped lyrics, I just used regular white acrylic paint. The fabric paints were all too thin so the letters didn’t come out as strong.

Here’s the inside of the bag:

So, I got this idea a few days ago, during an impromptu dance party.  Jason was playing some killer air guitar to “I am a tree” by Guided by Voices and he did this great impression of a tree, so I thought, this must be immortalized in a tote bag.  I realize the reference is a strech, but it’s a GBV tote because I say it is.

 The tote itself is very simple, with a pocket on the inside. The fabric I used for the tree frays a lot, so it will look way cooler after a couple weeks of use.