it's cool to recycle

Envelopes can be so boring, so I decided to make some of my own. 

Ingredients:

(1) Paper grocery bag

(1) Geological Survey Map of Permafrost and Ground Ice Conditions

(1) Boring envelope you can open and trace

Rubber cement

Scissors

Pencil

The two layers are great because it's like a mullet: business in the front, party in the back (or inside in this case..you get the point). It also makes for a thicker envelope, which just feels nice and like you paid a lot for it, which we know you didn't. You can use old wrapping paper, newspaper, comics, phone book pages, sewing patterns....whatever you can rubber cement and fold without having a problem. Brown paper has such a great texture too - great for transfers if you really want to go to town.

Since I didn't want to glue these guys shut, I just found some stickers to do the job: 

chinatown day

Oscar Mayer Wiener in LA

C'mon...if any of you know me, you KNOW that the OMWM is the wallpaper on my phone...a drive-by snap shot of it parallel parked in a residential area (random) in my old Chicago neighborhood. So imagine my excitement when I saw it again the other day parked out back at Chez Jay. Glorious.

SUPRASENSORIAL

This exhibit at MOCA's Geffen was pretty great - re-creations of Latin American installation work, mostly from the '60s and '70s. All I can say is I wish I had known about the pool..

Watts, B&W

Some more to snack on from Watts

sk8 park, part dos

The sun was going down when I headed over to the skate park to see my friend Tim dominate..the lighting produced some gnarly grainy film when I shot into the sun, but fun to see what I got a month later. I love shooting film and constantly being surprised by what comes out of that tank when I finally get around to processing! 

-L

Throwbacks

It's so weird to imagine who that little person making these things was... Just a couple of funny things I found when my mom and I were going through old stacks of art projects we saved long ago. I got a kick out of the spattered blood all over the French and Indian War project...I'm surprised my teacher didn't send me to the office for some psych testing or something.

The letter is OBviously from George Bush senior, although the spelling probably more closely corresponds to George Dubbya. My sister and I were forward-thinking little kids..

-L