Happy New Year! Cheers to 2012 - the Year of the Dragon, which is also the year I was born. I can already feel my luck changing and my artist block lifting. I have a few projects on my plate that I’m really excited to share but for now, here’s a detail shot of something I started in 2011 and am currently working on. Can you tell who that is?
Check it out! I’m so excited to finally tell you that my pieces are published in Papercraft 2: Design and Art with Paper alongside some amazing artists!
“With an unparalleled collection of new and groundbreaking projects, Papercraft 2 is an inspiring up-to-the-minute survey of current developments in contemporary design with paper. In addition to more outstanding 3D graphic design, illustration, complex spatial installations, objets d’art, and motion design, the book and free included bonus DVD present work from an even broader range of creative disciplines including scenography, fashion design, and advertising, which have discovered the versatility of this basic material in the last few years. Clearly advancing the handicraft used in earlier pieces, these are setting prevailing trends and inspiring the future evolution of work with paper to even greater creative heights.”
DON’T MISS!: FREE ART
The fact that Central Park will soon be home to a dozen animal heads each weighing up to half a ton isn’t nearly as shocking as what’s happening to outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who created the sculpture work “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads.”
“Basically, he’s been held and detained by the Chinese government and it’s a very scary thing,” says Larry Warsh, Weiwei’s friend and founder of AW Asia, the arts group presenting the exhibit, along with the city. “I think it’s very important people see his work and know what he stands for.”
The renowned artist, who also designed the Beijing Olympics “bird’s nest” stadium, is a free-speech and human-rights activist. His bronze zodiac busts go on display Monday at the Pulitzer Fountain at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.
Ai, who lived in New York in the 1980s, had been planning to be here for the exhibit, but has not been heard from since earlier this month. “We light a candle for him every day,” says Warsh. More info at circleofanimals.com.— Brian Niemietz
(via Hot picks - NYPOST.com)
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This is something I made just for fun - a ‘Write Your Own Fortune’ book where you can pick and tear off your own fortunes! There’s even some blank pages to write your own. 3 1/8” x 5/8” x 1/4”
{Please ignore my flower nails. I forgot I had them on.}
THE BREAKFAST CREPE (a.k.a. bacon, egg, & cheese in a crepe)
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- American cheese slices
- 4 strips of cooked bacon
- Salt & pepper to taste
- Maple syrup
Directions
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour and the eggs. Gradually add in the milk and water, stirring to combine. Add the salt and butter; beat until smooth.
- Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each crepe. Tilt the pan with a circular motion so that the batter coats the surface evenly.
- Cook the crepe for about 2 minutes, until the bottom is light brown. Loosen with a spatula, turn and cook the other side.
- Once crepes are cooked, set them aside on plate to cool.
- Cook bacon and scramble eggs in frying pan, set aside on separate plate.
- Place one crepe on the frying pan at low heat. Add bacon, egg, and slice of cheese and maple syrup to right side of crepe. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Roll the crepe like a burrito from the right side with the spatula.
- Let cheese melt then remove from pan and sit on new plate. Serve hot and enjoy!
This sounds so delicious!
