casio sadokei
I’ve been in love with this little watch, the Sauna Watch, since it was a Japan-exclusive. Finally got ahold of one and that love has only grown. Wonderful concept, looking forward to salivating over whatever comes out of the Casio Lab next.
foundations
Some have been with me for decades, others for far less, but these are the books that have shaped my creative thinking over however long it’s been now that I’ve been doing whatever this is that I've been doing.
metal_0092
One of K’s students who digs my work asked her if I would make him a seal so - after way too much figuring out and overthinking - I chopped up some old scissors and made this washer-balancing little guy.
Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)
via Public Domain Review:
Produced by the prolific San Francisco–based publisher Edward H. Mitchell, each card features a single rail car rolling through lush farmland. Aboard are gargantuan, luminous fruits and vegetables: dimpled navel oranges, a dusky bunch of grapes, and mottled walnuts. Placed end-to-end, the cards would make a colorful train crossing California’s fertile valleys. Unlike other, more action-packed “tall-tale” cards — filled with farmers, fisherman, and children for scale — Mitchell’s series is restrained. Sharply illuminated, the colossal cargo lean toward artwork rather than gag. “A Carload of Mammoth Apples”, green-yellow and gleaming, could have been plucked from Rene Magritte’s The Son of Man.
