There are a few new things in the shop.
Category: birds
new owl
work in progress
I’ve got lots of work in progress. I’m making birds and owls like nobody’s business. There will be some new things in the shop later this week.
Bertha Whimsy Emerson
This is Bertha Whimsy Emerson.
She’s maybe, probably, gonna be half of a bride and groom pair. The picture below is taken through the view finder of an old Yashica-A camera that belonged to my mother and hasn’t been used in years and years. It still hasn’t really, the picture was taken with my digital cannon of the image in the view finder of the Yashica. If I wasn’t such a tired bird maker I’d tell you all about it, it’s my new favorite thing to do.
There are pictures of the Johnson Christmas window coming soon. Here’s a little preview.
celeste
I have neglected my blog and I’m going to have to continue to neglect it for about another week due to extreme busyness. After that I’m going to paper mache my ass off and make lots of birds and a bunch of other stuff I can’t wait to make and update the shop which is in dismal condition and get back to my old posting routine.
This is celeste who is very dolled up. She and some other birds went to Solocedros in San Diego last week.
rita
I sure do like making a little bird or something and then taking it’s picture
in a mini forest set. I sure do.
one last bit of creepy
My new boxes came today and I really like them.
The bird on the box is one of the miss johnsons. She’ll be in the shop next week with miss brown (below) and some other birds and things I’m working on.
A last bit of halloween creepiness. It’s a couple days late, I know, I had forgotten about it and just happened upon it this morning. It’s a tiny ridiculous little animation experiment and it’s a mess, but I had a good time doing it and I love an experiment. Last winter I saw Street of Crocodile’s and some Jan Svankmajer for the first time and was fascinated by them. I still am. I have an immediate gratification problem so I wanted to try to animate something right that instant. I made this creepy little greeting with stuff that was handy, my cannon power shot and i movie. I had a ball. When I get a little time I’m gonna experiment some more and if I ever get a bunch of time I’d like to really learn to do it properly.
(Don’t expect much, it just waves at you. Creepily. That’s it)
Happy Halloween!
whiplash – accessories
For Accessory Month at whiplash I made these little wool felt tassel birds ( design category I guess). They’re an accessory for a doorknob or hook or peg or bedpost or lamp or branch etc., etc. I was gonna take a few pictures of them accessorizing various things around here but I ran out of steam and out of light. Just like the acorn, I’m giving them away. If you’d like to have one just leave a comment to this post with your color preference. I’ll pick three names next Friday, 10/20, first name picked will get their color choice.
shop update
It was fraught with peril but ultimately accomplished, sort of, the shop is finally updated. There were frustrations at every turn. I can’t believe how long it takes me to create my crappy, clunky little shopping experience. I need professional help.
Some paper mache ships and a few birds are available, if you happen to be in NYC the ships are still hanging in the window at Johnson .
birds and ships
If you were on Union St. in Brooklyn around rush hour this afternoon you might have seen a crazy person out on a window ledge taking pictures of a little stuffed bird. It was me. The bird was William. He’ll be in the shop on Monday around noon with a few other birds and at least a couple ships.
johnson
These were the last two birds to leave the shop, Ada and Margarita.
I’m working on new birds right now and they’ll be in the shop by next Monday, 10/2. There will also finally be ships for sale. I intended to put them up last week but work interfered, so sorry to anybody who inquired last week, it’s next Monday the second for sure. I’m working on some new ones and the others are hanging in the window at JOHNSON on Orchard St. this week to help celebrate the fifth anniversary of the shop. Mrs. Johnson and I hung them today. Here she is checkin it out.
