I’m going to the Cindergarden album release party tonight at the Hyaena gallery!
I’m going to be selling Cindergarden key pillows ::
And on Sunday there’s an Anti-Valentines Day event at HM157, a historical Victorian house in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles ::
And maybe I’ll release a comp, who knows…
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Yesterday I came home after a miserable day at work and saw Liz Ohanesian’s article about the new X Japan video, which had a picture of the werewolf that I helped make - I hadn’t seen it since it was finished and it turned out great!!! IMMD :)
Photo by Shannon Cottrell
In only 3 days, Ralis and a small team made the actual mold, skin, teeth, eyes, and other details, I put the fur on him, another girl cut and styled the fur, and then Ralis put on the finishing touches. I can’t wait to see the video!
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Finished up some Ming and Ping dolls (babies) for the spicy band Ming & Ping, who just released a new album and are touring the west coast! The dolls have rubber bodies keep them in place and upright, vinyl hair for extreme shine, cute heat-pressed faces, and removable vegi-leather jackets with tails in the back!
Raaawr, an army of Mings and Pings
Aww, they're so cute and happy! And you can undress them ;)
brain bags! ...or unstuffed doll heads
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Jaymie is totally awesome and she models for me all the time. Her birthday was last month so I made her a necklace out of a key that I had left over from the job for Monkey Bucket. The key glows in the dark!
A key, feathers, felt, ancient lace, ribbon, and some dumpster fabric
Oh there was some lace fabric too that I gathered and shredded w/ scissors so it blends in w/ the feathers
I painted the key with electric blue nail polish, then in glow in the dark nail polish, then added a bit more glitter to it while it dried
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Barry, aka Monkey Bucket, has an awesome record label called Bucketron, and he puts on cool shows at the Cocaine (2nd St. Jazz) in downtown Los Angeles. He always wears a fez covered in knick-knacks, but wanted to separate himself from the shiners which he doesn’t want to be associated with so he asked me to customize a few for him! First I took off all the Shriner crap, then I covered them in recycled fabric, then added supplied pieces of ‘flare’, buttons, more recycled fabrics, and some fabric paint. Here are a couple great shots by Marianne Williams:
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Romak and the Space Pirates played at Wigout in May, so I made tlr a costume for the Sci-Fi theme. It was made out of scraps from other projects (some from dumpsters), a long zipper, and parts from my VCR which was dismantled earlier this year. Then I splattered paint on it, and tlr drew with silver fabric paint. We also made his wig together out of my old dreadlocks (yes, I saved them) and some dumpster fabric, and more parts from the VCR. Chinashop mag wrote about the show, which took place at the stunning Bordello Bar.
fuck yeah
Click to view the article in Chinashop Mag
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I made a custom backpack shaped like a spider for a friend. It came out pretty cute!
Insidious Spider Bag with Leather Zipper Straps
Button Spider Eyes
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Here’s a custom photo album Surrelic had me make for his friend’s birthday ::
The inspiration picture Eric gave me was of an angel with a demon's reflection in water, so I made a reversible album
Lots of different fabrics, machine- and hand-stitching, and paint
Oh yeah, there are beads in there too
Inside has creepy flesh-tone fake leather, perfect for writing a delightfully horrific birthday note on :)
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A friend of mine asked me to do a custom Alice in Chains shirt reconstruction in time for NAMM ::
Original T-Shirt print prior to destruction
Reconstructed shirt has eyelet tape, chains, and shredded up gathers of spiderweb lace in front
Detail of chains on front
Back of shirt has Insidious tag and more hardware, webs, and print
Detail of the back where "dirt" is written and the main print of the shirt is
Detail of shredded spiderweb lace and studs
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Custom-made purse with pirate skull lining! Front flap velcro’s closed. I painted the background and tentacles w/ watered down fabric paint, then zigzagged the fabric skull on top. Yarn is hand-sewn to outline the skull, and the suction cups were hand-sewn as well.
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