tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52172829855432951012024-03-05T18:07:42.568-08:00OulalieSoft fur and sharp teeth: how close is too close?Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-55243846194562911022012-10-24T13:43:00.001-07:002012-10-24T13:43:18.957-07:00For the REAL Oulalie...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-52226439889092628462012-02-12T09:05:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.266-08:00Cardboard Game - Rechercher le Fromage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqOMOvsKfdF52wr6aRgjr6Gka-HAsloTJfbrpDTMSgV3W1MRhyphenhyphen2ZITZ8kzDTBXW2bhSlpvs8YuQbE2DV6xfi36nyOb_ZrZ20dg2wYdvyxhom7oDVzSwRxhB-Ja3Ti8fAOUX7cJ8r5CSg0/s1600/IMG_5610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqOMOvsKfdF52wr6aRgjr6Gka-HAsloTJfbrpDTMSgV3W1MRhyphenhyphen2ZITZ8kzDTBXW2bhSlpvs8YuQbE2DV6xfi36nyOb_ZrZ20dg2wYdvyxhom7oDVzSwRxhB-Ja3Ti8fAOUX7cJ8r5CSg0/s640/IMG_5610.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="528" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Another young friend has had a birthday...and another reuse cardboard game was created. This time it's in French as my young friend has a hankering to learn the language.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The rules aren't exactly solidified - but the basic idea is you hide the cardboard pieces then you find them. After that there are points to be had and things to remembered and spelled. There are informative tidbits about the Revolution and the architecture on the backs of those cards. My hope is that with in a year it will be a no brainer for all those 6-13 year old kids who've played it that the Eiffel tower was made out of puddle iron and that Chartres Cathedral is High Gothic and that Notra Dame is on the Ile de la Cite. Maybe I'll create an arrondissement board to go with it...</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRywAXAnf6-IF0UMSBUxEihoA8Vf3-9ocHki-yIAeWEn1wBGaaK8yaLVXonlNENMi615iplome8BV_6cABmopnhDhHiHYMew-4Qlbo7wsCI_35pMNOYV9NZFL_kgymarU0q-WZOgf8BQ/s1600/IMG_5609.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRywAXAnf6-IF0UMSBUxEihoA8Vf3-9ocHki-yIAeWEn1wBGaaK8yaLVXonlNENMi615iplome8BV_6cABmopnhDhHiHYMew-4Qlbo7wsCI_35pMNOYV9NZFL_kgymarU0q-WZOgf8BQ/s640/IMG_5609.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP9Q87ZLCKJrGBW-LylA2bPpkHnRgaCg4gNkXQ3q-6-2PaTF6sGBHm8El88oMOBE28VcHPV9S-05raVV0UWKCEfTKK9sZd70iTro-7GTh5SD3pA0uWHc-LqIfdNErgiKC4-o35dwY1oaY/s1600/IMG_5611.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY77HEM7NunB3RnlTOJvFyhP5doggk-6MisiRgsu1oQ2hzEQOaaPO9DhgdDGxF9QJ6bLsu10DYGMgDDi18hkZw4p428N5pcQVmq8Z3Fj7C7DBhxYJWIANHZq5K5U05YPju17rqTDSMK-0/s1600/photo-2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY77HEM7NunB3RnlTOJvFyhP5doggk-6MisiRgsu1oQ2hzEQOaaPO9DhgdDGxF9QJ6bLsu10DYGMgDDi18hkZw4p428N5pcQVmq8Z3Fj7C7DBhxYJWIANHZq5K5U05YPju17rqTDSMK-0/s640/photo-2.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Underneath - dig dig dig.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You're somewhere under there, under that, under appreciated, misunderstood. Over evolved and over ripe. I think I love you. But...you...who are you? Pencil, paint, light and dark. You are time. You are kindness. You are grace.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our archeology is architected with dollops and digs - to the sound of the singing springs. The robust prominence of your independence has been noted but your calcified ruffles and complexity of your absence upstages this lump. You are both and you are neither...friend of mine, lover, me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-59094929089032079672012-02-10T07:38:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.313-08:00Detour: drawing to painting and the unknown<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ajenbQDTQs9lbmwRkUVJ-onJn_Mc8Qfi8YRBUUYbe5FsVqA6-z1T-zvNm-Ozatc6eVKJrh3TZSKQtNzNmQ4S2oV-Hk7LfiQRFqonim5-O2SLQcTJPIhImYw2p3ch49SmsaZnRl1crWQ/s1600/photo-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ajenbQDTQs9lbmwRkUVJ-onJn_Mc8Qfi8YRBUUYbe5FsVqA6-z1T-zvNm-Ozatc6eVKJrh3TZSKQtNzNmQ4S2oV-Hk7LfiQRFqonim5-O2SLQcTJPIhImYw2p3ch49SmsaZnRl1crWQ/s640/photo-1.JPG" width="504" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are like things I did when I was small, like things I did when I was in college, like things I did when I was out of college - but not what I do. Today I was in the studio working on the little board book paintings. They were getting dark and soft and ready for some sharp contrast and clarity in the foreground that would make them pop like <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?q=the+girl+with+the+pearl+earring&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&biw=1069&bih=807&tbm=isch&tbnid=RV_Kl4XsxwHMJM:&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring&docid=V1EzWIzBqSdA7M&imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Johannes_Vermeer_(1632-1675)_-_The_Girl_With_The_Pearl_Earring_(1665).jpg/300px-Johannes_Vermeer_(1632-1675)_-_The_Girl_With_The_Pearl_Earring_(1665).jpg&w=300&h=429&ei=cI80T-WMF-Gq2QXjhJGUAg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=100&vpy=262&dur=139&hovh=269&hovw=188&tx=113&ty=112&sig=104040128948337522470&page=1&tbnh=154&tbnw=108&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0">the girl with the pearl earring's - earring</a> or so i tell myself.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiuKsp4GgaRa_7bVIHV-6feDM1JVYdtxSuPLEeBtQIy86zo-SBLa76bcNsY1c9zB_wToWpG284f3MMbNlsxnY5EQImLAB4lxlWlyAsJogqbmf58lFxBw2BEwauGOBOUtUsTtW0PZ11zeA/s1600/photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiuKsp4GgaRa_7bVIHV-6feDM1JVYdtxSuPLEeBtQIy86zo-SBLa76bcNsY1c9zB_wToWpG284f3MMbNlsxnY5EQImLAB4lxlWlyAsJogqbmf58lFxBw2BEwauGOBOUtUsTtW0PZ11zeA/s640/photo.JPG" width="508" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next thing I know theres a restlessness in my foot - then my body gets all squirmy and I start this inner banter "be controlled" then "let go", "what would you gain from letting your restlessness dictate your painting habits?" " Something other than what I was expecting".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's all it took. I'm such a sucker for the adventure. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Two of the drawings from my last post are under these paintings. You can see them a little if you look hard.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then comes the question - what the hell are they? Maybe...they are the rainbow obsession i had before I was ten. They are cryptic maps to hidden treasure and fantasy ports. They are flotsam and jetsam festooning our inner tidal zone. Part control, part squishy satiation of things like whim and lust. Indulgence and obscurification. Adventure and denial. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Maybe they have something to do with love.</div></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-1400853889076588592012-02-08T18:26:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.335-08:00Drawing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WmxjZ49RalwNcMuQg5XWo_eFc40sqU_YpxUgIjuCRoMzhPHRNbR3seG18wBLuqT7hT9FLrhRraw8Tt8QhBxlKXf490ulQHIwhnmdvGplIrWg6PcvpcQdM_YMpZtxZzmVQh_gJR66gdA/s1600/IMG_5498.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WmxjZ49RalwNcMuQg5XWo_eFc40sqU_YpxUgIjuCRoMzhPHRNbR3seG18wBLuqT7hT9FLrhRraw8Tt8QhBxlKXf490ulQHIwhnmdvGplIrWg6PcvpcQdM_YMpZtxZzmVQh_gJR66gdA/s640/IMG_5498.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Board books. They're such a big part of early childhood, and it's easy to buy a lot of them and then find ones self emotionally attached to a giant pile of cardboard not long after. The other day I decided to try cutting them up to use as canvases.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit7byf8IUOWGJbOQ3sbTp0gctAw1iBL-L6CvRKxp7Z7AyRMdvVujn7LYp168-B_-0h54rH2ATMkbKV0ubuxg3EhQCs1BmzJ99YpI4S9C5j3Ly7sFkwS0qsW5U8HTdNGmnoF2mQDALhyphenhyphenAA/s1600/IMG_5499.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit7byf8IUOWGJbOQ3sbTp0gctAw1iBL-L6CvRKxp7Z7AyRMdvVujn7LYp168-B_-0h54rH2ATMkbKV0ubuxg3EhQCs1BmzJ99YpI4S9C5j3Ly7sFkwS0qsW5U8HTdNGmnoF2mQDALhyphenhyphenAA/s640/IMG_5499.jpg" width="496" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It turns out they wrinkle a bit with the gesso application. But - the rounded corners and funny reverse sides make them tempting to use anyways so I'm trying.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEYKgVSAqaO1EyqEnr2ynnzIhidpi6qwzTVHC1KS_8vwSM4Wbav97IzSoJsiJoWJziSVBUXrogTUaUr-_I6ccS8m3rLq_vAz-zTafZv7pFUmLwUTNfH90cMHg-hAVvnPf3JiK02tscOy0/s1600/IMG_5500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEYKgVSAqaO1EyqEnr2ynnzIhidpi6qwzTVHC1KS_8vwSM4Wbav97IzSoJsiJoWJziSVBUXrogTUaUr-_I6ccS8m3rLq_vAz-zTafZv7pFUmLwUTNfH90cMHg-hAVvnPf3JiK02tscOy0/s640/IMG_5500.jpg" width="524" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This series was initally inspired by the plastic sculpture I'm making, and now look quite different. I'm taking a break from painting to write now.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr9-9OjCW4539Igu2Z_H4jYKQZggww34MkMmTiL5Lv-N2EbUL1SRoKlTTUElyFnzpnMKfnazDPHrHj4JBO3jjfWodFRFLH2a_q18Ex83SQKAYiyC0NgnRyaFIm893VxkK5kk8HCShx8K4/s1600/IMG_5501.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr9-9OjCW4539Igu2Z_H4jYKQZggww34MkMmTiL5Lv-N2EbUL1SRoKlTTUElyFnzpnMKfnazDPHrHj4JBO3jjfWodFRFLH2a_q18Ex83SQKAYiyC0NgnRyaFIm893VxkK5kk8HCShx8K4/s640/IMG_5501.jpg" width="522" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They have become dark and fleshy and I'm thoroughly enjoying blurring their lines.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDgONlnwTG4QjwJElJxUll1HaTfrpAupiOprGNHq1LlF6qfGpv6CKcHMG5ds0lHMQcyJUUHF8E0suxtEkbAJR-f7yAclpC2Z_W2aOGTCY1JA3ABcutQxQ8w9X7M1kIuhNn-4f1PFYqxI/s1600/IMG_5502.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDgONlnwTG4QjwJElJxUll1HaTfrpAupiOprGNHq1LlF6qfGpv6CKcHMG5ds0lHMQcyJUUHF8E0suxtEkbAJR-f7yAclpC2Z_W2aOGTCY1JA3ABcutQxQ8w9X7M1kIuhNn-4f1PFYqxI/s640/IMG_5502.jpg" width="554" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am literally blurring their lines and obscuring their details. I am also slowly erasing their connection to their initial concept.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho8vdYz2RdWZUeb_TuS13GFiz4Mfqe5dsYc862PIPKnF2fmaGLU5OZ_rcQ9QKPh5cq5FNZeUBI6auy6puWFIH2dZ22tI7ch9JHiuilwRkOMYCaohJICT_jGO8Dhwntba3J8TUnwxuA5sQ/s1600/IMG_5503.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho8vdYz2RdWZUeb_TuS13GFiz4Mfqe5dsYc862PIPKnF2fmaGLU5OZ_rcQ9QKPh5cq5FNZeUBI6auy6puWFIH2dZ22tI7ch9JHiuilwRkOMYCaohJICT_jGO8Dhwntba3J8TUnwxuA5sQ/s640/IMG_5503.jpg" width="490" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I don't know what they'll become.</div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-13871857278125684002012-02-02T08:39:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.358-08:00Cardboard Map<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCnp7PYtY7GqGEfsih9proK6JlqfiOoK9JTng5cDcjPj4nGlTSETjEo1s5gCYGvdaiDQTpaJBed2D_65TMAXS6vn9GFaE_BRbcsdOWVQcd08aFiSUSdeAldpBguvqm8I-HtNNCYWMIqN8/s1600/Cardboard+map.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCnp7PYtY7GqGEfsih9proK6JlqfiOoK9JTng5cDcjPj4nGlTSETjEo1s5gCYGvdaiDQTpaJBed2D_65TMAXS6vn9GFaE_BRbcsdOWVQcd08aFiSUSdeAldpBguvqm8I-HtNNCYWMIqN8/s640/Cardboard+map.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We, my daughter and I, are at the doctors office waiting to see our awesome doctor, to make sure she doesn't have appendicitis....that's what got me there anyhow. She doesn't know that so don't tell her.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So we're waiting outside so we don't catch anything else while we're there, for an HOUR AND A HALF, enough time for the nurse to remark later that she had a low temperature by the time we got in, that is, she was actually cold. Totally a side point.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She's in decent spirits just having eaten a piece of toast, the first food in 2 days, and wants to play games on my phone. "Mama - we can do the stack the states one! That's educational!" OK - I acquiesce (I'm a hard ass when it comes to screen time...think theres too much of it) but this time maybe...ok. I need a distraction too or I'm going to get mad about waiting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So we start playing. "Which of these states is Texas?" Bingo, gets it right out of 4 state shapes. "What's the capital of New Mexico" right, "which state is also known as the keystone state?" right, "Phoenix is the capital of which state? "Little rock is the capital of which state?""Which state shares a boarder with Tennessee?" right right right.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She's 7 and as far as I know has not paid any particular attention to maps of the world. We were both laughing. "I'm good at guessing mama...and I've played this a lot!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, when we get home we went to work making the above map. Enough said. It was fun.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ps. SHE put the A on Oregon "I don't know why I did that" she said. "Just circle it and it will make sense" I said. And so she did, and then put some foliage on it. Green Anarchists? Oregon? She is a good guesser I guess.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-35023113790157324902012-02-02T08:11:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.379-08:00Making stuff out of cardboard<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnSN2JIScvpdvveCJPnsIMVhy1JEpCrBTuPBh6xFX24aMyKs_e-nUGpyApwMu2i3pRIL7ogweTVEHrhDy0kRRis_85lUdIRO7NN_FKHBqjpr-1kum8J5RpPPEFOe48ts9vo81A4xB3bNM/s1600/Cardboard+bird.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnSN2JIScvpdvveCJPnsIMVhy1JEpCrBTuPBh6xFX24aMyKs_e-nUGpyApwMu2i3pRIL7ogweTVEHrhDy0kRRis_85lUdIRO7NN_FKHBqjpr-1kum8J5RpPPEFOe48ts9vo81A4xB3bNM/s640/Cardboard+bird.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Remember I told you that my daughter was sick? Well This is another colaboration her evil mother MADE her do while staying home from school.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMle1bpv6_mZmCBC3GmoTaGWi6KlpLjoN7fkn6Gm_gnnJEOUE-P2irwl_Bl4VXx-PB8mUf41hH7G-EnCu51SSfR9eqONaDWEii8rrCC91YFgD1CdLCLnCko-kG5RT3k1WTe8wMVs3zNoY/s1600/Cardboard+diorama.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMle1bpv6_mZmCBC3GmoTaGWi6KlpLjoN7fkn6Gm_gnnJEOUE-P2irwl_Bl4VXx-PB8mUf41hH7G-EnCu51SSfR9eqONaDWEii8rrCC91YFgD1CdLCLnCko-kG5RT3k1WTe8wMVs3zNoY/s640/Cardboard+diorama.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She did the drawing and I did most of the painting. Check out that gull...isn't it awesome? And the sand crabs with those great eyes? </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-75451008652073544072012-02-01T14:50:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.399-08:00Sea Birds on Cardboard<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2jGSSnHL4wlG4ATHrIAP9gyzQNGjMZ3inNOkP_Cb8WN5zzx2F-6nuULDwMfMDNXeuO9a2DKkNqjJO-hKGhYIIvx24I6Q3EsUrXSsTVv7neiPJTUKRjko36gZ07epRnn9HjswacPVCRrM/s1600/Sea+birds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2jGSSnHL4wlG4ATHrIAP9gyzQNGjMZ3inNOkP_Cb8WN5zzx2F-6nuULDwMfMDNXeuO9a2DKkNqjJO-hKGhYIIvx24I6Q3EsUrXSsTVv7neiPJTUKRjko36gZ07epRnn9HjswacPVCRrM/s640/Sea+birds.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My daughter has been home sick for 3 days now. At first it was awful, but as she got better, she got hungry again and she got tricky too.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Mom - my tummy feels funny - I think I need to watch a movie"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Day one and two I was truly happy for anything that would make her pathetic little wilted frame even a little bit happy, but day 3 and four my "mommy" got going and the task master stepped in.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"NO...absolutely not, lets: make a sandy sea shore diorama, create a map of the united states out of cardboard, draw sea birds, collaborate on projects, read books, do your homework, work in the studio, play chess and backgammon INSTEAD". So we did. (Side note - she beats me at backgammon all the time now). </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She drew the birds and I watercoloured them in and I Love love love the result. I thought she did a fantastic job of capturing the initial details and unique features and I loved coloring in her outlines.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Fun. I LOVE painting on cardboard and the last batch of watercolours I found worked SO well. These are done in pencil and a children's watercolor set on a piece of cardboard from our recycling. Yee haw! </div></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-66189502792843405912012-01-30T20:38:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.417-08:00Beach Blooms - Beach Plastic Sculpture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_dRtTRNoPD-34U349Hpu9OoJukV6iW6U386P56V51JJI03cb56KU6IR_jAwOEoEL626uA6N-E4GvJQHFLK9YbtEOohEgZm2_8CDf2ZDQQHE1jfUgyIUzusdPSJFFzDeoD75dzr8Dvh8/s1600/Bech+bloom+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_dRtTRNoPD-34U349Hpu9OoJukV6iW6U386P56V51JJI03cb56KU6IR_jAwOEoEL626uA6N-E4GvJQHFLK9YbtEOohEgZm2_8CDf2ZDQQHE1jfUgyIUzusdPSJFFzDeoD75dzr8Dvh8/s640/Bech+bloom+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When I walk on the beaches and collect the plastic that these are made out of, it feels like I'm somewhere between an easter egg hunt and having to clean a public bathroom.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When I'm in the studio refiguring this detritus - now lovingly scrubbed and tended to - it feels like holding someone's hand for the first time and having a huge martini while doing taxes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih5-d1DBL0irJe7S5MHjB1PNxIr3nbCLqYnOGHQ0hjZpAx1crSW0iHXoKnMKyV0pLVWhgJcsClPoRWI0mKpPnSfQgWCzmiMHPq1tYSPZriDuqn74ikWLLIs3BQSoyuDDEDupW7CzqcEs4/s1600/beach+bloom+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih5-d1DBL0irJe7S5MHjB1PNxIr3nbCLqYnOGHQ0hjZpAx1crSW0iHXoKnMKyV0pLVWhgJcsClPoRWI0mKpPnSfQgWCzmiMHPq1tYSPZriDuqn74ikWLLIs3BQSoyuDDEDupW7CzqcEs4/s640/beach+bloom+1.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Soft. Foul. Cute. Toxic.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Day one - Plastic</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-45879561979823970752012-01-27T17:17:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.456-08:00Bas Couture - and the ruffle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH5PtUG12eRwfKZFoDKUkQTnoXCc59C7VALIJhGEXdP5nQKGyrk52Z8Ofom34LmTBF2ldVs78pROdQmhhZabOOwOEErr9WWLSLn-eTJka1NHQyA-BmPEgz493PtKEWy04SAvRDQqI3Nv8/s1600/Holly++Mackay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH5PtUG12eRwfKZFoDKUkQTnoXCc59C7VALIJhGEXdP5nQKGyrk52Z8Ofom34LmTBF2ldVs78pROdQmhhZabOOwOEErr9WWLSLn-eTJka1NHQyA-BmPEgz493PtKEWy04SAvRDQqI3Nv8/s640/Holly++Mackay.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Good Afternoon and welcome to Oulalie! The real time evolution of the little place, idea, feeling, product, collaboration, sound, thought, writing, artwork, THING...that could...or more to the point - had the audacity to.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To what? aaaaah! That's the million dollar question! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">WHAT WILL SHE DO?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Shop at Alpha Thrift for starters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's awesome, but even for that you need money.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My bank account says -$27 today. That's MINUS.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMibMFb4XL0mjsUOkOC_YL0sXl2rtnwCXluknChssoO9bC4ueeoOSogC1dndfP1NpD8sPsQUA8GxDYO_ZlnqIcWUPT3uMLBDqjf7WFJwPeTvuDwB5xopTzlZs-tIpxGOEPZJwOQsmKcV4/s1600/photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMibMFb4XL0mjsUOkOC_YL0sXl2rtnwCXluknChssoO9bC4ueeoOSogC1dndfP1NpD8sPsQUA8GxDYO_ZlnqIcWUPT3uMLBDqjf7WFJwPeTvuDwB5xopTzlZs-tIpxGOEPZJwOQsmKcV4/s640/photo.JPG" width="478" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Some where over the rainbow..." My office is MAGICAL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPXXIBFNANdakKx4iEjEEd2I6z4YGO4ev_QVWNp3TIWaADlwplu93Kzp_BfSU-Ucqhqrbrnqy-8t4XF9NHabpapH6kO_aRCtyUVtXpSJDADztAzq71puk_65ezYz8frg6WVNuULKRlRGk/s1600/Holly+Mackay+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPXXIBFNANdakKx4iEjEEd2I6z4YGO4ev_QVWNp3TIWaADlwplu93Kzp_BfSU-Ucqhqrbrnqy-8t4XF9NHabpapH6kO_aRCtyUVtXpSJDADztAzq71puk_65ezYz8frg6WVNuULKRlRGk/s640/Holly+Mackay+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A word about taste and the hilarity of unfettered audacity.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When I was a little girl in London (as I was every other summer from birth) maybe I was in Junior High...I noticed the "New Romantic" thing happening. The feathered hair and ruffled skirts, puffy shirts and polkadots - and oh my gosh was I feeling so different than before when I got a little spotted, ruffly outfit. A line had been drawn between who I had been and who I would become.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Later, as a teen in London scouring the Kings Road for Damned posters, winkle pickers, Bauhaus bootlegs, and some sort of accessory that would set me apart from the rest of California, to which I was fated to return - something that said "f off- leave me alone - I belong somewhere else". Looking for signs of Vivian Westwood or some trace of that strike that gave birth to punk rock as so many of us know it. Then, then I swooned with disgust at the thought of my awful taste some years back...not thinking about how lame this skinny peg legged all in black but for that too small green velveteen jacket teen must seem, with almost a dozen holes in her ears and undoubtably a terrible hair and skin to boot - I was not thinking how bad that might look through that window of tomorrow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But aaah, now I've got it. The over priced anthropology shirt with the new romantic thrift store ruffle number over a little house on the prarie print skirt below which my cut of striped sox assert themselves. It screams "everlasting style, not fashon! I walk outside your paralell bars and remove myself from your sphere of comparisons. I am truth and joy."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Um...Holly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have NO illusions (accepct for a few if I am going to be honest) that I look good, or cool, or that I will look back on this period with a fondness for my fashion lack of sense. Nope. I am a pleasure monger who loves relationships, who adores exchanges, and wrap my self in these odd couplings daily because.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Yab yab yab" says Laura Ingles to Peter Murphy, "blah blah blah" says the Abba chick to that dissatisfied overprivalaged housewife. "Anarchy" says John Lydon to the Lancome lady. And the girl in the middle of it all smiles and thinks about who else she wants to introduce.</div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-40618296621040566752012-01-24T12:39:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.477-08:00Fantastic Plastic...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAyxn8_5d84qp_XmsABOHZNZD4MguhwDoGE1oMhCbdxkwOxnSHaAlTn_Vb2EW2ckvPSJknd-BILpfsgCGhm0b0whKVP0Vz1GsgJBTt2o5B6SY3KXfSYeTd69zGPH8aXdLfYCX2jwQy2vA/s1600/PLASTIC+BUG+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAyxn8_5d84qp_XmsABOHZNZD4MguhwDoGE1oMhCbdxkwOxnSHaAlTn_Vb2EW2ckvPSJknd-BILpfsgCGhm0b0whKVP0Vz1GsgJBTt2o5B6SY3KXfSYeTd69zGPH8aXdLfYCX2jwQy2vA/s640/PLASTIC+BUG+7.jpg" width="598" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In these two months, we (that would be me wearing several different hats) are focusing on Plastic. Specifically, plastic from the beach.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMm7VBE97V2RLhnf4bk4kYW8HUK_ptpi0T6KN9zuOSvIUEnqESXEjE2RcbMy-EHVGOwH0C1vBOs7NfNeF_zp9aOk-TitXPRiVeHWe6idFfY16vzeK1YG2KA2_U_IwPYs0B-7h5HU3_CB8/s1600/PLASTIC+BUG+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMm7VBE97V2RLhnf4bk4kYW8HUK_ptpi0T6KN9zuOSvIUEnqESXEjE2RcbMy-EHVGOwH0C1vBOs7NfNeF_zp9aOk-TitXPRiVeHWe6idFfY16vzeK1YG2KA2_U_IwPYs0B-7h5HU3_CB8/s640/PLASTIC+BUG+2.jpg" width="610" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These little creatures were made for a mini exhibition at the <a href="http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/">Carsey Wolf Center</a> at UCSB (check them out - they have great programming and they're super nice people) when they were showing the film <a href="http://www.wastelandmovie.com/">Wasteland</a> (also super super cool...check it out too!)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2arRYjx16vMSRqVuxPGmopMERZIXy0oILeLK2kx7iivkDszhsccTTnOta47HoPnYe1TJmQIgLCT5BQftqKLi0TaeGwx8Kt7b8Rk0biRFJ-XkaGC9-E4ZmaLIYqdC0HopEd-gsTcHo4ZA/s1600/PLASTIC+BUG+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2arRYjx16vMSRqVuxPGmopMERZIXy0oILeLK2kx7iivkDszhsccTTnOta47HoPnYe1TJmQIgLCT5BQftqKLi0TaeGwx8Kt7b8Rk0biRFJ-XkaGC9-E4ZmaLIYqdC0HopEd-gsTcHo4ZA/s640/PLASTIC+BUG+3.jpg" width="610" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've been so busy moving into my office and getting set up that I haven't had time to really get going in the studio. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9gvFmnR7dwLb_LKHuAJ88vwVDjVwGt81C9_-_KHL5rGF4fuHuhD_j1cNcvlrXUvJa6ChuYgqlSvyAw_QvaxrIbSwX62lLPVQYr7twZh1bak49ldHY7uI2cNpazd_dkKVabPzdmznPxA/s1600/PLASTIC+BUG+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9gvFmnR7dwLb_LKHuAJ88vwVDjVwGt81C9_-_KHL5rGF4fuHuhD_j1cNcvlrXUvJa6ChuYgqlSvyAw_QvaxrIbSwX62lLPVQYr7twZh1bak49ldHY7uI2cNpazd_dkKVabPzdmznPxA/s640/PLASTIC+BUG+6.jpg" width="578" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This series was inspired by the scientific illustrations of <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?q=ernst+haeckel&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&biw=1024&bih=790&tbm=isch&tbnid=QyQWbo1MO4LihM:&imgrefurl=http://boingboing.net/2005/01/11/nature-illustrations.html&docid=JpltEj2Zp-TQ9M&imgurl=http://www.boingboing.net/images/_stueber_haeckel_kunstformen_icons_Tafel_017_medium.jpg&w=537&h=800&ei=JRYfT8CtIaqw2QXSsPmQDw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=120&vpy=398&dur=348&hovh=176&hovw=118&tx=82&ty=240&sig=115730199625485840383&page=1&tbnh=176&tbnw=118&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:12,s:0">Ernst Haeckel</a> and I plan to be making more, but more detailed...starting tomorrow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivpY84TF2YLxuOzrK2JQObkEvmZdpRNvrxiwZiX8l_DxlEQShounM771bLz-S7Gd2d5ghhhdY9bWziARtKF4SdcDtPndrhHZU_rT0cQtpRbSnmhoAFGwviICz-3esJdSK7_vjD6-XuQjM/s1600/PLASTIC+BUG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivpY84TF2YLxuOzrK2JQObkEvmZdpRNvrxiwZiX8l_DxlEQShounM771bLz-S7Gd2d5ghhhdY9bWziARtKF4SdcDtPndrhHZU_rT0cQtpRbSnmhoAFGwviICz-3esJdSK7_vjD6-XuQjM/s640/PLASTIC+BUG.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="606" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I like the irony of the medium and the subject. It reminds me of loggers wives who painted pastoral scenes with deer grazing near tree stumps - on giant saw blades.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibCPrs3ZGndSTFyxZKe8vmTH-EFxpgIVLRbZhM7Iz4pu9xO0DFdEvB8lGhp7p0rW5p8BrzpPwtkIhjYSptDXAf8p4RIgeFpzEnvKiylf3Xn585EGordxJGxN6VuozbNteNHc19Z7vap-Q/s1600/PLASTIC+BUG+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibCPrs3ZGndSTFyxZKe8vmTH-EFxpgIVLRbZhM7Iz4pu9xO0DFdEvB8lGhp7p0rW5p8BrzpPwtkIhjYSptDXAf8p4RIgeFpzEnvKiylf3Xn585EGordxJGxN6VuozbNteNHc19Z7vap-Q/s640/PLASTIC+BUG+8.jpg" width="610" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm aiming to do a series of plastic scrimshaw next.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDKmRp_432tCRNbv_2WnCWKqCndV9TuAbpdoqMjkzm0NifML-jUeoFFNjDL9WQAtJl5bMHrrTQd3bK6pYSrcUFPQspnnT6OtG-R0Jvz56Js8zWMGoup4YBy2FYwlfOTnONyumESPv8II4/s1600/IMG_1455.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDKmRp_432tCRNbv_2WnCWKqCndV9TuAbpdoqMjkzm0NifML-jUeoFFNjDL9WQAtJl5bMHrrTQd3bK6pYSrcUFPQspnnT6OtG-R0Jvz56Js8zWMGoup4YBy2FYwlfOTnONyumESPv8II4/s640/IMG_1455.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-59359448050769773912012-01-23T14:08:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.496-08:00Bas Couture - The NEW OFFICE!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wEYlOaOt3awgifIukXHYMyAAv_0HVYIBUwlNIvZcpKlhdTu0P1vfkYEGa-j1Kvn379qbK8BfivcMK5WviEAuzBMiw48sC-F5JkLN97XwoqqqzRuR-VGGN31QtHq_iUNbs6CiPujM9OE/s1600/Photo+on+1-23-12+at+1.08+PM+%25234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wEYlOaOt3awgifIukXHYMyAAv_0HVYIBUwlNIvZcpKlhdTu0P1vfkYEGa-j1Kvn379qbK8BfivcMK5WviEAuzBMiw48sC-F5JkLN97XwoqqqzRuR-VGGN31QtHq_iUNbs6CiPujM9OE/s640/Photo+on+1-23-12+at+1.08+PM+%25234.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZmDalzM7zU9OUoq8w3bMX5gRxJbd6QqQhW58H_NwjRx4tQ6bDXtIMCsf09bynG2wCMWkv_W7IeV1WQWfFasN-X1aFvFstsPL1ObIZv8pqFBJNAKgwP-7HWI4j8vN2hXaq4GoEI1AWzdE/s1600/Photo+on+1-23-12+at+1.11+PM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZmDalzM7zU9OUoq8w3bMX5gRxJbd6QqQhW58H_NwjRx4tQ6bDXtIMCsf09bynG2wCMWkv_W7IeV1WQWfFasN-X1aFvFstsPL1ObIZv8pqFBJNAKgwP-7HWI4j8vN2hXaq4GoEI1AWzdE/s640/Photo+on+1-23-12+at+1.11+PM.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am SO Excited to welcome everyone to my new satellite office space! For two years I've been floating around, meeting the greatest people, collecting excellent parenting tips and new friends, new ways of eating and an appreciation for the martini. Now it's time to get down to organized output and some serious play.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And for the output mode... I am wearing nothing but the finest Alpha Thrift wardrobe and donning the MOST BEAUTIFUL office in the world.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-sQQaKLNpCkG11SlHJm4iNy4TCULkCfy9rIdbK2N_cjmgro_VxDKL2y4BnA47WmYdYcJ-OKe_4vh6MYS8-xnX4fqJ_FBzkGQH99IaoKs6hLmkUcSZ8joRmg_SmH-UCRtmRjSM8aiVLUc/s1600/Photo+on+1-23-12+at+1.14+PM+%25234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-sQQaKLNpCkG11SlHJm4iNy4TCULkCfy9rIdbK2N_cjmgro_VxDKL2y4BnA47WmYdYcJ-OKe_4vh6MYS8-xnX4fqJ_FBzkGQH99IaoKs6hLmkUcSZ8joRmg_SmH-UCRtmRjSM8aiVLUc/s640/Photo+on+1-23-12+at+1.14+PM+%25234.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's a children's playhouse in an enchanted garden with a ferocious guard capybara and great light and I just so love it!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhja6tN9SlpgxwSj-8whqkbCj776839zMAtASPyuLBq4xPhGYcn-IhtnifPFMaTkifpWepiC77_3wco4_e3ZcCx3J4M7ob0Anv2EmXU20TKo0bIWyidYjcVBxaKmGpPFy0LHbz3UYd-BXE/s1600/Photo+on+1-23-12+at+12.44+PM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhja6tN9SlpgxwSj-8whqkbCj776839zMAtASPyuLBq4xPhGYcn-IhtnifPFMaTkifpWepiC77_3wco4_e3ZcCx3J4M7ob0Anv2EmXU20TKo0bIWyidYjcVBxaKmGpPFy0LHbz3UYd-BXE/s640/Photo+on+1-23-12+at+12.44+PM.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You'll all have to come visit! And on top of that, the most supportive people in the world just donated a laptop to my cause! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Did I tell you all that I take donations? Oh yes. And how.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The real point here is that Oulalie is 1 this month and growing a bit. I'll let you all know what we can do and all that just after I figure out this new computer and some other details.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqpLeaAIaOCPb79qpNw03OKPadhOfXdatx6VnHzHWqaZtbyKOR7bAO_T3uAGXawgqpu96DlFtgF30W0CyXaqYgJxPt6AUhROnNRcDVRN45iVGaShF-gSpwi6pmmtWWLLuBgSEYPNSmCdE/s1600/Photo+on+1-23-12+at+1.05+PM+%25234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqpLeaAIaOCPb79qpNw03OKPadhOfXdatx6VnHzHWqaZtbyKOR7bAO_T3uAGXawgqpu96DlFtgF30W0CyXaqYgJxPt6AUhROnNRcDVRN45iVGaShF-gSpwi6pmmtWWLLuBgSEYPNSmCdE/s320/Photo+on+1-23-12+at+1.05+PM+%25234.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oops! Gotta pick up the little person! More soon! And happy rainy day to you Santa Barbara Folk!</div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-40392695065808520102012-01-22T10:52:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.519-08:00Photo-trope - A brittle continuum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKRMGBT4ov1_poXJte_7p2JNLOUDKt1xVUJd4WiiyMbPLyBA_hgOtxJCRkNd_Ce1XY2uvBiMc9SgmBhjZq3a6T_RyAqwzdvlzqHTxfBhgOCwu8wd1fy1T-FZT1FVkqZFSgdikgwsUWoZM/s1600/IMG_3794.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKRMGBT4ov1_poXJte_7p2JNLOUDKt1xVUJd4WiiyMbPLyBA_hgOtxJCRkNd_Ce1XY2uvBiMc9SgmBhjZq3a6T_RyAqwzdvlzqHTxfBhgOCwu8wd1fy1T-FZT1FVkqZFSgdikgwsUWoZM/s640/IMG_3794.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Something is breaking underfoot...a long brittle trail of tiny white snail shells filled with smelling salts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Maybe...maybe...Snap.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj52LuH6Q7wqZaYkp4Pk9CXO-nXJ2Gc7_mapEX1qH93R4zBTjFDsQcHLJjaIK3MJ8sz4oniOMc1LI1uQnLAYIF-4D-ErwRZzrO4V3KwQ6TNDGq1H7gMtLhnnX-29cCLEkNBuHnKFtOW2Kk/s1600/BERRY+CRACK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj52LuH6Q7wqZaYkp4Pk9CXO-nXJ2Gc7_mapEX1qH93R4zBTjFDsQcHLJjaIK3MJ8sz4oniOMc1LI1uQnLAYIF-4D-ErwRZzrO4V3KwQ6TNDGq1H7gMtLhnnX-29cCLEkNBuHnKFtOW2Kk/s640/BERRY+CRACK.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She is over ripe - seducing entry and escape from the cracks in between things, stitches bursting, she gets stuck...again. Her wanting is too big.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO8vopNjIbAhp5rpd62C7SEk8lmGqfL-hN_80LHSR7MSlRHidvqQnNwk30pxbgyDOF6gNGaAuZnLh6-UyKtHip7uYIv6saO794K58I_qYubqc7lbopZQ1l-5c0d3RwME4sToHcwcFLllk/s1600/blue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO8vopNjIbAhp5rpd62C7SEk8lmGqfL-hN_80LHSR7MSlRHidvqQnNwk30pxbgyDOF6gNGaAuZnLh6-UyKtHip7uYIv6saO794K58I_qYubqc7lbopZQ1l-5c0d3RwME4sToHcwcFLllk/s640/blue.jpg" width="610" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There. Slab of need - Bound. Ripped. Glued. Choked by the folds of desire and pricked by souvenirs from places better forgotten: Victorian shame, historic misunderstanding, deadly rejection: an unsightly blow, a broken spirit, the end.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMrG0zhbjl-6FYbLbVcnGgjQrGi2uPtLPEurYDNlRW7BRdJKNclkqo4DONsUgjjthcsCWf0dwdNSDGUakMsE7qYjH95vqvVwuoB__bjvW_xUN24b3oJNjdbZhjU6oYIcJKMYzjZdOpshI/s1600/BUTTER+light.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMrG0zhbjl-6FYbLbVcnGgjQrGi2uPtLPEurYDNlRW7BRdJKNclkqo4DONsUgjjthcsCWf0dwdNSDGUakMsE7qYjH95vqvVwuoB__bjvW_xUN24b3oJNjdbZhjU6oYIcJKMYzjZdOpshI/s640/BUTTER+light.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now tethered by this unfortunate ruff, she is surrounded by the conversation of crows and the swish of tires in the rain in the alley in the puddles in the endless twilight of this singular dawn.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snap...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with a snap and a swish and a crunch and that whiff...she is folded into the field on the hill, in the day in the sun somewhere else, surrounded by olive trees, and filled with dry grasses covered in tiny white snails suspended in the thick sweet pudding of a freedom so unfamiliar. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjilarmyg0tvS-f1CfKlrhfoP0hDrcB6J-EemNhLzZemoYsoQMH1Y-LAeEM-rMd63QsmsL7EwTiT3ePOi0I2SZL1yhCrjEWGsIlZi24ybQ7pyyYK0vGoVHXlqmfzwPqtyG07AoKhNrmjpA/s1600/ANENOME.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjilarmyg0tvS-f1CfKlrhfoP0hDrcB6J-EemNhLzZemoYsoQMH1Y-LAeEM-rMd63QsmsL7EwTiT3ePOi0I2SZL1yhCrjEWGsIlZi24ybQ7pyyYK0vGoVHXlqmfzwPqtyG07AoKhNrmjpA/s640/ANENOME.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="618" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snap. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And again, now she is lying on a large flat rock island near the side of the river. It's surface radiating heat as it starts to rain - big fat drops, each descending rotund bomb releasing the smell of dust and a little trickle of steam who's vapor fills her cells and grip her like the freedom she felt once in that field of snails. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzkskfcCIukhAMd0W4XnEHt4QoRF40mWmiduGO6RCCb9CmdeyCvpRa8_O7vF8SeOOX62HpblIDAbKdGHapWazbx_xyOdRefnDpGzgWNKlitYjNx-3Dy55dIQ2YXPRwUaj37Te-RpyywE/s1600/candy+light.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzkskfcCIukhAMd0W4XnEHt4QoRF40mWmiduGO6RCCb9CmdeyCvpRa8_O7vF8SeOOX62HpblIDAbKdGHapWazbx_xyOdRefnDpGzgWNKlitYjNx-3Dy55dIQ2YXPRwUaj37Te-RpyywE/s640/candy+light.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snap.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She finds another pocket. This time a thread to a den and the memories of little brushes - which fill her completely. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEislUn2eM-A1qyXf7XMycjvwftpy783bscFXSghwKQU2ly_rVQYeXQBtWlyDUx0AC_zbRNdZ8z-UbWUFkR94nD0ierfq-SCt4d6SLIKNEmuOKLVTPk9GM7qcw4rSFaxeLVUWa_cVOuu0s4/s1600/fish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEislUn2eM-A1qyXf7XMycjvwftpy783bscFXSghwKQU2ly_rVQYeXQBtWlyDUx0AC_zbRNdZ8z-UbWUFkR94nD0ierfq-SCt4d6SLIKNEmuOKLVTPk9GM7qcw4rSFaxeLVUWa_cVOuu0s4/s640/fish.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now - suspended she waits. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snap.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWMCwDgwNHioDg6nWMQx8AI8AB6eevkWmcHpxRcUGA-oodOBelTVLT9xgSFZgipW7i7nWbnrgX4i4YTl2T4omGX7I72oUQopMXWlR-2rj6drm8nFSGJ0Ajb6JoTu5xZvIzHA2b4vnOGWw/s1600/fleshy+coil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWMCwDgwNHioDg6nWMQx8AI8AB6eevkWmcHpxRcUGA-oodOBelTVLT9xgSFZgipW7i7nWbnrgX4i4YTl2T4omGX7I72oUQopMXWlR-2rj6drm8nFSGJ0Ajb6JoTu5xZvIzHA2b4vnOGWw/s640/fleshy+coil.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now - flesh wound tight. She is here, not there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snap.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkHyu41cazvvxCyS9HwKY3ABOHYeh_5vLL6r2BYLluerLx97NngcWUV7Svj8Dsk7xqkKcm2j7XTXW2-A3fYz5BrmvwkKCjQMNryKWWpfhgzSJOI8plwHAjpED4sF_noY0MxtBeXVkqcNY/s1600/IMG_5149.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkHyu41cazvvxCyS9HwKY3ABOHYeh_5vLL6r2BYLluerLx97NngcWUV7Svj8Dsk7xqkKcm2j7XTXW2-A3fYz5BrmvwkKCjQMNryKWWpfhgzSJOI8plwHAjpED4sF_noY0MxtBeXVkqcNY/s640/IMG_5149.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now spilled...and the smell of that nail polish on the floor of her car is overwhelming.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snap</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdyXLjwO5p9JT3uZRvxzXfja_iqbonm9FVlYeVDLisLuLJ4puKbMb3LwhWptVrJTfYIar4wk0LFo5MjLvD8kGcKaS5KF1uTgqI5TbQKslt3BGLP5TOzFDUqwTpGtDDVajxy-wohpE_Y28/s1600/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdyXLjwO5p9JT3uZRvxzXfja_iqbonm9FVlYeVDLisLuLJ4puKbMb3LwhWptVrJTfYIar4wk0LFo5MjLvD8kGcKaS5KF1uTgqI5TbQKslt3BGLP5TOzFDUqwTpGtDDVajxy-wohpE_Y28/s640/image.jpg" width="630" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and what was she before...and again is here again</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzzRw3zoCfkPZkvXCfs4Zg0Acz1hsYkN-5yPYCXgi2BcvF5BiV58J8o6bh0BnZ7t_5YKVPL0-zoxJSoz-tGHjdo-_DYQ0VeRjqcQJQHIPa8hgfh6H3kWr_gy2UodXHdUbkuX_KpApJtE/s1600/snap.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzzRw3zoCfkPZkvXCfs4Zg0Acz1hsYkN-5yPYCXgi2BcvF5BiV58J8o6bh0BnZ7t_5YKVPL0-zoxJSoz-tGHjdo-_DYQ0VeRjqcQJQHIPa8hgfh6H3kWr_gy2UodXHdUbkuX_KpApJtE/s640/snap.tiff" width="462" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-9805733443921585832012-01-12T12:43:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.542-08:00The Upcycled Duck Short video<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtYQmIFj7rtxcCNVy-3VF2gP_FMRfKvAiFuSG1Y54oVV76_GiGBlglTgFs1H1eHsuuCaxAhfROWpl0uZUZU4FU5y9vB0iF6opSIbyWp667r_RNIgMMJ0r46WEbFEQED55A3A_NJg3nCeQ/s1600/the+duck+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtYQmIFj7rtxcCNVy-3VF2gP_FMRfKvAiFuSG1Y54oVV76_GiGBlglTgFs1H1eHsuuCaxAhfROWpl0uZUZU4FU5y9vB0iF6opSIbyWp667r_RNIgMMJ0r46WEbFEQED55A3A_NJg3nCeQ/s640/the+duck+3.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx8PThBcRbcp__wC9O4KBTecHcOzonponmNZgXaFmsxhZzAe8mBAypewafcdNd_gOAjLKHC7BtEP32ME4eaMQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-77176063599679975092012-01-12T09:47:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.561-08:00Bas Couture - down-upside<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG-DUto7JW_Q5ZiOCoL8it_zR8TCLC6sJnjYDYEFq9dMFPH9aQEez7Emml7SsO3USWH3qzzlqRjN87lygkRwa9PhuIHZRzs-XpC7ZOdzQNyBaI-QLZUnGRl9xLKF9L-ENi3o_Clw0psuM/s1600/Holly+Mackay.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG-DUto7JW_Q5ZiOCoL8it_zR8TCLC6sJnjYDYEFq9dMFPH9aQEez7Emml7SsO3USWH3qzzlqRjN87lygkRwa9PhuIHZRzs-XpC7ZOdzQNyBaI-QLZUnGRl9xLKF9L-ENi3o_Clw0psuM/s640/Holly+Mackay.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sick Day</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oulalie is CLOSED for business today. We're taking a sick day/moving day...so that would be a siving day or a moivick day. Either way, see me on my back and knowing that naps are the number one priority. Here I'm sporting my new San Luis jacket, a F21 tank top and a pink LL bean blanket. I think that's the first time I've mentioned LL bean on this blog. It's not the epitome of cheep or upcycled is it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My back is all out of whack and I am coughing and I feel generally pathetic. BUT we have a new office space! WAIT until you see it! It's the coolest little thing ever. Emphasis on the little.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm going to create a new page on here about Oulalie's structure...so you can see what we have planned and join in with the fun if you want.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-62302193212390378942012-01-10T20:38:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.584-08:00The Decorator Duck<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAJxj0C9e3u5Ur9cMFUcld9sxm5xWMFgJoFzxPlZae3jZQ5SWKb-WE6zKNY9zvpkuL-fCKJtjShOaoTDwW1yTjYvZ697hpOZpoMRgq_rTpaUvKCEHwSprZhI-FBMKVhW6bUC3sPYCbbtI/s1600/IMG_5369.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAJxj0C9e3u5Ur9cMFUcld9sxm5xWMFgJoFzxPlZae3jZQ5SWKb-WE6zKNY9zvpkuL-fCKJtjShOaoTDwW1yTjYvZ697hpOZpoMRgq_rTpaUvKCEHwSprZhI-FBMKVhW6bUC3sPYCbbtI/s640/IMG_5369.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dear duck overboard</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With your peculiar adornment</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sea plastic you hoard</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Great aquatic ornament </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCptDA5BcKbfXQ8_XnRpnfUzjxFjHkSLiOop5ZpFzNldiuNQTkuHyRK4Rsc-wvEypA_SSj2dw0dFxsB66Et8BXrl6PZ-yljvK1OhRJBeuAAN_z4Q0vn65hVy3IcnJnXrk9eLdJ0hTwikI/s1600/IMG_5372.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCptDA5BcKbfXQ8_XnRpnfUzjxFjHkSLiOop5ZpFzNldiuNQTkuHyRK4Rsc-wvEypA_SSj2dw0dFxsB66Et8BXrl6PZ-yljvK1OhRJBeuAAN_z4Q0vn65hVy3IcnJnXrk9eLdJ0hTwikI/s640/IMG_5372.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A decorator duck</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Like your cousin the crab</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Fashion ornaments from muck</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in the sea that you grab</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqoVMSSchw73nfH2VbK9_8eEf03BUlufaT1w3SZ78FMn2uWgzSTIYm5757PMaAhMi4jTjYQku5dyPoOxpA-zlQjACf4ewI2bbI8yLGcWcw7e3yg_khURkNoBc5xLQQ2Rs3nL3V6aDHoBw/s1600/IMG_5375.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqoVMSSchw73nfH2VbK9_8eEf03BUlufaT1w3SZ78FMn2uWgzSTIYm5757PMaAhMi4jTjYQku5dyPoOxpA-zlQjACf4ewI2bbI8yLGcWcw7e3yg_khURkNoBc5xLQQ2Rs3nL3V6aDHoBw/s640/IMG_5375.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tossed off the side</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Of a ship far at sea</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You're in for the ride</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Of your life, wait and see!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkPwpjdL9aysyQ8WpoHOIo7QYcw1Y-ftDtIRSJ49cTGRjYxSLIH0lXsuG4X6LAaa_FWf74JvI5g4HjrIGEfx00CAuwVuIyI9uu0ixdTalCy8uLWzNp8d4Cxa-ni_LR1-zr2or2FhwPreA/s1600/IMG_5377.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkPwpjdL9aysyQ8WpoHOIo7QYcw1Y-ftDtIRSJ49cTGRjYxSLIH0lXsuG4X6LAaa_FWf74JvI5g4HjrIGEfx00CAuwVuIyI9uu0ixdTalCy8uLWzNp8d4Cxa-ni_LR1-zr2or2FhwPreA/s640/IMG_5377.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You were made to the sounds</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Of Grizzly Bear and Zizek</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And the Fruit Bats swooped down</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And got glued in, what the heck?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil8b5Az69BGAXtM6KQEr3EgpUHC8NouRJwF8ak1oy2gPr4oGAepZTV-k-U5dxQgUu0ivkwzsHmyBXYGtEz67IFv1VHhWiQ5f9Ly9dK98CyfWy6qrPgZo7s-SBTv_17nZPjTiwJMyVOHto/s1600/IMG_5380.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil8b5Az69BGAXtM6KQEr3EgpUHC8NouRJwF8ak1oy2gPr4oGAepZTV-k-U5dxQgUu0ivkwzsHmyBXYGtEz67IFv1VHhWiQ5f9Ly9dK98CyfWy6qrPgZo7s-SBTv_17nZPjTiwJMyVOHto/s640/IMG_5380.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You're made all of plastic</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Found at the beach</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mined from the ick</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Within walking reach</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxbU61YQM3JG3p7kWLEkv1E-4nF8BmgjxgDEvPImZgrsAmw4vwBwB4M3gvhBRGjd1k4-90Nr-82Tun3Kez_QyCOZ5gBawmfKx65RGl3nT7pesW49cBYEj-zfg9TgxaRmsvTqC2emS2FR8/s1600/IMG_5382.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxbU61YQM3JG3p7kWLEkv1E-4nF8BmgjxgDEvPImZgrsAmw4vwBwB4M3gvhBRGjd1k4-90Nr-82Tun3Kez_QyCOZ5gBawmfKx65RGl3nT7pesW49cBYEj-zfg9TgxaRmsvTqC2emS2FR8/s640/IMG_5382.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Made for the bath</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Set free in the sea</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You're unique little duck,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Your you gets to be!</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-9909643840581192232012-01-10T09:53:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.606-08:00Bas Couture - rocket ships and sox<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwayaYRdQlCVQXKAhLjgD8mcoLPUnw1Yauh-orq8xMpNqJ5rUYnjZLH-kqZaNQW_k2Ep6hU2go1m1EsPheeEw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">O P E N !!! Yes I'm here in this great portable office of mine, we're in Niece this morning, and I thought it would be easier to just jump around a bit to show of this BIZARRE outfit -which without my team of professionals (left them in Spain) is almost impossible to capture without the video function.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> The top is a SF Haight street thriftstore find and the sox, which are the main reason I'm so pleased with myself just now, are Nordstrom Boot sox...the white part is supposed to go outside your boot.......well, I don't have Docks that tall yet, so I cut off the feet (no - none of my sox have feet anymore) so I can go barefoot and still enjoy these wonderfully long leg things.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">La Laaaaaaa! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now - wish me luck on the duck. What do you want to bet I rip this top on the chicken wire frame today? Bets?</div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-12192681589686619132012-01-09T10:05:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.642-08:00Bas Couture - dressed for the duck<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimokv_eSDHbMXFoxy51D7SB96sUcMj9H0vS_VATfbvyL98umqSia75J90rnh8HBsWKob0kG4YEedBQdT2qPdQHXdU5-oMq_NRYkdVUqn9_z5geg99hyphenhyphenUIIvYSEgG73tmFoE3m0lW22QZI/s1600/Photo+1249.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimokv_eSDHbMXFoxy51D7SB96sUcMj9H0vS_VATfbvyL98umqSia75J90rnh8HBsWKob0kG4YEedBQdT2qPdQHXdU5-oMq_NRYkdVUqn9_z5geg99hyphenhyphenUIIvYSEgG73tmFoE3m0lW22QZI/s640/Photo+1249.jpg" width="572" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Good Morning! Welcome to Oulalie! Do you need anything from the hardware store?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've already survived an Etsy scam this morning - I'm ON it! Weeee hoo! Yeah. Now, its hardware and high heals. I actually have a pair - mind you, I walk strangely in them. Actually, I walk like a pirate anyways. OH! The ever unfolding and multiplying joys of this STUPID degenerative f#*@*ng nastieness. A giant bull kelp whip would probably round out this outfit nicely. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"GEt out of my way fools...I've got places to go and things to do before I can't." Make you want to cry? It does me. What a pathetic detour! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">AND bad photos right off the bat, I know - it's a little foggy in our St. Ives studio today, but not too cold as you can see from the dress. I'm going to go to the harbor at low tide and do some little sketches of the boats on the sand. Always such a great subject matter. (OK...it's all in my head - this is rapidly turning into my "Getting dressed is almost as important as a rich travel fantasy life" daily/front desk/GO shot. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I like that...the go shot.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoRC1cEKq8bg5AGBsTzH-PnV_ASn7qaANDZ0BH7U056RvdcquX-iv6UzVTT0UgL9SmbdMvnReYjgNRv3Z87VguXE1WmdqVqcKsvCrgIV0gtPXdfdSroqOl1qXe8ZWt-4JH7Rg086VjtFE/s1600/Photo+1257.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoRC1cEKq8bg5AGBsTzH-PnV_ASn7qaANDZ0BH7U056RvdcquX-iv6UzVTT0UgL9SmbdMvnReYjgNRv3Z87VguXE1WmdqVqcKsvCrgIV0gtPXdfdSroqOl1qXe8ZWt-4JH7Rg086VjtFE/s640/Photo+1257.jpg" width="462" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm dressed like a layer cake this morning in sisterhood with the great duck butt cake I made yesterday...hold on...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWxwRO3qfr2W9V2q-hqvZHIX4_p7pCHG7zGyTaaWQq5YJMDFZSzNJ9sIv8ylFS7ZIdbZzpDOWjMvZscu2O5R7xRoZGJbebny2XIfDX8XZaHZajlFgq7U740QZlaIYBb3RyfiSMrc92t7k/s1600/IMG_5302.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWxwRO3qfr2W9V2q-hqvZHIX4_p7pCHG7zGyTaaWQq5YJMDFZSzNJ9sIv8ylFS7ZIdbZzpDOWjMvZscu2O5R7xRoZGJbebny2XIfDX8XZaHZajlFgq7U740QZlaIYBb3RyfiSMrc92t7k/s640/IMG_5302.jpg" width="444" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aaaahh....no one likes the thing like I do. I think that would make a FANTASTIC cake.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyhow, the duck and I are both dressed in blue and yellow. My dress is from Alpha if I remember correctly, and the skirt underneath from the rummage sale at my daughters school. Oh yeah. Rummage sales RULE! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The ducks dress comes from the sea. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Maybe I can get it to waddle like a pirate down to the harbor with me to draw the boats. OH WAIT...I've got to finish it first! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Reality calls.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For more about Bas Couture and it's history here, click <a href="http://thelemongrove.blogspot.com/2011/09/bas-couture.html">HERE</a></div></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-45724861842069590592012-01-08T21:25:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.665-08:00The Upcycled overboard duck<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_X_0hVYvaqrWVmpl9dZVlRgDUsT70v9U0I9jRJs2sxsl96HUOCNw1HwZnrx28mXZX-2CRW1xodyAq9xT4aHFCHObPsuH2oGT4Emvko4lFpLM-0Pqdu1sTEnlQH7CAT3eFMMtDXiHpe1E/s1600/IMG_5254.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_X_0hVYvaqrWVmpl9dZVlRgDUsT70v9U0I9jRJs2sxsl96HUOCNw1HwZnrx28mXZX-2CRW1xodyAq9xT4aHFCHObPsuH2oGT4Emvko4lFpLM-0Pqdu1sTEnlQH7CAT3eFMMtDXiHpe1E/s640/IMG_5254.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had high hopes of documenting this whole process on video, and I have a bit but....</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-QlYYGm-TloNP5iWMDSPwkLZyRjccSoN2cPHsPtycIvnwPKaGgwVIs2oUDq0obS-N_RpJRXAgqzC-AxE68nq0xua6jZlKXR_JNtjaJDtvBFgQERpbzJAGEZNwleouJb3e7D1INHqohY/s1600/IMG_5298.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-QlYYGm-TloNP5iWMDSPwkLZyRjccSoN2cPHsPtycIvnwPKaGgwVIs2oUDq0obS-N_RpJRXAgqzC-AxE68nq0xua6jZlKXR_JNtjaJDtvBFgQERpbzJAGEZNwleouJb3e7D1INHqohY/s640/IMG_5298.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's really hard to video ones self while working! The white bits are foam strips I'm cutting from one big piece I found.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlZD5O6_ERclSIsoAdHSkRRxZY_TnkRwsvECpJVoswzbsU2XBCmvaA4OEOvJP2fHKd4cdsbpbgn5laT9cSawrVfnQdAqpH_5DyRI49FEXpEO8j2d5VnS2sFeOaMyNiW5cUljPs9wbVe9U/s1600/IMG_5299.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlZD5O6_ERclSIsoAdHSkRRxZY_TnkRwsvECpJVoswzbsU2XBCmvaA4OEOvJP2fHKd4cdsbpbgn5laT9cSawrVfnQdAqpH_5DyRI49FEXpEO8j2d5VnS2sFeOaMyNiW5cUljPs9wbVe9U/s640/IMG_5299.JPG" width="622" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is my beach plastic duck progressing. Thats a cut up basket ball above in black.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT6v6tMGCrrytWbvpuoDplDkb4soqcOhkCnDTxW-vh4rPNQu-2LH2m4VHF-uxSMQ_yGKppIF7ldJwvLANZf39puw3UBWRsej0FRbTmw-s6KIETd9j9ELVjOCkTd_T4DcJnn93mx6mDzvE/s1600/IMG_5301.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT6v6tMGCrrytWbvpuoDplDkb4soqcOhkCnDTxW-vh4rPNQu-2LH2m4VHF-uxSMQ_yGKppIF7ldJwvLANZf39puw3UBWRsej0FRbTmw-s6KIETd9j9ELVjOCkTd_T4DcJnn93mx6mDzvE/s640/IMG_5301.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm coating the whole thing with layers of a sealant as I go to create a skin over all the little parts that aren't wired on.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0wKnN8CprH8oWA0wVjGNi-iGL-f2cxMWmtk8uOaMDhMakgZlv3v2fNI3j_ZbNlzprBmDYEsRMdBHYAR0beFKo8dk-QvomZuPAZaGLvj_fs0M2pZ-shXaV9wGw9G769eVmawCRjuKgRFE/s1600/IMG_5302.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0wKnN8CprH8oWA0wVjGNi-iGL-f2cxMWmtk8uOaMDhMakgZlv3v2fNI3j_ZbNlzprBmDYEsRMdBHYAR0beFKo8dk-QvomZuPAZaGLvj_fs0M2pZ-shXaV9wGw9G769eVmawCRjuKgRFE/s640/IMG_5302.jpg" width="444" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Right now that is Duck butt cake a la Holly. Wouldn't that be a fun cake though...really!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxm7jLjrTjmshA2piiYJa5s5YSUqaIJ8bmnNxKpQQYCF37bdwdgV2wKq7s09GU0Cq6Qgx59TAn90hv5LpTbxu2qae1oADJTO3ndDa20Sq5TkQC3KvbY5x_dO8AT-WZWqj0H0KMDZE-OwM/s1600/IMG_5307.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxm7jLjrTjmshA2piiYJa5s5YSUqaIJ8bmnNxKpQQYCF37bdwdgV2wKq7s09GU0Cq6Qgx59TAn90hv5LpTbxu2qae1oADJTO3ndDa20Sq5TkQC3KvbY5x_dO8AT-WZWqj0H0KMDZE-OwM/s640/IMG_5307.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And here's our heros face so far, a ways to go but looking more like a duck now. Thats a plastic milk carton beak spray painted orange</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdoydww5rUwj0vGB-Ts_tfZoveYQ1hkn1puiBGjywhWwyazHWxZysczQry6ATP9CG_AajFNxThP5g-C45ujdn30yEEaBvc8LVK8LtEwuH47Rp7ZYE8g0pb_DTHF30bmZlDBBNMiCt11Yg/s1600/IMG_5311.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdoydww5rUwj0vGB-Ts_tfZoveYQ1hkn1puiBGjywhWwyazHWxZysczQry6ATP9CG_AajFNxThP5g-C45ujdn30yEEaBvc8LVK8LtEwuH47Rp7ZYE8g0pb_DTHF30bmZlDBBNMiCt11Yg/s640/IMG_5311.jpg" width="634" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Invaluable extension (abundance) of a flotsom rope (excess) and a fantastic color to boot.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg52JRoNgBf6m44lQmilSfQMaU8NL3SIzl4NXGsZ3sbRqcCQuJINl6gGuNShHG6nijKeJWzL23roeM8wcUQi_hrz6NKprUWPLLBdFly8aD6CJbdLebRJFYvOT5t04QANg1m8hlaw8AVDMk/s1600/IMG_5312.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg52JRoNgBf6m44lQmilSfQMaU8NL3SIzl4NXGsZ3sbRqcCQuJINl6gGuNShHG6nijKeJWzL23roeM8wcUQi_hrz6NKprUWPLLBdFly8aD6CJbdLebRJFYvOT5t04QANg1m8hlaw8AVDMk/s640/IMG_5312.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hellen Chadwick introduced me to the term Bad Bloom. These black flowers on the ducks head represent that - and tar globs.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8PRvus-C_6mULwwS9pwYcs8ylHRxa2s8FET4aUr_ecoDXBBy03VHbPEkH6PqVJUxLUDFcrvau-Kee0vMy1mFCczEc57TIkiy3LiKOHhPKGd7e4YxIQ9X-Fy6tyy5eWwP8_pQdxPRqChA/s1600/IMG_5314.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8PRvus-C_6mULwwS9pwYcs8ylHRxa2s8FET4aUr_ecoDXBBy03VHbPEkH6PqVJUxLUDFcrvau-Kee0vMy1mFCczEc57TIkiy3LiKOHhPKGd7e4YxIQ9X-Fy6tyy5eWwP8_pQdxPRqChA/s640/IMG_5314.jpg" width="632" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Coating the bill.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfHKC8JPQ4ea_I-LSQ0Q7MHPrN0BUVNdsqdz6WOKZrX16ps5RRREBcx2Qbj2aZfw40v1Lui6nw6jbryO8NSFeBOvwkpWfTzwnoo2ZNetuQFo26fQ_RgI61CwKee2CNApxsYENvlCgrfhM/s1600/IMG_5316.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfHKC8JPQ4ea_I-LSQ0Q7MHPrN0BUVNdsqdz6WOKZrX16ps5RRREBcx2Qbj2aZfw40v1Lui6nw6jbryO8NSFeBOvwkpWfTzwnoo2ZNetuQFo26fQ_RgI61CwKee2CNApxsYENvlCgrfhM/s640/IMG_5316.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And heres a photo of the whole thing just after sealant application. I have all tomorrow to finish it. I've got a long way to go - but got thee "cute" thumbs up from a small friend so I'm happy.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-46472054141843439372012-01-08T10:57:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.687-08:00Bas Couture - disintegrating top<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip-C7aVR46fFzaoXJWHg8EPfaWrqDePwfQ9GKKLb-oM3SuMzQ8IyY-pCM1XYDMI1DCze0weBRVauwRUiBnIJO1Fm4qM2u0iCxhADoDSQ9lil8BK4PC9bBq75z_vyWgtXXTCddfq7D3VsU/s1600/Holly+Mackay+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip-C7aVR46fFzaoXJWHg8EPfaWrqDePwfQ9GKKLb-oM3SuMzQ8IyY-pCM1XYDMI1DCze0weBRVauwRUiBnIJO1Fm4qM2u0iCxhADoDSQ9lil8BK4PC9bBq75z_vyWgtXXTCddfq7D3VsU/s640/Holly+Mackay+4.jpg" width="480" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Good Sunday to you! Welcome to Oulalie! Yes - I'm of to the office (today we're in Salamanka - look for the little window above that coffee shop near the meat market with the stork nest on top) and yes it's 10:55 but it's Sunday, and we do things differently in Spain anyhow. Just trying to fit in!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today I'm sporting my Alpha Thrift sexy disco top made of some plastic that is flaking off on the straps already. I love it though! I think it was $4 or maybe half that in their awesome post Halloween sales. I tell you - that is one AMAZING time to be at <a href="http://www.alphasb.org/">Alpha thrift</a>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOJHKVsqsJnOkhQUvWqV6mE4z2YDvE5JhGvm0JdJvZSLBoikQFclwmfDFCobZI3Grg1lNeDBUWpF25J7WDRQrQWCylvc-eMMwtbj-cDwoG3bFjc8WlwcYjocQER0JEuVI_YRScwEcO4pc/s1600/Photo+1214.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOJHKVsqsJnOkhQUvWqV6mE4z2YDvE5JhGvm0JdJvZSLBoikQFclwmfDFCobZI3Grg1lNeDBUWpF25J7WDRQrQWCylvc-eMMwtbj-cDwoG3bFjc8WlwcYjocQER0JEuVI_YRScwEcO4pc/s640/Photo+1214.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here it is again. My extensive team of professional technicians and photographers are taking a siesta...all day, so i did my best to photograph myself and share this cute little plastic top...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSrY71uvwLwdd8Ozl1h9TznE2ok-XUhP8fU5tU367_j5Whq41QVDedaGq9KfpaZ3CoKctQmS_mKHz1ricN5Qtttga41HTOP4uH_HA50jaUpprw12oNLMeG1TCi321fa6IzNmN0rwJdGSg/s1600/Photo+1219.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSrY71uvwLwdd8Ozl1h9TznE2ok-XUhP8fU5tU367_j5Whq41QVDedaGq9KfpaZ3CoKctQmS_mKHz1ricN5Qtttga41HTOP4uH_HA50jaUpprw12oNLMeG1TCi321fa6IzNmN0rwJdGSg/s640/Photo+1219.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's really hard to get the whole ensemble in though. The pants are also Alpha purchases, and thus like $5. Right now they have glue and dust all over them from the studio yesterday, to where I will shortly return.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For more about Bas Couture - click <a href="http://thelemongrove.blogspot.com/2011/09/bas-couture.html">HERE</a>!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Have a great Sunday!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Quack!</div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-2702910797771886252012-01-07T07:55:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.714-08:00It grows<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ-6y-cGEWo&context=C3ea845eADOEgsToPDskIYBTaoNVZS1B4bjVlQgMsW">It grows</a></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-78759856271510586442012-01-06T08:38:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.732-08:00Bas Couture - the donut<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHHVyqFX9JhRhUmnAbDtJwU-pUcEzIYI2KS1wCZNbE_Nt8G5Ys1qB2rbfathvqGUFJPQ48jrYNT4uLRfq1tWJbkJi0hxtymZl-A2diXk_I6I7LGa8TdH-ymmDcPd3VTlrzNUcZHOYfd0k/s1600/Holly+Mackay+stripes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="592" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHHVyqFX9JhRhUmnAbDtJwU-pUcEzIYI2KS1wCZNbE_Nt8G5Ys1qB2rbfathvqGUFJPQ48jrYNT4uLRfq1tWJbkJi0hxtymZl-A2diXk_I6I7LGa8TdH-ymmDcPd3VTlrzNUcZHOYfd0k/s640/Holly+Mackay+stripes.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Good Morning! Welcome to Oulalie! Here we are, with more wardrobe faux pas at our front desk in Munich today, in a tiny office near that park where everyone is naked in the middle of the city. But not me...no, I am NEVER naked, preferring to slip from one badly assembled outfit to another, seam-fully as it were. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEL1DxIbJWG8AjNFMUjuNVhXQ9_r74_Tvg-Lq4yr-Z_Hy5iNHlsumfoIewqrRxwH4-PKNkoGQP24OIB946udJQEuAe7g_TQKvIbbwPTuDk9QfksHwborxXUnj7fz6nUcgWrWMcKE5z4tw/s1600/Holly+Mackay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEL1DxIbJWG8AjNFMUjuNVhXQ9_r74_Tvg-Lq4yr-Z_Hy5iNHlsumfoIewqrRxwH4-PKNkoGQP24OIB946udJQEuAe7g_TQKvIbbwPTuDk9QfksHwborxXUnj7fz6nUcgWrWMcKE5z4tw/s640/Holly+Mackay.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love the blue stripes and the black stripes. It makes me happy and I guess satiates some deep need I have to be contrary. I cut the feet of of those blue striped things as I go barefoot a great deal of the time. It's the reason I LOVE clean floors. Its a constant sensation party.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The striped black thing comes from a thrift store in sf. I think it was <a href="http://www.buffaloexchange.com/">Buffalo Exchange</a>, and it was under $20. The shirt is a F21 cheepy that I cut the collar out of. And the donut is a giant print of a small painting I did. You can check out more on my just beginning <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Thelemongrove">Etsy</a> page. There are more for sale to - they REALLY look great on the wall in all their juicy 3d photo bigness. Thanks again Matt for helping me print those!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For more about <a href="http://thelemongrove.blogspot.com/2011/09/bas-couture.html">Bas Couture</a> - Clickage there.</div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-76522129527975511412012-01-05T08:30:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.754-08:00Bas Couture - crooked buttoning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jxXlJBMFwcc/TwXHuS8oqYI/AAAAAAAADjY/X0CrnwX-aJo/s1600/Holly+Mackay+button+problem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="596" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jxXlJBMFwcc/TwXHuS8oqYI/AAAAAAAADjY/X0CrnwX-aJo/s640/Holly+Mackay+button+problem.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Getting dressed in the morning is important...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Good Morning and Welcome to Oulalie! Yes - I meant to do that."</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgp2jkA640VXAK3VduJo92HilL2Y6p_0QeS33dfpg_rGR9JdORbB6j1DLlyjz2sLDz6P_UkJ_6fa0mRmGatdEh5ucPV4ZOz2HdNHo4k6hi1_FuX5DTZmLrBWQcDdUO9N_MiHL13uAB8Fg/s1600/Holly+Mackay+double.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgp2jkA640VXAK3VduJo92HilL2Y6p_0QeS33dfpg_rGR9JdORbB6j1DLlyjz2sLDz6P_UkJ_6fa0mRmGatdEh5ucPV4ZOz2HdNHo4k6hi1_FuX5DTZmLrBWQcDdUO9N_MiHL13uAB8Fg/s640/Holly+Mackay+double.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm here in the Mongolian office this morning, looking like a scruff bucket having run most of the way. Nothing GREAT happening in apparel, but my jacket is new and I LOVE it. I got it in San Luis Obispo over the holidays. WHO KNEW what a cool little down town they have! Here are some links to some places we discovered and liked. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sidecarslo">Sidecar SLO</a> SUCH great food.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://kreuzbergcalifornia.com/category/san-luis-obispo/">Kreuzberg CA</a> cool coffee etc - sister to Sidecar</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bel-Frites/274503307026">Bel Frites</a> yummy Belgium fries with dipping stuff</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bodymagazine.us/retail.php?idStore=22">Fanny Wrappers</a> seemingly affordable lingerie fun </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lulus.com/">Lulu Luxe </a> i think this is the site for a store I liked - loads of cool dresses</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Detour arrested. Go to the duck now...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To learn more about Bas Couture, <a href="http://thelemongrove.blogspot.com/2011/09/bas-couture.html">click here</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-6913275220746247402012-01-04T14:39:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.775-08:00The Upcycled beach plastic Duck 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n29wXrYwk64/TwTA1HeEWMI/AAAAAAAADiU/CZyOqmhzzik/s1600/DUCK+SKETCH.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n29wXrYwk64/TwTA1HeEWMI/AAAAAAAADiU/CZyOqmhzzik/s640/DUCK+SKETCH.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the beginning...or is it the end? Heck - I don't know.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I do know that it's supposed to be yellow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In December I was hired by the <a href="http://coastalfund.as.ucsb.edu/">Costal Fund</a>. They are partnering with UCSB reads to promote a book called<a href="http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2599"> Moby Duck</a>, and they have hired me to make a......drumroll please...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">4 foot tall duck that looks like a rubber ducky bath toy that is made from ALL beach plastic. They want it to weigh less than 50 lbs. Well - I'm not so sure about that poundage - sounds a bit hopeful, but the rest is all good.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">I got the gig through the good people at the awesome <a href="http://artfromscrap.org/">Art From Scrap</a>. Thanks guys!!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">soooooo...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is my store. This is where I pluck my materials from. How can you beet that?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Answer...you can't but you can <a href="http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_164159/Jean-Baptiste-Camille-Corot/The-Stormy-Sea-or,-The-Wave">Corot</a> it! AAAAAAAAAAHHH! I am so pleased with this one, not only that I caught my spelling faux pas but that I made a joke! I can be so un funny. Oh I am pleased).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy3_a8aPNsNnfbC5O-K_Vmy6QrWNmYF3Z9eQOBuAcFFOm3fthusjKCae97rWfDNEuO9zn7b9A-jxz7NWf8E8w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I gave myself an extra challenge. To do the project in 10 days beginning New years eve. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFPPg5UfFhFWpeUkhoE5ba9cyB3DBERaN3ntuU4Asb5oTAgznZGbcjts2qcAiqvThRD7dVC0JBJu2EnVJuZVxi7SFCsay4DA24_NZyF_fiuoB6sUsYVKJQFVZEsixULe7n0FK2HozTiv4/s1600/SUNSET.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFPPg5UfFhFWpeUkhoE5ba9cyB3DBERaN3ntuU4Asb5oTAgznZGbcjts2qcAiqvThRD7dVC0JBJu2EnVJuZVxi7SFCsay4DA24_NZyF_fiuoB6sUsYVKJQFVZEsixULe7n0FK2HozTiv4/s640/SUNSET.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've done 3 walks now to collect the plastic, the particulars of which I will go into later, but I've visited:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jalama</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A secrete private beach above above Bacaara</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ledbetter </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and I also have a bag of trash from my child and her dad who stopped to scavenge for me on their trip to SF. Thanks you guys!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBdOPGTfA1KExNBxKStlK46WEaSGzdims2yADoyisaIEYOL-oOqe4Gq7VZmXVqWX5RF4CVOvcYbBgJxWgZCVB6HjtqS17n8ZHvDMosqpl_a697I8c0LvSfac_BaAeni_rZAesGG8uXdWI/s1600/BLOB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBdOPGTfA1KExNBxKStlK46WEaSGzdims2yADoyisaIEYOL-oOqe4Gq7VZmXVqWX5RF4CVOvcYbBgJxWgZCVB6HjtqS17n8ZHvDMosqpl_a697I8c0LvSfac_BaAeni_rZAesGG8uXdWI/s640/BLOB.jpg" width="610" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I don't really know what to say at this point. I'm not panicking yet...I'm excited, and thats probably bad. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1wuQ6DXaG1zU2ukoz67vJMspPiwvLSmL9-_7KnhXmpKBBjgjrPMkUn_vgFxT28_afJzIU6dLSJ0q6hdM8zBWGSirLMpg_V3-xLoFYCXt6FKDhN8vK-6e1wMKx1Zx65PaUxsuopOGnE8E/s1600/cut.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1wuQ6DXaG1zU2ukoz67vJMspPiwvLSmL9-_7KnhXmpKBBjgjrPMkUn_vgFxT28_afJzIU6dLSJ0q6hdM8zBWGSirLMpg_V3-xLoFYCXt6FKDhN8vK-6e1wMKx1Zx65PaUxsuopOGnE8E/s640/cut.jpg" width="610" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I did some major cutting of large objects yesterday and am on my way to the studio now, but wanted to post this first. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYT2VcCk3mu7QNn_wxQHvwIPNorFK4B2wO80WE_o8VMbILqMNG-FSHK5UT741MrxK9d6SFbTDlcQkerCE3_NFboXt6cJZ8fNt3EnrW_3IOq5V7aWfJxuKFwwKTy3lNejkdLnfDfJbpGwA/s1600/styrafoam+slice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYT2VcCk3mu7QNn_wxQHvwIPNorFK4B2wO80WE_o8VMbILqMNG-FSHK5UT741MrxK9d6SFbTDlcQkerCE3_NFboXt6cJZ8fNt3EnrW_3IOq5V7aWfJxuKFwwKTy3lNejkdLnfDfJbpGwA/s640/styrafoam+slice.jpg" width="610" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today wasn't as straight forward as I had hoped - having been gifted with a vomiting child at 6 am, so I'm off to a slow start, but hey - it's life. There are obstacles. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiybx5d-s0zy6C59KCe-eq2UJCbGfnKPkhGX6vV9JkXa6xhCQtuvPjw3VxNgeVOIo2QhuoqJOLOy1XE9OX_3FJmN16yU7h5engfep_mxv70OOqWMlcmNQUQwdstbfSzZ-aVqfxaE4gP4S0/s1600/trash+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiybx5d-s0zy6C59KCe-eq2UJCbGfnKPkhGX6vV9JkXa6xhCQtuvPjw3VxNgeVOIo2QhuoqJOLOy1XE9OX_3FJmN16yU7h5engfep_mxv70OOqWMlcmNQUQwdstbfSzZ-aVqfxaE4gP4S0/s640/trash+2.jpg" width="608" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm going to quote a relative of mine now because I've been reading one of his books...I was anyhow...but i've misplaced it so it will have to wait....</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2H8j7hfM0x22vFukFhX7IoyF-iThEqCt-P4K0dRIrztllr1ABGlEmsYHjD_GhPsJcOmcgEM27trxccEPRWVcmueWQyT3tBX77Fu2ITNEwIVDELvq1rfKbOGTl13osw79jV0S-sGVm41w/s1600/trash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2H8j7hfM0x22vFukFhX7IoyF-iThEqCt-P4K0dRIrztllr1ABGlEmsYHjD_GhPsJcOmcgEM27trxccEPRWVcmueWQyT3tBX77Fu2ITNEwIVDELvq1rfKbOGTl13osw79jV0S-sGVm41w/s640/trash.jpg" width="618" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217282985543295101.post-31313928115198448132012-01-04T12:10:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:20:30.798-08:00Bas Couture - old sleeves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fxa5ibdyDzQ/TwSvo4MTjwI/AAAAAAAADh4/tTkT1zEn578/s1600/HOLLY+MACKAY+SB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="596" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fxa5ibdyDzQ/TwSvo4MTjwI/AAAAAAAADh4/tTkT1zEn578/s640/HOLLY+MACKAY+SB.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sheesh...sometimes all a person has time for between 5 am and 12 pm is to get dressed and get behind that desk.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Hello! Welcome to Oulalie. Peace! We're open for business!" </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"What? The sign indicates open at 9am and it's now 12:01? Yes - well was YOUR child vomiting all morning on the hour?" </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Qc2HPaetnPZXhi8nWZ4TVss6ADb7I1IXUqT9Qrzzwj-wVedPA9vu7e3R6Jn_m6o_oQ3goY82JBZSETP6u2h5w4hwLEXczmOxVRh9MIDtNkx8uwLhQxmNoGTnfBmR_SDOxqZOZjk816M/s1600/Holly+Mackay+slevesl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="596" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Qc2HPaetnPZXhi8nWZ4TVss6ADb7I1IXUqT9Qrzzwj-wVedPA9vu7e3R6Jn_m6o_oQ3goY82JBZSETP6u2h5w4hwLEXczmOxVRh9MIDtNkx8uwLhQxmNoGTnfBmR_SDOxqZOZjk816M/s640/Holly+Mackay+slevesl.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"No - well, mine was."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Poor little love muffin all pasty and pathetic. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj990oQunx9ea9CYGVv-hvqy1VOl0vO9fTGeVokW-R9YTNLrq9X96So7JtYQe2G92hLkWr0biYRBXNQaCocvpk46zykoJOQeI-rGh9wUgrKjc-8tPG17XKnxhaoso_GtvNKREXCsiyjWc8/s1600/HOLLY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="596" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj990oQunx9ea9CYGVv-hvqy1VOl0vO9fTGeVokW-R9YTNLrq9X96So7JtYQe2G92hLkWr0biYRBXNQaCocvpk46zykoJOQeI-rGh9wUgrKjc-8tPG17XKnxhaoso_GtvNKREXCsiyjWc8/s640/HOLLY.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So here I am...I made it and now I need to take my painted on pants, cheep old Ross shirt and FANTASTIC old lacy cut of sleeves to my studio and DOMINATE THE DUCK...stay tuned for next post to see what Im talking about.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For more about Bas Couture <a href="http://thelemongrove.blogspot.com/2011/09/bas-couture.html">click here.</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Holly Mackayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13248826584098486420noreply@blogger.com0