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No, You Can’t Have a Chicken. NOT YOURS
Yesterday, Shirley came over at breakfast talk about making magical QRcode real estate yard signs that let you find out how much the list price of the house is — and talk directly to the listing agent. She brought over a bunch of eggs gathered from her hens that morning, and I had to practically…
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Guerilla Drive-In last Friday Night: “Cannonball Run II”
Last Friday night was a Guerilla Drive-In showing. We had planned to show Cannonball Run II at the Marsh Creek Speedway (check out those AWESOME seventies rental go-karts, which still run and are for sale), but the Friday night racing got rained out. So we showed the movie at TheNote instead, which is the new…
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Needlepoint Nitrogen Motorcycle Tattoo Tank Cozy
The 29th annual Chester County Restaurant Festival is coming up on Sunday, and I’m gonna be giving airbrush tattoos on Mary Bigham’s red carpet. What tattoo does a foodie get? Not a sailor’s anchor, but a FORK, naturally! Expert pixel-pusher Jason Tremblay lent me the vector art for the Restaurant Festival’s fork logo, and Dave…
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Nerdlepoint pattern in 18-ct canvas
I finished stitching up and binding a nerdlepoint canvas in 18-count mono canvas. I used a two-step binding stitch on the edge, which makes a braid, but MAN is it hard to keep the braid steady. This is one of those things where knowing how it should be executed doesn’t really help: you just have…
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P8tch 2.0 Prototyping: Now With Frickin’ Lasers
I’m prototyping p8tch 2.0. I want these things to be like futuristic ranger badges, except by "futuristic" I mean like "original Star Wars futuristic", or "Syd Mead Alien futuristic", where stuff is actually heavy-duty and shows actual wear. That means incorporating industrial materials, leather, and hand stitching. Plus juxtaposing white plastic and leather, naturally. Anyhow,…
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Commando Nerds in Action
At 5:49 AM this morning, p8tch collaborator Kenn Munk sent the following message to me: “Here are a couple of p8t.ch shots taken after having done a small run handing out flyers, not as heroic as they could have been, but I had no photographer handy. The second one is a more action-y stmbling shot……
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Announcing “National ‘Is This Your Card?’ Day”
One of the bread-and-butter moves of any magician is called “forcing a choice.” Basically, it means that when I ask you to “pick a card, any card”, I get to decide what card you get. For instance, you’re gonna get the Seven of Hearts. This can be done a number of ways, from the inelegant…
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Beach report: Matt’s MC5 Needlepoint
Here’s my update from the beach! Kate, Lydia, Barb, Matt and I are all in Avalon, NJ right now, and we’re all working on our projects. Matt was interested in my MOL Alligator project. Suddenly, he decided that he should needlepoint a 1960s Gary Grimshaw flyer for proto-punk band MC5 (he came across the flyer…
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Iceberg in Dunfield Harbor
Here’s a picture and an excerpt from a letter Lydia got in the mail the other day from my dad, who is up in Newfoundland (I’m putting it here with permission from all parties.) It makes me feel like they’re living in a Robert McCloskey book! “Dear Lydia, This picture that Nan took is of…
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The National Association for INFORMATION DESTRUCTION(!!!)
Kate and I walked past a mobile shredding truck this morning. It had great graphics on it — a smiling tiger drawing big, sharp claws right past the little glass window where you can see into the truck and view the shredded paper. the tiger looked happy, too: “RAWR I hate documents!” “RAWR I love…
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