Hey Hey! New and exciting things have been happening in my workshop and are now available for your viewing and purchasing (and future meal preparing) pleasure at my Etsy store including two new incredibly amazing new PacMan cutting boards.
Check it out:
Wooo! Week one of my One Design Per Week project is a success! I actually ended up with two sort of different versions of the Fibonacci cutting board. I’ll be putting them up on my Etsy store in the next day or two.
I’ve got a couple of ideas cooking for the next design in the series, so check back tomorrow to find out what’s coming up!
Since the beginning of 2010, I have been officially self-employed! Hooray for an enjoyable work life combined with the excitement of a highly tenuous financial situation! So since the beginning of the year, I’ve been thinking about ways to get this thing rolling, and have decided from now on, I’ll create a new design every week, and post the results here (and of course on my Etsy site ). So to kick off this new year of excitement, I present the Fibonacci Cutting Board!
…or at least a sloppy pencil drawing of it. I was working on a batch of Space Invader boards when I started thinking about the Fibonacci sequence (sounds familiar, right…how many times has this happened to you), and thought it might make a pretty sweet (or at least pretty geeky) cutting board. I sketched out a quick rough draft on my workbench, and while the final design may end up a little different, I’m pretty happy with the potential of the idea.
For those unfamiliar with the Fibonacci sequence, here is the Wikipedia entry about it. Basically, it’s a series of numbers beginning 0,1,1,2,3,5,8… where the next number in the sequence is found by adding the two previous numbers together. Math being one of my weaker flavors of geek, this is about the extent of my knowledge on the subject, but it’s sufficient for my purposes. Keep an eye out for a finished version of this board in the next week or two, and check back once in a while to see what else my one-design-per-week project brings about.
Man I’m bad at keeping this thing up to date…but better late than never, right? So here’s the skinny.Oranje was great. Lots of cool art, good music, and interesting people. I’ll almost certainly try to be a part of it again next year. I sold a few things, but mostly it was just me standing around and having hundreds of people walk through my booth and telling me how awesome my work was. Not a huge business success, but it sure was good for the old ego.
The art festival was in this old warehouse thing that clearly doesn’t get used more than once a year (so dusty…), but it worked well for this event. Here’s my booth, with a small and fuzzy view of my amazingly rad Pacman board that is not yet available for public consumption (I’m not even gonna post a real picture of it because I know when I do, it’s gonna be linked on a bunch of blogs and I only have two of them made right now…you only get that initial rush of links and orders once).
Click through for more pictures, including some shots of my first attempts at classy wooden jewelry (like classier than a space invader necklace…if that’s possible).
More to come.
Last minute update here from 1337mogirlf, 1337motif’s (you guessed it) girlfriend. Mr. Motif says:
“Being the super-responsible person that I am, I want to let everyone know that just six and a half hours from the time of this posting, I will be making my first-ever LIVE appearance at an alternative arts festival, ORANJE, in Indianapolis. Check out their website for more info!”
In Cameron’s defense, he’s been working his fingers to the bone to get stuff ready to show. So tonight from 8pm-2am, if you’re in the Indianapolis area, check it out! In addition to the Space Invader cutting boards he’s made so popular at ThinkGeek, and the TriForce boards & Space Invader coasters, necklaces, & keychains he’s sold on four continents from Etsy, he’ll be making the WORLD PREMIERE of the PacMan cutting boards (red ghost won! I have one, and it’s gorgeous!!) and his very first JEWELRY LINE!!! The stuff in it is absolutely beautiful. He brings out the natural beauty in the wood with simple shapes and gorgeous finishing. Tonight he’ll have necklaces and earrings, and hopefully other items will be joining the line soon. I’ll see if I can get some pictures online for y’all to drool over, just in case you can’t make it tonight.
I’ve been working on these Space Invader coasters off and on for about six months, and in spite of the fact that they made the fingerprint scanner on my laptop essentially useless for a couple months because I rubbed my fingerprints off in the process of making them, they’re totally sweet. I’m selling them in a set of 6, with two of each alien. I thought about including the little tank-gun-thing, but it’s a pretty uninteresting design, and I feel pretty sure that the people at your dinner party that got stuck with those coasters would feel well and truly shafted, so in the interest of avoiding any personal responsibility for interpersonal schisms happening in your group of friends and family, I decided to omit the boring design and stick with the three main aliens for this set. Popular demand could necessitate a change in policy, but for the time being, this is the way it’s going to be. Be sure to check out these and all the other super-sweet stuff I’ve got for sale on my Etsy store, and if I’m out of Space Invader cutting boards, don’t forget that the good people at ThinkGeek.com usually have some in stock. More pictures of the coasters after the cut!
You can now head over to my Etsy Store to check out all the good stuff I’ve got for sale there. I finally finished the Space Invader keychains that I have been working on for a while, so if you can’t find enough Space Invaders swag anywhere else out there, I’ve got you covered. If you do stop by the shop, you may notice the lack of what is essentially my flagship item, the Space Invaders cutting board. This is because I have been so busy making a batch of 50 of them for ThinkGeek, I have not had a chance to make any to sell out of my own shop. Don’t worry though, because the good people over at ThinkGeek have them right over here, and unless they have already sold out, you should be able to get one. I’m still hoping to be able to make some PacMan boards for X-mas, but things are wicked busy right now, so no guarantees. Thanks for stopping by!
So I have just put a batch of Triforce boards up on Etsy, and I am currently working on a batch of Space Invaders boards to fill the new ThinkGeek order. I am really looking forward to finishing, because I am planning to start on a new Pacman design as soon as I have time to do it. The problem is, I am not sure which design to use, so I am turning to you, dear internet, to help me make this decision. Here are the two current leading designs.
I like both, though personally I think the red one is cooler with Pacman and the Ghost racing toward the powerup, but a few people have told me it’s a bit crowded, which I can totally see. Either one is going to end up costing more than my current boards because instead of 1 1/4 inch squares, they will be 1/2 inch squares, and thus much more work. Also, the one with the red ghost would require the use of bloodwood, which is an exotic, and therefore, pricey. I wouldn’t think either would be outside of the $150 to $175 range, which I know is way expensive, but if you look for handmade cutting boards online, I think I would still be a bit under the median price for something of this size and complexity.
In my last post, I mentioned that there would be some Big News coming soon. Well, the not so big news is that I am not very good about keeping this thing up to date. The Big News is that my Space Invaders cutting boards are now for sale at ThinkGeek!…or at least they were…about a month ago. To make an awesome thing even better, the 15 boards that I sold to ThinkGeek sold out in about 2 weeks, so they have ordered more, and they should be ready in mid-October.
