This week’s font is Motion Picture which you can download HERE (donate if it’s for commercial use)
This weeks photo is from Art.com, which you can view/buy HERE.
This week’s FF is very Hollywood. I’ll let you interpret as you like.
Font Friday is about having fun with images and finding new fonts while celebrating design and bringing attention to the under-celebrated art of font creation. Explore dafonts.com + art.com to make your own fun designs. Get creative!
This week’s font is Lighthouse which you can download HERE (donate if it’s for commercial use)
This weeks photo is from Art.com, which you can view/buy HERE.
I’ve been feeling homesick, so this weeks art is an Edward Hopper print (sigh, the Cape) with dafont’s lighthouse font.
Font Friday is about having fun with images and finding new fonts while celebrating design and bringing attention to the under-celebrated art of font creation. Explore dafonts.com + art.com to make your own fun designs. Get creative!
Friday night (May 3rd) check out the Pancake and Booze art show downtown from 8p-2am. It’s being held at Lot 613, 613 Imperial St, LA (aka warehouse party/art show). Cover is $5 but it includes all you can eat pancakes. There will be live body painting, a photo booth, a stencil art performance, and a 3d blacklight experience. Street parking is free but sketchy, and the show has a $7 lot.
Independent Label Market is hosting a FREE music event on Saturday May 4th at 11 to 4pm in Silverlake. Expect food trucks and live music. Think of this as a farmers market for the music industry. It’s located at the Micheltorena Elementary School in Silverlake and check HERE for more details.
After checking out the Independent Label Market, head over the the Vegan Beer & Food Festival on Sunset in West Hollywood on Saturday. More than 40+ brewers are participating with more than 30 food vendors and live music. Tickets are $40 in advance (get them here) and general admission gives you unlimited beer sampling. Beer lovers unite!
On Sunday May 5th it’s Cinco de Mayo… but it’s also Big Sunday! Big Sunday is a volunteer weekend about helping your community. In the past I’ve chopped wood at a kids summer camp, danced with elderly people at an old folks social, volunteered at the first Echo Park Art Walk and even made sandwiches and hand delivered them to homeless people. All of these activities were rewarding, eye opening, extremely memorable and a great chance to meet others in the community interested in helping others. There’s still plenty of time to sign up for an event. Do it!
This week’s font is Bubble Letters which you can download HERE (donate if it’s for commercial use)
This weeks photo is from Art.com, which you can view/buy HERE.
This weeks art is from art.com’s Wee You-Things collection. Isn’t it fun?
Font Friday is about having fun with images and finding new fonts while celebrating design and bringing attention to the under-celebrated art of font creation. Explore dafonts.com + art.com to make your own fun designs. Get creative!
Sunday funday! What are you up to on this beautiful Sunday? Why not head downtown to the Brewery (near the 5 on Main St) to see their art walk and talk to the artists participating. Come support LA artists!
Event: Brewery Art Walk (event link)
Location: Brewery Art Association (15 Gallery), 2100 North Main Street, Unit A10
Time: Sunday April 28, 2013, 11am-6pm
Cost: FREE!
This week’s font is Springtime which you can download HERE (donate if it’s for commercial use)
This weeks photo is from Art.com, which you can view/buy HERE.
This weeks art is Van Gogh’s painting Pecher En Fleurs. Doesn’t it feel so springy? Los Angeles is feeling springy too, so enjoy the warm sunny weekend.
Font Friday is about having fun with images and finding new fonts while celebrating design and bringing attention to the under-celebrated art of font creation. Explore dafonts.com + art.com to make your own fun designs. Get creative!
This weekend has SOOO much going on, I can’t do all the events justice so instead I’m going to do an abbreviated Weekend Guide. Here goes…
Tonight visit the Iam8bit Art Gallery for the opening of their newest show “It’s the ShizNICK!” celebrating the good ol’ days of Nickelodeon tv shows and cartoons. From 7-11p tonight they are having their opening celebration with live tunes by DJ Lance, a “Photo Playset”, and SLIME! Get ready to get nostalgic!
Do you love reading? And books? And Authors? Check out the LA Times Festival of Books! I went last April and had a fun day (check that post here). Be sure to bring sun screen and walk’in shoes, cause it’s a big event.
The Echo Park Art Walk is happening on Saturday in Echo Park (duh) from 12p-6pm! I do a lot of my secret stair walks around here and it’s a fun neighborhood to explore. Many shops are participating and this is a fun people-watching neighborhood. I went to this two years ago and saw Danny Devito and his wife enjoying a local band performing on the street. I can’t recommend this event enough and it celebrate local small businesses.
Go from the Echo Park Art Walk to the Frogtown Art Walk! Come check out this cool neighborhood along the LA River from 4 to 7pm on Saturday.
Are you less into books and more into cycling? Or running, or just general moseying along the streets of LA? The next CicLAvia is happening this Sunday from 10a-3p. Check out the map HERE for details about road closures. It’s Marina Del Ray to downtown. Get out your sneakers!
There’s just SO much happening this weekend, it’s hard to choose! Either way, get out there and have a fabulous weekend. It’s FRIDAY! Enjoy!
This week’s font is Society Editor which you can download HERE (donate if it’s for commercial use)
This weeks photo is from Art.com, which you can view/buy HERE.
This weeks art is a photo of President Lyndon Johnson signing the 1965 civil rights bill. How’s that for society editing in a good way?
Font Friday is about having fun with images and finding new fonts while celebrating design and bringing attention to the under-celebrated art of font creation. Explore dafonts.com + art.com to make your own fun designs. Get creative!
This week’s font is Vintage Straps which you can download HERE (please donate if it’s for commercial use)
This weeks photo is from Art.com, which you can view/buy HERE.
Font Friday is about having fun with images and finding new fonts while celebrating design. Explore dafonts.com + art.com to make your own fun designs.
This past weekend I did some work on this nifty barrel chair I got a great deal on at Salvation Army (above). She was a beauty in the store and I knew I had to get her.
The above rendering shows what I want the chair to look like eventually. I played in photoshop with patterns and colors and ultimately decided to go with a basic cream/white fabric and darkening the wood of the chair.
This is my first upholstery project, so I was very careful taking the chair apart, knowing I would have to put it back together.
After finding fabric at Joann Fabrics (with a 40% off coupon!) I started sewing the piping this past weekend.
I even put the buttons(?) on myself! I’m quite proud of it, as well as nervous for the next several steps.
I shall update you as I continue my process. But right now it’s looking awesome, especially given I have zero upholstery experience. Although, I am LOVING my staple gun. Such a great stress release.
