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LAist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Janelle Monae will be performing tonight at Siren Studio | Picture via Janelle Monae's Myspace Our Pick: Kia Soul Collective presents Janelle Monae, Fool's Gold @ Siren Studio (1050 N. Orange Dr., Hollywood) Tonight local indie rock outfit Saint Motel 's ( LAist Interview ) will be performing at the Roxy with none other than Rumspringa (LAist Review , #2 ) and Army Navy (LAist Interview , #2 , Review...
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Expert Village Videos (Free subscription) | yesterday
Making Japanese throwing stars out of paper is a great way to relieve yourself from boredom in the classroom or at the office. Construct a paper throwing star with tips from an origami specialist in this free video on paper art.
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The trailer above is for Between The Folds, a new feature documentary film presented by PBS's Independent Lens. You can view the whole film on PBS on December 8 or at one of Independent Television Service's free Community Cinema screenings upcoming around the country. From MAKE: The film documents "a determined group of theoretical scientists and fine artists who have abandoned their careers and...
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Life is Not a Cereal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Next week I will be leading a girl scout meeting that focuses on exploring three dimension art. The activities could be used with any co-op art class or could even be broken down and used on as weekly art activities in the home as a unit study on three dimensional art. Activity 1: Work with Clay Use Sculpey to make textured nature prints: This idea and the pictures come from the defunct blog Write...
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Bread Box (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
This evening I spent a while at the kids' school: it was "parent power" night (i.e. the evening the school tries to get parents and kids to come to the school in the hopes of getting the mums and dads more involved in their children's education: a good thing, by and large) and the art teacher had asked me if I would help out. Even though Boo and Skibo couldn't make it (nor, being at home...
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Madison Avenue Spy (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
All summer we gawked at the fuchsia ply wood that veiled the underpinnings of Madison Avenue newcomer, Devi Kroell . Last week the plywood came off and the store is officially opened. Our curiosity couldn't keep us away long and the a 20% off markdown even made it more exciting. Devi Kroell is a relative newcomer to the world of Madison Avenue Fashion. She debuted her eponymous collection in Spring...
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TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
(TrendHunter.com) Tribal fashions come and go—seriously, every spring—so it’s exceptionally impressive when a designer manages to give the whole tribal trend a refreshing twist. Tina Kaliva is such a designer. Her collection…
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Destructoid (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
With its complex narrative and serial killer storyline, there's no denying that PS3-exclusive Heavy Rain will be a thoroughly adult affair. Developer Quantic Dream has no intention of marketing this game to kids, and boss David Cage wishes more studios would do the same, as well as provide experiences that aren't clear-cut "good vs. evil" scenarios. "As an industry we make games for...
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BizarroBlog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Bizarro is brought to you today by Super-Fun-Pack Comics! I'm still backlogged with cartoons not posted while I was in Florida with the insects, so here's another super-fun-pack, to borrow a phrase from the inimitable Ruben Bolling. The origami cartoon is my favorite because it's dry, funny, and SUPER easy to draw. Makes my job so much easier when I come up with one of these. Because I am obsessed...
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A Blog Around The Clock (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference , but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what. There are three parent-child pairs coming to the conference in January and all three have been here before: John and Sam Dupuis are a father and son. John is the Head of...
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designers block (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
It's Bonfire Night here in the UK. Only us Brits could celebrate the anniversary of someone trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament. I Googled Guy Fawkes (he who tried to blow it up) and came up with this - an origami Guy Fawkes Mask. I then noticed that the rose is also origami. These are by Brian Chan - go and see his other beautiful work.
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The Joy of Six... (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I think everyone knows what Origami is…. the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds and crease patterns preferably without the use of gluing or...
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NOTCouture (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Thanks to The Cut, I've got a huge crush on Micaela Greg, an SF-based label that creates awe-inspiring knitwear, such as this origami-inspired skirt.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Pot Side Effect: Spending money on rolling papers. Savitex Side Effect: Discovering that by folding old rolling papers just so, you can create lovely origami.
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Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Sisters Marie and Karen Potesta of Micaela Greg first learned to sew and crochet from their Italian grandmother (herself a former designer), creating piles of potholders as children. The Detroit-raised, San Francisco–based pair initially split off for college — Marie studied fine art while Karen focused on engineering — but both went back to school to pursue fashion after graduating....
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stylekandy | 11/02/2009
It was the most awaited show of Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, and boy it did make us wait the most? At 11:00 p.m; when the show finally began, it had been through security lapses, air conditioning failure, a flood of gate crashers and an irate Rohit Bal who frantically tried to get his special guests into the show, while desperately trying to filter the uninvited ones. Inside the MSA, the din...
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farzana12 | 10/29/2009
Master Lin (Jack Kao) lives with his wife Yue (Lu Yi Ching) and son Xiao Gang (Tang Zhen Gang) on a mountain which is close to a cemetery and works as funeral origami maker who builds giant origami paper houses for the dead. One day Master Lin is heavily pressurized by the property developers to sell his land but he refused although he needs the money badly to treat his cancer illness. Meanwhile, Yue
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