TONIGHT! Wednesday March 24th, 2010 from 9pm – midnight or so, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
CRAFT: Amazing clothespin craft!!!
$2 processing fee, please
SPECIAL MUSICAL GUEST STARS: The Scumbags • Music to craft by at Akbar!
The sensationalism and puffery that comes with the true and understated brilliance of making clothespin crafts threatens to maniacally restructure the Silverlake social landscape. Don’t worry though, in this postmodern bric-a-brac bricolage world, it really does come down to the quiet and pleasurable act of gluing, painting, and seeing. We’re going to get vast with our mental possibilities, shut out all those distractions, and see what craftiness can be done with a clothespin.
The clothespin I’ll hand to you is the old-fangled kind, two pieces of wood with the little metal springy-thingy that makes it clamp tight to anything. I tried clamping one on my earlobe, it was uncomfortable. It was a crisp, uncomplicated pain, what else could one expect from an item that needs to hold up wet sheets on a clothesline? Have you ever seen a butterfly clothespin magnet? It’s like being immersed in another world to see one of these, it’s both beautiful, and slightly useful… strange, beguiling, comforting. On a planet where the rapid heartbeat of the multitasking masses are daily curdling mornings and nights into blocks of jam-packed efficiency… the clothespin butterfly can help bring us back to us.
You don’t have to make a butterfly though, you can just paint yours a cool color, or make it into a tiny replica of someone you know, or turn it into a desert animal or write a really tiny poem on it. Tiny poems should just be everywhere anyway, not just on clothespins.
See you at the Craft Table!
JP Craft Captain
PS – I’m in a show in NY at Giant Robot! Check my site JuliannaParr.com I made some dioramas! Should be a great show, lots of tiny art for small spaces!
