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This Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 from 9pm to midnight at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!

Project: Paper Toilet Tube Cavalcade!

$2 Processing Fee, Please

The time for hemming and hawing is over, time for something different. Hey it’s FALL. September is the final month before the indefatigable squadron of seasonal holidays starts clogging up the calendar. It’s time to take a chance. Time to DO SOMETHING with all those gosh darn toilet paper rolls that go needlessly to the trash, or that become recycled all boring-like.

The sheer, boundless number of possible crafts one can make out of a toilet paper tube is mind-bogglingly wonderful. You can make a totem pole, a caterpillar, a smokin’ hot-rod, a very practical pen holder for your very chic and sophisticated workstation, a firecracker with flamin’ hot cheetos inside, puppets of glittery “corporate-socialist” political personalities, a windsock that looks kind of like a grumpy neon ghost, a pair of freaky fuzzy binoculars… I’m tellin’ you, come one, come all, it’s endless prospects over here. Fall-time toilet paper tube crafts at CraftNight can turn any emotional low into a longtime high, just visualize, experiment, construct, paint and decorate and WOW! One of the nation’s classic disposable and overlooked standbys shall be TRANSFORMED by your vision, your fortitude, your whim, and you shall reign supreme.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

Hey! I updated www.crafthead.com go see what’s coming up in October! Woooo!

And as always, wonderful fuscia $4 cosmopolitans at our neighborhood oasis, AKBAR.

This Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 from 9pm to midnight, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: National Geographic Placemats!
$2 donation, please

You know about National Geographic, don’t you? Well, we’ve got sets of ’em from every decade, old to new, and I also have lots of contac paper. I figured you could make a manatee placemat, or some kind of cool map-laden kind of placemat, or something about oil rigs, or obscure tribes, glowing machinery, cumulonimbus clouds, make as many themes as you want! Really!
Does this confuse you? Well the surefire way to be confused no more is to forget the cat and drag the curious on in, as this is going to be fun, as usual.
Collage involves hi-octane cutting, gluing and assemblage, bring in any photos you want to put in your placemat, any imagery you can’t be without, bottle labels, bumper stickers, playing cards… whatever you feel will accentuate the message that will sit under your food (or the cat’s food.)
See your fine self over here, yes we will, this week or eventually, we know you can’t stay away.
See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

This Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 from 9pm to midnight, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: MONSTERS!!!
$2 processing fee, please

Your Craft Captain is out of town this week officiating a wedding in the Big Apple, and in my place for this Wednesday will be two new Craft Lieutenants: Mike Che and Adrian Avila! These are the first two-fisted, red-blooded MEN running the craft table this week, they are devastatingly handsome, viral, macho and well… crafty. Please come in and see for yourself how the masculine mystique adds a robust and brawny energy to the Craft Table!
And what are we making this week?
We’re going to help you make MONSTERS out of fabric and assorted bits of this and that, some fur, some googly eyes, some yarn… if you aren’t sure what kind of monster to make, we’ll have some sort of schematic available to help guide you in the process.

So come on in and check out the new hunky CraftNight Lieutenants and the MONSTER festivities!
MONSTERS! ROWR! SNORT!

See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

This Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 from 9pm til midnight at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!

$2 processing fee, please

It’s Christmas at CraftNight! Mr. Matt Dunnerstick, writer and director of his movie, which starts shooting on the 13th of September, needs CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS! LOTS OF THEM! Come make one or two or three or twelve, and loan them to the movie, and get them back in time for the actual Christmas holiday!

Here’s the synopsis for Matt’s Movie:

With the help of a genius amateur scientist, Preachers Paul Sr and Paul Jr convince a girl in their parish, Mary, to get pregnant with the second coming of Christ. They believe when the baby is born the world will end. She conceives and bears the child, but when Jesus is born a little different than the priests had planned, they drop her and move onto other girls. Mary becomes a nervous wreck and breaks down. She heads to the desert for answers and there finds inner peace. She returns to Los Angeles and organizes a populist uprising. Throughout the story, Mary is helped by her friend Joe, an African American lowrider mechanic. Lowrider automobiles are a featured part of the film and appear throughout.

As you can see, it’s a very reverent and traditional story, nothing too crazy or flashy.

We’ll have a smattering of ornaments crying out for your signature style, we’ll have all the opulence, shimmer and twinkle needed to make enough for a veritable FOREST of Christmas trees. So yeah, when it’s HOT OUT, do what everyone does in LA when it’s hot: make Christmas ornaments!!! And then we’ll watch the movie when it comes out and you’ll say to friends and colleagues “That’s my ornament, oh yes it is.” Just don’t forget all the little people when the talent agents start calling, and the paparrazzi begin documenting your every step and publishers want to option you for the book. We’ve had enough trouble with that already.

See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

PS- Did you miss the TIMESTAMP opening? I’ll be in the gallery Sept. 18th from 6 – 10pm, kind of like a little “Closing Ceremony!” Come and see me! Last Chance, as the show goes down on the 20th.

This Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 from 9pm til’ midnight at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!

Project: Peculiar Mini Statuettes!

$2 Processing fee, please

My oh my, the Olympics are now over, and so is Sunset Junction!

Due to blazingly hot temperatures, which gives one flair for the dramatic, we now present the CraftNight Bulletin in Iambic Pentameter, with an economy of no more than 5 iambs per line! Yay!

To paint the plaster creatures, is a quest
And in the hour of nine when we begin
At Akbar where to drink is not a sin
for crafters captivated it’s no jest

Arrive, escape the hot and broiling sun
Though many say that crafts are for the nerds,
We’ve monkeys faeries cats and bears and birds
Why there’s a figurine for everyone!

Sip from your flagon grand a cosmo fine
Brushes drunk with color will paint fancy
Evening music will make you feel dancy
A tiny statue thither shall be thine

See you at the craft table, and DON’T FORGET: The TIME STAMP SHOW is up and running until September 20th, go see it, write a postcard in the “Cozy Art Rumpus Room” and send it to someone special!

JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com