Sarah Applebaum :: Artist

Artist Sarah Applebaum created an amazing cave space in her living room with cardboard, paper and crocheted granny squares. Woah! Psychedelic overload.

Images: Fecal Face

The faceted shapes are painted cardboard pieces suspended on a series of strings and pullies, and the cascading curtain is made from handcut pieces of paper. Sarah made this installation in preparation for an exhibiton currently showing at Receiver Gallery in San Francisco. (Check out the Receiver link for lots of great art.) You can see more images of Sarah's installation in her home on Fecal Face.

This is Sarah's exhibition, titled Soft Core:

Image: Sarah Applebaum

I particularly love the organic placement of the faceted shapes and the clusters of coloured raindrops.

I have to give a shout out to my friend Donna for showing me Sarah's work. Thanks lovely.
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Freestyle :: A New Spin on Magazines

There are a lot of magazines vying for our attention and our dollar, but there's a new one that stands out from the crowd. Freestyle Magazine is a limited edition fashion and design title with a difference: it comes inside a designer frisbee.


Each issue of this biannual magazine will be slotted inside a frisbee decorated by a well known artist or designer. For the first issue, available in early July, the frisbee features a graphic by Eley Kishimoto. Issue 1 will be a limited edition of 5,000, with the frisbee available in 5 different colour combos - 1,000 of each. Orange with metallic blue design and clear Purple with metallic CD-foil design sound super cool don't they?


The cover image is a montage of machine stitched images by Jason McGlade, which is part of a fabulous series.

All images via Freestyle Magazine.

The distinctive format, collectible frisbee and Jason McGlade's images have already won me over. I'm sure Freestyle Magazine will become a collector's item, so if you're keen to nab a copy you can register to be notified when the first issue is available.

The magazine also has a suitably funky blog.
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Monday BlogDay: Golden Gems

I have only just discovered this gem of a blog, and for someone like me who is obsessed with vintage children's book illustrations it's an amazing find. Barbie Miller curates her wonderful collection of books, together with occasional cards and calendars, on the Golden Gems blog. If you also have a passion for this sort of thing (Alex, I know you do!) you'll love Golden Gems.

All images: Golden Gems.
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And the giveaway winner is...

Harajuku girl photo taken on my Tokyo trip last year.

Jane's favourite city is her home town of Melbourne. Jane, please email me with your postal address and I'll get your goodies to you next week.

Thanks to all who entered, and make sure you check out the comments on both the giveaway posts >here and >here for some great shops and shopping destinations and lovely descriptions of fabulous cities.

Have a happy weekend, enjoy and I'll see you on Monday.

x
Lisa

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Fabric Shopping in Tokyo

My Japanese fabric stash can be easily categorised: designer (including Nani Iro and Kokka), kawaii (cute), and retro. The fabrics with the retro feel are mostly - except for the ones on the hanger directly below - of American origin, and are fat quarters or half metres of quilter's fabric. But I'm a sucker for retro and they are well suited to some new products I am busy working on.


If you're going to Tokyo looking for fabric Okadaya in Shinjuku is a must, particularly as they have all sorts of craft and sewing supplies including lovely ribbons and trims and a fabulous floor of craft books. Also the famous Tomato stores in Nippori Fabric Town. There's a little shop on the corner before Tomato that has some Nani Iro fabrics cheaper, as well as some cute prints too. After spending a lot of time in Tomato I didn't have the energy (with my cold) or the finances(!) to venture to other fabric shops in Nippori - but there is a whole street of them. Good advice which I read on another blog is to take a little wheely suitcase. I stupidly ignored that advice thinking that I wouldnt buy much!


Now that I am home I wish I'd bought more fabric in Japan... there's always next year!
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