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wonderful world of bean bags

Linda McNeil — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:41:09 +0000

In the spirit of Summer, I decided I needed to create a fun project that doesn’t involve a computer. I came up with the idea of making my own cornhole game board. My dad helped me build the board and I painted it and made all the bean bags. I don’t know why but I’ve always associated this game with carnivals and fairs, I think it just reminds me of the sideshow games where you could win a giant stuffed yogi bear or a china doll. This was my inspiration. Although my process was kind of rushed because I wanted this to be done for a BBQ we were hosting at my house, I’m very pleased with it. I think I will still touch up a few things about it though, I don’t like the “l” on carnival and the rides look a little wonky. I hope it brings a smile to your face though! It is the ultimate summer fun game!

Make Per Month

Linda McNeil — Mon, 24 May 2010 04:42:41 +0000

In March, my friend Des created a group on facebook called Make Per Month. For each month she assigns you a person at random and then you create something for them and sent it to them at the end of the month. What you create can be anything you want it to be. I loved this idea when I first got the invite to the group. I thought it was such a cute way to stay in contact with people and also met really interesting people. This group has been going strong for the past 3 months. There are about 60 people in the group but I would say about half of that actually take part in it. I love seeing what people create and come up with and it is also a great way to keep my creative mind moving.

These are my March and April assignments. I didn’t know the girls that I was making something for so I just made something I would like.

above is a triptych I made for the month of March. This was the month MPM started so I didn’t know what to do or what to expect. I figured everyone likes birds so why not modgepodge the shit out of paper and fabric and put it on 3 pieces of wood. Bellow is what I made for the month of April, I knew the girl I was assigned was a fibers major so I figured I would try sewing something for her. When my friend moved to L.A. at the end of April, she gave me and my roommates a lot of fabric and yarn that she couldn’t fit on her trip. I loved this striped green and yellow fabric so I knew I wanted to use that. I thought since that fabric is so busy then it would be best to do something simple on it. So I printed out “HAVE A GREAT DAY” in helvetica, cut the words out and traced them on yellow fabric and hand stitched them on to the striped fabric. I was going to stretch it over a wood block but I thought that would be to hard to ship. So I just rolled up the fabric and sent it away.

Seth Rogan here

Linda McNeil — Sun, 09 May 2010 19:27:35 +0000

Seth Rogan here to teach you stuff and things about the www

How to Design a Portfolio Website, Part One from Carsonified on Vimeo.

I make SCAD look cool

Linda McNeil — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:08:42 +0000

Scad just updated their website with an image of me and my friend Josh presenting to the American Red Cross.

Christiana Couceiro

Linda McNeil — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:24:21 +0000

A friend introduced this artist to me not to long ago. Christiana Couceiro. Very cool stuff

Art and Copy Trailer

Linda McNeil — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:52:31 +0000

Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand

Linda McNeil — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:44:52 +0000

Last week I went to the ICA in Boston to see the exhibition Shepard Farey: Supply & Demand. I’ve always liked his style and I was very interested in seeing more of what he has done. I was also very interested in learning more about his thought process behind his work.

It was a HUGE exhibit. I’ve never seen any exhibit at the ICA with so much art work and so much information about the art and artist. You enter the exhibit facing a wall covered but 11×17 prints of the OBEY giant, behind that wall was a room filled with variations of OBEY and how/why that became an icon for Fairey. The next room was covered with multi layered art pieces. The next room was filled with skate desks and music posters. The room after that was a few of his political posters and iconic posters along with some of his personal possessions, like his first silkscreen for OBEY, his sneakers, a letter from Obama and his limited edition bookcovers for George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984. In the gift shop I bought his 1984 edition, it was just too sweet to pass up.

Anyways, the exhibit ends with this beautiful wall mural (image at the top) opposite a wall of at least 50 11-17 posters. I just can’t get over how much of his work they had there. There was also a side room that was playing a video about Shepard Fairey. It showed his personal studio, a time laps of him creating the mural in the image at the top and also showed him on the streets of Boston and New York working in the public. He seems like such a awesome guy. His message may be a little typical but it’s something that is presented to us in a unique manor. I was really blown away by his message, not because it was something new but because of the way he reminds everyone of power. Here is a really good article about the show Boston Globe

Also the ICA is showing the movie They Live this month because of the influence it had on Fairey. I kind of want to go just to see this movie play in a well respected art Museum

Image Sources:http://www.roxx.com/2009/03/shepard-fairey-at-the-ica/

http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/fairey/

http://www.highsnobiety.com/news/tag/poster/