Lost (in time) Tribe

Spotting this headline caused me to think that, if it were twenty years ago and I saw this, I would be as bewildered as some member of a sequestered Amazon tribe. Is an Obama a person or a sort of bird, and is debt some sort of inhalant, perhaps the reverse of nitrous oxide, which causes the normally high-pitched voice to become  "tough" (gravelly, Tom Waits like)? Dizzying to think of the headlines of the future.

Not that I don't support the tough tweeting - go O!

The Process of my Deathless Art

The above is an altered antique papercut of a little boy in a sailor suit. I got sort of fascinated by the giant bunny head and decided to make a t-shirt. At first I was going to have two bunnies falling toward the tribble-like things collected in the bottom of the oval....

...but then I picked up this motif from one of the antique photos I have altered...

...so this is how the t-shirt turned out

(it's on redbubble, I have titled it "Perils of Passion".

Singing Tree

So my guerrilla knit-up (see (down)under) is up near where I live. I started out with a piece of tulle and marked it with stitched-on lines of yarn, then I cut the tulle between the yarn and wrapped the strips with Japanese silk (remnants found in a box) and yarn, reinforced with plastic-coated wire (you can bet I never leave a piece of electrical wiring lying on the ground). It was a bit like wrestling snakes, as wrapping the silk with yarn caused the strips to writhe in the direction of the wrapping. The little head on the flower I made some years back, just came across it this morning in my bag of weirdness. Don't throw your heads out!
As you can see, my measurements were not perfect-the tree appears to be wearing stays at the joins.
And here is an arboreal soprano preparing to belt out an aria. Working on this reminded me that I have a D.I.Y. project did a few years back that people might enjoy, I will post about it later this week.