You prob­a­bly noticed that I barely updated last week. 

For­tu­nately, the rea­son I haven’t had much time lately is because I’ve been mak­ing art! Big art, in fact!

As some of you know, I’m attend­ing Burn­ing Man next week.

Over the week­end, I was kid­napped* by my friend, Mr. Neil Night­shade, to help him put together his mobile photo studio.

& so, we drove 4 hours south to Grover Beach and built an art car. 

[Photo by Mr. Night­shade]

I wielded var­i­ous power tools, paint­brushes, and cheap beer towards victory!

We stayed with Mar­tin and Leanne, who were not only gra­cious hosts, but really inspir­ing cre­ative peo­ple to be around. Mar­tin did much of the con­struc­tion and struc­tu­tal work, and Leanne came up with an amaz­ing idea for the project involv­ing left­over movie the­atre trail­ers that I can’t really prop­erly show you until we get all the elec­tron­ics attached.

[Photo by Mr. Night­shade]

Neil did much of the wiring, sol­der­ing, and schemat­ics for all the light­ing on the car. I learned more about LEDS this week­end than I thought pos­si­ble in a period of 48 hours! 

I’m hop­ing to par­tic­i­pate in more large scale col­lab­o­ra­tive projects of this sort in the future. I love mak­ing web­sites and draw­ing, but noth­ing beats the abil­ity to make some­thing big­ger than your­self, with the help of your friends. 

I’ll be post­ing pic­tures of how it comes out when it’s com­plete, and also pho­tos of it at night with all the lights on. Thanks to Mar­tin, Leanne, and espe­cially Neil.

xo,
S

* a note on kid­nap­ping. I like it when my friends say things like “Want to go on a crazy adven­ture? Be ready in an hour.” I haven’t had nearly enough spon­ta­neous inter­ac­tions of this sort as of late, and I really, really love it. If you’re my friend, and you have a good idea for some­thing epic and fun, please call me. Espe­cially if it’s last minute.