Pony Corner Clamps

I ordered a box full of Pony corner clamps last week. These little guys will help me square up a bunch of frames for a show I’ll be hanging in March. I love the double slotted spline joint. I make my frames with a subtle inward bevel on the front face of the frame. The contrasting spline joinery not only makes them solid, but looks good too.

I prefer walnut, but I’ve got a bunch of premium pine lying around from a recently completed project. I think I’ll make a few in each type of wood. I intend to matte 8×8 inch photos with liberal white-space provided by creamy white museum board. A medium blonde Golden Oak or deep dark English Chestnut stain will do the trick. I will post some photos of the finished projects once they’re ready.

Rose Petal Wine

Our good friend Jonny-D brought over his rose petal wine because he needed an extra hand to bottle the drink. All in all, he ended up with four 750ml bottles and two 375ml “picnic” bottles of his creation. The rose petal wine tasted quite sweet at the time of bottling, but the sweetness will diminish over the next six months as the bottles mature on the shelf. Around mid-July of this year, the wine will be ready to enjoy.

Jonny-D created the wine from wild rose blossoms he foraged for throughout Chicago. He is interested in creating many more wildflower wines this year from wildflowers native to the Great Lakes region. He has several carboys of elderberry wine currently in the fermentation stage, soon to be bottled.

We’re eagerly looking forward to July!

Leaf Bird

I love this song by Leaf Bird. I went to high school with Tyler and Lola at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. It’s easy to spend more than a few hours looping their MySpace playlist.

They’ve got a record coming out soon. You can keep your eye out for shows and the record release by visiting their MySpace or Facebook page.

Really beautiful work!

+ www.myspace.com
+ www.facebook.com
+ www.youtube.com

School of Art

I want to go to there.

Mark Steinmetz Interview

There’s a nice interview given by Mark Steinmentz over at Conscientious — Jörg Colberg’s daily page.

+ www.marksteinmetz.net
+ www.jmcolberg.com

Micah Lidberg

Micah Lidberg is an American illustrator living on the East coast. As you can see, he is a remarkably skilled draftsman.

He has a handful of things available for purchase via the store on his website. The two scarves he made for Hugo & Marie are especially awesome. Hopefully he’ll offer more prints in the near future!

+ www.micahlidberg.com

Recently completed

Recently completed a website for Adria East Mossing, LLC, a law firm in Chicago.

Adria Mossing was the sort of client you dream about. She chose the mock-up I hoped she would, she gave me complete creative control, and she delivered the content for her site quickly! WOW! I’ll consider myself lucky to ever encounter a client like her again.

It was a fun project to work on for another reason too. I always aim to produce original photographs for a new website, and mossinglaw.com was the first site I did since picking up the Canon 5D. I was so excited that I even rented a few L series lenses for the shoot.

+ www.mossinglaw.com