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This summer, TWI’s biggest hunt for biodiversity didn’t take place in a prairie, a pond, or a seep: We had our eyes firmly on the porch lights, where a dizzying number of moths and nocturnal insects hide in plain sight, waiting to be discovered. Most people think of moths as little more than clothes
Everyone at TWI is obsessed with moths! I wrote about why for our quarterly newsletter. Really proud of how this one turned out.
The Wetlands Initiative - Video Content (2018)
No Wetland Is An Island: Restoring A Landscape
Transforming the Dixon Waterfowl Refuge
Growing Wetlands for Clean Water
I made these videos in honor of American Wetlands Month (May) to publicize TWI’s many diverse projects. The footage is a mixture of archival film and photography, drone footage taken for surveying purposes, and a little bit that I filmed on a 2012 Nikon DSLR borrowed from staff ecologist Gary Sullivan. The video was edited in Adobe Premiere and the voice overs were edited in Logic Pro X or Garageband (depending on how much work they needed). Writing and editing the voice-overs was the most interesting part: in Transforming the Dixon Waterfowl Refuge, Anna pretty much read a script I wrote word-for-word (she has a great voice for it), for Growing Wetlands for Clean Water Jill largely wrote her own script, and for No Wetland Is An Island, Gary and I ended up ditching the script I’d written for him entirely. Instead, I just interviewed him for about 20 minutes and cut this together. It was a lot of fun and I’d love to do it again! I felt like Jad Abumrad, but with a bad old computer.
REVIEW: Three Stars Resale (Fullerton & Rockwell)
★★★★
Opulent housewares for crazed wealthy widows
Is it thrift? Probably not, but Three Stars bring the heat when it comes to purposeless glamour and niche vintage finery. If you’re passing through Logan Square, this store is worth the visit - even if you’re not going to buy any doll furniture or lucite ashtrays, this type of free entertainment has a special value at all its own. Also, I want their store motto written on my tombstone.
Ahead: My mom is a fifty-three-year-old art teacher: please picture her whispering “this is a great one for your BLOG” in front of a slightly chipped porcelain kitten figurine and you’ll get the general aesthetic of this store. –>
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If you haven’t check out my thrift store review blog, THRIFT CITY, it’s back and better than ever! Get that thrift info you crave.
REVIEW: Village Discount Outlet (Kedzie & Irving Park)
It’s always someone’s quinceanera at the Village Discount Outlet. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
(image credit: Google user Lee Klawans, who fucking gets it) The Village Discount Outlet at Kedzie & Irving Park is one of the pillars of the Chicago thrift scene. It’s extremely cheap, extremely well-stocked, and full of hidden treasures. Village Discount Outlet is a big midwestern chain, but the Kedzie location works hard to serve Albany Park at a local level: the availability of uniform pieces for neighborhood schools, the multilingual staff, and the cool hodgepodge of ethnic clothes mixed in with the day-to-day stuff reflects the neighborhood’s unique cultural makeup. While it’s a little shabby, the features that strike some as crusty - the overhead announcements from the doddering regional safety coordinator, the constant soundtrack of terrible country music, the unattended children wandering the aisles - are part of the store’s special character.
Ahead: best departments, special deals & sales, and my personal best finds —>
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Hey art followers! I’ve recently started writing reviews of local Chicago thrift stores. Check it out, and stay frugal, friends!
Margo Veil, Denison University 2016 - Charge Scenic Painter
I executed the mural work on the back wall with aerosol cans and an HVLP sprayer, as well as the floor treatment. I also got to contribute to the overall look of this show by suggesting aesthetic inspiration to the designer. For example, the two blue-and-pink faces on the back wall, stage right, were inspired by graffiti on the remains of the Berlin Wall.
They’re hard to see, but I also made some sticker-art out of old postage labels for the piano on stage right, to add to the grimy atmosphere of the show.
I also spritzed a little bit of fluorescent surveyor’s paint (mysteriously found in the back of the flammables cabinet) over the tiger’s eyes to make them pop.
Photo credit: Brant Murray
Margo Veil Tiger, 2016 - HVLP sprayer, spray paint, painter’s tape.
For this show, I was tasked with making a giant stencil of a tiger’s face... without the stencil. 3/4 of a roll of painter’s tape was my alternative solution.
(That’s me in the rainbow pants)
Richard III, Denison University 2016 - Charge Scenic Painter
Responsible for fabrication of stonework (mixed sawdust, vermiculite, & joint compound on luan) and subsequent painting, painting of floorboards, painting of background scrims (with a HVLP sprayer), and execution of heraldic designs for various standards. At the bottom: the painter with the alternative standards used throughout the show. I freehanded that boar!
Best of Friends, Denison University 2016 - Charge Scenic Painter
The wood texture on the floor and the painting of the trim and walls were my responsibility. Also, 1 and 1/2 of the coffee tables have wood grain faux finish - guess which!
A Tiny Guide To Tarps, 2014.
Everything I know about using tarps as shelter including advanced techniques like tension-tarping and skyhooks, illustrated diagrams of various knots, and detailed instructions on where and how to pick a tarp shape and location.
For sale as a self-assembled PDF here.
->reblogging to fix a tagging error
Concept drawing for a fictional black box staging of Geek Love, 2016. Pen & coloured pencil.
Now I just need someone to write a play adaptation of Geek Love.
Some strange embryonic birds out of the ol’ sketchbook, 2016. Pencil.
Iron Triangle Poster, 2016. National Geographic Magazines and tracing paper.
Little Shop of Horrors, Denison University 2015 - Charge Scenic Painter
Areas of responsibility included assisting a visiting artist with the construction, animation, and painting of the Audrey II puppets, painting of flats and platforms, wood grain faux finishes on trim and marble faux finishes on countertops, and gluing a lot of fake bricks (blue foam with faux-finish) to things.
Little Shop of Horrors, Denison University 2015 - Charge Scenic Painter
Areas of responsibility included assisting a visiting artist with the construction, animation, and painting of the Audrey II puppets, painting and texturing of flats and platforms, and gluing a lot of fake bricks to things
Trojan Women, Denison University 2015 - Charge Scenic Painter
Areas of responsibility included planning, painting and texturing the floor. I also made the “body bags” (only visible in the corner of one picture), textured, stuffed fabric sacks representative of the ruin of Troy.
Tartuffe, Denison University 2013 - Scenic Painter & Carpenter
Areas of responsibility included painting and texturing the floor (all of it!) and flats (check out that marble faux finish), cutting the silhouette city in the background, and applying the gold trim, as well as construction of platforms and flats.
Malvolio Project, Denison University 2014 - Charge Scenic Painter
Areas of responsibility included the marble texture on the raked stage, wood texture on platform sides, as well as construction of platforms and flats
