Kristin’s Brother was kind enough to lend us his Bottle Brush X-mas Tree (from the MoMA store a few years back) until we get our own.
Pretty!
from: http://www.zagula.com/design_stuff/2004/12/22/kuno_prey_bottle_brush_christmas_tree.html
I am looking for one of these. The Moma Store used to carry them but no longer. It is a simple, super modern Christmas Tree designed by Kuno Prey, a professor at the famous Bauhaus design school in Germany
It is made from industrial bottle brushes dyed green and then inserted into a bright-red wood pole, the tree looks great decorated or undecorated.
Here are some places with descriptions – click or click.
The links are both 404s. So I’d rather not make them take the server hits by linking.
okay the miserable hell that is known as “the holidays” are officially over, however, my facial hair experiment is not.
Me, today.
I plan on extending the experiment until valentines day st. patrick’s day valentines day.
when i began this experiment in November it was a protest of the holidays, but it since has turned into much more than that. I began noticing how people reacted. Some were supportive, most where not, but it always came up as a topic of discussion no matter where I was. I am now anticipating how people will react and then seeing if my predictions were correct.
I am fully aware that my face doesn’t allow for good looking facial hair, and this has become a major player in the experiment. here are some of my favorite quotes from people about my facial hair:
You look like a terrorist.
-matt, my brother
OMG Shave that thing!!!
-my mom
You look like a deranged elf.
-dave
Oh! It’s Jesus Christ himself!.
-Jim, my neighbor from across the street
Every time I left the house it was usually mentioned right off the bat by people who haven’t seen me since I began growing it out. Most frequently it was mentioned when a conversation hit a lull. The most frequent discussion of it came during my time spent with kristin’s family. Her aunt and mother do not care for it, her father is more supportive. Thankfully kristin doesn’t seem to mid (although I think she secretly does).
I will be re-organizing my categories today so you can easily find all of my progress reports on the facial hair growth.
The other night Chris drew some great depictions of my in the comics:
and here is Mary Worth as Tavis (the Lobsterman)
Ok, here is my facial hair now…
and here is my projected end point;
I need to practice Guitar Hero a bit more.
Thanksgiving was fun…I ate a lot.
So this is the extent of my facial hair so far. I expect to look like this by Valentines day.
I have decided to grow my facial hair in order to raise awareness of my grumpiness during the holiday season.
I understand that growing a beard or mustache is no big deal for the average man (or italian woman) but I have a difficult time growing one that is remotely pleasant looking. This act will hopefully remind people to stay away from me during the holidays.
Why do you hate the holidays? Good question. Because we, as Americans, have to spend our hard earned money on stuff that we don’t want to buy.
What are you cheap or something? No, I just don’t see the point in showing my acknowledgment that you exist by buying you some crap.
Why can’t you at least try to be happy? I can be happy, I just don’t find blatant and disgusting capitalism as a cause or means to “spread the joy.”
God bless america, originally uploaded by augiemania.
Happy fourth!
