Yosemite

Words can't really express how awesome it is...so I'm just going to put up some photos.....








Dude, I was freakin' THERE....

Jeweled scarf

I have been working on this for a while. A vintage gauze cotton and lurex thread scarf, with silver/semi-precious stone charms all over. Like a cross between a scarf and a necklace.

I attached the charms with a jump ring AND thread, so they're secure.

theres tigers eye, amber, garnet, and others...

LA lady

So, I recently took a trip out to LA to visit my sister. I hadnt been to Cali in a long time, not since my days playing with Lee "Scratch" Perry. This was also the first vacation I had taken in years. I had been on the road so much, that I was never able to travel just for the hell of it. Now I finally can, and its awesome.

A real rainbow over West Hollywood

There's a lot of this pretty/seedy architecture...I love it....




So, my favorite band (well, one of them) Oingo Boingo was from LA, and this is a guitar, dedicated to when they play the sunset music festival in 1987. I just stumbled upon it on my way to coffee bean. Like, Boingo is on the radio regularly in LA....its awesome....

gorgeous sky

more rad architecture






My sister scored us free tickets to see Sonic Youth at the Hollywood bowl....it was awesome.

Ok, so, there is this AMAZING museum/art installation/oddities collection called the Museum of Jurassic Technology. I don't really know how to explain it, but here are some cool images from it. Above is a miniature of a baroque theater set.

The illustrious canine Saint Christopher

Mice on toast. (yeah, you heard me....)




Athanasius Kircher: The World is Bound With Secret Knots (I have no idea....)

Portrait of Likka, the Russian space dog....
To sum up....
"Like a coat of two colors, the Museum serves dual functions. On the one hand the Museum provides the academic community with a specialized repository of relics and artifacts from the Lower Jurassic, with an emphasis on those that demonstrate unusual or curious technological qualities. On the other hand the Museum serves the general public by providing the visitor a hands-on experience of "life in the Jurassic"...."

I don't really know what any of it meant, but it was freakin rad


Random cool Day of the Dead art....

Runyon Canyon


Venice beach grossed me out....but the buildings were gorgeous. I wondered how beautiful it would be if NO ONE WAS THERE.....



Some crazy band in Silver Lake....they were pretty cool.....

All and all, I had an awesome time. Stay tuned for a Yosemite blog and a SanFran blog.....

New Pieces

So, I haven't written in a while. I was on an awesome California hiking vacation (to be written about soon...). Now I'm back in Brooklyn, and back to work. Here are a few things I made over the past two weeks....

This one is made of over 20 vintage saint medallions....

Some are sterling, some are enamel, some are discolored...they all come together nicely....


This is a really cool vintage Indian pendant. Its so tarnished, its completely black. I like it like that.

The stone is a carved tigers eye.


This one is made from a vintage brass brooch, of which I removed the sharp pin, and a vintage beveled glass watch pendant.




I'm trying to made more delicate pieces....this one is made of a vintage 12k golf-filled locket, a sterling silver feather charm, a carved 1924 coin, and a tiny quartz point pendant....

I like to think they tell a story, but god knows what that would be....