I get credibility with a little help from my friends.

Last week I received a mention on fabulist, where I had found byzoek’s work previous to featuring her here. That was a height of what could be defined as delicious closure.

A really, really nice feeling.

Over the weekend I also arranged for the name of Tiny Run to be associated with a local post office box! I am now anonymous and credible? This seeming incongruous assumption baffles me, but I make it with blind confidence none the less.

Commence with the sending of tasty cookies:

Tiny Run
Director of Cookie Acquisitions
PO Box 898
Evanston IL 60204-0898

First Five Runs Button Set.

First Five 1″ button set (pictures not to scale…)
design run of
05/10/2008 through 05/24/2008

I have to admit, I’ve had a button collection thought in my head for a while. I thought it would be a nice alternative to shirts, you know, for those people who don’t like to wear clothing. Another way to showcase people’s work, and another type of run to be tiny. Depending on the final order amount, there will probably be extra sets, and they will be available in the forthcoming ’static store’, but here and now they are at a lower price. If you’re wavering on these, I suggest you move on it now…

[edit] Whoop, it seems my paypal buttons where still charging shirt shipping on top of the included shipping. Sorry! It seems to be working properly now. If you have troubles, just let me know. – Michael

I can has bacon, oh yes.

I received all the embroidered bacon shirt supplies yesterday, including three spools of the glow-in-the-dark thread. I don’t think it will take that much, but this would be a bad time to run out. People are waiting for their bacon, man! Get a move on!

I’m dropping the supplies at the ‘full fledged production scale embroidery experts’ today, and hope to see final results in about seven business days. There will be a few extras (I couldn’t help it, when am I going to get the chance for this again?) and if you wanted to have a chance to pick one of the extra shirts up, I suggest signing up for emails. When I have a moment to construct the static surplus store, I will let faithful subscribers be the first to have at.

A Different Art Store.

I have several artist friends, and I’ve been art supply shopping with them before. We all get pretty excited when walking the isles of an art supply store. I think it sets our mind ablaze with the sheer amount of potential before us.

All the things I ever toyed with in my mind presented in front of me made my blood boil with possibilities. It’s fun both to browse or to culminate the experience by completing a monetary transaction that just feels like gravy.

For me, though, this extends beyond the art store. I know others who like me browse alleys and items dumped for possible materials. When driving around with my wife, whenever I see a pile of ‘garbage’ at a curb, I always say, “ooo, treasure.” I don’t see her reaction, but I’m pretty sure she cringes.

But there’s another place for me, too. When I go to the local American Apparel retail store, just a few blocks from my home, I look about in the same way as I do in the art store. I’m seeing raw canvas everywhere, checking colors, sizes, feeling textures and testing stretch, looking around and seeing if there is anything I missed. I don’t think it’s possible for my to just ’shop’ for clothes anymore. I don’t think this is necessarily bad, but I sometimes wonder what I’ve gotten myself into.