Etsy, A Working Community of ArtistsThe Cyberoptix Tie Lab's
BombsAway! tie was featured in this morning's CBS News story on Etsy. (One of the mods bought one last week. ;) In addition to the storefront, Etsy has just launched EtsyLabs, a 7000 sq.ft physical studio space in Williamsburg as a community art studio space.
I aslo maintain an
Etsy shop in tandem with my regular web shop; although I'd never abandon my traditional stand-alone site, it is a welcome augmentation. Their interface and cart system is very clean and easy to use, take a look!
Web Goth:
Low-Wattage Web Pallette.White and bright colors (especially in backgrounds) can use up to 20% more power than black or dark colors. So not only is most of Web 2.0 terribly boring to look at, it is terribly inefficient! Interesting related post on the savings of
Black Google.
shown L to R: silver, sky, blue aster, electric blue, sageTentacular love now in colors of the sea.
Labels: blue, cyberoptix, Spring 2007, squid, tie, tie lab
Taking a quick break from studio remodel -- I have the tv on in the background, and a Ceasar Dog Food commercial comes on soundtracked to a Magnetic Fields song off 69 Love Songs - THEN it is followed by a Wendy's fish sandwich commercial with backing music by the Violent Femmes -
Blister in the Sun. The dogfood commercial already teetered on the absurd but yammering about cod to one of the most notorious masturbation songs ever???
10 points who whomever snuck that shit through corporate!
Happy Valentine's day to everyone. May your day be warm and meaty.
Since there is absolutely nothing of use going on in this city anymore, the last few days have been nothing but work and restructuring of the home and studio. Trips to Target and Ikea have been frequent. Pardon me while I don my woollen fleece and start making domesticated sheep noises.
Anyway. I've begun to reshoot much of my catalog with the new 30d, because I'm realizing my old photos are pretty terrible.
New
Poppy Tie colorways.
I hope to get a very substantial web update fishinshed this week highlighing my recent partnership with
Filius at
All Purpose in Los Angeles. The TieLab will feature 100% silk ascots and 100% silk skinny ties is black, white, olive and charcoal grey. This collection is called -
Whiplash and will debut soon for Spring/Summer 2007. (click Whiplash link to see
tons more from the shoot - Jennifer is one hell of an incredible photographer!)
Photography: Jennifer Becker
Model: EduardoThe silk ties will be available mid-March and the acsots a bit sooner, all with images of fragmented and repeated vintage automotive schematics and diagrams.
I've had to keep this under wraps for a little while and it's been very difficult, I haven't ever been so excited for new colors and designs, not to mention putting something fully into production and silk manufactured to the Pantone color choice of my bidding. (drool.) I'm still printing everything by hand and hand-dying the ascots...that's the fun part.
I'm also finally working on a proper line sheet, so if anyone has a boutique in their area you think should carry some TieLab, holla.
Again, it'll probably be all shop talk around here for a good long while til we hit Paris in May, then I may have something to talk about that doesn't bore the pants off everyone.
Labels: All Purpose, ascot, Filius, Los Angeles, Poppy, tie, tie lab, Whiplash
I like to cook, but a sweet tooth I have not, so I've never delved into the land of making cookies, cakes or candy. All the sudden, I have a very worthy
reason to bother.
