mechanical sculpture

as far as I got towards robot

Derpy Quadraped Walking from Hope Erin Phillips on Vimeo.

steel, aluminum, blood, tears, 24v power supply

magical electronics diorama

(◡‿◡✿)

electronics, rgb leds, photoresistors, expanding foam, spray paint, toys, dried flowers, pearls

craft exchange

back at it

unicorn berry colour bomb for vanessa's head

toys

Mechanical Toy #1 from Hope Erin Phillips on Vimeo.

Mechanical Toy #2 from Hope Erin Phillips on Vimeo.

Mechanical Toy #3 from Hope Erin Phillips on Vimeo.

The more successful experiments of the bunch, mangled motorized toys for Sculpture Mechanics.

mechanics experiment I

a success!

Capture 20130121 1 from Hope Erin Phillips on Vimeo.

hushpuppy house - beta site

Hushpuppy House was my one big project  last term; check it out, it's been live for a while and needs user-contribution! It started out as an online project for Creative Computation and morphed into a huge beast of a year-long multi-media installation&online project. I'm no good at art blogging clearly because I received a small grant (!) to persue Hushpuppy House!

" a dual-pronged idea consisting of a digital user-generated environment and a supporting installation space, to explore comfort, safety, and escapism in real vs. virtual/imaginary spaces. "

There's more in-depth info about the project on the site! I'm super excited, and working on the legit actual environment now -- it'll be based in html5 video; clips & loops with ambient sound & jquery for interactivity, and navigation will be from scene to scene. Wish I had the skillz to create a 3D environment that you could explore as in-game but I'm just not there yet. Mmph. If you like the sound of this project or liked the beta site, please contribute to the environment! I'll imortalize your concept of the perfect safe place in online art!

still knitting

pair 10 & 11: leah & lucas
jenna katie vanessa me mum amma hannah mag dad
this is actually an endurance based ritual/performance project about how much I love my friends  ok now you know

crafty saturday night

aka lonely sadurday night

6th pair (for my mum)

something actually worked

hyperventilating oh my god better go to bed before I put a comma in the wrong place and fuck it all up

fireflies

Fireflies from Hope Erin Phillips on Vimeo.

Reminding myself I did do something, this year. I spent so much time hunting fireflies, that was fun/dedication. I think I'm supposed to not show it to people till the show buut I mean if you're reading my blog you're probably Jenna or someone lost on the internet soo. (pass: cadavre)

therapeutic illustrated journaling

look at my baby ponytail 

look at my chocolate covered coconut icecream bar

look at my first pair of socks

(keepin dese babies for myself)

lookit all did therapeutic illustrated journaling

this is what I do on my lunch breaks when I get sick of knitting

 

I have been working through my , ~* ' sad feelings ' *~ , in this way. I want to write postcards but I also don't want to be the kind of person that writes postcards full of sad things. I have been eating lots of icecream bars and trying to , ~* ' communicate ' *~ , even though that really just spreads the  , ~* ' sad feelings ' *~ ,  around. Maybe tomorrow I will buy some stamps.

On the upside, I can't remember when I was last this productive.

mains et pieds bien au chaud

more red knitting

christmas is coming the goose is getting fat

please put a penny in the old man's hat

seriously though everyone is going to get socks, and I am waaay ahead of the game it's not even septemmmber

relevant

video scraps

Caught something lovely on the roof of TA when we went abandoned building camping.

Sweater in Action

We've expanded it to fit five and picketed our painting class yesterday in this with ukulele accompaniment.

Nothing de-escalates tension like a cozy sweater and ukuleles. Take note, y'all.

seedlings planted

witchy stuff (lemon mint, valerian, chamomile, echinachea)

edible stuff (beefheart tomatoes, mini tomatoes, two types of eggplants, white onions, little turnips, mustard, globe artichoke)

Pluuus my rhubarb is already showing and I still have carrots and beets and sugar snap peas and swiss chard and calendula and nasturtium and spaghetti squuuasshh~ to sow directly in the ground and I should get some more greens and herbs and brocolli and cauliflower and bell peppers and blackberries to go with the raspberries and strawberries that always pop up! Also leeks! Shallots!

Gonna build some raised beds for these suckers next aww yeahh, gonna have the biggest baddest garden on tha block! But how to keep out kittens...

ALSO DEAR DIARY: GOT ACCEPTED INTO IMCA AWW YEAHHH

video/performance work stuff

collaboration with lovely Trina & Katie kids 

lots of butts in this project

playing with transparencies

Watercolour on vellum, mangled gel medium transfers (really don't have the technique down, just trying to salvaged the pages at this point), gel medium + latex pages, cover embroidery.

I've been entirely occupying my kitchen table for almost a week?

Have to hand in my recipets and an edition by the 23rd aaack.

Also, Mr. Crow.

more progress

8 pages per book's worth

cutting em up was terrifying

and then I spent the rest of friday night sewing puff pocket pages ™ together while watching adventure time. six out of twelve down. 

also: check out my mad princess swagg