More paper art

Large Red Damask Letterpress Buckle with Ribbon by dsharp

Now it seems paper art is competing with the characters in Tales to take over my blog. I'm just gonna have to go with it.
I came across this video on fellow Portlander Denise Sharp's blog and promptly swiped it.

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

Denise is another paper artist that I had planned to tell you about, but now I've gone and jumped the gun. Loads of great things at her website. Like this:

Leaning Pisa Candy Container

Have a look at her etsy shop where you will find cool things like this letterpress buckle and ribbon:
I love her blog too. She found the video at The Rag and Bone blog, who got it from brainstorm (which seems to be written in Portuguese and since I have forgotten most of my Portuguese I can't tell you how they found it), and on it goes...

Tales; what would Ranger do?

Ranger is thinking

This image was inspired by my brother's comment on this post.
He said: "I wanna see a "What would Ranger do?" plate.
With Ranger on it.
That would be cool.
I would definitely buy that plate.
When presented with a conundrum, I could consult the plate.
It would probably result in carpal tunnel syndrome, but it would be so worth it."

Hahaha. I'm actually going to do it. I love Ranger. And my brother.

Tales; Ivy visits colleges

Ivy is researching colleges back East on a trip with her dad and grandpa.
She is her usual methodical self, but it's not helping her to make a decision.

Su Blackwell

Alice's Mad Tea Party by Su Blackwell

I really can't get over what people can do with papercuts. You've seen Su Blackwell here before, but I just had to revisit after writing about Peter Calleson's work a couple of days ago.Visit her site and prepare to be amazed.

Tales; Malone is on the move

Malone is buying properties all over the world to use as safe houses.
Here he is on the phone having a conference call with realtors in the US, Europe, and Africa.

Peter Calleson Wishing Chair

It's hard to know where to begin with Danish artist Peter Calleson, but since I have been showing you performance art I'll start there.
The Wishing Chair (above) was placed outside the Nikolaj Tower in Copenhagen with instructions to sit down and utter your wish out loud. His goal was "to create an interactive and poetic situation, leaving the audience to consider their wishes, with the possibility of having their wishes fulfilled" The artist was high above in the tower armed with a baby monitor (so he could hear the wishes), small parachutes, little boxes, paper and pen, and various small objects. From his perch on high, he would create answers to the wishes and parachute them down to the recipient.

But what really got me started with him is his papercut art.
I couldn't pick just one.

Hello 2009!

Wishing you the best of everything in the new year!
From: Lucy, Ranger, Arturo, Woodrow, Yeti, Boise, Ruby, Malone, Gwendolyn Fig, Jam, Ivy, London, Bear, & Little.
It will be so much better than 2008.
No more Bush! Yay, Obama!