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Project #10: Exquisite Corpse with VR

Filed under: collaboration, doodle by ramune

After going to see Sweeney Todd with my sister and mother (who was covering her eyes during the red gooey portions of the film), Vasare and I decided to do an exquisite corpse type drawing in which we alternated drawing parts of a character. This is the result and my final posting for 2007! Have a fantastic New Year!

Vasare’s and my character . . .

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Project #9: Christmas Cards

Filed under: holiday, paper by ramune

As has been the trend lately, I am late again with my every-seven projects. This past week I have been in Chicago for Christmas with a whole bunch of my extended family, so I have been busy with family stuff.

Here are photos of the Christmas card I worked on last week. They vary a bit since I managed not to save the file for 24 hours and then my computer crashed, so I had to start over almost from scratch. Either way, it is a three layered card. The top layer has snowflakes on a transparency, the second layer has mountains on a vellum-like paper and the bottom layer has mountains and my Christmas greeting. I stitched the layers together (and almost broke the sewing machine while doing it) with blue thread.

I hope that those of you who received them enjoyed them! I had fun making them.

2007 Christmas card

Detail showing the three layers of the Christmas card

Bottom layer of Christmas card

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Project #8: The Making of . . .

Filed under: holiday, paper, process by ramune

This past week I have been busy designing, printing and assembling Christmas cards, which I am hoping to have sent out this coming week. Since some people reading this blog will be getting said cards this week and next, I did not want to show too much of the card just yet. In the meantime I figured I would show my highly organized working space . . . my floor.

My favorite place to work . . . on the floor.

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Project #7: 3D Paper Snowflake

Filed under: holiday, paper by ramune

In the spirit of Christmas, here is a snowflake I made out of some origami paper I had lying around. If you want to create your own, you can find directions here.

Red, Green and White 3D Paper Snowflake

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Project #6: Big Sur Big Leaf

Filed under: friends, photography, travel by ramune

I am a couple days late with this one, but I have also been in the San Francisco Bay area for a week. I was in San Jose visiting my friend Kathy for a bit and now am with family friends in San Francisco. On Saturday, Kathy and I went to Big Sur for a hike and found these lovely leaves. She was not that impressed, but I was because we don’t have trees like the ones in Big Sur on the East Coast . . . or at least nowhere I have been. Below is a photo of Kathy with one of the larger leaves that we found.

Kathy and a big leaf

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Project #5: Turkey Trot 5K Costumes

Filed under: collaboration, costumes, friends, silliness by ramune

Every year for Thanksgiving someone in my family (usually my brother) runs the Virginia Run Turkey Trot 5K. This year Vasare, Linas, Vaidila, Kristina, David and I ran it. We decided to come up with goofy costumes for the trot to make it a little more fun. It all started with Kristina, who found sweatbands and headbands with the Canadian flag on them and it spiraled out from there. A little help from Unique Thrift Store and we were all set. The Turkey Trot was a lot of fun in costume, although I don’t think everyone got it.

Before the Turkey Trot (and before someone vomited on my costume)
Thanks to Kristina for the photo

After the Turkey Trot (and after someone vomited on my costume and I threw it out)
Thanks to Kristina for the photo

Vaidila, the creepy 80s tennis player

Uberathelete Linas

Vasare, the swimmer

The uberathelete couple

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Project #4: Philadelphia Marathon Runners

Filed under: photography by ramune

This past weekend David and I went to Philadelphia to support our friend, Ashley, run her first marathon. We managed to get a room at a hotel that was right on the marathon route. At around 7:15 or so we looked out the balcony and took some shots of the runners at the .5 mile mark. I attempted to take a motion shot similar to the ones you see of cars driving at night where all you can see are lines where the headlights were. I had an idea what it would look like, but it came out a bit different. I particularly like the effect of everyones’ white shoes.
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You can see a slideshow of my photos from the marathon here.

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Project #3: Chocolate Fudge Cake

Filed under: baking, food by ramune

Mmm . . . this week I decided to bake a chocolate fudge cake from my mother’s very worn and very (well) used notebook of recipes. This notebook was so used in fact that the handwriting on the other side of the page has seeped through so I could barely make out what some of the ingredients and directions were. The recipe was for a chocolate cake with chocolate fudge frosting, however I added some peanut butter frosting for the center. Now if only I could post a slice for you to try . . .

Autumnal Chocolate Fudge Cake with Peanut Butter Chips

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Project #2: Enamel on Metal

Filed under: enamel, jewelry by ramune

In an effort to work more with my hands (since I sit at the computer all day) I signed up for an Enameling on Metal class at the Torpedo Factory. The class is nine weeks, and on week seven I finally found my style within enamel. I have been fiddling with different techniques over the weeks and haven’t been too excited about anything that’s come out. This past week (week seven), I worked on two pieces that I am pretty psyched about.

1.75″ diameter pendant
1.5″ diameter pendant

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Project #1: Pumpkins!

Filed under: collaboration, food, holiday by ramune

Recently I was inspired to start this blog as a way of forcing myself to be creative at least once a week. I found a bunch of my old sketchbooks the other day and realized it’s been a while since I sat down and drew something I liked. It’s easy to get wrapped up in things, as I have in the past couple of years, and then realize that I haven’t done much in terms of creative projects. Most of the past my time has been spent on work and photography has been my only real creative outlet. From this day on I am going to post one creative project a week. It can be anything from drawing, sewing, baking, photographing, sculpting, making macaroni art . . . you get the point.

I hope to keep this blog interesting and I plan to occasionally have collaborators. If for some reason I slack off, feel free to pester me in the comments. Also if you have any feedback or ideas for projects, you can also leave them in the comments.

My first project was completed on Sunday, October 28th, however I didn’t quite have the blog up and running yet, so I am posting this a bit late. David came over and we carved pumpkins for Halloween! My pumpkin was especially thick and a bit hard to carve into at times, but I think it came out alright.

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My pumpkin in the light

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My pumpkin in the dark

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My pumpkin with David’s pumpkin (notice the nice tongue)

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