Today we each made our own handwriting font! It rocked. (We used YourFonts.com.) Then we proceeded to use our exciting new fonts to wage haiku warfare.
sheribomb started the battle with
k8 jumped in with
xiann stepped in with
sheribomb retorted
(and xiann said, “fuckwagon isn’t in the spellchecker?”)
k8 threw down
to which came sheribomb’s
and xiann observed
and wonderchook wondered
and wonderchook threw one down for her geonerd homies, too
and sheribomb called us out
wonderchook answered the call
sheribomb responded
and xiann (who was laborously writing this blog post all the while) was ready for a snack
Tonight was our first Shenanigans Club in a few weeks because of vacations and other craziness. We painted and drank High Life. It was grand.
This is also the first post we decided to do via iPhone. Hope it works? [Edit to add: it worked, more or less, but needed this edit.]
Here is sheribomb’s roboctopus painting, acrylic on canvas, with the sketch (sketch on the left). She’s not done yet, so he or she is a work in progress. She also updated her blog with a new illustrated haiku.
K8’s buffalo is a watercolor postcard, with pen and watercolor paints. It’s not just any buffalo. It’s a fluffy buffalo. Fluffalo? Fluffy buffylow?
xiann did some watercolors of a robot and some flowers, plus a silly dog and oher stuff (not pictured). The flowers are on a watercolor postcard.
Tonight’s theme was tech sexploitation, or “women in technology,” or techno weirdness, or something.
sheribomb painted some misty watercolor robots, or NSFW bots, or sexbots of the future, or ho-bots.
k8 made an ode to internet memes, or “OMG the internet bit me,” or “see below to be rickrolled.”
xiann made an illustration for a forthcoming short essay by k8, tentatively to be titled, “If you’re gonna be a douche at a conference, I’ll be wearing my Victorian attire,” or “AustenCon meets AustinCon,” or whatever. (It will probably be colored in the future.)
Stay tuned for our next adventures, which may be some drunken FSM crafting. Same Bob time, same Bob channel.
Tonight we were tired of our computers. We were tired of our blogs. We needed to rally some Shenanigan Club spirit. We wanted to try something new. So, we decided to make some fabric out of recycled plastic bags (see this Instructable for the general idea).
We had a blast, made a mess, and ended up with some awesome recycled plastic fabric. And what did we decide to do with it? Make special Shenanigan Club cuff bracelets, of course!
Stay tuned for next week’s exciting adventures!
Update to add: Although we did the group project, here’s a shout-out to some individual projects we worked on: xiann sewed a small change purse (photos below) from the recycled plastic fabric, sheribomb updated her blog with an illustrated haiku, and k8 did an awesome work project.
Everyone was tired and hungover at Shenanigan club — each for different reasons. K8 had been celebrating her new job; xiann, painting the town red; and sheribomb, recovering from tripping on her stairs and subsequently dripping with Hefeweissen. We didn’t finish much, but xiann worked on two new comics, one about Irish drunkery and the other about pigs and poop. K8 unfortunately spent most of the time trying to fix the OS on her iPhone (you may be interested to know that she’s a super-smart iPhone developer). And sheribomb updated her blog with a new haiku, updated our zombie blog and did some research into various ridiculous Regency England scenarios for an even more ridiculous fiction project.
We forgot to update last time, but here’s a video sheribomb made with very little time, resources or talent.
Stay tuned for our next endeavors, which may result in the winning of various nerd meritbadges.
At the last Shenanigan’s Club meeting Xiann’s partner Jim was nice enough to show me Omeka. Omeka is a web-publishing platform similar to WordPress but aimed at scholars and academics. Since I am neither a scholar nor an academic I decided to post my chicken collection.
To start I only have put up four items, mostly because I’m unsure of the where-abouts of my digital camera and iPhone pictures were difficult for small items. The only potential use of this site I can think of is if someone wants to give me a chicken related gift they can determine whether or not I already have that item. Though hopefully displaying bottles of Rex-Golaith Wine and Fighting Cock Whiskey will not discourage people from duplicate purchases of those items.
On semi-random Sundays, xiann, k8 and I get together for “creative time,” during which we work on to creating stuff. Previous projects have included robot paintings, a peeps diorama and even this website. Here’s a look at what we did tonight:
k8 made a “Personal Map,” which is sort of a map of what the world looks like in her mind.
It’s super cute. See her website for a rockin’ description.
xiann updated her sticky comics website and worked on an awesome Star Trek-themed comic that will be released later this week.
And I (sheribomb) worked on this hand-painted belt buckle.
Next projects may include a PSA on why dropping out of high school isn’t the worst decision you could make and a Rube Goldberg machine to destroy the aforementioned peeps diorama.
