my favorite albums of 2009

1. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
2. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
4. Blind Pilot - 3 Rounds and a Sound
5. The Veils - Sun Gangs
6. The xx - xx
7. The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
8. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
9. Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
10. Jonathan Johansson - En Hand i Himlen

pic a day project finished!

(almost) every day in 2009 i took (at least) one picture. if anything it taught me the ins and outs of my camera as well as it's limitations (almost all photos were taken with a canon sd1100). here are the results:



here's the project by the numbers:

total pictures: 331 (91%)
best months: jan, may, dec (30/31)
worst month: mar (25/31)
vancouver: 174
grand junction: 33
denver/boulder: 5
germany: 64
denmark: 1
sweden: 7
france: 8
trains/planes: 11
during road trips: 18
macro: 41
fisheye: 9
not by me: 4
sunrise/sunset: 11
involving public transit: 28
involving mopeds: 9
involving making/doing: 34
pictures with me in them: 18

the link to all the photos on flickr

the latest iteration of the ipod case

xmas making

teaching my cousin frankie how to carve a stamp on christmas eve. no pictures of the result, but it was a very cool christmas tree.

prototyping and doing

so, i got my hands on some designer 3mm felt. i have some new ideas for ipod/iphone cases, but i wanted to test the stuff out first. so, this morning i threw together this ipod case. the craftsmanship is rather poor, but i learned some lessons. hopefully the next ones will turn out better.

new features:
- the designer felt gives it a lot more impact protection
- the applique is glued on because i'm lazy (also: the applique is regular thickness felt, only the blue felt is the 3mm stuff)
- i lined it with some cotton fabric (from an old pillow case)
- there is a velcro strap. i'll probably do the next one with elastic and a button
(thanks to liz for the feedback on the iphone cases i made for her and her boyfriend cameron)

by the way, in case you were wondering, it's the colorado state flag.

holiday making and doing

mom's birthday present:



side note: i highly recommend using sanford rubber as opposed to factis for stamp making. the factis is much harder to work with.

fun with erasers

i was bored, so i turned my eraser into a couple stamps