Artist Isabel Samaras sporting Heliplume Earrings by Zoa Chimerum Jewelry at Maker Faire while viewing the Solar Eclipse. This post is gonna have so many hashtags.
Things to do at the San Francisco Airport
I’m pretty sure I made this song up but Sue-Yee says it sounds like the intro to “The Muppet Show”
So it turns out that when you put your flight itinerary into iCal while you’re on the East coast, and then travel to the West Coast, ical automatically shifts all of your scheduling information around to reflect the new time zone. Which means that I made sure we would get to the airport extra early so we’d have plenty of time to get through the checkpoints for our “noon” flight. Because of some additional scheduling issues with our friends who had graciously offered to give us a ride to the airport, we arrived pretty early in the morning. Had I been looking over my schedule while on the East Coast, it would have correctly listed our flight time as somewhere around 3pm. Which is all a long way of saying that we explored the SF airport thoroughly.
Wedding Barettes
Did these as a special commission for a bride to be. The curls on the ends were her idea and I really like the way they came out. They’re not actually barrettes but are mounted on alligator clips because she has very fine hair.
The bride agreed to send some images of the final ensemble so I’ll post an image of the barrettes being worn whenever I get them
We’ve been featured on Haute Macabre today!
Spotted by a Haute Macabre reader at this year’s Maker Faire, Zoa Chimerum’s intricate jewelry is
Another crazy pattern. I think with a larger size I could make it crazier. It’s very difficult to maintain radial symmetry, and the more parts you add, the more obnoxious the process gets. It’s especially difficult when you’re using a base-5 pattern. Or any prime number really. But! Prime number based patterns seem to look more natural when they’re done. (thanks a lot, Starfish!)
At the very least patterns should be odd-numbered. (base 9 doesn’t look too bad). The only even-numbered pattern that doesn’t irritate me visually is base 6, which still feels like a compromise but can look pretty good.
If you’re ever browsing my work at a craft fair or gallery and there are two very similar looking brooches but they are priced differently, try counting the spike patterns. Chances are that the less expensive one has an even number of spikes, or at least a non-prime number.
Here’s a side angle shot of a Thing That I Made. You can see how some of the newer patterns are more three dimensional and seem to be reaching upward and outward.
Maker Faire Bay Area -> Bizarre Bazaar -> Zoa Chimerum
We’re getting ready to head to San Francisco for the Maker Faire Bay Area. Very exciting and intimidating to be in the midst of so many amazing creative people working in the unique space somewhere at the intersection of science, art, and good old fashioned hacking which is the MAKER movement.
if you’re coming to the event (and you should), we’ll be at the Bizarre Bazaar tent in the West Lot. You’ll want to head to the west lot no matter what, because that’s also where “fire arts” is taking place. So, you know. Fire.
Here is another Thing That I Made. It’s at the MassArt Made store in Boston. You can even buy it if you want to. (If you don’t live in Boston you might have to call the store, though).
I might repost this image after its been color adjusted. I’m posting straight from my iPhone right now.
