Tag: Embroidery
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Bird of Paradise
Tourism is big business in Hawai’i. Between the balmy air, gorgeous sunsets, huge surfs, and all things American convenience, the stream of tourists flows non-stop year round. It’s pleasant enough to laze on the shore, admiring the view of pretty boys and girls running at them waves, licking up a cone of shaved ice, while…
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Man’s Best Friend
While the French Bulldog has reigned as America’s favorite canine for the last 2 years, our most beloved dog breed rotates between the Labrador Retriever, the Golden Retriever, and the German Shepherd dog. It’s no dispute that the dog is America’s favorite pet. The sheer number of movies with a dog as the star of…
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Schrödinger’s Cat
Schrödinger’s cat sits in a sealed box with a flask of poison and a radioactive source. The flask shatters upon radioactivity, releasing the poison, which should kill the cat. Who can tell the cat’s fortune? Quantum physics dictate that until the box is opened, there is no way to tell whether the cat is dead…
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Snoopy
The world knows him as Snoopy, the beloved beagle from Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip. In the aviation community, he is better recognized as Snoopy the World War I Flying Ace, one of his most popular alter egos. Sitting atop his doghouse in a flying helmet, goggles, and colorful scarf blowing in the breeze,…
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Summer Days
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from a single thing that I wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keeffe An icon of American modern art, Georgia O’Keeffe is best known for painting surrealism into the desolate American Southwest landscape. These paintings, such as Summer Days, have…
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Diamond Rain
In 1666, Isaac Newton proved that white light is composed of the rainbow spectrum. He used a prism to refract a white light beam into a spectrum of colors, and then another prism to put it back into white light again. Color, however, is perceived inversely. An object soaks up a part of the light…
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Best In Show
The American artist and art teacher Josef Albers once proclaimed that if you were to say “red” to 50 different people, there would be 50 different versions of the color. Names for color, in particular, evolve with language across cultures. For example, the word for pink once meant yellow in Dutch. While ochre meant “pale…
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The Flamingo Party
Color had been considered superfluous in Western culture since ancient times. Classical writers saw it as being indulgent, even sinful, a distraction from the true glories of art, which were of line and form. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote in Theory of Colors, 1810 that “savage nations, uneducated people, and children have a great predilection…
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Aries
To paint a sky onto my cloth, I have chosen the Aries constellation. It is located in the Northern celestial hemisphere between Pisces to the west and Taurus to the east. The name Aries is Latin for the ram, thus the astronomical symbol for Aries represents the ram’s horns. The brightest star in the constellation…
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Tee’s Sleeves
Beyond the classic T shape, graphic tees have become a most popular medium for self expression. Whether proclaiming advertisement, activism, pop art, science, technology, or humor, it is the unique advantage that the tee has gained over other apparels. While Marlon Brando was looking hot in his ringer tee in the 1960’s, companies such as…
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