{"id":1040,"date":"2009-04-07T10:35:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T15:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2009-04-07T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T15:35:46","slug":"screening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"screening weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

i have had the best weekends lately!\u00c2\u00a0 this past weekend beans<\/a> drove down to visit.\u00c2\u00a0 it was the weekend of the wisconsin film festival<\/a> and they were going to show handmade nation<\/em><\/a> and we both wanted to see it, so we planned a whole weekend of fun together.<\/p>\n

on friday night, we enjoyed dinner at sardine<\/a> with another friend<\/a> where we all enjoyed the best virgin mojitos in town and an amazing coconut creme brulee with carmelized pineapple on top (along with the rest of our fabulous dinner).<\/p>\n

when we got home, beans and i spent some time cutting contact paper for a silk screening project.<\/p>\n

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on saturday, we had tickets to see 4 films.\u00c2\u00a0 the first one didn’t start until 11 a.m., so i spent the morning sewing up things to print (pillowcases from an old sheet, tea towels, etc.) and we also dyed some of the fabric.\u00c2\u00a0 our first movie was actually a series of animated shorts.\u00c2\u00a0 my favorites were probably chicken of god<\/em><\/a> (which apparently has its own myspace page), sebastian’s voodoo<\/em><\/a> (which is short, but moving.\u00c2\u00a0 you can see the whole thing if you click on the link), and yard work is hard work<\/em> (which i couldn’t find any clips of online, sorry!).\u00c2\u00a0 as soon as the shorts were finished, we hurried to the next film — a documentary<\/a> about chuck close<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 it was fantastic, but the whole time i was watching it, i kept thinking how great his paintings would look as a quilt.\u00c2\u00a0 i think that would take even longer than the jasper johns<\/a> one.\u00c2\u00a0 sigh.\u00c2\u00a0 i still don’t really understand how he does it–they are a mystery and a magic trick to me.<\/p>\n

we had the afternoon after that free to do as we pleased, so we came home and got to printing.<\/p>\n

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can i just say again how much i love screen printing?!\u00c2\u00a0 i love how sharp the images turn out and i love that i can make multiple prints from a single cutting.\u00c2\u00a0 all of the designs shown here (except for the concentric organic rings which are beans’ signature<\/a>) are from my own original sketches and it was such fun to see them come to life.\u00c2\u00a0 mr. happy stuff even ordered pizzas for dinner so that we wouldn’t have to stop to cook or leave to eat at a restaurant!<\/p>\n

then, finally, it was time to see handmade nation<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 what fun to be in a room full of crafters!\u00c2\u00a0 what fun to see some of the crafters that i’ve only known online or through their shops!<\/p>\n

our last film of the night was a feature-length bill plympton animation called idiots and angels<\/em><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 characteristically bizarre and somewhat dark, i must confess that it wasn’t my favorite of the day.\u00c2\u00a0 but that could have had something to do with the fact that it started at 10:15 p.m. and was the 7th and 8th hours of movies that i’d watched in one very loooong (but fun!) day.<\/p>\n

on sunday morning, we enjoyed some baked oatmeal and then beans and i worked on a secret project which i plan to reveal here in a few days.\u00c2\u00a0 it’s very exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i have had the best weekends lately!\u00c2\u00a0 this past weekend beans drove down to visit.\u00c2\u00a0 it was the weekend of the wisconsin film festival and they were going to show handmade nation and we both wanted to see it, so … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty-stuff","category-stuff-that-sparks-the-glow-inside-my-soul","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}