get excited and make things!

Stout-Cured Drinking Horn

eli skipp — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:11:41 +0000

Built from a hollowed out steer horn. Top was cracked and splintered, so had to be sanded down. Inside was cleaned A LOT. Filled for 24 hours with Souther Tier Mocha Stout to cure it (better option than wax or plastic). Finished with a brown leather strap.
A link to build your own: GoHeathen.com

Ada’s Nyan Cat Dress

eli skipp — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:18:24 +0000

A short while ago, Miss Jen Savage (also the taker of this lovely photograph) commissioned me to embroider Nyan Cat onto a dress for her adorable daughter, Ada. Here’s the finished project!

It took a little while and I ran into some issues, namely that baby dresses seem to be infinitely stretchy. This issue was fixed with some creative interfacing use and a bit of patience. In the end, I think the result is pretty cute — and it looks like Ada and Jen approve!

materials used: interfacing, embroidery thread, thread, embroidery hoop, embroider needles, needles, pins.

A doodle that I like.

eli skipp — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:54:12 +0000

This doodle that I did over the summer makes me happy. Here it is, so that I can remember it always.

New portfolio site.

eli skipp — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:38:29 +0000

Oh fauns, it’s been a tumultuous past couple-a months. In the meantime, though, and with the help of Fin, I’ve put up a proper portfolio site to aid in all of the graduate school applications I have to finish this month (to NYU, RISD, CalARTS, SAIC, and SFAI). Rest assured, I have not abandoned you. Here’s a link to the new site, should you be interested:

http://skipp.us

Lady Rainicorn Scarf quick video.

eli skipp — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:29:19 +0000

Here’s a quick video of the scarf, with the LEDs blinking and fading. Pretty sure this is one of the cutest things I’ve ever made.

Lady Rainicorn LED Scarf.

eli skipp — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:40:42 +0000

Lady Rainicorn is a character from Adventure Time. I built this scarf as part of a Halloween costume for a friend, and threw in some LEDs for extra cuteness. It took a few days and a lot of cutting and sewing and cursing at the conductive thread, but overall I’m happy with the outcome. Here’s pictures of it, and a video will come soon (to prove that there are five LEDs altogether, lest you doubt me).

Pardon the time spent away.

eli skipp — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:51:12 +0000

I apologize for being away and not posting recently. I’ve been a little out of it, and in the meantime I’ve been tasked with setting up a second website to show a portfolio for my upcoming application to Die Angewandte. At the very least, I did do a bit of doodling on Corel Painter 12 (which I recently got). That’s all I’ve got to show right now, though.

Photos from some abandoned train tracks.

eli skipp — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:22:04 +0000

Fin and I took a bike ride over to some abandoned train tracks (and also an abandoned rail station?) nearish to Praterstern a few days ago. Photography has never been something I’m particularly good at, but here’s a small set of photos from that outing anyway.

Laser cutter fun: Antler necklace test.

eli skipp — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:46:17 +0000

This was actually put together prior to CCCamp011 but I’ve been busy and distracted, I suppose. Thus I’ve still only printed out the yellow acrylic test of this Illustrator sketch. The antlers fit into both the stag and the rabbit, and later I hope to make more heads and attachments, to make an acrylic paper-doll sort of thing. I am fairly proud of the quality of the illustrator vector file as well — shoot me an e-mail if you’d like it for any reason.

New project: Semaphore bot.

eli skipp — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:05:40 +0000

Thanks to a hilarious comment by one Mr. Jeff Gough during a quickly nose-diving talk at CCCamp2011 (“They should conduct this talk in semaphore,”) I’ve had semaphore flags on the brain. Projects like this have been done previously, but never with the complete alphabet/vocabulary. Thus, having ordered the parts and started the sketching process, fin & I will be building a semaphore bot that will, hopefully, read out in semaphore the various correspondences my grandfather had during WWII. Woohoo!