So it has been a busy couple weeks as we hit the end of the semester and already I am ironing out more creative plans for summer. I tend to be up early and reasonable productive most days, despite the early shift, and while the weather is a little schizophrenic (sandals one day, heavy coat the next) I am getting by. There is the usual press business --not just current books, but also beginning to read submissions for both next year's books and our snazzy lit anthology project, plus some work for
Aesthetics of Research, including some cool mermaid stamped little promo goody bags that featured the zine below (some copies were also squirreled away for zine series subscribers), the buttons we've been making from discarded books, and some really cool clay pendants from one of the LAS faculty members. We handed them out to the best answers to the question "How do mermaids reproduce?" during the college's Manifest celebration, which this being an arts school and all, got some r
ather hilarious and awesome answers.
We also have a full slate of vending machines up that include not only some of the stuff listed above, but also some original little drawings by me (I think there's about 20 of them--so get one before they're gone.) I'm plotting a few other interesting little work-related summer diversions now that the library is a ghost town, including some silly taxidermy collages for a zine and maybe some artsy scavenger hunt / geocache action.
