Oct. 1st – Black Cat Pop-Up Puppet and GOTHTOBER!

THIS WEDNESDAY, October 1st, 2008 from 9pm until midnight, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Black Cat Pop-Up Puppet!
$2 Processing fee, please

Hey Hoo Ha! GOTHTOBER is about to launch!
By day, I’m your mild-mannered Craft Captain, handing out pipe cleaners, refilling glue containers, bringing the art to you and vice versa. But by NIGHT! I am Head Candycorn of Gothober, the world’s only Time-Release Countdown Calendar to Halloween, featuring the work of 31 artists and then some! As a matter of fact, some of your favorite crafters are Gothtober artists, tune in to the site every day and see new art revealed each day of the month.
We’re kicking off the momentous occasion of welcoming in Gothtober with some treats, and Black Cat Pop-Up Puppets! I think black cat pop-up puppets (say that 5 times fast) are perfect for this week, since last week was a week full of dumbfounded amazement, the likes of which we’ve never seen! Is your bank Chase/Manhattan now? Mine is!
I don’t know when I’ve had this many jaw-dropping cringe moments, maybe never, it’s astounding.
Anyway, pull 2 bucks out from under your mattress and come to CraftNight. For less than it takes to enjoy ONE tank of gas, you can come in and make a Pop-Up Cat Puppet and make it “pop-up” whenever something wacky happens, because well…. it’s become rather wacky, and things are probably only going to get wackier. And, as always, the black cat puppet idea is merely a template, if you want to make it into a horsie or a bunny or Nancy Pelosi, that’s fine with me.
October is always a very momentous time of year for CraftNight, we’ve got lots of great surprises this month, if I’m not completely flattened from launching Gothtober, I’m going to make PUMPKIN CUPCAKES, and the first 12 Crafters get them! Wooooo! And we might have live music from the Scumbags this week, but I can’t remember if they have a gig or not, so let’s give it a safe maybe, and for sure it’s going to be the start of a hauntin’ good time!

See you at the Craft Table
JP Craft Captain

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September 24th, Paper Toilet Tube Cavalcade!!!

This Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 from 9pm to midnight at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!

Project: Paper Toilet Tube Cavalcade!

$2 Processing Fee, Please

The time for hemming and hawing is over, time for something different. Hey it’s FALL. September is the final month before the indefatigable squadron of seasonal holidays starts clogging up the calendar. It’s time to take a chance. Time to DO SOMETHING with all those gosh darn toilet paper rolls that go needlessly to the trash, or that become recycled all boring-like.

The sheer, boundless number of possible crafts one can make out of a toilet paper tube is mind-bogglingly wonderful. You can make a totem pole, a caterpillar, a smokin’ hot-rod, a very practical pen holder for your very chic and sophisticated workstation, a firecracker with flamin’ hot cheetos inside, puppets of glittery “corporate-socialist” political personalities, a windsock that looks kind of like a grumpy neon ghost, a pair of freaky fuzzy binoculars… I’m tellin’ you, come one, come all, it’s endless prospects over here. Fall-time toilet paper tube crafts at CraftNight can turn any emotional low into a longtime high, just visualize, experiment, construct, paint and decorate and WOW! One of the nation’s classic disposable and overlooked standbys shall be TRANSFORMED by your vision, your fortitude, your whim, and you shall reign supreme.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

Hey! I updated www.crafthead.com go see what’s coming up in October! Woooo!

And as always, wonderful fuscia $4 cosmopolitans at our neighborhood oasis, AKBAR.

September 17th: National Geographic Placemats!

This Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 from 9pm to midnight, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: National Geographic Placemats!
$2 donation, please

You know about National Geographic, don’t you? Well, we’ve got sets of ‘em from every decade, old to new, and I also have lots of contac paper. I figured you could make a manatee placemat, or some kind of cool map-laden kind of placemat, or something about oil rigs, or obscure tribes, glowing machinery, cumulonimbus clouds, make as many themes as you want! Really!
Does this confuse you? Well the surefire way to be confused no more is to forget the cat and drag the curious on in, as this is going to be fun, as usual.
Collage involves hi-octane cutting, gluing and assemblage, bring in any photos you want to put in your placemat, any imagery you can’t be without, bottle labels, bumper stickers, playing cards… whatever you feel will accentuate the message that will sit under your food (or the cat’s food.)
See your fine self over here, yes we will, this week or eventually, we know you can’t stay away.
See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

September 10th: MONSTERS!

This Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 from 9pm to midnight, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: MONSTERS!!!
$2 processing fee, please

Your Craft Captain is out of town this week officiating a wedding in the Big Apple, and in my place for this Wednesday will be two new Craft Lieutenants: Mike Che and Adrian Avila! These are the first two-fisted, red-blooded MEN running the craft table this week, they are devastatingly handsome, viral, macho and well… crafty. Please come in and see for yourself how the masculine mystique adds a robust and brawny energy to the Craft Table!
And what are we making this week?
We’re going to help you make MONSTERS out of fabric and assorted bits of this and that, some fur, some googly eyes, some yarn… if you aren’t sure what kind of monster to make, we’ll have some sort of schematic available to help guide you in the process.

So come on in and check out the new hunky CraftNight Lieutenants and the MONSTER festivities!
MONSTERS! ROWR! SNORT!

See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

September 3rd, XMAS in September!

This Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 from 9pm til midnight at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!

$2 processing fee, please

It’s Christmas at CraftNight! Mr. Matt Dunnerstick, writer and director of his movie, which starts shooting on the 13th of September, needs CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS! LOTS OF THEM! Come make one or two or three or twelve, and loan them to the movie, and get them back in time for the actual Christmas holiday!

Here’s the synopsis for Matt’s Movie:

With the help of a genius amateur scientist, Preachers Paul Sr and Paul Jr convince a girl in their parish, Mary, to get pregnant with the second coming of Christ. They believe when the baby is born the world will end. She conceives and bears the child, but when Jesus is born a little different than the priests had planned, they drop her and move onto other girls. Mary becomes a nervous wreck and breaks down. She heads to the desert for answers and there finds inner peace. She returns to Los Angeles and organizes a populist uprising. Throughout the story, Mary is helped by her friend Joe, an African American lowrider mechanic. Lowrider automobiles are a featured part of the film and appear throughout.

As you can see, it’s a very reverent and traditional story, nothing too crazy or flashy.

We’ll have a smattering of ornaments crying out for your signature style, we’ll have all the opulence, shimmer and twinkle needed to make enough for a veritable FOREST of Christmas trees. So yeah, when it’s HOT OUT, do what everyone does in LA when it’s hot: make Christmas ornaments!!! And then we’ll watch the movie when it comes out and you’ll say to friends and colleagues “That’s my ornament, oh yes it is.” Just don’t forget all the little people when the talent agents start calling, and the paparrazzi begin documenting your every step and publishers want to option you for the book. We’ve had enough trouble with that already.

See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

PS- Did you miss the TIMESTAMP opening? I’ll be in the gallery Sept. 18th from 6 – 10pm, kind of like a little “Closing Ceremony!” Come and see me! Last Chance, as the show goes down on the 20th.