I’ve spoken about the amazing work of Kathleen Ryan before. It appears she’s made new fruit and I love them.
I assumed the fruit was larger than life but I had no idea how much larger. It makes me wonder how big her beads are. My beads, even my biggest ones, would not cut it.
Tom Brady plays for the Buccaneers now? When did that happen? I thought he played for the New England Kraft Mac ‘n’ Cheez team! It’s really hard to follow football when you only watch one day a year.
Wow, I don’t care about 99% of this. There had better be some good commercials. I’m interested in what The Weeknd does with the halftime show.
Regarding who I’m rooting for, here is my Facebook post from earlier this week:
I always tear up when someone sings the Black national anthem (“Lift Every Voice and Sing”). Waaaaay better than the milky-white one.
Oooo there’s a show coming out based on Silence of the Lambs and they’re using the font from the original movie! Nice touch.
Holy crap, Paramount put their mountain with stars behind the stadium using some green screen whatnot and I seriously thought there was a giant mountain with stars hovering in the sky. I do not know what is real and what is fake anymore. It’s the end days, people! Stop messing with my head!
They’re doing a really beautiful film that meant to evoke emotions and it’s evoking emotions. I’m trying to fight it because it’s intentionally treacly but I’m losing. I was fine with the parents of the players talking about how much they love their kids but one of the players left to go work in a hospital in Canada during Covid. He gave up on his Super Bowl dreams to help people. Right in the feels.
The Chiefs fan chant is so incredibly racist. Look it up. They need to catch up with the times. My God.
I do not know the two people singing the national anthem. This is shaping up to be a profoundly underwhelming experience.
I’m going to ignore Amanda Gorman the national youth poet laureate because that felt weird and inappropriate.
Okay, the coin toss. That means they’re going to start playing which is where I check out. I’m going to go on Tumblr until something happens worth acknowledging.
M&M commercial with Dan Levy is good.
Logitech commercial with Lil Nas X is good. Love that makeup artist.
New M. Night Shyamalan movie looks good.
Daveed Diggs rapping with Sesame Street is good.
I am rooting for the Buccaneers because I like the color choices on their pants. #sports
The Doritos commercial with Matthew Mcconaughey is not good.
I just learned the Empire State Building is lit in the two colors of the teams and flashes the teams color when that team gets a goal. Next time I will try to find a place with a view so I can see that.
The Buccaneers are destroying the Chiefs and now it’s the halftime show. I’m happy because I despise the racism of the Chiefs but I’m sad because I’m sick of Tom Brady’s stupid face.
The set The Weeknd starts on is clever, it looks like a poster but it’s 3D. They use trickery of the eye.
Did an angel-demon hybrid fall out of the sky, what the actual hell?
Oh, it’s just a cyborg gospel choir.
Wow, he goes backstage and it’s a carnival mirror maze, so cool.
I love this.
He’s singing “I Can’t Feel My Face When I’m With You” and dancers all have nose job gauze wrappings that cover their mouths as well, great way to work masks into the performance.
Now everyone is out on the field and either they’re using plastic filters on some of the cameras or we, as a nation, have astigmatism.
Ah, fireworks, that means we’re done with half time. And I am done with this game. Anything that happens after now matters not to me.
Addendum: The Reddit ad is clever and I like it. It references owls as well, extra points for that.
*This is a lie.
Remember Deer Skull? In a moment of weakness I bought a beaver skull. C’mon guys, it was on sale! I got it for cheaper because the front teeth, the most valuable part of the skull, were broken at the tips. I’m going to cover the whole skull with beads similar to the deer but in gold and jewel tones. I have a lot of beads left over from the acorn necklace.
And after my dad died I submitted a 6″ x 6″ tile to the Museum of Beadwork, I used more of those metallic beads there.
So for this skull instead of matching the color of the bone I’m going hard in the opposite direction. I painted the everything except the teeth blue and put blue and green felt on areas where I might want to shove in some decorative pins. I need a substrate to shove the pins into and bone is notoriously resistant.
I used Apoxie Sculpt to mold clean ends on the teeth. I can cover those bits with beads and you’ll never know they were janky and broken. Fun fact: The reason the fronts of the teeth are orange is because that’s rust. Their teeth are covered with iron.
I want there to be a gold line going from the forehead to the back. Lord, this has been a journey. I first beaded a beautiful strip. I couldn’t believe the richness of the gold color. Then I realized the richness is due to the beads being covered in 24K gold. I had forgotten I had bought them. I am very much not using those beads on a frikkin’ beaver skull so I took it apart.
Attempt #2. I decided I wanted it to be a pointed stripe fading into dark blue. The color blend was too chunky so that one was scrapped.
Attempt #3. Nope.
Attempt #4. YES.
I will clip those loose threads and I can fix the wobbliness when I glue it down by pushing it around until it sets.
That took a solid week to make one strip. This learning curve needs to pick up but I’ll get there. Eventually.