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Mother’s Day Earrings and Box with Leaf Motif

Liz — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:09:59 +0000

“Sniffles, The Frost-Breathing Dragon” Paper Toy

Liz — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:17:36 +0000

Sniffles is basically an “albino” in the dragon community. Through a strange combination of recessive genes, he doesn’t breathe fire, he breathes frost, which means he chills whatever he breathes on. While he later learned that this was useful at house parties without enough fridge space for all the beer, when he was growing up he had to deal with constant ridicule, just like deer Rudolph. Talk about awkward! Needless to say, he quickly learned not to laugh in the face of people telling a joke (frostbite is super uncool). And another uncool side effect for his “power” is that he constantly has a runny nose. Think about it–if you breathe frost you’re going to get sniffly. Sniffles has gotten used to is, and so his trusty sidekick is A Box of Tissues. So here you have Sniffles and his trusty sidekick, A Box of Tissues. Enjoy your time with these guys, and chill all the things!
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"Frequencity" a free electronic music compilation featuring Chicago-based musicians

Liz — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:55:39 +0000

I curated a Chicago-artists-only compilation of innovative electronic music for my label, subVariant called “Frequencity. Read more about it and download it here. I’ve also contributed a track as Quantazelle. Enjoy!

TRACKLIST:
01. Beanbake: “A Bicycle In Your Mind” [Melodic Electronica]
02. Belmont and Clark: “Dark Compression” [Analogue Electro]
03. Ella Laurence: “aaaAH” [Acid]
04. [esc]APE: “Square Fingers” [Dark Electro]
05. Polyfuse: “Blood on the Urinal” [Electro Industrial]
06. Foe Paw: “Dos Otros” [Prog Rock]
07. XYZR_KX: “Home” [Folk IDM]
08. Mike Gonsior: “Reflections” [Downtempo Electronica]
09. Quantazelle: “Polychromatic Tomatoes” [Melodic Electronica]
10. Lokua: “Hue” [Minimal Techno]
11. Drasla: “Moonlight Somnambula” [Neo-Classical IDM]
12. Elock: “Ari on Acid” [Chiptune]

Bread Clip Science

Liz — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:09:44 +0000

Ha! Finally someone is taking bread clips seriously!

I made a mixed-media work a while back from bread clips in the theme of Space Invaders, since I’ve been collecting them for quite a while.

“Bread Intruders”

Here’s the proposal:

A publication in this month’s BMJ Case Reports, a peer-reviewed publication of the British Medical Journal, offers a “proposal for phylogenic plastic bag clip classification”. Contributing authors include John Daniel of the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group (HORG).

Proposal for phylogenic classification advances bread clip science

Ode to Sniffles, The Frost-Breathing Dragon

Liz — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 20:33:50 +0000

Liz Revision:“Ode To Sniffles” [DOWNLOAD]

Actual paper toy to follow, once I reinstall Windows + Adobe CS5 on the work putie.

1. Altered Tensions “Slow in Ashes” The Answer to the Question You Forgot to Ask [Self]

2. Diarmo “Details” Robohustlin [subVariant]

3. s.t. “Emotions in a Box” Emotions in a Box [Monotonik]

4. Elijah B. Torn “oooEight” Robohustlin [subVariant]

5. Kettel “Boekebaas” Myam James 2 [Sending Orbs]

6. Fourtet “Sings (Extended)” There is Love in You [Domino]

7. Quantazelle “Polychromatic Tomatoes v.1″ Unreleased

8. Deetron “Collide” Collide [Green]

9. Marc Romboy vs. Stephan Bodzin “Atlas” 6 Monde [Systematic]

10. Nick Curly “Kalimba” Critical Mass EP [Murmur]

11. Peaches “Lose You (Brodinski & Yuksek Remix)” Lose You [XL Recordings]

"Bread Intruders"

Liz — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:32:47 +0000

Acrylic on canvas, bread ties. 18″ x 24″. 2010. Liz McLean Knight.

Punchcards: Blank greeting cards made from vintage computer punch cards

Liz — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:55:02 +0000

Greeting cards are in full circulation during the holiday season, and I had been thinking a while about something that would be geeky and retro, so I went searching for old-school punch cards.

A punched card (also known by various synonyms) is a piece of stiff paper that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Now almost an obsolete recording medium, punched cards were widely used throughout the 19th century for controlling textile looms and in the late 19th and early 20th century for operating fairground organs and related instruments. They were used through the 20th century in unit record machines for input, processing, and data storage. Early digital computers used punched cards, often prepared using keypunch machines, as the primary medium for input of both computer programs and data. -wikipedia

You can grab a set of them at Fractalspin: Punchcards.

Forever Alone Pumpkin

Liz — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:20:07 +0000

New site design and new products at Fractalspin

Liz — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:19:48 +0000

Two months ago I started moving Fractalspin over to a hosted ecommerce platform and since then have been migrating over products and creating the new site design.

I’ve also added a bunch of new products, and even more stuff is on the way. Let mw know what you think!
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New "Less Than Three"

Liz — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:36:45 +0000

Check out two new earrings styles from Zelle featuring the love emoticon <3. The round version is available for $34 and the heart-shaped one is $38 at Fractalspin.