Pack Rat is on a Mexican radio

You know we love all things graffiti here at Pack Rat. Public works of anonymous art? That’s right up our ally. Blogger Carina from Feeling Stitchy is branching out into the semi-nafarious realm of graffiti art by taking her embroidered messages out to the public. Not quite comfortable with the idea of leaving behind something permanent (and thereby potentially offensive) Carina “tags”with embroidery stitched on to removable, sticky sheets of paper. She seems to berate herself a bit for not having the courage to do something more permanent, but we here at Pack Rat believe that random acts of creativity are courageous enough in themselves. Stitch on, sister!

(photo courtsey of Carina)

Like Kurosawa, Pack Rat makes mad films…okay we don’t make films, but if we did they’d have a samurai

Today I am craving the Aussie designs of Tabitha Emma. Like the love child of Edward Gorey and Martha Stewart, Tabitha Emma is able to make the most lady-like objects (cupcakes, cups of tea, and little birds) have an edge. I am especially taken with her Embroidered Cupcake Brooch.  The prim and proper pinks and florals are shaken up by graphic, bold, black outlines. Feminine and fierce at the same time. For $10 USD I’ve got to have it!

Pack Rat is hot like wasabi when we bust rhymes

Although I am a bit of a sci-fi nerd, I never really got behind The X-Files. And, after what my friend just told me about the hill billy episode, I probably never will. But, in honor of the new movie, which I know quite a few people are jazzed up about, I invite you to make your own “Thing in a Jar.” Created by Drew Olbrich, “Thing in a Jar” combines the mysteries of science, the fantasy of fiction, and the imagination of sculpture to make a creepy looking thing, stuck in a jar. Olbrich provides directions on how to make your own, so you can put it in your cubicle, or on your coffee table and weird out everyone you know.  When they ask you what, exactly, is that thing in a jar, you can just look to them and say “The truth is out there.”