Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

hello america & friends,

this year's holiday hopes are dashed on the rocks of cheapness and poison foreign milk. but, you can still buy american and float on the curds & whey of change.

that's right laydees & gennelmen, this year i'm selling things i've made with my own two hands on the livingroom floor to the sounds of running water and frolicking felines. sometimes i use a table.

you can contribute to the cats' food & my newly blossoming rubber stamp habit. (wow are rubber stamps awesome)

i've made an etsy shoppe: <a href="http://oilcanpress.etsy.com/">http://oi ... sy.com/</a>

but what? what could it be?

<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=64 ... ">boxes</a>. <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=64 ... tainers</a>. the empty within.

i've lately been covering empty cigar boxes with pages from the encyclopedia britannica (ca. 1880). these wooden boxes are ideal for keeping yr notecards in, or your toy soldiers, seashells, stones & acorns. jewels, jujubes & typewriter ribbons.

and, billy-be-damned, they're purty.

also, in existence to be acquired: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=64 ... ">BOOKS</a>

2 books of poetry by edgar oliver with art by a variety of brigandly bohemians.

<a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?li ... SUMMER'</a>
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?re ... 532302">'a portrait of new york by a wanderer there'</a>


aaaaand, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?re ... 43">'ursus horribilis or ernest & the demon bear'</a> a poem & art by me. with additional art by jeff burns.

custom colors or concepts for boxes are gladly solicited. if you want sevral boxes a bundle can be composed and price reductions instituted.

it's art. it's vaguely useful. it's for you.

wonderfully creative endeavor, e.o. (?)... and certainly worthy for the astute collector of the unusual and unique.

may your sales be brisk and your customer's be generous.

thx for sharing this. well done... and very very rare, indeed!

thanks for the looksee, sir.

edgar oliver is my friend. he's an amazing east village poet, playwright and performer. i've made two books of his poetry. with art. he's a genuine friend and artist of the highest order.

and i've made one book of my own poetry. also, with art. my name is aaron howard.

and lotsa boxes.

hopefully i sell some things.

otherwise i just had fun making art.

peace
a bum

I almost fainted when I saw all the pretty colors.