CLOCKWORKBIRD: design, animation, illustration » architecture http://www.clockworkbird.com/site Clockworkbird (aka Heather Smith) : Chicago based web designer, developer, animator, illustrator, artist and musician. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:17:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Ukulele Cabaret – Valentine’s Day style http://www.clockworkbird.com/site/2009/02/14/ukulele-cabaret-valentines-day-style/ http://www.clockworkbird.com/site/2009/02/14/ukulele-cabaret-valentines-day-style/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:55:03 +0000 hey hey http://www.clockworkbird.com/blog/?p=143

I’m gonna go join the rest of the freaks in the ukulele circuit and play some tunes tonight. Thankfully, I’ve got a lot of songs on the chosen theme. Come if you get a chance.
]]> http://www.clockworkbird.com/site/2009/02/14/ukulele-cabaret-valentines-day-style/feed/ 0 More songs – I Don’t Believe in Santa http://www.clockworkbird.com/site/2008/12/22/more-songs-i-dont-believe-in-santa/ http://www.clockworkbird.com/site/2008/12/22/more-songs-i-dont-believe-in-santa/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:09:09 +0000 hey hey http://www.clockworkbird.com/blog/?p=91 Well, I did it again. I wrote another song for the PRF Songwriting challenge. That’s three weeks in a row. I guess I qualify as a repeat offender at this point.

I didn’t really plan on writing anything this week. I’m as sick as a dog that is as sick as a very sick cat. Post nasal drip, voice an octave lower than it should be, etc, etc… Plus, the theme was “Holiday Songs.” Perhaps, it’s post-traumatic stress from growing up in the bible belt or a more general revulsion to holiday cheer but i just wasn’t terribly inspired.

Regardless, come 8:30 last night, Jason and I decided to give it a go. And I’m pretty happy with the results. I’m gonna caulk this one up to pure and complete winter boredom. What else are going to do when it’s a wind chill of -29 ? Cry? Drink? Write songs? How ’bout all three.


Here is the latest offense : “I Don’t Believe in Santa”
http://www.virb.com/prfweek14


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WIRED has a nice article on him:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/brightstuff.html

To create this outdoor sculpture at the Wellcome Trust in London, Heatherwick first made a 2-inch-long blob by pouring molten metal into water.

The three-story staircase, made from 55 tons of hot-rolled steel, arrived at Longchamp’s new SoHo boutique prebuilt, ready for installation. Acrylic-like PETG (polyethylene terephthalate glycol) panels based on aerospace windshields hang from the handrails.

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