Shoebox Creatures 2016 | isabelhajian

Shoebox Creatures
2016

I've had a shoebox of collected fabric scraps and discarded craft supplies under my desk for years.
I hot glue this miscellaneous material onto cardboard to make palm-sized portraits.

draw more, less snacks
— seen on a list of new years resolutions

The operative concept is simply that things need to stay in place.
— Philip Sawyer, professional tailor, mid-demo

Although from very different walks of life, they shared a love of danger..
— “People in Rooms,” Lucian Freud Portraits, Sarah Howgate page 30

Archimedes Screw 287 B.C. moves water from low —> high elevation
Modern sewage treatment plants use the archimedes screw — notes, History of Industrial Design, Feb. 19

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It will not burn, it will not melt.
— Dr. Leo Baekeland, 1924

Grandma can i take like a pound or two of these pistachios
-me

Me, by maria, spring 2016 (yellow sweatshirt on backwards)

Therbligs, 1927, elements of motion. Lilian Gilbreth (a psychologist of work management) and her husband Frank (a brick-layer) coined the term.. its gilbreth backwards (ish) — notes, H.O.I.D., April 2nd

She grasped me firmly by the arm. “We Hoosiers got to stick together.”
“Right.”
“You call me ‘Mom.’”
“What?”
“Whenever I meet a young Hoosier, I tell them, ‘You call me Mom.’”
“Uh huh.”
“Let me hear you say it,” she urged.
“Mom?”
She smiled and let go of my arm. Some piece of clockwork had completed its cycle. My calling Hazel “Mom” had shut if off, and now Hazel was rewinding it for the next Hoosier to come along. — Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut page 91

There is something about a sweet potato that cheers you up when you are low and celebrates with you when you are happy. Sweet potatoes baked in their jackets have a very large comfort factor built into them. — The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay page 13

In this structure there was a man, there always is, so there was and he was very fine. He belonged to the place the way the place belonged to him. Everyone there was very fond of him and looked up to him. He accepted this because apart from being civilized he was kind. There was a definite well organized, successful and ambitiously satisfied feeling about the place.
— Louise Boureois, the puritan, 1990

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.
— The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut, page 38

Hindenberg, huuuge German airship built in 1936. Hydrogen-filled (shoulda been helium), lighter-than-air. Carried passengers across the Atlantic for one year before it caught fire in 1937
—notes, history of I.D., March 19th

Mama! I am so sorry I scared you last night! I was freaking out because I didnt know if you were awake and my logic went like this:
A) If you are awake, then it would be terrifying to hear someone in the house, so i should be totally silent so that you don't become terrified
B) if you are asleep, then i should also be silent so you dont wake up to a scary sound and get freaked out
I was on the staircase and it was making creaking sounds and i was scared!!! Because i didnt want you to panic and shoot me!! (I was genuinely concerned that maybe you secretly had a gun for break-ins and you were going to kill me)
And then i was scared that you were mad at me and couldnt sleep!! ANYWAY
.... (etc etc)
—text draft phone note, last March

She never said no and never said yes, but pulled, slackened, pulled her strings of control.
— Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer, p. 80

What he saw looked solid as hell: two round towers with an arch between them and across that arch was an iron gate that looked like it hadn’t been moved in three hundred years or maybe ever.
— The Keep, Jennifer Egan, p. 3 (first page is good)

The universe IS magic it makes Harry Potter look like dog shit
— elderly man in Burlington, Vermont, introduced as Philip the Philosopher

“Im in John’s group."
"Oh I didnt know you were in John’s group."
"Yeah it’s just the two of us."
— overheard at a party

I’ll get one of those things you can unravel.
— Woman at Cafe Choklad describing a cinnamon role, spring 2017

Her learning to sew (from a book Yankel brought back from Lvov) coincided with her refusal to wear any clothes that she did not make herself, and when he bought her a book about animal psychology, she held the pictures to his face and said, Don’t you think it’s strange, Yankel, how we eat them?
— Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer, p. 76

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-trying-to-remember-chiara’s-number-to-call-her-from-a-stranger’s-phone, notebook, june 8th

The older women — Maureen’s friends — present various food items in plastic, dishwasher-safe containers they will later ask to be returned.
— Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn, p.119

... a certain amount of self-doubt is a good tool for correcting, understanding, listening, and progressing — though too much is paralyzing and total self-confidence produces arrogant idiots.
— Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit p. 5