Featuring the artwork, musings and sketches of Brisbane-based artist Kat Johnston, who is also known as Sanura Sakai or Sanu in Second Life.
Yet another sketch-book started… this time one that I picked up from Ikea. It currently contains – you guessed it – bunnies!
Its going to be a short post today… I have Chasing Amy to go watch. Its just past the ‘What’s a nubian?’ part, which just happens to be my favourite part of the entire damn movie. I’ve watched Clerks and Mallrats in the past couple of days – time to watch the rest through.
Ok… off I go!
Another day, another little something for the site! Today a sketch – I’ve been a little lazy with Second Life today. That said, if you’re in a creative mood today, I suggest you head over to my Sanu flickr account and name the ice-cream. Go onnnnn… they’re full of ice-creamery goodness!
In honor of thinking about ice-cream all day, I would like to posit that ice-cream does really grow on trees. At the very least, it does when I says it does. Money does too, so long as the boundaries between reality and my imagination are well and truly blurred, and there is no need for me to actually spend said money from said money trees. After all, lets face it – nobody wants rotting leaves in their cash register. Its just messy.
Actually, when you think about it, if money did grow on trees and the money grown on said trees behaved as leaves do, I think it would be a rather interesting situation indeed. Would the seeds of a money tree be coinage? Would there be different types of trees for each of the denominations, or would it simply be a case of seed and flower or leaf development?
Eg, does a money tree start off planted with a 1c coin (or 5c here in Australia, since we don’t go down at low as a cent), and as it matures it works it way up until its sprouting notes, which increase in denomination as the money-blooms mature, or do you need a whole separate plant to sprout the five dollar notes and the ten? Is the money it sprouts the leaves or the ‘flowers’, and if it comes in the form of the flowers, what are the leaves? Deposit slips? Cheque books?
I, for one, think that it is a thought entirely worthy of pondering. I think I might come up with a whole philosophy regarding it given enough time to ponder. Pondering is fun.
I love a happy ending. I do. Its one of those things that gets me all warm and squishy and gushy inside. I love it!
You see, I’ve been playing Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney… its the reason I haven’t been on SL much today. Anyhow… without turning this post into something that looks like a paid advertisement for both the Ace Attorney series and Nintendo, just let me say that I am a huge Phoenix Wright fan-girlie and he can scream ‘Objection!’ at me any day.
And the thing that I like best about the games? They’re interactive fiction… meaning that they come to a nice, fulfilling end (for now). You get the cute montage of characters saying good-bye in their own different ways, the ending theme music, and you’ve not only solved the case, you’ve also made a difference. Yuppers – its the same feeling I get when I finish a good book… sad to see it go, but happy that I’ve been able to see it through to its conclusion. Lets just say that its not the same with a shoot-em-up, ok?
Anyhow, as with a good book, you want to move onto the next one as soon as you can, don’t you? Argh! The next one isn’t scheduled for release in Japan until the 29th of May, and who knows if that is going to include the English version there and then – otherwise I may have to wait even longer! Oh dear… what am I going to do? I may have to satisfy myself listening to fantastic Phoenix Wright music (and remixes) on Youtube until then.
Oh, the sketch for today was just done while listening to the remix above – I love the Ace Attorney music, but this remix just rocks in its own right. My sketch is a fairly accurate representation of how big my smile was at the end of the game. Ok… not accurate at all… mine was bigger!
A friend of mine, Anicia Medici (fabulous owner of Sugar Mill), asked me recently as a favor to recolour one of my existing pieces to include black and silver, rather than the default colouration. I did so happily, but the suggestion further fueled me to create a full set of jewelry with that particular thought in mind. This is the result of that inspiration – something deliciously delicate and detailed, with little gemstone drops to add just the right touch of elegance to the set.
While the bigger set actually contains no black at all, the additional set (which was actually created first) definately fulfills the criteria. It adds just that little extra spice to something quite nice, don’t you think?
Also added… the Harvest set! Yes, I know I’m rolling a lot of new release info into the one post, but I’ve been really busy. The harvest set was actually created quite a while back, but I never got around to doing it up for sale – I finally got myself into gear and got it ready to go. Phew!
Ok, final image for tonight. Adding to my ever-delicious line of foodstuffs and other novelty items, this is, well, just exactly what it looks like. A seven scoop cone of ice-creamery goodness. Mmmmm, tasty!
Oh, please forgive the banner cycling by the way… I’m trying something new! I may be testing for a couple of days, so please forgive the icky designs til I work out something just right.
Today has been a long day, made no shorter by the fact that something made me rather grumbley earlier on in the day. That aside though… this is a new release in the Sanu store. My group yesterday, after me handing out a freebie, went into a bit of a discussion about gummy bears. Radio, the incredibly talented owner of Scribble, went ‘you know… I can make gummy bears’, so we put our heads together and came up with some stuff.
Something inside me squeals out in delight when it comes to combining the intricately detailed scrollwork I put into my most elaborate pieces with something as (lets face it) patently rediculous as gummy bears. I think just about anyone can take a gummy bear and do raver jewelry and so forth with it – I think it takes a special hand to turn it into something not only fun, but can also be admired on more than the 2-second novelty value it provides because it is, well, made with gummy bears. Does that make sense? Say what you will, I don’t think everybody can do it… so I feel special, because I think I have.
That’s not to say, by the way, that I don’t absolutely love full on novelty stuff (why the hell would I say that? Half my store is dedicated to it!) but yeah… its nice to try and push the envelope a little to create something super special with that touch of something unique in it at the same time – not just jewelry, not just novelty… a little of both. Like my tiniest bunneh monocles, of which I have produced a few.
This is the special rainbow set, now available in the lucky chair. After all, gummy bears and rainbows do just seem right together, don’t they? Sanu: taking virtual food to a whole new level.
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