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JackBear Stamps: February 2015
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Saturday, February 7, 2015. WXXI Arts in Focus Feature on JackBear Stamps (behind the scenes). The story begins at the Rochester Mini Maker Faire. My friend Dan Bentley, who makes the most incredible robot sculptures called Retrobots. Had his 'bots on display near my table. We were passing time as we waited for the doors to open. He mentioned that he had been approached by WXXI. About being featured on a new program that would be called Arts in Focus. After about an hour of talking, we moved over to the ...
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JackBear Stamps: Art in a Cart
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014. Art in a Cart. Imagine an artisan of old pushing around a cart from village to village full of his handmade wares. He peddles the treasures to welcoming faces who have never seen the likes inside the borders of that their town. Screeeeeeeech! Wait, that isn't how this is supposed to start. The story begins with an opportunity. At the University of Rochester the student commons is called Wilson Commons. Who could provide such handmade goods? Who could work on such a small scale?
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JackBear Stamps: December 2012
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012. The Holiday shopping season is in full gear now. We are past Black Friday. Cyber Monday is passed. Still need some gifts? I know I still have some to buy. I have been trying hard this year to find some handmade items for the gifts I am giving. It has been harder for the little ones, but so far have been doing OK for the adults. Definitely a work in progress. If you are like me, and live in Rochester, there is still hope! The first is a Holiday Shopping Fair. Watermark templat...
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JackBear Stamps: February 2014
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Thursday, February 6, 2014. Olympics = televised CURLING! I have been curling for ten years. That's not much, but for those of us in the USA who are curlers, that isn't insignificant either. Most of us didn't grow up in a curling environment. I also live in New York state, which I believe has four dedicated curling rinks statewide. Finding curlers is like finding endangered pandas. So in honor of curlers worldwide, I have listed some items in my shop for curlers, or friends of curlers. Whatever the reaso...
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JackBear Stamps: Scraps to Stamps
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Monday, October 27, 2014. Over the last six year of JackBear Stamps, I have carved hundreds of stamps. I haven't counted lately, but I'm confident it's over 500, maybe higher. In the course of carving an image, I generate a fair amount of scrap (that's "crap" with an "s"). As you can see from my old pistachio containers pictured, it comes in all shapes and sizes. Some of my letterboxing. Carvers think back to the days they carved on this material like they think back on their favorite Christmas present f...
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JackBear Stamps: May the 4th B w/ U
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Monday, May 4, 2015. May the 4th B w/ U. Ah, May 4th. Star Wars day. May the fourth be with you. Only geeks would come up with this stuff (myself included). It is so cheesy it's tasty. In honor of Star Wars Day, and in anticipation of the upcoming Episode 7, the Force Awakens, I have posted a few photo's of rubber stamps that I carved for letterboxes several years ago. Can you tell my favorite movie was Episode 4? Now go check out my sister's blog. And her works of art she posted for Star Wars day.
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JackBear Stamps: May 2012
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Thursday, May 10, 2012. I found this great new podcast a few weeks ago when looking for something new to listen to. It's called the Etsy Conversations Podcast. I have been looking for a long time for a podcast like this one, and was excited when it popped up on my search a few weeks ago. After catching up on the three episodes that were already posted, I emailed the host, Angela Holden. She was excited, and I was excited, so we "skyped" last week and laid down the tracks. It was really fun! On my iPod) .
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JackBear Stamps: April 2013
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Mayday Underground, Spring 2013 Wrap-up. It is hard to describe my excitement when I was setting up my booth at Mayday Underground Art Craft. This past Saturday at the Village Gate. The other artisans setting up were just an amazing peer group to be affiliated with. All have such vision and creativity. I humbled to set up alongside them. The way I have things packaged, it isn't obvious. Something I need to work on. Sales were brisk for a spring show. Not my strongest Mayday s...
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JackBear Stamps: May 2013
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Thursday, May 9, 2013. Guitar Effect Pedals and Rubber Stamps? OK, I'll admit, I am not a musician. I quit trombone in the sixth grade. So when Terry T. at Push Pull Pedals contacted me about getting a stamp of the Sputnik space probe I didn't know what he was doing with it. Afterwards I saw a picture of it on his facebook. There is was. With kickass LEDs and everything. So I began to appreciate what it looked like (and man did it look sharp), but what did it do? As posted by Youtube user Brett Kingman.
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JackBear Stamps: WXXI Arts in Focus Feature on JackBear Stamps (behind the scenes)
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Saturday, February 7, 2015. WXXI Arts in Focus Feature on JackBear Stamps (behind the scenes). The story begins at the Rochester Mini Maker Faire. My friend Dan Bentley, who makes the most incredible robot sculptures called Retrobots. Had his 'bots on display near my table. We were passing time as we waited for the doors to open. He mentioned that he had been approached by WXXI. About being featured on a new program that would be called Arts in Focus. After about an hour of talking, we moved over to the ...
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