Insect Lab

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Sean and I were wondering about the history of the minute hand on clock faces and that somehow led me to Mike Libby's unbelievably cool Insect Lab: Insect Lab is an artist studio that customizes real insects with antique watch parts and electronic components. Offering specimens that come in many shapes, ...

Curators’ Favorites

Monday, October 8th, 2007

The Washington Post ran a special "Museums" section on October 7th, and in the featured article, "Curators' Favorites: No Cookie-Cutter Ideas Here" they asked local curators what some of their favorite objects are. This article met the definition of being phoned-in in every sense of the phrase. All ...

Pazuzu!

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Steve Kutcher dips insects feet in paint and encourages them to leave their footprints on canvas. I'd seen vague mentions of Pasadena, California's Armory Arts Center's Bugology exhibit, which it turns out Kutcher participated in. He doesn't appear to work with ants, but I haven't delved that far into his ...

Kolos Designs

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Goshdarnknit sent the ants a nice link to Kolos Designs. They make silver and lucite jewelry with real insects. Pretty.

#1 fan!

Friday, June 1st, 2007

The ants had a serious fan and I just had to immortalize him here. He was a contributer, conservator, and one-man PR team. (I don't like to post kid's names without parental permission, so we'll just call him Ant Dude for now).

this art makes me itchy

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007



the antomatic story

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (specifically: Washington, DC, 2005), George Koch and I were doing a little roadshow to try to entice different groups to partner with Artomatic to help the event grow and adapt and flourish. At the same time, I was obsessed with ...

my 1st 10 list

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Sean has started compiling his Top 10 list and I giggled to see I'd made the list. He even has a picture of the ants. I need help from a Real Photographer to try to capture the ants for posterity, but I'm working on it. Also, it has ...