michael james armstrong » adapta project

thread show, san diego – august 17th

Michael James Armstrong — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:22:05 +0000

artists and fashion designers pair up and create.

and oh yeah, me and trista’s piece is badass.

published!

Michael James Armstrong — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:08:10 +0000

back in may i was asked to do an interview about Adapta Project for Where Traveler. if you’re unfamiliar (as i was) with Where, they are a travel info publisher who puts out books, magazines, and maps. as i say, i wasn’t really familiar with what they do, so i was expecting the article to be in a magazine…

instead it was in a nice, glossy paged, hardcover book. cool! apparently the article is in one of their “guestbooks” which is published annually(?). the guestbook is basically a travel guide all about touristy stuff to do while in san diego – dining, clubs, museums, and so on – and it’s distributed to hotels and such in the san diego area.

anyway, here’s the cover:

looking inside the book, and towards the middle, we get to the intro spread of the article. that’s a photo of the san diego tijuana border – the article is about how adapta is bringing tijuana and san diego artists together in an effort to gain attention and recognition of the growing art scenes in both these border cities.

turn the page and on the left you see a picture that was taken at adapta’s show Army of icons at the san diego childrens museum, and on the right is a piece by artist and adapta member Jorge Tellaeche

turn the page again and your hit in the face with a full page of arrow deco. man, i wasn’t expecting to be so prominently featured. and on the right is a photo of 2 of my pieces from adapta’s Phantasmagoria show back in august of last year (has it been that long?).

thanks to the adapta trio (jorge, jaime, and kinsee) for being such a supporter of my work, and to Where’s mark hiss for the full page eye candy.

thread show san diego

Michael James Armstrong — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:46:51 +0000

thanks to the lovely guy and dolls of adapta project, my dame and i are participating in the upcoming thread show on august 17th. i’m designing, she’s making. pictures in 2 weeks!

arrow deco club chair

Michael James Armstrong — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:23:50 +0000

ok, i’ve been lazy to upload lately. however, as promised, here are the chair photos from the “subjects and thrones” chair show. i’ve included photos from the process of making the chair. since i was so crunched for time i didn’t get to document every step of the construction. i built the chair in 2 weeks. which meant a lot of sleepless nights and forgetting to bring the camera to the studio. and even when i did bring the camera i would still forget to document certain steps because i was blazing through the construction trying to get it done in time. anyway, click the photo below to go to my flickr page and see the rest. i’ve put descriptions for each photo so you can see the process of building the chair.

subjects and thrones

Michael James Armstrong — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:31:34 +0000

here’s a video of the chair i made for the “subjects and thrones” show. the show was put on by adapta project and was located at basile studio, which is connected to the guild restaurant in barrio logan, san diego. this was shot on the day after the opening reception. the first night was packed, a really good turnout. i shot video that first night as well, but there were too many people in the way of the chairs to see them.

in typical san diego fashion, no one sold a damn thing. there were a few really good chairs there though. the two i point out in the video were my favorites. the white, light chair was made by jason wilmot of yesca studio. coincidentally, he had a chair in another show i did a few years ago. the other chair was made by joey vaiasuso of the wood fx gallery. he makes really good stuff.

anyway, the video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

making of photos coming soon

building a chair

Michael James Armstrong — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:54:55 +0000

i know, i know, it’s been awhile. but i’ve been busy trying to build this chair:

(ignore the circle design in the top left corner – it has nothing to do with the chair)

i should have it finished in 2 weeks, just in time for MY NEXT SHOW

i’ll post the finished product and pics from the show after the 30th.