How-To: Sew a Feather Mowhawk

Matt Borgatti writes:

Do you need to achieve maximum stopping power at a party? Perhaps something striking for the burn? Or possibly it's just a few extra inches of height? Regardless, a feather mohawk is a powerful statement of your inner awesomeness manifested on your head for all to see. They're pretty easy to make and inexpensive if you know where to get the materials.

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Junk Mail Portraits

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Artist Sandhi Schimmel Gold creates these stunning pop art portraits from junk mail.

My work reflects our society's obsession with beauty through advertising - and the endless images that bombard us daily. It is a purposeful intermix of images derived from advertising and thousands of incongruent pieces - images and text - from advertising that arrives through my mailbox. Assembled like a mosaic; the paper tiles create an entirely new image - an eclectic and tactile portrait reworked in my imagination, utilizing materials that would otherwise go to waste.

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