Pollinator Frocks Are Wearable Gardens That Attract, Feed Hungry Bees…Uhhh, WTF?
Artist Karen Ingham, with the help of technologists at the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating, has developed Pollinator Frocks, a limited edition, unisex clothing collection made from specially designed textiles that have been treated with a “nectar-like” solution. The wearable food trucks *cough* I mean dresses will, allegedly, keep bees and other pollinators fed [...]
52 Letters, 52 Weeks Challenge–Letter #1
Check out this fabulous, enameled and bejeweled, bee-shaped pill box my friend Stephanie sent me for, oh, no good reason. She’s definitely tuned into my psychic radio station, because I know I’ve never mentioned to her that I’ve been looking for a pill box to replace the grubby little Tupperware container I’ve been carrying around [...]
We Got An Annenberg Foundation Grant For Our Beekeeping Film!
This is the best email I’ve gotten all year! from: annenbergfoundation.org to: my roman apartment date: Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:23 PM subject: Intended grant on behalf of the Metabolic Studio Dear Max, On behalf of the Metabolic Studio and Annenberg Foundation Director, I am delighted to advise you that the Foundation intends to [...]
Looking Haggard & Old in the New York Times
Today, for the first time ever, my image is gracing the pages of the New York Times! My sister collects unflattering photographs of me. This collection dates back to our childhood. In art school, she used her collection of unflattering photographs as the basis for all her work. (When I showed up at her graduation [...]
ABC 7 News Interviews My Bees About Backyard Beekeeping In Los Angeles
Last Thursday Alysha Del Valle from ABC 7 News came over to my house to interview me as part of a story on backyard beekeeping. Naturally, it started pouring down rain during the interview. And you know, bees just love being cold and wet about as much as they like being eaten alive by a [...]
My Beekeeping Article Was Published in The MWA Newsletter
Tonight I was a guest speaker at my neighborhood association meeting. I was invited to talk to a group of forty neighbors about the benefits of urban beekeeping. Can I just mention how awesome my neighbors are? They are so amazing. While most neighborhood associations are all about enforcing neighborhood convenants against clothes lines, edible [...]
Queen Bee Assassination By Honey Bee Kill Squad!
FRED SAVE THE QUEEN! A fellow organic beekeeper, Fred, posted this amazing video on YouTube. Background for non-beeks: “Balling” is the beekeeping term for “assassinating the Head of State.” When bees decide to commit regicide and bump off the queen bee for whatever reason, they form the bee version of a firing squad (so everyone [...]
