Friend Etsy on Youtube & Blip.tv | Subscribe to Etsy’s iTunes Podcast As 2009 comes to a close, we here at the blog are taking time to reflect on an exciting year in video for Etsy. We met and collaborated with many incredibly talented Etsy artists and had a chance to delve deeper into who they are and what… Continue reading
Malcolm Felder, the talent behind the one man band Lineland, just completed a month long tour with partner in crime Animal Hospital. I was lucky enough to see Lineland live at Monkeytown in Brooklyn, NY. For the shows, Malcolm created six unique experimental music videos, which he projected and played along to. Monkeytown’s venue is… Continue reading
Nicole Georges 5/1/09 from cat on Vimeo.
Nicole Georges, a.k.a. Spinstersummer, has been making zines since she was thirteen. Her ongoing autobiographical zine Invincible Summer is about bands, relationships, animals, vegan food and beehived hairdos. Nicole’s Etsy shop is full of goodies, from fun zines to stuffed sock monkeys, narwhals and queer animals calendars. The animal lovers pet portraits and illustrations are… Continue reading
MP4| Youtube | Blip.tv| Subscribe in iTunes (music by The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, Jukeboxer, The Fucking Champs, The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight) This article was originally published on May 13, 2008. We are reviving it as part of the Best of the Storque series. Enjoy! Gabe Molnar of 1AEON says his designs often… Continue reading
MP4| Youtube | Blip.tv| Subscribe in iTunes (Music by Matt Hopper) East Nashville artist Agnes Barton-Sabo aka Betty Turbo is all about cupcakes and moustaches! Agnes grew up in Alaska with an artistic family. Mom was an incredible seamstress who made matching outfits for Agnes and her dolls. Dad was an art history professor fascinated… Continue reading
MP4| Youtube | Blip.tv| Subscribe in iTunes In early May I went to Barren Plains, Tennessee to visit James Peters, a luthier and Etsy seller Armor Guitars. He plys a trade after my own heart, as a fellow woodworker, though I’ve yet to muster the patience required to build a fine instrument. I remember when… Continue reading
Sweetestpea, a maker of enticingly round plush stuffed animals, visited us down at the Etsy Labs. Jen calls her line of plump ones “Zooguu,” and you can see some of them in the related items below (as well as some of her favorite Etsy toymaker compatriots). She was brave enough to get in the “cardboard… Continue reading
