I made some tapes:
Sweatshirt for Maggie's brother:
Sweatshirt for Nandini:
San Francisco sweatshirt step 1:
step 2:
step 3:
In Beaumont:
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tapes and sweatshirts
Saturday, December 26, 2009
take me as I am
I rode in a plane from New York to Los Angeles yesterday on Christmas. Along the way I finally realized why it's called the "Airtrain" (it goes to the airport). It was weird to be traveling so far in five hours, the same distance it took three months to go on a bicycle. I was last in California on April 15, 8 months and 10 days ago. 11 days now. I have never felt the need to take a picture out of the window of a plane before. Here the plane is descending into the L.A. basin:
It is also weird to not feel very busy, I haven't had more than one day off in a row in a few months now and so many of my projects are stuck in New York.
Downtown Los Angeles as seen from an airplane:
Monday, December 21, 2009
Central Park Snowtown
I got there around 3 o'clock but the sun is already setting around that time.
A snowman.
There were many people out and about.
So many trees!
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Snow!
It snowed today and stuck for the first time (it snowed last week but it had been raining before so it just melted). Here are some pictures from the store and the walk home, it's supposed to snow more tonight!
Outside the store right after it started, there is no snow on the ground in the foreground because that is where the basement of the store is under the sidewalk and so the snow melted there.
Dylan sprinkling salt.
Bleecker playground after work.
Snow bikes at home.
Monday, December 14, 2009
More Sweatshirts and other pictures
Empire State Building + Snowflakes
Snowflake
Yellow
CDs waiting for takeoff, I like how the glare in the first one looks like the headlight of the train.
Lights at night in w-burg
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
One More Thin Gypsy Thief
New album is done, copies will be mailed out as soon as they exist if you want to hold one in your hand. Otherwise it is online for you to download. If anyone wants to download a lossless version let me know and I can put that up too.
1. A Steady Hand
2. Don't Say A Thing
3. One More Thin Gypsy Thief
4. L Train, L Train
5. Lord of Pipestone
6. Tourist Town
7. If It's Not Love
8. So Mixed Up
9. The River
10. So Hard To Say Goodbye
11. Restless Man
Download the whole thing here (V0 Mp3, 48mb .zip file).
or here (128 kbps Mp3)
All songs by Patrick Weaver except "Lord of Pipestone" by Everything in Pen. "A Steady Hand" contains portions of "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Flannery O'Connor and Macbeth by William Shakespeare, "One More Thin Gypsy Thief" contains portions of "Famous Blue Raincoat" by Leonard Cohen, "Tourist Trap" contains portions of "Carey" by Joni Mitchell, "If It's Not Love" contains portions of "Ask" by the Smiths, "The River" contains portions of "The River" by Flannery O'Connor and "Suzanne" by Leonard Cohen. Recorded December 4 and 5, 2009 at the Opera House, Brooklyn, NY. Thanks to Naomi, Maggie, the Nuclears and Rebecca.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Gone, Gone, Gone
I made a new album, I put two songs on myspace. The whole thing will be online and I will mail out copies when the final version is ready in a few days.
www.myspace.com/thepatrickweavers
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Backpack exchange club and snowflakes
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Clouds
I have been spending a lot of time making sweatshirts with clouds on them. More to come!
This was the first one:
Thunder!
I may have gotten a little too complex on this one:
Blue:
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Thanksgiving and Christmas Decorations
The time has come for the thanksgiving decorations to come down and the christmas decorations to go up! Here are some pictures of both of them:
One of my hand turkeys:
Frank did this one I like it a lot:
A vegetarian turkey:
Jess's Turkey with a pilgrim hat:
A hand shaped slice of turkey:
One day I brought some construction paper in:
A snow turkey:
After Halloween we turned Frankenstein into a pilgrim:
Now he is Franken-claus:
The hand reindeer idea turned out more like a dinosaur:
Everyone gets a santa hat:
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Gluten Free, Soy Free, Corn Free, Vegan Apple Pie
I'm going to thanksgiving with my friend who recently found out that a gluten allergy had triggered a number of other allergies and so she is basically allergic to everything. Soo, I decided to try to make a pie that she could eat. The crust recipe was loosely based on this one but I had to add a few restrictions. The biggest hurdle was actually the butter/shortening substitute since most "vegetable oil" and vegan butter substitutes are just soybean oil (even Vegan, Soy Free Earth Balance contains "Natural Flavors (derived from corn).
Pie Crust Recipe:
2 cups rice flour
1 cup potato starch
1 cup plantain flour
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 apple cider vinegar
1 mashed banana
1/2 cup pure creamed coconut
1/2 cup olive oil
ice water as needed
Before starting with the dry ingredients I needed to turn the olive oil and coconut oil into something resembling butter. I chopped up the coconut into small pieces and blended it with the olive oil until it became a milkshake like liquid. Then I put it in the freezer for about half an hour and . . . butter substitute! I combined all of the dry ingredients (flours, sugar, salt, cinnamon) and mixed them in a bowl, then added the banana (egg substitute) and vinegar, then I added small chunks of the coconut/olive oil mixture and cut the dough with knives until the coconut/oil was in pea sized pieces. Next I added the water a little bit at a time until it was a nice consistency (just like a normal pie!).
Rolling out the dough was kind of a mess since it didn't hold together very well but I was able to get it into the pie tin without it falling apart too much by rolling it out on plastic wrap and then putting it between that and a cutting board and flipping it into the tin. I made a lattice for the top crust which turned out delightfully sloppy.
For the filling I filled the crust with sliced apples and poured a mixture of olive oil, sugar and a little bit of water over it. I probably should have added a little bit of potato starch which I was going to do but then forgot.
I baked the pie at 425 for 10 minutes and then turned it down to 350 for 50 more minutes, about halfway through the baking when I checked it I realized that there was a lot of liquid sitting inside (probably not forgetting to add some kind of starch to the filling would have helped this) so I carefully poured out some of the liquid.
I haven't tried it yet but it looks great and the pieces of the crust I broke off tasted great!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Christina visits from NOLA on the way to Poughkeepsie
Last weekend my friend Christina came for a day visit, we made it to all 5 boroughs, the Met, the MOMA, Central Park, Washington Square Park, my work, got pizza and bagels in one day!
Saturday, September 26, 2009
A trip to the Upper West Side
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