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I’VE BEEN PERCOLATING

My kinda Klimt-ish carousel

I was wandering the virtual isles of the App Store and came across Percolator. It’s a photo app that transforms images so they appear to be made up of a variety of circles, rings, bubbles, and even stars! The app takes on the theme of a coffee maker that brews different filters. There are so many possible variations; it’s kept me occupied for hours. Check out my images below along with the recipe used to create the effects.

Recipe for image above:

Grind: Fine (Smallest Circles & Effect: Saturate), Brew: Treble (3/4 Pic & Darkest Blended Circles), Serve: Light & Sweet (Candy Stripe Tone & Smooth Texture)

Become a constellation

Recipe:

Grind: Fine (Average Circles & Effect: Auto Adjust), Brew: Full of Stars (1/2 Pic & Full Blended Circles), Serve: Black (Sad Hipster Tone & Paper Cup Texture)

That’s me made up of rings

Recipe:

Grind: Fine (Smallest Circles & Effect: Saturate), Brew: Rings (No Pic & Full Blended Circles), Serve: Black (Cross-Perc Tone & Smooth Texture)

Circles

Recipe:

Grind: Medium (Average Circles & Effect: Auto Adjust), Brew: Color Gels (1/2 Pic & Full Blended Circles), Serve: Stirred (Cross-Perc Tone & Smooth Texture)

What are your favorite photo apps?!

PANTONE, POM POMS AND FEATHERS

I spent most of my weekend locked up by myself working on some new Hysteric Haus designs. It was pretty frustrating, but I was able to come up with sketches of some new stuff. Picking colors is always the hardest part..there are so many possibilities! Sometimes the Pantone book makes it more difficult….

I did happen to notice that my nail polish, “Did It On ‘Em” by OPI is a close match to Pantone 381 U.

Playing with color combinations.

I like to use pom poms as a color reference due to their texture. They can help me visualize how something may look in material form, as opposed to a coated Pantone chip.

I have also been using feathers to help me see color in a more textural way. Plus, it makes things more exciting!

LISTENING TO COLOR

Figure at Night Guided by the Phosphorescent Tracks of Snails

Joan Miro 1940

I’ve been listening to classical music lately during my hellish commutes through Southern California. I find it turns an average, uninteresting drive into an epic journey through time.  I live in a fantasy land in my brain and orchestrated music, classical or not,  always gets my imagination flowing. A mild form of synesthesia kicks in and sounds turn into colors and colors turn into feelings. It’s quite overwhelming at times; but awesome nonetheless.

On my drive the other day, listening to  KUSC 91.5, they played Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Being a  mild Woody Allen fan, I instantly thought of the opening scene from Manhattan. Once I got over that imagery, as cliché as it sounds, I got lost in the music. The moodiness of the composition evoked  shades of blue, violets and grays.

This  got me thinking about music in relation to our designs for Hysteric Haus. So I asked myself: If my brand were a musical act, who would it be? What does Hysteric Haus sound like?

  

Organized chaos comes to mind. Chaos along the lines of Boredoms, OOIOO, Deerhoof, M.I.A. .

Experimental/psychedelic/tribal/colorful cacophony.

Maybe that’s a bit ambitious-but I like the way it sounds.

HYSTERIC HAUS THROUGH IPHONE

I was going through my iPhone photos and came across these random images from the past year. Most of them have been altered using the  Picture Show app. I’m not really into Instagram. It makes pictures look too dull for my taste. These pictures are a pretty accurate look into the world of Hysteric Haus.

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HYSTERIC HAUS IN ACTION

Photos from our shoot with Julie Klima! This is one of my favorites…I could barely get off the ground! We’re working on developing a press kit and a new website…so we needed some professional photos.

We’re busy printing some new Webwom pillows in new color ways! This print is pretty popular, so I’m excited that it’s back in production.

Preparing to print…burning the design onto the screens. Ho makes it happen.

We’re also designing some new marketing materials for an exciting opportunity we were invited to take part in. More details to come…

Ice cream break!

Hysteric Haus has some exciting things coming up…this should be an interesting year!


CUTE AND COLORFUL

I’ve been playing around with my new camera! Ho bought me a Canon Power Shot S100 for Christmas. I know nothing about cameras-but I really like this one. It’s simple to use and takes really good pictures.

Chubby Bunny Michelle selling her accessories at Royal/T this past Wednesday.

Hanging out at Royal/T. We were responding to an insane email that should keep Hysteric Haus quite busy for the next few weeks….

Lavender nails, purple sequins and kitsch rings. ‘Cuz that’s my steeze.

 

THE HYSTERIC HAUS BOOTH @ UNIQUE LA

We were very pleased with our booth this time around….it was very bright, open and textural.  AND we had plastic, wood and fuzzy walls!

Hysteric Haus picture frames debuted at this show…people liked them-we had to keep replenishing our stock!

The pillows really pop against the white walls. Our super sexy white flooring also does wonders for the overall effect.

It’s true! Our products are made locally with lots of love.

Lucky cats always travel with us.

Plastic Surgery sold out at the show! More will be produced within the next few weeks.

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WOOD WALLS AND PICTURE FRAMES

3 DAYS ‘TIL UNIQUE LA.

Now that Horacio is back, we’ve been able to get some of the more difficult projects completed. The wood is going to be part of a wall for our booth display…we calculated and cut the planks to be varying heights and alternating colors. It looked good in my head…

I’m excited to see the result.

We also finished cutting, sanding and painting the wood picture frames. Now they just need to be screen printed and assembled.

GO TEAM HYSTERIC!