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Two Weeks Notice

Posted by Helen Killer

72 comments

Magic Spinner Production Schedule

WEEK ONE:

MONDAY: Find CD
TUESDAY: Play CD; decide if want to keep
WEDNESDAY: Find new CD
THURSDAY: Organize mirrors
FRIDAY: Organize beads
SATURDAY: Organize other objects
SUNDAY: 6:30 showing of “Did You Hear About the Morgans”

WEEK TWO:

MONDAY: Brainstorm
TUESDAY: Find fishing line and scissors
WEDNESDAY: Attach mirrors
THURSDAY: Attach beads
FRIDAY: Attach other objects
SATURDAY: Post office
SUNDAY: BREATHE

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Dec 15, 2009
2:17 pm

#1 Monstrosa :

Damn! Not enough time to order a dozen Twilight ones for the tree.

Rate this comment: +70

Dec 15, 2009
2:17 pm

#2 Kelly :

I would totally get a Say What? spinner. However, having my best friends face rotating in the air like a shiny record is kinda scary.

Rate this comment: +42

Dec 15, 2009
2:20 pm

#3 Recovering Crack Baby :

Only meth heads and crackheads would attach a mirror to a CD with a bunch of fucked up beads and pictures.
I am highly curious as to what the pictures of thoughts look like- on a magical spinner.

Rate this comment: +24

Dec 15, 2009
2:21 pm

#4 NinjaGato :

A CD with a mirror, beads, and a picture crazy glued to it. For $45. BREATHE NINJAGATO BREATHE!

Rate this comment: +51

Dec 15, 2009
2:22 pm

#5 DucksNew :

Cluttering tabletops and walls? Seller has never heard of digital photo frames, I guess.

Rate this comment: +17

Dec 15, 2009
2:22 pm

#6 myrab :

Sound spooky? YES!

Rate this comment: +38

Dec 15, 2009
2:24 pm

#7 whatsupnow :

I think my best friend would think I was nuts and I’m pretty sure she’d run away screaming if I bought one of these with her picture on.

Rate this comment: +36

Dec 15, 2009
2:24 pm

#8 Recovering Crack Baby :

$40.00 for Dope plus
$5.00 for Supplies =

Magical “Spinners”….

Rate this comment: +84

Dec 15, 2009
2:24 pm

#9 martini :

BREATHE! Your brain isn’t getting enough oxygen…

Rate this comment: +37

Dec 15, 2009
2:29 pm

#10 smurfy12b :

Wait…there are 5 in stock! So it takes TWO WEEKS to hot glue ‘my best friends’ pic in there? Ay yi yi! Okay, Breathe Smurfy, breathe!

Rate this comment: +13

Dec 15, 2009
2:33 pm

#11 NinjaGato :

Upon a IMDB search of our fearless leader’s alter ego April, I discovered that she has numerous parts in “The Haunted World of El Superbeasto” Rob Zombie happens to be one of my most favoritest directors. I now have an (even bigger) girl boner for Helen.

Rate this comment: +13

Dec 15, 2009
2:35 pm

#12 fluffysue :

Love the description…I was wondering how it takes 2 weeks to stick a picture on a CD!

Rate this comment: +8

Dec 15, 2009
2:35 pm

#13 NinjaGato :

back to the topic at hand-
what the holy fuck is this?
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=36350657

Rate this comment: +9

Dec 15, 2009
2:35 pm

#14 surlygrl1969 :

What I imagine is my best friend kicking my ass for having her picture glued to 2 to 5 ft of poorly crafted “magical spinners” made from beads and fishing wire. It’ll be “magical” if she manages to get $45 bucks for this shit!

Rate this comment: +22

Dec 15, 2009
2:36 pm

#15 NinjaGato :

or this
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=32153295

Rate this comment: +14

Dec 15, 2009
2:37 pm

#16 NinjaGato :

but mostly this
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31334641

Rate this comment: +16

Dec 15, 2009
2:38 pm

#17 HermesGoddess :

This can’t be for real.

Rate this comment: +5

Dec 15, 2009
2:39 pm

#18 surlygrl1969 :

@NinjaGato- did you notice she says her “best” work comes from “accidents”? That’s for DAMN sure!

Rate this comment: +18

Dec 15, 2009
2:43 pm

#19 Purple :

The one she shows in her listing uses a key to weight it down at the bottom. Not a pretty antique key, it looks more like the key you might steal from your kid’s bike lock. Klassy.

Rate this comment: +17

Dec 15, 2009
2:44 pm

#20 CantNotWontNot :

#15 NinjaGato :
…
from the description ” Like most of my work-the best stuff comes out of the ‘accidents’ ”

I’m glad she chose to share the shit that happened by accident… I don’t even want to see what she was TRYING to do…

Rate this comment: +22

Dec 15, 2009
2:46 pm

#21 Lennymud :

YAY! I’m getting this for a friend because it matches her home decor so perfectly: it hasn’t been easy finding frames that don’t clash with the tin foil on the walls.

Rate this comment: +38

Dec 15, 2009
2:49 pm

#22 Patty has been abuducted by an alien :

#20- the last accident I had is now 16 and a junior in high school.

Probably not the same thing the “artist” meant, I’m sure.

Rate this comment: +24

Dec 15, 2009
2:50 pm

#23 popodog :

from her bio:
“Favorite Materials
Used CDs…found objects, stuff I was told to throw away, sea glass I found on the beach, glitter…shiny stuff, rocks, sand, cat food cans and tabs…”

An image is developing in my mind. This image involves 73 cats, a trailer, and the local health authorities.

Rate this comment: +75

Dec 15, 2009
2:52 pm

#24 sillymerricat :

I wouldn’t even hang this up if my kid made it. I love HK’s recap of the two week turn around!!

If these were only $5, I would buy one just to find out what CDs were used. I’m curious!

Rate this comment: +7

Dec 15, 2009
2:52 pm

#25 ThisJustMakesMeSad :

I hear in the 70’s people used to get together to smoke some stuff and pop a few pills, then they laid back and stared at a disco ball for a few hours – - it had the same effect.

Rate this comment: +8

Dec 15, 2009
2:54 pm

#26 popodog :

#23…

Oh, and lots of those oil drums. You know, the kind you can fit a hitchiker into as long as he is properly folded and rigor hasn’t set in yet.

Rate this comment: +25

Dec 15, 2009
2:57 pm

#27 Skully :

“Imagine me taking beaded necklaces (earned by showing my jugs at Mardi Gras), tying them to a foil covered Michael Bolton CD, slapping on a photo of your friend, selling you this mess for $45, then making you wait 2 weeks for it. Sound spooky?”

YES!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Rate this comment: +37

Dec 15, 2009
3:00 pm

#28 NinjaGato :

18 and 20

How does an “accident” turn into a train wreck?

Rate this comment: +11

Dec 15, 2009
3:01 pm

#29 NinjaGato :

there needs to be a category for items made by unabashed hoarders.

Rate this comment: +18

Dec 15, 2009
3:06 pm

#30 GreedySkunk :

“…a better way to display your favorite photos without cluttering up your tabletops and walls.”

So it’s better that they are all hanging two to five feet from the ceiling like bedazzled spiderwebs of junk? When I think of my friends and loved ones, I like to think of them wrapped in cocoons of shiny shit as their desiccated, arachnid-drained corpses wack me in the eye as I go by.

Rate this comment: +46

Dec 15, 2009
3:09 pm

#31 methuselah :

Are they weather-resistant? Cuz they might be fun for target practice.

Rate this comment: +10

Dec 15, 2009
3:12 pm

#32 bootsychoo :

It takes 2 weeks because she actually DOES use her feet.

Rate this comment: +39

Dec 15, 2009
3:17 pm

#33 Saraf :

this one is actually made out of the cat food cans. Cat food cans people. CAT FOOD CANS.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=32590395

Rate this comment: +26

Dec 15, 2009
3:25 pm

#34 angatdorotheas :

cat food cans and CD’s to balance on your SCANCE no less. last time I tried to balance on my scance it resulted in sprains for 2 people and some really embarrassing pictures on FaceBook….

Rate this comment: +18

Dec 15, 2009
3:25 pm

#35 everydaymama1 :

“Finally I know what to do with all of this stuff and the stuff has a purpose. Someone who saw my work at a market in New Orleans called it “repurposed art”. I like that”.

I think the purpose of all her crap was supposed to have been heaved into a bin and lit on fire!

And that person that commented on her stuff was obviously either on drugs themselves, or a figment of her deluded mind!

THIS STUFF PLAIN SUCKS!!

Rate this comment: -1

Dec 15, 2009
3:28 pm

#36 everydaymama1 :

Cat food cans? That just made me want to puke! Is this seller for real? I have said it before… There seriously needs to be a licence to use a glue gun. And this person needs to STOP making things. Go clean the trailer and pet the cats instead!

Rate this comment: +6

Dec 15, 2009
3:36 pm

#37 kittyofassisi :

$45??? God remember the crap the old ladies used to make out of bleach bottles & 1 liter soda bottles? At least no one had the nerve to charge $45 for them!

These are not even in the category of “Hey these are neat but I think I can make my own.”

Rate this comment: +13

Dec 15, 2009
3:38 pm

#38 jojo :

#15 NinjaGato : http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=32153295

Did you notice the (glue gun) glue all over the “reporpissed” artwork? At least have some sense to pick it off before you take the picture.

Rate this comment: +9

Dec 15, 2009
3:40 pm

#39 kittyofassisi :

Watch for her on “Hoarders”

Rate this comment: +21

Dec 15, 2009
3:41 pm

#40 angatdorotheas :

glue gun fail.

Rate this comment: +16

Dec 15, 2009
3:46 pm

#41 whoanellee :

“Sound spooky?” uh, hell yes it does.

Rate this comment: +8

Dec 15, 2009
3:47 pm

#42 whoanellee :

#3- I’m going to say that they look magical.

But that’s just a guess.

Rate this comment: +3

Dec 15, 2009
4:00 pm

#43 kittyofassisi :

OK so she has been hauling cat food cans around for 29 years? I’m so glad she found a use for them.

I once knew a gal who filled her attic with used margerine tubs. Maybe the magic spinner lady can suggest an artistic use for them.

Rate this comment: +15

Dec 15, 2009
4:04 pm

#44 kittyofassisi :

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=34778696

I wish I would have saved all those AOL cds that used to come in the mail. I could have made one of these.

Rate this comment: +17

Dec 15, 2009
4:05 pm

#45 Skully :

If she’d remember to breathe, it wouldn’t take her 2 weeks to make these. I’m guessing she passes out a lot.

Rate this comment: +24

Dec 15, 2009
4:13 pm

#46 starrydreams :

I can’t stop staring at it. Help me.

Rate this comment: +7

Dec 15, 2009
4:41 pm

#47 NinjaGato :

#44 kittyofassisi :
I used to microwave, light on fire and drive the car over the top of AOL cds. Lots of fun experiments on that shit.

Rate this comment: +3

Dec 15, 2009
4:43 pm

#48 HelenaHandbasket :

I’m guessing she’s a Huffer.

Rate this comment: +10

Dec 15, 2009
4:55 pm

#49 Recovering Crack Baby :

mariakramer- “Getting rid of shitty music one CD at a time.”

Once she rids the World of sucky bands and singers she will move to the instruments they used. Starting with accordians.

Rate this comment: +1

Dec 15, 2009
4:58 pm

#50 Recovering Crack Baby :

SKULLY- I laughed so hard I had to get out the inhaler………. it has been forever since I have heard a pair of breasts referred to as jugs.
BAH AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Dec 15, 2009
4:58 pm

#51 cratz :

I was just thinking that I don’t know if I can go on living in a world where someone thinks she’s making art out of cat food cans and where people might actually spend that much on the art from garbage, and then I noticed that she lives in New Orleans, which is where I live!!!!!!! Help me, Jesus!

Rate this comment: +8

Dec 15, 2009
5:13 pm

#52 Skully :

@#50 RCB: BREATHE

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Dec 15, 2009
5:30 pm

#53 triceratops :

She totally got that idea from STALKER.com

Rate this comment: 0

Dec 15, 2009
6:03 pm

#54 razberries :

my least favorite chore is washing out the wet cat food cans for recycling…P.U.

here are my thoughts on how this creation came to be…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27900808@N06/4188510137/

again, i have LOTS of time on my hands!

Rate this comment: +20

Dec 15, 2009
6:09 pm

#55 NinjaGato :

from the bio
“I am inspired by my 7 years of attending Burning Man.”
well that explains it.

Rate this comment: +17

Dec 15, 2009
6:11 pm

#56 angatdorotheas :

#55…..hahhahahahahahha….yes. YES.

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Dec 15, 2009
6:30 pm

#57 polaroidart :

I’m not into a girly sparkly tacky shiz like that..
now, if she had some Dart Boards, I’d send her
some of my ex-bff’s pics to slap on a board,
so I can trow darts at them..
heck, I’ll send her my present bff’s pic too!..

Wait..I can make that myself.

Rate this comment: +8

Dec 15, 2009
6:33 pm

#58 Recovering Crack Baby :

#54 razberries – that was grand- a round of applause for you

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Dec 15, 2009
6:51 pm

#59 razberries :

thank you, recovering crack baby

i feel i may as well waste time here and play in photoshop, rather than job hunt…this is so much more satisfying, hahaha

Rate this comment: +4

Dec 15, 2009
7:01 pm

#60 polaroidart :

I second #58 Recovering Crack Baby, rezberries.

Rate this comment: +6

Dec 15, 2009
7:04 pm

#61 babycuddlesbytiffany :

well I have about 100 old cd’s just laying around, think I’d get a discount for supplying the product? haha

Rate this comment: +8

Dec 15, 2009
8:26 pm

#62 WhimsyMistress :

Wow. “Next time, on Hoarders, on A&E.
…”THIS woman” (show pic of crazy, twitching, half-dressed woman with paint flecks all around her mouth and nose),
…”will NOT let go of THIS stuff” (shows interior shot of half-rusted old trailer, with CDs spilling over every surface, sink full of hot glue sticks, bags of Michael’s and Hobby Lobby craft beads spilling out of every open doorway, the main room packed to the rafters with tinsel, twine, glitter and more CDs…) (cont.)

Rate this comment: +9

Dec 15, 2009
8:28 pm

#63 WhimsyMistress :

(Cont.) … “even though it’s about to cost her all of her cats ” (shows frowning Animal Control Officer writing lady a citation and gesturing at several matted, filthy cats twining about her ankles)
…”and her house” (shows frowning Health Dept. Official waving in a demolition bulldozer).
…Cut to woman saying “This is my ART STUDIO. All this creative clutter is part of my PROCESS! THey are trying to stop me from making a LIVING!!!!!”

Rate this comment: +12

Dec 15, 2009
9:36 pm

#64 PussDaddy :

My best friend is already dizzy, the biatch doesn’t need any spinning help.

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Dec 16, 2009
5:51 am

#65 kittenmittens :

Guess what? You can actually recycle CDs at Best Buy. So after you get one of these for your Christmas (or Hanukkah, etc.)you can GET RID OF IT the way it should have been disposed of in the first place!

Rate this comment: +5

Dec 16, 2009
6:58 am

#66 whyohwhy :

Damn, why $45? If the seller made this $8.00 or less, I’d order it for the magical experience and the finished product.

Rate this comment: +2

Dec 16, 2009
8:22 am

#67 marn :

she could learn a bit about can-tab art here:

http://tabistry.blogspot.com/

Rate this comment: +4

Dec 16, 2009
11:01 am

#68 verysage :

“I am obsessed with CDs, lotus flowers and mandelas.”

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=36351797

Either she’s not sufficiently obsessed with mandalas to know how to spell it right, or there is some very scary Apartheid-inspired cat food can “art” in our near future.

Rate this comment: +5

Dec 16, 2009
1:10 pm

#69 mamaslittlemonkeys :

Ahh crap a New Orleans “artisan”…sigh.

Rate this comment: +1

Dec 16, 2009
6:20 pm

#70 aroseisarose :

@49…Except for Weird Al!

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Dec 29, 2009
12:38 pm

#71 Magischer Esel :

“I save cat food cans” – No shit.

“These magnets are meant to display on a metal suface.” – as opposed to wood.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=32153295

Rate this comment: 0

Jan 8, 2010
4:57 am

#72 kittykat181818 :

There are two ghastly scenarios possible here, one even more terrible than the other. First, this “artist” could be aware that her work is shit and likes to scam people with the ridiculous prices. That is horrible, but even worse is the second reality. This woman, judging by her bio, seems to really believe that she is a kitchy, artsy, creative person with a good idea that people actually desire. That is far more terrifying. And very annoying at the same time.

Rate this comment: +2