Freebie Wallpaper for New Years Fun

Better late than never, but I wanted to give all of my friends a chance to download the wallpaper version of the calendar collaboration of mine and Kyle Phillips for the month of January. We are making a new yearly tradition of combining mostly Kyle's and some of my Holga camera film shots, with a fun and simple design aesthetic. We are into year two of our calendar tradition and we hope to keep the momentum going into 2013.

A small handful of friends and family received the calendars as printed pieces, but as always, we can't supply an endless amount of calendars (although we wish we could). By giving away this free desktop wallpaper we are hoping the our creative endeavor of film meets illustration/design  can be enjoyed by many more.

If you are interested in purchasing a printed calendar please email me at jennie@jennie-jacobs.com and I will be happy to custom print a new one for you for total of $15 including shipping to anywhere in the U.S.! Weeeee!

To download the free wallpaper (or this peony wallpaper) simply click on the image below to open in a new window. Then right click to save to your computer and add as your wallpaper.

That Time of Year

It's that time of year. The holidays have crept up yet again, announcing their arrival with signs of seasonal twinkling lights, red and green decorations and fluffy trees strapped to the rooftops of cars. Typically, I am a sucker for holiday festiveness, and while I don't celebrate the colder season with hideous knitted sweaters of dancing polar bears, I do find pleasure in a few things.  

1. The creation of our new holiday tradition; Calendars. Last year we started this gift giving trend showcasing a collection of film images captured with our Holgas. This year we plan to do the same! It's in the works and will be a surprise, but friends and fam should be on the lookout for one very soon. 

2. Sugar Cookies in full decorated happiness. It happens every year; 200,000,000 sugar cookies are baked by my sister Joanne and myself. We probably eat a majority of them, but the ritual is the same: We start the cookie baking process, I get bored. Joanne has to bake a million on her own. Cookies cool off. I have visions of grandeur and create 10 frosting colors, with two types of royal icing (one for borders, one for flooding). We pipe and smear and sprinkle with edible glittering bits. Then we get tired. It gets late. Our backs hurt from huddling over our sugary prison. About 2 dozen cookies get the short end of the stick and get smeared and squirted on in haste. The end. 

I blame the obsession on Martha Stewart and her cookie baking empire:

3. Holiday doodles. In an unstoppable fashion I tend to create super fun Christmasy doodles every 

year. Sometimes they are in watercolor, sometimes in Photoshop. And this usually isn't just limited to the winter holiday season. Some may call it a problem, but I think it's less of a problem then, say, decorating my house in a plethora of creepy Santa faces or hideous Jesus chatskis. Although I would put this up just for the fun of it. 

Dreams on Film

Palise de Papes, Avignon
Hotel de Ville, Aix en Provence
Barcelona, Spain
Beautiful colors. Barcelona, Spain.
Sagrada Familia Church by Gaudi. So interesting! Barcelona, Spain.
3 Ducks Hostel, Paris.

3 Ducks Hostel, courtyard. Paris, France.
Paris.
Paris (obvi!)
Paris.

I took an excursion to Europe recently and brought along a Holga and some film. Thought I would share some of the moments from Paris, Provence and Barcelona. I brought 4 rolls of film with me and the majority of the pictures turned out ok, which is amazing. (Apparently, no one travels with film these days and it was hard to ask the airport employees to hand inspect your film (instead of x-ray) when you don't speak the language. )

So the above photos are a few of my favorites from my amazing adventure. Please enjoy.
xoxo.

Holga Time

Here are some shots I took from a recent Holga workshop Kyle and I took with Specialty Color Services in Santa Barbara one Saturday. You can visit their website here http://www.colorservices.com/. It was a fun adventure, and although my pics weren't outstanding, it was fun to experiment with the plastic film camera. The film was then processed using a unique combo of coffee, vitamin C and some soda ash. Pretty cool.

One of the coolest things about Holgas, at least to me, is the ability to double expose. You get a glimpse of that in some of my photos above. I haven't quite figured out the technique, but maybe that's the fun of it all.