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Button Making with Busy Beaver Button Co’s Christen Carter is a crowd pleaser. Anyone who walked into GR2 was stoked into making buttons. How often do you walk into a shop and get to make something so complete as a button? Some drew and some collaged and created wearable art. Buttons are a ubiquitous accessory these days that a) spreads a message and/or b) compliments attire and makes people happy. Here’s a photo set of the event. That’s Christen Carter operating the 2 1/4 inch button maker. It takes just a moment and the results, super cool. This little dude is named Connor. He walked in, drew two button in a minute and left with a smile. Check out them baby teeth. After he left, I realized, this was Justin Chon from the Twilight movies. I met him a while ago for an instant. He was also in Crossing Over. Take a look at the screen cap of the GR Sticker right next to him. Yes, I guess we’re cosmically connected, perhaps by an art director. Some came super prepped up with photo clips and more to turn into buttons. [nggallery id=19]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Craft Event Make A Button Evening with Busy Beaver Button Co. Thurs June 9 6-8pm GR2 2062 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025 http://giantrobot.com (310) 445-9276 Giant Robot and Busy Beaver Button Co is proud to host Make a Button Evening with well known button maker, Christen Carter, proprietor of Busy Beaver Button Co, Chicago.Christen Carter will bring her 2.25″ button maker. You can draw, bring in scraps or see what’s possible to do on a button! It’s free and all done on the spot. Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based magazine about Asian, Asian-American, and new hybrid culture in 1994, but has evolved into a full-service pop culture provider with a shop and gallery in Los Angeles, as well as an online equivalent.
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