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Kate

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About Me



(This is my primary business, making custom stuff for awesome people.)
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(This is my fun-money business where I make affordable, custom and experimental things.)

(This is one of my drawings.)

My Interests

reading. drawing. design. making books. cooking & writing cookbooks. wisecracks.
I make promotional materials for artists, performers and anyone else who needs high quality 1" & 1.25" buttons, and slightly larger pocket mirrors and bottle opener keychains.
When I'm not at the press, I'm doing portraiture, illustration, graphic design, bookbinding and other things. Check out the badbuttons.com site and kateblack.com to see what I'm up to now.
I'm also on Flickr! flickr.com/photos/kateblack/

I'd like to meet:

Creative, motivated, stable individuals with black humor and warm hearts. Awww.
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And people to eat stuff with.

Music:

Split Lip Rayfield. The Shiners. Turbonegro. The Soviettes. Bloc Party. Neko Case. Tina Turner. Loretta Lynn. Jeffrey Lewis.

Movies:

Romero's Dead series. The Legend of Billie Jean. Loveless.

Books:

I read constantly, but lack the time for my own book review site. As of March 20th, the last thing I read was Jamie Russell's Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema . (Highly recommended, btw.)

Heroes:

All my awesome friends!

My Blog

Kate Black & BadButtons" in Richmond! (4/22)

I'll be in Richmond on Sunday for the Spring Bada Bing show. Spring Bada Bing!The Marquee3015 Cutshaw AveRichmond, VA 2022010:00am - 4:00pmI'll have a tonnnn of neat new stuff. It's worth it. p.s. The...
Posted by Kate on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:18:00 PST

New Pocket Mirrors

Collage Pocket Mirrors2.25" pocket mirrors with vintage woodcut images and clean, modern polkadots blend old style and new! Subtly metallic backgrounds offset clean black and white prints.Buy 2, get a...
Posted by Kate on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:18:00 PST

Where's your drinking buddy?

It's the morning after. Do you know where your canary is? New bottle openers with original illustration by Kate Black @ kateblack.etsy.com. ...
Posted by Kate on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:09:00 PST

NYC People! Burlesque For Choice, Wednesday June 7th @ 8pm.

Molly Crabapple and Kate Black request your presence at Burlesque For Choice!Wednesday, June 7th, 8PM - 10PM.The Lucky Cat. 245 Grand St between Driggs & Roebling.Burlesque For Choice will be hosting ...
Posted by Kate on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:19:00 PST

New illustrated pendants and pocket mirrors! 3/31


Posted by Kate on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:02:00 PST

It's the end of the world as we know it...

I was expecting Rehnquist to resign, not O'Connor. I can't help but feel personally betrayed that she would abandon the women of this country by not holding on for another measly 2 years for Shrub's r...
Posted by Kate on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

George Romero's Land of the Dead

Land of the Dead I got to see the new George Romero film last Friday at a test screening. Talk about a zombie fans dream come true -- I was just on the right sidewalk at the right time, got an in...
Posted by Kate on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Like My Books? Come to Tsunami Relief Raffle & Show @ TheLuckyCat tonight!!

I'm donating some of my handmade books to a raffle going on tonight at The Lucky Cat. A bunch of other local artists are also donating their work, or tickets to performances. There's going to be music...
Posted by Kate on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sexual Civil Disobedience

As someone who used to work in a sex shop in another state where sex toys are illegal, this is an issue close to my heart. In Virginia, penis shaped toys are completely illegal and sex toys are illega...
Posted by Kate on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST