Kinya Hanada a.k.a. Mumbleboy

You may have noticed that the name of this blog has changed. It used to be "mumblog2", but now it's "Kinya Hanada a.k.a. mumbleboy". If you didn't know already, Kinya Hanada is my name. I'd been using the name Mumbleboy since like the mid-90's and I'm not sure it still fits with what I've been doing. Also, some of the things I'd been writing here I think might not have anything to do with my artwork, but are more like some random thoughts I had. While I'm not ready to part with the name Mumbleboy altogether, I thought a little change was needed. So now, I will free to write whatever I feel like without having to think if it's relevant to do so here.

Maybe you noticed the little pictures on the top right, they are artworks which are being sold at our new Mumbreeze store at Etsy. We did have a Mumbreeze store already, but it was in Japanese and probably not something you would check out if you didn't know how to read Japanese. We didn't want to exclude our worldwide friends from our stuff, so we decided to open the new shop over at Etsy. Etsy's main thing is that you can only sell hand-made or real vintage stuff, so you don't see mass-produced low quality things there. Also, they allow you to setup your own shipping prices to wherever for each item, so that's really good for us especially because we're in 2 different places at times, but we'll still be able to do the store regardless of our location. The 3 items you see on the top right (if you're reading this at a later date, it may be different) are ones that are available from me here in Portland, so you don't have to pay the overseas shipping if you're in the US. We've just started the store and so far we haven't really told too many people about it, so we could use a few sales to get it going. You want to give a present to somebody, but don't know what to get? Maybe you'll find it there. Also FYI, the paper mache figures are made with plastic and other things (on the inside) that may not be good to throw out, so making them is a kind of a way to intercept that stuff from going into the landfill. That is not the traditional way to make paper mache, but it also helps me that I don't need to throw out things that I feel should be recycled if possible. Anyway the Etsy store is one thing we're trying out, so that we may be able to live more on making things by hand. We're not really the most entrepreneur-minded people, so it may take us a while to get it running, but any suggestions you might have about the shop is very welcome.

Thanks for reading, I hope to be updating this blog more often.