Between the Feeds: A mini-mini-trend report

It used to be that big old glossy magazines were the way we spotted trends in stuff we might have never seen on our own.  That worked fine until the internet was invented.  Now, thank goodness, we have blogs!  And as a result we don’t have to trudge through an editorial process and publishing cycle that forced our trend spotting-and-getting-over-ing into once-a-month highs and lows.  Thank god.

It seems appropriate then to use blogs to spot trends that are proportionally smaller and easier to publish.  So today’s mini-mini-trend, spied on NOTCOT via google reader, is:  Hunting*.

Consider the following…

Carolyn Salas’ 300-point buck, “Trophy,” recently seen at Scope Art Show, New York, and…

Graphite gun-shaped “pencil” by A.S. Batle, available at Electric Works for $58 (part of a set) and…

Jean’s roundup of a show at LeBasse Projects in Culver City, “Vous Avez ete Juste Servi,” and…

Some twigs cast in crayon wax – “Drawing Tools” by Stanley Ruiz.

*Note: This has nothing to do with the larger trend of antlers and deer heads that everyone showed at ICFF a couple years ago.  At least I don’t think so.  It’s too early for that to have come back.  Right?