HAPPY FREAKS

NAME: Jenni

LOCATION: Red Creek, NY

EGGPLANT QUOTE: freaks need love too

COMMENTS: This eggplant was a special order, requested by a dear myspace friend! :) We swapped art and she sent me a fabulous set of eggplant felties. In this photo, you can see her eggplant is hanging out with an assortment of Jenni's amazing creations.

MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/hedonist_j

LAUGHTER YOGA FOUNDER BECOMES CHUCKLING EGGPLANT COLLECTOR

NAME: Madan

LOCATION: Mumbai, India

EGGPLANT QUOTE:
laugh for no reason

COMMENTS: Because I studied laughter yoga with Dr. Madan Kataria, the founder of the world wide laughter club movement, I made him an eggplant with the premise of laughter yoga: laugh for no reason. He graciously received his eggplant with his characteristic chortle and promised to give it a happy home in India.

WEBSITE: www.laughteryoga.org

Dr. Kataria's Diary entry about my church's laughter club.

A LAUGHING LIFESTYLE

NAME: Maria

LOCATION: Santa Barbara, California

EGGPLANT QUOTE:
live life laughing

COMMENTS: Maria was my laughter buddy at Dr. Kataria's laughter yoga teacher training seminar in Sierra Madre, California. She gave me a beautiful soy candle from her webstore and I gave her this laughter-inspired eggplant. :)

WEBSITE: www.destressessentials.com

TEARS FOR FEARS GROOVES ON EGGPLANT

NAME: Curt

LOCATION: Los Angeles, California

EGGPLANT QUOTE: mr. smith

COMMENTS: Curt Smith is a member of the band Tears for Fears. This eggplant was custom ordered by Karen, a wonderful fan, and given to him. Curt has posted this pic of his eggplant on his kitchen counter at his myspace blog.

MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/curtsmithofficial

WEBSITE: www.tears-for-fears.com

SOMETHING'S BEEN DONE TO IT

NAME: Margaret

LOCATION: Falmouth, Maine

EGGPLANT QUOTE: "do something to it"

COMMENTS: Fellow Art*o*artist, Margaret Smith, and I swapped art. She sent me one of her beautiful Spirit Hand pendants and I sent her this eggplant with a quote by the artist Jasper Johns. She comments:

"I took this little Eggciting work of art and made a mini easel for it to set on. It is Eggactly what it needed."

MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/spirithandart

PEWTER JUNK FOOD IN CENTRAL PARK

OWNER'S NAME: Herb

LOCATION: New York, New York

EGGPLANT QUOTE: pewter junk food

COMMENTS: Artoartist, Herb Hoover, and I decided to do an art swap. I made the customized eggplant pictured above, which describes one of his fabulous artistic endeavors: making pewter junk food. He writes of the photo:

"Here's a snap in New York's Central Park Conservatory Garden at 105 & 5th."

In return, he made me a cracker—one of his famous pewter creations! These crackers, by the way, are the best selling art in Art*o*mat machines and I'm so excited to finally have one of my own. Visit his cracker tracker to see other owners.

WEBSITE: www.herbhoover.com

THE VERY FIRST EGGPLANT IN CHINA

OWNERS' NAMES: Jade & Chad

LOCATION: Beijing, China

EGGPLANT QUOTE: you have all kinds of oddities