The SAF, held just a few bocks from my house in Ypsilanti, was awesome this time.  I gave the SAF a so-so review last summer, complaining they didn’t have enough paintings or photographs and too much crafts and clothes.  I don’t know what it was about this one that made it so much better.  Things seemed fresher, crisper, funkier.  My only complaint/suggestion this time is that I wish it wasn’t only on Saturday, I wish it was going on on Sunday from like 12-4 or something.   I didn’t have much time due to a family obligation, but I had a ton of fun.  I bought another Matt Callow photograph, and he gave me a super cool test printing of another one that he is working on, because I had emailed him and shown interest a few months ago.  The print I bought is this one, a classic one of his: 

 

I was going to buy a t-shirt that had a picture of the theme of the poster, which was a jack-o-lope, but in my hurry I forgot.  Then I went and picked out a Severed Unicorn painting - Mark Maynard promised me one for free because I gave him the records that he used to paint them all.  I settled on one of a picture of a headless unicorn on the moon that said at the top: “only one unicorn head has ever been found on the moon.”  Mark assured me that this was a super rare one that will never be made again, and that the unicorn depicted in the painting was indeed the very one that had been found.  I would post a picture but it is so rare and super valuable that I must keep it a secret.  Here is a picture of a different one:

 

You can check out more paintings at the recently launched Severed Unicorn Head Superstore. 

I wish I had more time because I had a lot of fun.  I wanted to drink a few beers and shop around, maybe buy some presents.  So next time, have a Sunday left-overs type of thing, where people can still come if they weren’t able to on Saturday.