Flickr

• March 10th, 2007 • 0 Comments • Uncategorized •

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Goggles!

• November 12th, 2006 • 0 Comments • Uncategorized •

Ohhhhh my god.

I’ve always had a weakness for steampunk-looking goggles, but these take the cake.

Feast your eyes!

This is one of the many reasons why I want to learn more about metal-working and the like. ‘Scuse me while I print out some photos and go be alone for a while with the goggles.

How it’s done.

• November 6th, 2006 • 0 Comments • Uncategorized •

YouTube is pretty neat, I have to say. I remember being hypnotized by this video as a child. There’s nothing as intoxicating as a new box of crayons, no matter how old you get. But to see how the things are made! It was one of those rare glimpses into how something so integral to life as a small person who loved to draw came into being.

The film actually reminds me of watching the bottling machine that was in the microbrewery my parents ran when I was little. Because my parents owned the first microbrewery in the Southwest, brewing equipment for the small brewery was scarce so they used machines from a dairy farm. I recall the metal being thick with paint and age; the machines seemed impossibly huge to me, a six-year-old. Beer bottles ran through a sterilizer and chattered along the conveyer where they were filled with beer and capped. My favorite part was when they ran through the labeler: smooth, perfect bottles were pulled off the end of the line and put into six-packs. Somewhere in my head there is a memory of being shooed away as my mother filled boxes with six-packs. (One of these days I’ll get videos of the machine working transferred to digital…)

Packaging represents the gorgeous result of a fascinating mechanism coming together to somehow provide a finished item. I suppose that’s why I’ve always loved process as much as the finished result. Yes, I can buy a blank book from the store, but it’s so much more fun to make one! My hands get dirty, glue gets under my fingernails and I get to relish the looks on people’s faces when they look at the final, packaged product and wonder, “How did they do it?” I know how I did it, and I love to share how it’s done!

Books!

• October 29th, 2006 • 0 Comments • Uncategorized •

I went out and indulged myself today!

I bought pretty pink papers with girly things on them, some poly clay, some mull and some davey board.

The papers, mull and davey board became: an adorable diary/note book! Well, it’d be more adorable if I had some more practice making books. In the week prior, I bound an old book block so that I would have a sketchbook again. I always have trouble with the spines! They’re never quite right. The sketchbook’s spine was much too far from the block. Despite the fact that this is an error, I can slide a pencil in the gap, thus making it a very handy mistake. Today’s book is MUCH too tight. It can’t open very well, thus defeating its purpose as a note book. I really need to dig up my old book binding notes so I can remember how to do all of this correctly; sewing signatures was peppered with much cursing.

The poly clay became: CUPCAKES! Yes, I made some cute little pink cupcakes, an ice cream cone and a little weenie dog. I haven’t actually sculpted anything in roughly five years, but who are we kidding, cupcakes aren’t too complicated. I think I’m going to make them into jewelry. Do I smell Christmas?!

Now I just need to post some pictures…

Season End!

• October 23rd, 2006 • 0 Comments • Uncategorized •

Dear Internet Blog,

I haven’t forgotten you, I swear. I went and got a full-time job, supplemented by my usual round of freelance work, and I haven’t been able to give you the lovin’ you deserve. With the holidays approaching, I’ll pay more attention to you. You and the rest of my websites. Really. I mean it.

Love,
Me

Coming Soon!

• September 13th, 2006 • 0 Comments • Uncategorized •

Alright, let’s get that ol’ period of mourning out of the way for the studio!

I am happy to announce, after almost a year of searching for suitable solutions in a website, gathering data and stumbling through not really knowing how to operate a PHP-driven gallery, the DPCA Project is getting ready to launch!

The Dimensional Planar Character Artifact project is a photographic documentation gallery which functions in conjunction with ideas presented in the Machina Non Verus Manifesto. Ideally, I would like to release the Manifesto at the same time as the DPCA Project, but I keep having problems with producing a satisfactory version of the Manifesto for online viewing.

(Come to think of it, “getting ready” is a highly relative term; if I try to make more than gross contractors’ estimates I know I’ll jinx everything. Just stay tuned.)

Back up!

• August 1st, 2006 • 0 Comments • Uncategorized •

After a few days of being AWOL, the blog is back up! I moved to a new hosting service which will allow me to do some cooler stuff on the website. Hooray!

Some links on pictures might be broken; I’ll fix ‘em as I find ‘em. (Heck, if you find some, please tell me. It’d make my life ever so much easier!)

Wow!!

• April 3rd, 2006 • 0 Comments • Uncategorized •

I’m in danger of hyperventilating. Poking around on eBay is rarely a good thing, and I just discovered that Spirograph made a SUPER SPIROGRAPH model #2400. My God! It has about a million pieces; many of which appear to be modular to construct gigantic designs! I may have to break my former rule of only purchasing items with “Buy It Now” on them. Oh boy oh boy oh boy!

Still Alive!

• November 22nd, 2005 • 1 Comments • Uncategorized •

For my faithful readership of, oh, two people:

I’ve been student teaching since September. Absolutely NO time for art, or the studio. I expect around Christmastime for activity to pick up. Apologies for the long absence.

«Insert long, tired sigh here.»

Is Bear!

• August 23rd, 2005 • 1 Comments • Uncategorized •

Haha, sweet. I got a drawing onto Conan vs. Bear. I like the concept for this site; there exists a thesis and everyone sends in their concept of that thesis. Granted, I’m not sure many teachers would submit the idea of late night host Conan O’Brien versus a Bear for the final. But aren’t we all versus some kind of bear? Isn’t it nice of Conan to take on that bear for us all? Wouldn’t the world be better if there were more Conans taking on Bears?

Naw, I’m just kidding. It’s just plain good comedy.