Good Existence

 

Make it exist

Make it good

Taylor's action item for the creative meeting.  The overriding arc

It was decided Tay and Nick needed a proper light on the stairs leading up.  There in the blue lit area.

Talked about it over beers and taking some measurements.  We sort of made the lamp exist right there and then.  Then all I had to do was make it good.  A half a page of sketches really to settle on the design.  The narrative on the design will come later.

It was my type of meeting,  just talking and stuff without forcing anything.  That's when the something happens.  Let it be.

Roughing out placement of rectangles, taping up for glue up and what design the WoodRat cut on the inside.

Glue up.

One of the best things from the meeting was the thought of  cutting out windows in the lamp and use a different form factor of the Douglas Fir.  So I cut out the rectangles after the glue up with a handsaw.

Popped it out.  From the outside looking in

Use magnets to glue in the thin D. Fir.

It was decided at the meeting that it would be suspended by a wall mount rather then a hanging from the ceiling. 

Used the WoodRat, along with a studio made bottom plate (to be able to work wider boards) and routed a long sliding dovetail.

Circle cut to allow access to electrical wires.  And the cover to cover the hole.

The suspension system

Install day.   Taylor hammering in plugs, me clean up sanding.

These first night photos courtesy of T. Kirchner

So....the narrative, the story, the reason for the design of everything.  

The lamp itself has three distinct zones.  From a universe standpoint, the universe is chaos, order and the hum of the constant.  Or it could be it's about two people joined by the strong bonds of love.  Took the idea of three and put in triangles at the bottom to reinforce the shape while looking into the lamp.  The suspension system, again a series of triangles.

The wall attachment system is rectangle like the cylinder of the lamp, the pounded copper plate covering the electrical mirrors the central square and circle of the lamp.

See how easy it is the back design something.

1+1+Love

Photos, and nothing but photos, so help me G_D

 And some words to go with them.

New insert in the kitchen island 

So…MU.  A concept of nothingness, no meaning, no attachment.

When I first wore the MU jacket, I was telling Frank and Tony that as I washed the jacket, the logo, the MU would disintegrate and thought that idea fit with the brand.  Brandless.  What MU?  Nothing to see here.

This is how the bed of a thirty two year old jointer should be carried for.

Tones buying a house in So No Ma over the internet

Lifted the copper gutter in place with two SkyHiTripleCombos and two C-Stands

The warmest of light bouncing off a kitchen overhead light

Some early harvest

Prepping wood for a December gathering at 3003

You know, over my time in the commercial photography thing, I’m thinking well over a hundred million of my photos have printed in magazines, newspapers, billboard, brochures, labels.  Maybe more.  Could be that total was only from shooting ads for Hewlett Packard.  

And I never gave a shit about seeing something of mine printed.  Never got off on that.

But I made the cover for a wood engraving organization and this is one I feel strongly about being printed

And the only official band photo of the PKTrio.  Foreground/background focus is perfect.

Like An Archeological Dig

 

Head  

Music

One of the best things about Cali is Indoor Outdoor Living.  The doors are always open, the in is out, the out is in.  The first iteration of the studio bathroom floor, Annie stenciled various leaves on the lightly dirty color of the bare concrete.  That came from the real leaves that get blown into the studio and stay for awhile until swept up.  She wanted that same feeling in the bathroom.

The above photo is not how the leaf blown floor ended up.  I don’t seem to have a finished floor pic.

It was a time for a change.

Four color “silkscreen-y” tile look.  Painted with the fingerbrush.

There was to be a border that separated the wall from the floor.

The last tiles done.

At the last moment, the border was scraped off.  Not all of it.  It’s ragged.  The floor’s got this feeling now of an archeological excavation.  A reveal of past layers.

In another iteration.  Courtyard needed to be finished with a tiny roof.

Beginnings of a copper gutter for it.

Random artifacts from the recent digs here at 3003

Housemade pasta

One person’s 4th of July fireworks that he blew off in the middle of the intersection across the street from 3003.

Skylight light in the back building.

Did a run of a wood engraved block on the Vandercook at Aesthetic Union in SF. 

The wall outside the shop

Inside the shop

Beginning to sign the run.  Print of a photo shot in Santiago, Chile

Bonus pics!

Horsehair from a Sierra Nevada pack horse, abalone shell from Westport, Ca.

A flower from the onion family