Morning Light

Through trees on Magnolia
 through trees on Poplar
  through trees on Peralta
   through rose and bougainvillea
    and iron gates on window

Stops at fresh plaster wall
 lands on color chips with tape

By Mouth and Hand

If you are the type that understands the sum is greater than the parts then you'll understand how much better your Ailein Mor experience will be out of nice glassware.
In fact let me have another sip.....mmmmm...the burn as it goes down.  Yep, 55% better sipping out the right glass.
'Specially after a couple and you're a bit sideways then these are for you.

Ben Dombey's new canted bar glasses made with his hands and his lungs.
Custom stamped on the bottom if you wish...or left plain.

Ok.  I need to test my hypothesis again.....yep...better out of Ben.

They're hefty as hell.  Heavy, bulletproof, handhewn sort of feel to the lips from the rim.

This is what you see as you raise an empty one up.  That is if you have a stamped one.

Like a Barn Raising

But a floor instead.
Yesterday, headed over to Taylor and Nick's house overlooking Sausalito to help snap together a new floor upstairs.  Barn raising because it was a family and friend affair.  Nick's father, Doug, Nick, Taylor, me and Steve.  Steve is a Burning Man friend of Taylor and Nick's.
Doug was the foreman, Nick and Steve laid the floor down.  I was the guy who cut things to length down on their back deck, Taylor ran the pieces of flooring up and down.

Sharm brought homemade soup for lunch.

My cutting station.....

I guess someone took me doing a hand sawn cut on a length.

The sun started to go down and it was decided to abandon the project and go drink.  Hopped in their boat and booted across the bay as the sun went down and a huge moon coming up over the east bay hills to have drinks and apps on the water at Sam's in Tiburon.

A late night confrontation on the inky darkness of the bay coming back finished off a perfect floor laying day.

Everybody Drink Beer

Day after the disaster.  Nov 9, 2016.

Finally got around to some beauty shots of bottles and glasses of beer.  Testing showed the labels wouldn't hold up to spritzing...even with a large percentage of it being glycerin.  They bubbled up too quickly so I taped off and layered on several fine fine coats of dead flat protection (Thank you once again Alan*.)

I've always wanted to price my work by charging by the C-Stand.  Never have but over the years I've noticed I would count up the number of C-Stands I used and multiply by $200 and it would be pretty close to my final bill.
The more C-Stands, the more finicky and precise the shot....the more money.

Still setting up, I'm shooting this tomorrow but as it stands now, there are 8 stands being used.  10 if you count the two I used to hold more flags before deciding better without the flags.


And you can see in the background the next job (although it's a freebee)
Ben Dombey's fun tilted hand blown cocktail glasses.
Ben's site

*  Someday I'll do a blog on Alan Krosnick.  I was his full time assistant for five years, taught me more than one can even imagine.

Now let's drink to the end of the world...