DROOG! flagship store opens

Just some images from we heart stuff
I have always liked DROOG designs and I am happy they have opened an actual store. Just another place added to a long list of locations I would like to visit.

SPINNING!

I am working on processing the video from a spinning demo here at New Paltz. Here is what I have so far.

new stuff new stuff

Made some new stuff for objectfetish.com (black coffee stains and cinder blocks)and I got my ponoko order (online laser cutting service). Not too shabby. Kind of smelly (burnt orange felt). I have to say that the pieces are incredibly accurate. I wasn't really expecting that. I will have to assemble them and post some more photos later. I also tried some experimentation with electroforming over some 3D prints. I am not sure how I like them though. My whole plan was electroforming them and then having them gold plated. I like the idea of having a gold version of these things. I don't know why.

GOOD morning.

Man I am soooooo morning person. I get up around 6 or 7-ish and feed the cats, let the dog outside, make the coffee, start a fire so we can keep warm, feed the dog, feed myself, poop, check the email and if I am lucky blog about something.....anything. I thought I would throw in a photo of the studio just to remind me to do work today. I think I may have solved my enamel on steel problem with "Hot Sifting" haven't tried it yet but I gonna get to it right after I chase the dog away from my pumpernickel bagel. FYI Liz actually fell asleep with her finger on her nose like that.

Good Morning Cat!

Good Morning other Cat!

Good Morning Wood stove

Good Morning Nose Picker.

Good morning computer and coffee

Get your paws off my bagel!

Good morning messy bench

new stuff

Why is it I always feel like I am getting ready for something.
Sometimes that something never comes.
Sometimes I forget about that something and I miss it.
Safety cones. Ah safety.

Just thought I would post some images of things I am working on.
I think I am going to do another HUGE print. I am digging these cones for some reason. Its like a field of safety.

dude

whoahhh!! I gotta stop and blog

Dang. Well its been WAYYYY too long. I have been busy as usual. First It was Halloween. Liz and I threw a sweet mustache party. I think that is the fifth or sixth one that I have been involved with. I can't remember. I guess that is a sign of a good party. I had a blast thank you all for coming. The morning after the party Liz and I had to go to Princeton to her brother's, girlfriend's, best friend's, daughter's baptism. I think I got that right. It rocked. I had never been to a Greek function before. There are only a few things I can say to describe the whole thing: DANCE, EAT, DRINK, REPEAT and repeat and repeat. We had a great time. We stayed at a BEAUTIFUL B&B called the INN at Glencairn. The following day we went to downtown Princeton to go to a few local haunts like the House of Cupcakes (great cupcakes, I had a creme brulee cupcake.... it was good, Liz said it had too much frosting. hmmm frosting), then Princeton's campus (The campus church was freaking beautiful, the whole place was very harry potter/hogwarts) and the Princeton Record Exchange. We also went to Design Within Reach!!! the best store ever. I actually thought they were a mail order only store. But no, they have actual stores where you can actually sit in an Eames Molded Plywood Lounge Chair, Eames Louge and Ottoman and a Le Corbusier Chaise Longue they even had a Verner Panton cantilevered stacking chair. I was kind of shocked at the prices but hey it is Princeton and it is DWR so what the hell. Yes we bought something. Maaaannn. With our pockets empty we decided to come on home and get back to work chopping firewood to keep warm. Then I realized that there was a gallery that carries my work on the way. So I made a phone call and found out they were open on Sundays!

BONUS.

This was the first jewelry gallery stop that we have done since we moved to the area. I thought I would review a few of them since they are soooooo close (about an hour and a half). I would like to do more of these when we visit more galleries.

Gallery Loupe is a small place but it doesn't feel small when you walk inside. I am kind of a big dude and my claustrophobia was far from my mind. The way that everything is set up is great! I love it. They have some really nice upper lit wall cases and then in rolling carts below, glass topped drawers filled with work that you can interact with. The space is very inviting, intimate and interactive. They get three "I"s. It was also really nice to actually see a lot of the work out.

Liz and I got to meet Patti Bleicher(one of the owners/operators) and got a quick personal tour. It was really hard for me to keep my composure. All I wanted to do was look through drawers and touch stuff like a kid in an elevator pressing all the buttons. I am such a metals/jewelry nerd I had to see all of it. Seeing all of the work was great but touching it was even better. Klaus Burgel and Barbara Seidenath's pieces made a big impression. Patti took Liz and I on a car tour of the area which was great! Loupe has some upcoming openings. I will post the dates soon.

The current show at Loupe: "Facsimile"/Kathleen Browne was in full swing with almost all of the gallery's central real estate covered with her work. Kathleen's pieces for the show were "copies" of gem stones made with enameled decals of photos taken from actual stones. Then these "stones" were assembled into neck pieces and bracelets attached with stretch cables crimped at the ends. It was almost like Pop Art colliding with over the top Fashion jewelry. I am always a fan of big jewelry.




So in reverse order Loupe, B&B, DWR, Princeton, Cupcakes, Halloween. Whew!


Gallery Loupe



DESIGN WITHIN REACH



PRINCETON



HALLOWEEN

me wants

Just found this. I year ago I ordered VCU's painting and printmaking A wacom CINTIQ 21UX but never really had a good reason to use it. Now that I have found this I am all in. Maybe New Paltz will want one?
I am always trying to bridge the gap between analog and digital in my studio practice. Recently I have to abandon prototyping and laser cutting and go back to the basics. It has been refreshing and gratifying. Saying that, I am still interested in all things digital. I would love to try this out just to see if it is as fluid as it appears. No one likes re-learning the interface when moving from one 3D package to another (Rhino to Maya for example) My brain gets confused and I find myself clicking control instead of shift or whatever. This just seems like one of those things that would need some time to get used to. Damn you brain.


ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.

and for all of you illustrators


[Via: Notcot] {via Ilovesketch}

building a house with 3D printing technology

3D blog

Just found this blog. Thought I would share.

Its called Fabbaloo here is a blurb from their site

Fabbaloo tracks developments in Fabbing, 3D Printing and Desktop Manufacturing. We believe in a future where everyone can easily make any 3D objects by using inexpensive desktop equipment, much like we use inkjet printers today for two-dimensional paper objects. It's also known as Desktop Manufacturing, Rapid Prototyping or Digital Manufacturing. We call it Fabbing.

Bruce Metcalf on Etsy

Via: This Handmade Life/Video Handmade Portraits Etsy's blog: Tara Young

Follow the link above and check out the podcast at the end.

video test

thought I would start posting some videos on how to do things

banksy in NY

I thought I would show this to you. I would love to do a project like this.
Take over a whole store. Someday when the economy is not in the dumpster. until then there is this. Nice.

Bansky: {VIA:NOTCOT [VIA: Wooster collective]}

Arlene Fisch podcast

Arlene Fisch [Via:WeaveCast]

flavor shaker

I hate to advertise for a product but.... Liz ordered me this for my birthday and it just came in the mail. I am a sucker for kitchen gadgets so immediately I loved it. Its made of high impact plastic and has this ceramic ball inside that pummels the crap out of spices or herbs or whatever. Its actually a great idea. I had seen it on the food network via : Jamie Oliver some time ago. I think I tried ordering it but it wasn't being sold on "this side of the pond". Anyhoo just thought I would post about it since I have been doing a lot of cooking lately. My only complaint is that I wish it was bigger. It makes the perfect amount of marinade/dry rub/sauce or whatever for two servings but you will have to double the process for anything more. Great idea.

Fred Fenster on YouTube!

BAnsky?

here

some exciting things over the weekend.

First let me say that being sick sucks. I have been in bed for the last the last three to four days and I can't kick this nasty yellow crap that has been oozing from my nose and mouth.

Lets go over a few things that I missed.

First this not so great review of the recent Museum of Arts and Design openings by ROBERTA SMITH of the New york times


Then a truly incredible display of enameling and jewelry here at the SDMA at SUNY New Paltz.

The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design board approved the panel recommendations awarding 10 grants totaling $95,000.00!! (special congrats to Gabriel Craig!)


Ornament As Art, vant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collectionis still up at the Mint Museum.

cheese please

I need to concentrate more on the things that are important to me. What is important to me? Family? Friends? my work? my job? my dog? the cats? I don't ever know what order to put these things in. Really I don't put them in any kind of order. They are all on the same level. They all get an equally small part of my attention. I don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing. I do feel that if I concentrate more on one than the other I get in trouble.

If I spend too much time petting the cats the dog will get jealous.
If I let the dog sleep on the bed, the cats will want to sleep on the bed.
If I let all the animals sleep on the bed it will get too hot.
If I don't let the animals sleep on the bed it will get too cold.
If I sleep in I will be late for work.
If I spend too much time at work Liz will miss me.
If I spend too much time at home I will fall behind at work.
If I spend too much time with my friends I don't get in the studio.
If I don't spend time in the studio I don't make any money or get into shows.
If I don't get into shows or make money I can't make more work.
If I can't make more work I disappoint myself and get depressed.


Its an evil cycle. Sometimes I wish I could take my brain out and shut it off for a while.

I am trying to slow down. I have a bad habit of letting things slip by me. I will trip over things because I don't see them coming. My life is sooooo crazy. I even show up for classes an hour early because I can't remember what time they start. Thats a bad one. I have been relying on the kindness of strangers for too long. I am going to tighten up. After breakfast...

Thought this was interesting