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design

It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 23

5 June 2009

From Minot, ND to Glas­gow, MT. Cool, over­cast. It didn’t actu­ally rain but it was very threat­en­ing. Hwy 2 is often an inter­est­ing road in that it varies between two-lane and newly divided four-lane. This occa­sion­ally leads to con­fus­ing lane strip­ing on the por­tion that used to be two-lane. I stopped at the Wal-Mart in […]

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WIP — Pierced Copper Ring">WIP — Pierced Copper Ring

21 April 2009

Progress has been made on the ring. A flat piece of cop­per was ham­mered and then cut into a cir­cle. That cir­cle was dapped into a dome shape. The the tree bit was sol­dered onto the domed bit, mak­ing a hol­low orna­ment A chunk of 12 gauge half round ster­ling wire was made into a ring […]

Tagged as: piercing, ring, soldering

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WIP — Pierced Copper for JM1 Class.">WIP — Pierced Copper for JM1 Class.

24 March 2009

I’m tak­ing Jew­elry and Met­al­smithing 1 at the Pratt Fine Arts Cen­ter. Our first project is a ring. The top is made of a piece of pierced cop­per sol­dered to a half dome. Below are pic­tures of the two tops that I made last week. The pat­tern is gluesd on with rub­ber cement and then […]

Tagged as: copper, piercing, ring

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What Happens When…

2 March 2009

… some­one with the Far­ckle Gene doesn’t own motor­cy­cles. Just goes to show you.

Tagged as: bird house, color, yard art

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w.t.f

5 January 2009

so the other day as i was look­ing through some of the thou­sands of fold­ers of pho­tos we have i found this one. other than the catchy rhyme it’s a lousy sign. i just want to know who they (the peo­ple who designed the sign) think is going to under­stand that this is where you should go […]

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Clever Packaging

15 September 2008

On my way back to my inter­rupted vaca­tion in Oax­aca I had the chance to upgrade my DFW to MEX flight to busi­ness class. I *love* busi­ness class. The only thing bet­ter than the leg room is the refuge from the “cheap as we can make it” ethos of coach. Includ­ing this lovely lit­tle bit […]

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Garden Report

23 May 2008

We’re build­ing a lot of stone walls this year. When we first had the lawns and beds installed we didn’t have the time and money to build the bed walls that we wanted so we used the black plas­tic edg­ing to keep the grass out of the beds (sort of) This year we’re replac­ing the […]

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Trivia I Need

23 April 2008

ColourLovers posted a list of all 120 Cray­ola crayon col­ors and their (approx­i­mate) hex and RGB codes. The list was com­plied by Aaron at ColorSchemer.com. I am now going to waste sev­eral hours cre­at­ing a cus­tom Pho­to­shop palette of these col­ors. Sigh. BTW When did the Cray­ola site change so much? I remem­ber it as […]

Tagged as: color, crayons

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Birdfeeder Design and a Good Use of Website Animation

17 April 2008

I’m a fan of bird­feed­ers and clever prod­uct design. The Architect’s Bird­feeder, designed by Doug Patt Pratt, is good look­ing and an intrigu­ing engi­neer­ing solu­tion. The key fea­ture — it ships like flat-pack fur­ni­ture but bet­ter because it goes together with­out that nasty cheap lit­tle hex wrench thing. The ani­ma­tion of the assem­bly of the […]

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Graphic Design pRon for my gearhead friends

12 March 2008

Thusly: Link­age includ­ing a very early Miche­lin man alas no motos on this one, though the site pretty wells rocks. via: amy cre­hore edited 25.june.2008 to cor­rect image links

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