Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Friday, November 17, 2006
The Tea Strainer Goggles
The tea strainer goggles have been around for quite some time now, but it wasn’t until recently that I thought they deserved their own post. They are very useful for traveling the vast cosmos, great for performing experimental improvised music in front of strangers, and real simple and cheap to make. Basically it’s just two tea strainers wired together. Unfortunately I think the Dollar store became hip to my game, and stop stocking them some time last year.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Monday, August 14, 2006
Sunday, July 23, 2006
The Giant Swirl
All the above is true. It was my futon and I did create the frame in a drowsy haze. It had been sitting packed away for years in my portfolio because I had no idea what to do with it. Looking back now I see that it was the beginnings of my recycling, and swirl obsessions.
The piece has been hanging up in the Starlight lounge in Kitchener/Waterloo area now for about four years. I think they may have squatter’s rights now.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Electric Guitar Side Table
The longer I had it sitting in my space room the more I thought about building an electric guitar. It seemed that at some point, which I am not very clear on this voice started whispering to me, asking me what I knew about building electric guitars. I thought you made experimental instruments? Do you even know how to play and electric guitar, or acoustic for that matter? What do you know about tension, action, intonation, and tunings? So in all honesty I thought to myself, these are great questions and they deserve and answer, but that’s not going to happen here. I did what had to be done. I shut that little voice down with my own special bleed of potato based beverages and proceeded to build my first real electric guitar. The first thing I needed was a neck for the body so I started the long and thorough task of carving one out of a nice piece of oak I had from a counter top we were pulling out of a house. Once the neck was done all I had to do was calculate the fret placement add the pickups and the string her up. All these things combined were about ten times easier than carving that neck and heck the body was already build with all the appropriate holes in place. So how did this become a side table? Good question. As I was piecing everything together I placed the body on a little stand that was sitting beside me in the space room so I could place the electronics in and wire them up. Like most projects I work on I find I can get distracted at the drop of a hat, after all I do work in a space room. So needless to say the body sat on that stand for days, and as those days increased in number so did the things that were piled on to of the body. I could no longer see the electronics, just there to add screws. I do still think of adding strings, but that might be a bit of overkill. I think I random tools and scraps of metal. At that point the instrument had rebuilt itself into a side table, and I realized that I was just will take a page from Dave’s book and abandon it where it is.
On a side note I would like to point out that I left one of the holes open so I could have a place to store all my picks.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
The Tractor Stool
This isn’t the first time that has happened, as soon as I can get my hands on an image of a four by four foot illustration I framed one night in what I thought was a dream I will post it.
The bass of the stool is from a draft beer tap I got from a bar we were rebuilding, I think it belongs to a Fosters tap, so I feel good about dismantling it. The bar for the back rest was given to me by a Fembot that goes by the name Brian. The round handle was a gift from a man named Flavio (if that is his real name) and the tractor stool I found out west in
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Friday, January 06, 2006
Ride into the Sun
View this clip on Vimeo
Once again I have used a Fembots song and added a bunch of moving pictures to it. All of the images I found on an Edison web site. I like a train, that’s why I like these images. You can find all kinds of wacky videos on my other blogs, some are out in the open and some are hidden. There is no real rhyme or reason for this. It’s just the way it goes.