Free Box, Take 2, Part 4

She is done and out. I've been on a short (long?) whiskey hiatus for the last month, but in that time I did manage to put the free box out at Colonel Sumners Park. Put stuff in , take stuff out. Hopefully she will last forever, but nothing lasts forever so enjoy her while you can. Also clouds. I think I like this one better than the last.

Free Box, Take 2, Part 3

She is done. After sleeping 12 hours a night for the entire summer I have some how managed to finish the 2nd free box for Colonel Sumners Park. It has been giving me the evil eye from under a dirty sheet on my back porch for several months. "You are lazy. You don't finish things that you start. If it's not for a grade or some sort of recognition then you don't care about it". Well I showed that free box. Done son. Pictures of the installation to come. Put stuff in it, take stuff out of it.

Free Box, Take 2, Part 3.

Rainbow Cuppycakes

This is how you make them. First: Make cuppycake batter. White or yellow. From scratch or Betty Crocker. She's a really good cook. Then separate the batter into several bowls. However many colors of the rainbow you want, then mix in food coloring. The brighter the better. I like to use neon food coloring cause it's rad and awesome. That is all.


Second: Put cuppycake liners in a cuppycake pan and spray with non-stick pan spray. Layer the colors until all the batter is gone.

See how this works. Layer, layer, layer. Ohhhh. I just thought of using a toothpick to marble the colors. New cuppycake mission.

Third: Bake.

Fourth: Make a cream cheese frosting and add food coloring to it too. What ever color. YOU MUST MAKE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING CAUSE BUTTER CREAM SUCKS ALL THE HAPPINESS OUT OF THE WORLD.

Fifth: Eat. And revel in how much awesomeer you are than most people.

Photobomb

Someone in my neighborhood is photobombing the telephone poles with framed pieces of their work. Good job neighbor.

Kitten Face

I now have two kitten faces. My inside cuddle muffin has gotten so big and fluffy. And bad, he's a bad bad kitty. C.C. Truffles Extraordinare. He eats my plants and toilet paper. And he tries to eat my toes but they are attached to a full size human female.


And I've been feeding this homeless little lady for about 6 months. She now lives on my back porch and demands for me to feed her at a way too early inconvenient time each morning. And I do it, I feed her and that's why she lives on my back porch. Sigh. I call her Bean cause she's about the size of a small legume.


She too apparently relishes in the killing of my plants seeing as how she's laying in my basil bed. On little baby basil's. Sigh again.

Me Want Taco

Here's a pretty cool dinosaur looking all cool but needing tacos. Drawn with the newly discovered magic of the internet computer ScribblerToo web page.

PIE!

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie. For Ike's Momma.

Spring

Spring time in Portland is awesome. There are so many beautiful yards and gardens and lots of flowering trees. I love fresh cut flowers in my apartment. It just makes me feel nice.

Fishy

One thing I do like to do is cook. And I like to eat. And I like to do it well. Even with my busy schedule I try to make myself a nice meal at least once a week. This here is lemon and herb broiled cod fillets with caramelized onion and garlic rice pilaf, pineapple salsa and sesame asparagus.

Tim Mckright

Tim Mckright, who literally wrote the text book that most jewelers use as a reference, taught a workshop at my school. He's been working with metal for over 40 years and knows the subject inside and out. However, the workshop he taught was primitive metalsmithing and getting back to the basics. He showed us how to pour an ingot and make our own steel tools using just the objects on hand and with no special equipment. Pretty much just fire and forging. It was really fun and here's the 2 pieces I made out of a single silver ingot I poured and forged.

Hyraulic Pressed Beads

So... it's been a while. Life gets in the way sometimes of things that you'd rather be doing. But then again, if it didn't get in the way, wouldn't life be really boring?
Here's the 1st metal project of the semester. We learned how to use a hand cranked hydraulic press to punch out forms in sheet metal. We first made a form we liked and cut it out of acrylic. The most annoying little job I've done since casting. Then after pressing and annealing and pressing and annealing... you get the point. I came out with good results. We had to make 3 "beads" (art school, everything is relative) with the same initial mold and alter them. Here's mine, and they are pretty cool. Also, I think I finally figured out soldering.

Steam Punk Kaleidoscope

For my final metals project this semester we had to design and build a prosthetic. As usual with art students, the results were so varied some of them barely hinted at the idea of a prosthetic. My piece ended up being a steam punk double kaleidoscope face mask representing the idea of lost innocence through the process of aging. The idea is to gain back some form of childhood wonder while wearing the mask but really it's tainted because the images are more psychedelic than innocent, and really, the mask looks anything but childlike. You can never really gain back that innocence after a certain point of life experience. Oh, and I cast beads for the kaleidoscopes that look like tits, genitals, razor blades, and drugs using the lost wax process. I know, right? Well, my teacher loved the idea.

Spacy As Ever

So I forgot to photograph all the Christmas presents I made this year, electroformed leaves, flowers, and feathers, key chains, and food. Here's some of the other stuff that's been happening in my life as of recent.

Key chains I made for my good friends Jilljamin 5 and Scott for their wedding gift. If you know them, you know this is perfect. No toaster oven for them two.

Some beautiful flowers from my good friend Vahid (HEY Vahid!) just in time to get me through finals week.

Free box, take 2, part 2. Getting there.

Kitten in a free box. He loves it so much I almost want to keep it as a cat house. Alas my apartment is so small it takes up half the kitchen.

Copper pan flute for my female pan goddess Halloween costume.