Showing posts with label eureka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eureka. Show all posts

Saturday, March 10, 2012

change


 two things i have done that were on my checklist, both related to rebellion (not me being rebellious but the creators): read Dharma Punx by Noah Levine, a fast read for anyone, particularly those of us who found acceptance and family in the punk rock sub-culture and politics as young person who didn't fit anywhere else, check...

"The Buddha said his path to awakening was one of rebellion – a subversive path that is against greed, against hatred, and against delusion. It is a path of radical, engaged transformation, a path of finding freedom and spending the rest of our lives giving it away. It is a path that goes Against the Stream."


and visit the Kinetic Sculpture Museum, newly relocated to Eureka, check... 

apparently my aesthetic has mellowed since i was a frustrated punk kid, and i am now more interested in the natureish paintings on the walls than the kinetic devices, but i like the idea of more people using elaborate kinetic mobiles to get around every day, if not only to irritate people in gas guzzlers driving from one parking lot to the next...

i could try moving to Amsterdam, but then i would just be normal instead of an irritating provoker of change.

 

Sunday, January 8, 2012

human power hour

we waited for our tour on a dead end dirt road tucked back off the main street in Eureka until a clunky early 1950s car pulled up ("this MUST be him!") and an adorable working-class Wizard of Oz jumped out and opened the high security gate consisting of a wire cable, although i think the feral cats roaming the property were an added security feature....

 i know i have said this before, but i love my hand-crank singer, and we just got a long arm treadle sewing machine foe sewing into tight spaces at the studio i work at--very excited...
 of course i was beyond delighted to watch the demos of the massive collection of human powered 'power?' tools in the form of saws, lathes, and flat-out choppers at the Blue Ox...
 i have more photos to share from the property (apologies for the blurriness--we are presently in the dark depths of Winter)...

crafted made from scratch everything, besos besos besos.

history of pedal power machines

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

POST-MAKER FAIRE REPORT

As most of the work I aim to do is custom, I was fortunate to share a Maker Faire booth with two lovely ladies so I wouldn't have to space my goods out like some kind of conceptual  art exhibit (see previous post)...


KC Made it!

Laruen LoCalolo

my little corner

Presently finding myself very busy with making, professionality, and embracing a house routine. I have to get another shipment ready for Fancy Pony Land in Marfa...this time, all bags!