Kiln coming to temperature…
2013.02.02
Recommended:
Iain M. Banks. Culture Series
Clione.ru Underwater Experiments
Documenta. October.
2011.11.02
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Recommended:
ApocaLego. Flickr group for displaying & discussing Lego creations with an Apocalyptic or Post-Apocalyptic theme.
Steven Millhauser. Dangerous Laughter.
Yowa Yowa Camera Woman Diary (thanks, Tat!)
Documenta. August.
2011.08.14
Garage to studio conversion: last coat of paint drying.
Garage to studio conversion: floor patch and sanding.
and finally, tiles.
Now for final detailing: mop guard, window mouldings, outlet covers…
Late summer storms over Cook Inlet.
Documenta. Solstice.
2011.07.23
Solstice is 21 June, the peak of 24 hours of daylight in Alaskan summers. I’ve lived here over half my life but 24 hours of sunlight is one thing I’ve never gotten used to. It creates a wild nervous energy and distorted sense of time. I’ll work hard all “day”, start cleaning up for the “night”, thinking it’s 9pm or so clock time and find it’s 2am, that I’ve worked 16 hours straight. A lot got done on the garage to studio conversion including insulation, sheet rocking, the endless plaster sand sponge plaster sand sponge stage, texture spray and 4 coats of paint. Over 80 trees had to be taken out to accommodate the satellite dish transmission. As of today, I have half them hauled and stacked.
Documenta – Early Summer
2011.07.22
Garage to studio conversion: seemingly miles of electrical wiring.
Kiln venting.
Redoubt venting.
After plumb bobbing the sun a few days in a row and getting a rough estimate of direction we needed to point antenna dish, we took time off from studio conversion to install 17 ft (above ground) pole for dish.
Documenta – May 2011
2011.07.20
Garage to studio conversion: window installed in one of the garage doors.
The concrete floor was uninsulated with no vapor barrier so we ended up raising the floor 1 1/2″ to insulate.
Raising the floor meant raising the existing doors.
Chance Collection. A retractable measuring tape that quit retracting. Selection of toasted concrete drill bits that were good for about 40 holes if you resisted pressing on the drill, 15 if you didn’t. Bit on the farthest right was used to stop up the insulation to floor glue bottle. And a regulator which didn’t, though it did for about 12 years. The diaphragm went out approximately 5 minutes into a 20 minute oxy/acetylene cutting torch job. It was on the oxygen tank. It is entirely possible to complete the job by having someone you thoroughly trust with quick responses use the on/off valve to keep the oxygen carefully adjusted. I’m not recommending this, mind, but I know it’s possible because guess who got that job.
No studio, no internet but a world of drawings. 8 x 6″. Pen, ink and pastel.
Four wheeler trail through oak ferns.
Recommended:
China Mieville. The City and the City
Iain M. Banks. Transition
Paul Auster. Invisible
Alain Robbe-Grillet. Two novels: Jealousy and In the Labyrinth
Lizzy Oxby. Extn.21
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros. Streetcore
Documenta – early April 2011
2011.07.18
Beginning of conversion of 2 1/2 car garage to new studio.
Leaving Las Fairbanks Round 1.
The Volcano. April Fools Day, 8:58pm.
“High Wildlife”? Hmmm.
Recommended:
Kathe Koja. Under the Poppy and Skin
Clutch. Strange Cousins from the West.
Documenta – Weather Bottles
2010.11.27
23 Nov 2010. Second day of Interior Alaska’s Icepocalypse.
23 Nov 2010. I made three bottles in stoneware. While they were still wet, I put them outside on the hood of my truck.
23 Nov 2010.
24 Nov 2010.
24 Nov 2010.
24 Nov 2010.
27 Nov 2010.
27 Nov 2010. The three lumps are the bottles.