Closing out the year with a post about a project I’ve been involved with this year. Last September an artist in a facebook group I belong to, Deb Jones, also known as “The travelling artist“, launched an idea for the group to create a collaborative sketchbook. An amazing woman, she really took charge, from creating […]
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A few years ago, I began extending my work from the genetics/theological debate I was having with myself and began producing work that looked a little more mechanical in nature. I was making (and still am,) making work in two very different paths. That second path began to morph into the steampunk-esque aesthetic where it
See Part one of this post. And Part two here Final Assembly I fed the lamp wire up through the pipes from the base and used a pipe wrench to make sure the pipes were good and solidly fitted. While things dried or glued, I worked on other parts for this project. For example the
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See Part one of this post. And part three here The Build As usual I began by just laying out pieces to figure out what exactly this pile of stuff was going to become. I began sifting through the parts I had picked up at the reStore. Initially I had plans in my head to
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So a while ago, I was asked to participate in the “Party for Humanity” fundraiser, September 26, 2019, for Habitat for Humanity, by donating a piece for work for the auction. I am selective who I donate to, unfortunately, you have to be. Artists get asked to donate their work all the time for causes,
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Welcome to part three of building a steampunk jetpack for ladies and thanks for sticking with me on this build. In today’s post, I will discuss how I created the controller and finished everything up. You can find parts one and two at these links. At the bottom of the post is a list of
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I was thrilled (and terrified) to do this interview on Rogers TV. Kathy Mueller was great, and her producer Tim O’Neill was fantastic. I appreciate both of them very much. The whole show is linked here. My interview is first up on the docket.
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Part Two: The Control Panel This is Part Two of a series of posts about building a jetpack. You can check out the first post here. In that post I talked about building the boosters. Here, we’ll dive into the center control panel. and in and part three, I finish up and complete the jetpack. Moving
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Building the Boosters For a while now I’ve been trying to construct a “lady’s jetpack”. It’s a smaller more elegant take on the typical steampunk jetpack. Unfortunately, I keep forgetting to take photos as I go, (I’m getting better, but it’s not “second nature” yet, so, I didn’t take a lot of photos while I
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Working on a steampunk styled flash drive. I started with tearing apart a small drive, to look at the size of the circuitry etc, to determine size scale of my new drive. I cut a piece of copper tubing and warmed it with a torch, so that I could then flatten it a little with
