YO! Flags

I designed this flag for work (with the help of Bryan Hall who did the graphic work) that gets attached to the lcd monitors at camp. The campers raise the flag when they need help from a counselor. Unfortunately the design was not as intuitive to construct as I had assumed and a large number of them have gotten mangled as the camp staff rushes to get everything prepared for the start of camp.

To try to keep the rest of them from getting constructed or mounted wrong I've created this instructional video for the camp staff to watch. Hopefully it will help make things easier and quicker for them. The photos weren't doing the trick.

bucket stool

buying stock in tinfoil

True American mythologies are farther and fewer. Too many believers with pistols, and bad attitudes, who have secluded themselves in the real world and years ago lost the business plan outlining their escape route.

Shoes are a necessity in that schlocky wilderness. We dream of the smoothest trails. It seems sometimes that we suit up, go out... it appears we've gotten somewhere but in fact we've been going in circles. For hours.

These do me little good without the wings.

Not sure when these popped up. I noticed them last week. That was a rough morning, but it led me to finally post about my skates. These are on a great design site called ATYPYK.

a little protest

I found what looks to be a protest taking place in one of the cabinets at work. I couldn't tell you what the basis of the grumblings are. Perhaps workers rights? Or health care? Pest control maybe? Hard to tell. Though it appears to be a toy firefighter holding the sign. We can only hope that there aren't more of these disgruntled little plastic people.

the "Million Dollar Door Cart"

Introducing the "Million Dollar Door Cart." This custom designed and hand crafted beauty was commissioned, built, and placed into active duty in early 2006. It works very well though it has seen little action since being inducted.

This cart holds four sets of double doors and one single door. The doors are used to fill that roll up door seen in the above photos and one other during live events held at the joint where I work. It's all about fire codes and egress.

Previous to this cart the doors were leaned against various walls and lifted into place with the help of about 5-6 densely built punters and a forklift. What I mean to say is that these doors is heavy.

A little known fact about this beautiful door cart is that its actual cost was far less than a million dollars. It was constructed using recycled metal tubing that would otherwise have ended up becoming industrial waste.

Even though the "Million Dollar Door Cart" was designed and built at extremely low cost it was so named because its funder tended to wander past the construction site while work was happening on the project and since work only happened sporadically as other duties were deemed more pressing he got the idea that he was paying a small fortune in labor costs. Thus concluding that the cart must have cost him about a million dollars. (I assure you that I don't get paid that well, not even close)

Needless to say, I am proud of my door cart. My design worked. Some naysaying colleagues weren't so sure it would when they saw the initial drawings.

I am certain that it has been my greatest accomplishment of the last year. I'm sure that the spiders that currently inhabit it would agree with me wholeheartedly.

Triangulate, page 70

This is a piece that I did for a limited edition publication called 'Triangulate' that I helped edit along with Francis Kmiecik and Melissa Weimer. I always liked this one, even more in color.

I wish I could find the link to the site that did the ethnic face morphing. It was a fun site, I think it was a graduate student project somewhere. I liked the results for the most part. Though I'm not sure I'm going to look so much like Robert Zimmerman when I get older.

Copies of Triangulate may still be available to interested parties who ask politely. Also possibly at Quimby's.