Cai Guo-Qiang
This guy is both an installation sculptor, and he paints... with gunpowder. He's in charge of pyro-art at the Chinese Olympics.

Tom, if the rest of the contemporary art scene is anything like this guy, you're in for a treat.

Edit, addition: Casulo, mobile design, room in a box. Design? Yes, please?

So many things have happened in the last couple of days, I'm still not quite sure where my head's at. Let's see if I can put this in order ( Read more... )

Dude, if you've got leather in need of TLC, Obenauf's Heavy Duty is absolutely frickin' amazing. It's so safe you rub it in manually (the warmth helps it work,) and does very good things for my favorite hiking boots (and during the winter, my hands.) Little goes a very long way ( Read more... )

I'm weirdly proud of adding something new to StumbleUpon. Artist Jeff de Boer does amazing metalwork, including cat and mouse armor.

I got accepted to Rockingham Community College's Fine and Creative Woodworking program, Fall 08. I'm actually really excited about it, though I'm not going to stop looking into other stuff.

Ok, back to grading

1. play enough DDR to get warm and calm
2. run outside barefoot on a windy night like this
3. spin around in circles, in the dark, 'til you get cold
4. run back inside, make peppermint tea
5. drink tea and eat leftover raspberry cake
6 (optional). feel a little more at peace with the world?

If you're in the Duke campus area Saturday night, those wacky Persians are at it again for Sadeh night. Should be a neat event.

On "Love":

"Oh, certainly!" said the Professor. "That song is his own history, you know."
Tears of an ever-ready sympathy glittered in Bruno's eyes. "I's welly sorry he isn't the Pope!" he said. "Aren't you sorry, Sylvie ( Read more... )

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Aloha, the east coast.