So i finally got around to upgrading my trapeze. The previous one i had built did not have bar ends, and i eventually decided that i really wanted them. So finally one night i went down into the shop with the intention of cutting and grooving a new replacement bar, and then disassembling my trapeze and swapping the new bar in. But the original ( Read more... )

this weekend saw significant progress on a recent project, and a decent amount of progress on an ongoing one. The recent project is a hoop trapeze, aka lyra, aka circeaux. It's not an apparatus that i expect to ever be any good at, as it seems to be made for much more bendy folk than I. But we have a few of those made-of-string folk at our aerials ( Read more... )

So, for the past 2.5 months or so i've hermitting in the machine shop, barely seeing anyone and occasionally emitting streams of expletives from the depths of the basement. I feel intimately familiar with all of radioIO AMBIENT, and have pulled enough all-nighters in the machine shop to have heard their entire inventory. I've been working on Aerial ( Read more... )

Today was spent digging holes and casting concrete anchors for the backyard aerial silk frame. The idea of digging 4 12+ inch diameter 4-ft deep holes by hand seemed completely ridiculous. So i rented this mofo machine from O'Connors Hardware in Billerica. sensesurfers' van was used to tow it home, along with buttloads of concrete mix. (I did haul 1000 lbs of ( Read more... )