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This is the console of my car. Lots of writing paper (of course) and a mechanical pencil (not a pen, which would leak in the intense heat of summer and freeze in the bitter cold winter). In the cup holders (at the moment - this stuff changes a lot) are a loupe, and a couple of dozen Trivial Pursuit cards.
About those cards... They look to be in rough shape, don't they? Here's the story. On the way to work one day I saw a card lying on the pavement. It had an image of Edgar Allen Poe (an engraving). When I flipped it over I saw that it was a Trivial Pursuit card. I'd never seen this edition with images on one side. I took it into the office and had fun that day testing co-workers' knowledge - co-workers that I knew, through conversation, had some knowledge of Edgar Allen Poe as well as other practically useless information in their heads - practically useless, as in applying it to anything necessary in daily living, but not useless when it comes to fun conversation. We speculated as to how the card wound up there in the parking lot where I found it. So the card was a nice aside for the day...
After work, as I walked a different way to the car than I did to get to the building that morning, I discovered more cards. I picked them up. Some were nearly pristine. Others had been wet, or stepped on and dirt was ground in, or driven over and there were impressions of gravel that, in the case of larger ones, nearly punctured through the card. They made a thick pack, being no longer flat. I took them all home and cleaned them up.
Over the next week I kept my eyes open and found more cards, some in places far from where I'd found the first one. The wind had distributed them far and wide. Eventually there were no more sightings.
So why did I gather, clean up and keep these cards? Because that's a large part of the story of my life. Noticing. Noticing the little things that are invisible background to most folks. I have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). One of the books had a good line. An empty toilet paper roll is trash to most people. But to someone with ADD, it’s a craft item. The person’s imagination is replete with all the uses of the roll – all the things that could be created using it. They’re imagined visually, and the process is enjoyed. And it’s thought that someday those things will be made. It’s exciting. And the empty toilet paper roll is kept, not thrown out.
Now multiply that by nearly everything encountered on a daily basis and there you have a good picture of the tendencies in me. Fortunately, there’s some control exerted to keep from hanging on to dozens of things each day, but some things always seem to slip through. And clutter already-out-of-control gets added to. And what’s more, the already-out-of-control mind clutter gets added to – with projects that there is some actual intention of doing someday in the future. So many that it would taken a hundred lifetimes to really do them all. And yet they can’t be let go. I still have a “to do” list from when I was a teenager that has tasks on it I still intend to do!
Crazy...
So that answers why I still have those cards. Partially. Here’s the rest of it. Trivial Pursuit cards are an interesting diversion with friends when driving, if conversation lags. And they often get a new topic going.
And here’s more... Another reason for retaining the cards... There’s something about having collected the disparate cards from where the forces of Nature carried them... Something magical, even... Certainly something that has a tale to tell - and that’s one thing that grabs me, as you can very well imagine...
ADD’s tendencies were and are integral to who I am. ADD is hell and heaven, both. As I wrote to a flickr friend in frustration not long ago, the very impulses that hijack me to squander hour-upon-hour obsessively in mostly meaningless pursuits (meaningless in relationship to my bigger picture meaning – that is, what I’d like to be doing with my time in the short span of life left to me in this world), are the same impulses that are the source of my prolific artistic pursuits – drawing, writing, photography, music, and much more, including fascination with topics that results in intense research in them – which is how I picked up so much information that makes its way into what you see and read in my flickr photostream. There's great satisfaction in most of that. There's also the knowledge that, while they are a more satisfying hijacking (the Muse is great company), they are hijacking nevertheless. My priorities tend to be dictated by my ADD-driven impulses. The content and direction of my life tends to be determined by those impulses, not my intention, and I scream and rage as I'm ("I'm" meaning the me inside here that knows what's most meaningful) dragged along for the ride. I have fun while I'm hijacked. Fun isn't, by itself, what makes spending those precious elapsing days that remain for me in life... worthwhile.... The fun/stimulation is finally counterpoised, and then overweighted, by the hollowness - the hollowness - of that very fun/stimulation (even as I still experience the immediacy of the high of it). Gaaaaaaahhh!!!!
Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote that "Life is always drawing us away from the understanding of life."
Don’t I know it.... It sucks, ya know? And it’s also wonderful – how the world immerses us in the moment. Such an experience... that oneness! Hours fly like minutes. That facility to oneness is deeply spiritual when occurring in meaningful ways... I’m grateful for that, and for all of the multitude of moments each day that I notice some little vignette and experience an elation of wonder and beauty – a gift that is largely responsible for my photographer’s “good eye”...
Sigh...
The loupe in my console can be looked through in two ways, each opposite from the other, but each necessary for the other to work. Give up one, and you give up the other....
Hi Ana!
First, I want to say that I love your site, I visit everyday . When I first found your blog I couldn't believe that you could create the same pieces found in the catalogs! So I told my husband, look instead of buying our new bed let's just build it. So that weekend we set off on our first project. We quickly started to love it and now it is our weekend hobby; we enjoy the time we are able to spend together. My husband was a rancher/welder/woodworker prior to marrying me and joining the military and he is so happy to have an excuse to work in his element again.
Our second project was our console table that we adapted from your Hyde plans. It is so pretty in our house and I will be happy to be able to pass these pieces on to our kids one day!
Love,
Ashley
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E-Soc Control Stations are the perfect blend of the scalable, adjustable, and affordable solutions found within Winsted’s award-winning Prestige Command Consoles and our Encompass II Workstations. E-SOC features the Versa-Trak monitor mounting system for ergonomic comfort and adjustability. Lift-off access panels, integrated cable management and a hinged corner make E-SOC control stations and command consoles a flexible and feature-rich solution suitable for any control room application.
E-Soc Control Stations are the perfect blend of the scalable, adjustable, and affordable solutions found within Winsted’s award-winning Prestige Command Consoles and our Encompass II Workstations. E-SOC features the Versa-Trak monitor mounting system for ergonomic comfort and adjustability. Lift-off access panels, integrated cable management and a hinged corner make E-SOC control stations and command consoles a flexible and feature-rich solution suitable for any control room application.
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: This beautiful TV console/cabinet has six cabinets which close perfectly. Amazing style and covered storage. 112 by 42 cm, height 65 cm.
One of 6 new tables, made in a 2 day "rush", for a Open Studio Show in my studio.
All 6 tables are "rePurposed" from Vintage bits, left over from other projects.
look for other examples of my rePurposed Furniture @ www.kramerdesignstudio.com/repurposed.htm
Some of my limited edition consoles:
Madden 09, Batman:Joker, Batman: Cycle, Ninja Gaiden 2, Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles,Simpsons Movie, and several custom consoles
29.25" by 5.75" by 32" h.
One of 6 new tables, made in a 2 day "rush", for a Open Studio Show in my studio.
All 6 tables are "rePurposed" from Vintage bits, left over from other projects.
look for other examples of my rePurposed Furniture @ www.kramerdesignstudio.com/repurposed.htm
Console color TV, RCA, 27-inch diagonal screen, circa 1980. Works very well, but has only old-style connector for cable, VCR or antenna. H 2'-7", W 2'-8", D 1-5.5". Very good condition.
Custom made reclaimed wood media consoles, entertainment centers, and television stands by single craftsman. Custom sizes, stains, paints, waxes, finishes, legs, storage areas, available upon request.
Must not have been good for a while judging from the weeds around the TV and grime on the chair. Heck of a place to enjoy your old console TV, I did not however see either rabbit ears or an antenna in the tree... Except for the cabinet, looks good as new...a bargain hunter's delight...
The gold dish is for the old 40s style gramophone.
(Remember this is a work in progress. I will add buttons and such soon.)
I got this center console for cheap since, it's broken on one side. I will use epoxy from the steering wheel restore kit to fix that, cleaning and paint should bring this back.
Wiring finished in the overhead console. In the center is a screen for the rear view camera. Next to that will be the VHF and the stereo. The console also hides the wiper motors.
GONE - Beautiful, space-saving and practical--when was the last time you saw all those three together? This lovely low console works well either as shown, or with the flat screen mounted on the wall above it. Made almost entirely of mahogany wood, save for the very back. Quality workmanship.
Width 138cm, depth 49cm, height 52cm