I've been curious about hand-resawing for awhile, and the huge check in one end of this Eucalyptus log gave me a good opportunity to test it. I couldn't really seal the messy end, so I sawed through the check to the other side to open it up. The little 15" Irwin saw made a nice cut, though it was really tiring. The longer versions of this saw were in shipment at the time of this photo. It'll be a bit easier when I can make longer strokes while cutting. It will also help having a proper jig for holding logs while making the cuts.

The trails left by Eucalyptus Longhorned Borer larvae.

2007

cutting from health pamphlets collage

A different angle of the turned piece.

I wiped some clear, dewaxed shellac on this a few minutes later - again, as a test - though didn't get a pic of that. It heightened the contrast a bit, and warmed up the tones a bit, and got rid of the hazy look. Pretty, but not a shocking change. I'd actually be curious to see a very thin stain or dye, as long as it heightened the look of the wood, without becoming its own design element.

from 5Dmark2 MOVfile Cutup & Raph Color Collection

Canon 5Dmark2 EF16-35mm F2.8

I thought this piece looked a bit like an apple.

Closeup of the end grain of some as-yet-unidentified Eucalyptus I found fallen (and bug eaten) in an LA neighborhood.

One of the top styles hand cut detail on back of tank

Clones from Rishi moon outpost, CT-327, Droidbait, Nub, O'Niner,Cutup, Hevy, Echo and Fives.

These pieces are created in sets of two. I’ve used half a dollar per piece. But it’s now an artwork. What is it worth to the viewer? Will they want both pieces so as to have both halves? If the pieces get purchased separately will the owners ever know of each other or wonder where the other half exists? It’s a ‘re-mixed’ and fragmented dollar so is it now rendered worthless anyhow? And would it be different if it was UK currency?

More info about the artwork and what it was in response to here: nicolaanthony.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/what-price-art-thi...

I'm addicting screen print design

Spongy paperbark bark. I'd love to run these through a hammer mill and pelletizer and then see how well the pellets burn.

Becky and Emily doing what they do!

The side of the previous piece is just gorgeous.

They were spinning amazing cutup insanity and were sweet as hell.

Within Templation evening at WORM organised by www.cut-up.com

Full colour offset / Mc paper / Jpeg hack

Here are some logs I cut to useful lengths and scrubbed for quite awhile with a pair of wire bristle brushes to expose the bug trails beneath, created by Eucalyptus Longhorned Borer larvae.

I was supposed to write an essay based on the idea of Francis Alys' Guards (2004), but somehow didn't write an essay at all and got very carried away. It went from a critical look at the place of walking in modern art to attempting to dissolve all logical meaning entirely. Initially a snide piss-take, I wrote a ludicrous non-story about the City of London and its inhabitants. After that the form of the essay went out of the window too. A fuller explanation and the complete PDFs can be found goo.gl/WdhlCg.

Printing the original document under the title "London Eats", I wanted it to be double-sided, but it came out on the same side of paper, to expectedly interesting results.

Reddish inside of Eucalyptus log. The checks form a kind of seed-like pattern, as though looking into a melon cross section.