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The Chalon worktable is one of those classic chalon pieces that is often emulated but never equalled. The sheer weight and scale of these pieces impose warm authority into the space the occupy. Instantly calming and restorative. Clients can be reassured that they will preserve their values for the years ahead.
Take one talented nine-year-old with a vivid imagination and love of everything Harry Potter. Add her miniature-making grandmother with a drawer full of woodland supplies and anything might happen.
Once Ellie decided she wanted to do a “Potter” room box, it set me thinking. Her project would have to be something not too large or complicated (Hogwarts was out) and not too expensive (ditto a magic shop). Hagrid’s house -- or hut, as it’s called -- seemed the perfect compromise. So imagine my delight, when asked if she had any ideas, Ellie’s immediate response was “Hagrid’s Hut, Grammy.” There may be 60+ years difference in our ages, but we’re sure on the same wavelength!
Now Ellie has read all the J. K. Rowling books; in fact, some of her favorites she’s read at least three times each. Naturally, she’s a great fan of the films and was adamant we depict the hut from the earlier films, not the latter. Didn’t know there was a difference, did you? Neither did I.
Once Ellie selected the background photo, had it enlarged at a local print shop and glued it on three walls of the box for her, then Ellie took over. She began using paper clay to shape the forest floor so that it sloped down toward the glen where the structure’s located. Also modeled from clay were four large rocks for the house to rest on.
As Ellie stippled three paint colors on the floor, I started shaping walls, using first a paper pattern, then cardboard, finally cutting pieces from foam core, which were taped together. After she painted the exterior walls, Ellie began gluing on fieldstones. I cut a length of ¾” X ¾” wood for the chimney that she also covered with rocks.
Using trees from a Diorama kit, Ellie assembled and painted them. As I worked on producing shapes for the roof, she pressed birdcage gravel into white glue to create a pathway. After a brief lesson in perspective, Ellie realized the path needed to taper as it reached the back wall and smaller trees should be placed behind larger ones.
Ellie built and stained a door while I constructed the stairs. One side note: I had purchased a pair of metal hinges for the front door. “Oh no, Grammy,” she insisted. “It opens in so you won’t see any hinges from the front.” Warning to grandparents everywhere: be prepared for nine-year-old experts.
It was her idea to have Harry standing on the top step rapping, which meant cutting a ball from his hand, then painting over it with flesh-colored paint. She also cut a wand from Ron’s hand and a flute from Hermione’s. The latter created a small problem because it left the girl’s hands in a strange position. “She can stand with her back to the front,” Ellie determined. That’s the mark of a true miniaturist, solving problems as they pop up.
What happened next blew me away. I left four bottles of acrylic paint on the worktable and headed off to get dinner. With absolutely no coaching from me, my talented young granddaughter began texturing the rocks.
Finally, we had to make a determination about the roof. Because neither of us was quite sure what it was made from, we decided to create one of “metal”. After file cards were cut to shape, Ellie covered them with copper paint, adding moss once that dried.
Locating the small Potter figures was the most difficult part of this entire project. I spent hours and hours on the Internet trying to find something in the correct scale. And, just as I was about to give up on the entire idea, there they were: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dumbledore, Hagrid, the White Owl and Fluffy (the three-headed dog). It was a good thing I grabbed them for I never found anything in that 3” size again.
Ellie was delighted when she discovered the small chair and cart amongst some items left from one of my earlier projects. It was her idea to place bark in the cart.
And so, in her debut as a mini-maker, we proudly present Eleanor’s interpretation of Hagrid’s Hut, a room box in ½” scale, based on the popular Harry Potter series.
89th Airlift Wing
Andrews AFB
An unexpected Boeing C-40B VIP was out at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (Williams Gateway "Willie") on Saturday. He spent almost two hours in the pattern doing touch-and-go's. He spent so much time in the pattern that Joe and I were able to get right under him for a few of his approaches.
89th Airlift Wing
The 89th Airlift Wing (89 AW) of the United States Air Force is based at Andrews Air Force Base, MD. The 89th Airlift Wing provides global Special Air Mission (SAM) airlift, logistics, aerial port and communications for the President, Vice President, Combat Commanders, senior leaders and the global mobility system as tasked by the White House, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and Air Mobility Command.
C-40B
Mission
The C-40B provides safe, comfortable and reliable transportation for U.S. leaders to locations around the world. The C-40B's customers include members of the Cabinet and Congress. The aircraft also perform other operational support missions.
Features
The C-40B is based upon the commercial Boeing 737-700 Business Jet. The body of the C-40 is identical to that of the Boeing 737-700. Both models have state of the art avionics equipment, integrated Global Positioning System and Flight Management System/Electronic Flight Instrument System and a heads up display. Heading the safety equipment list is the Traffic Collision Avoidance System and enhanced weather radar. The aircraft is a variant of the Boeing next generation 737-700, and combines the 737-700 fuselage with the wings and landing gear from the larger and heavier 737-800. The basic aircraft has auxiliary fuel tanks, missionized interior with self-sustainment features and managed passenger communications.
The cabin area is equipped with a crew rest area, distinguished visitor compartment with sleep accommodations, two galleys and business class seating with worktables.
The C-40B is designed to be an "office in the sky" for senior military and government leaders. Communications are paramount aboard the C-40B which provides broadband data/video transmit and receive capability as well as clear and secure voice and data communication. It gives combatant commanders the ability to conduct business anywhere around the world using on-board Internet and local area network connections, improved telephones, satellites, television monitors, and facsimile and copy machines. The C-40B also has a computer-based passenger data system.
we recently re-arranged my 'press corner' into a part of our bedroom for many reasons, but i'm excited, it's now against one wall together, and looks much better. i am so excited and inspired to get going this season! next goal: new worktable!
Woodworking is the activity or skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinet making, wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.
Along with stone, clay and animal parts, wood was one of the first material worked by early humans. The development of civilisation was closely tied to the development of increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.
Historically, woodworkers relied upon the woods native to their region, until transportation and trade innovations made more exotic woods available to the craftsman.
With the advances in modern technology and the demands of the industry, woodwork as a field has changed. We are now able to mass-produce and reproduce products faster, with less waste, and often more complex in design than ever before.
Rechargeable power tools speed up the creation of many projects and require much less body strength than in the past. Skilled fine woodworking, however, remains a craft pursued by many. There remains a demand for hand-crafted work such as furniture and arts, however with rate and cost of production, the cost for consumers is much higher.
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An unexpected Boeing C-40B VIP was out at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (Williams Gateway "Willie") today. He spent almost two hours in the pattern doing touch-and-go's. He spent so much time in the pattern that Joe and I were able to get right under him for a few of his approaches. More to come!
89th Airlift Wing
The 89th Airlift Wing (89 AW) of the United States Air Force is based at Andrews Air Force Base, MD. The 89th Airlift Wing provides global Special Air Mission (SAM) airlift, logistics, aerial port and communications for the President, Vice President, Combat Commanders, senior leaders and the global mobility system as tasked by the White House, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and Air Mobility Command.
C-40B
Mission
The C-40B provides safe, comfortable and reliable transportation for U.S. leaders to locations around the world. The C-40B's customers include members of the Cabinet and Congress. The aircraft also perform other operational support missions.
Features
The C-40B is based upon the commercial Boeing 737-700 Business Jet. The body of the C-40 is identical to that of the Boeing 737-700. Both models have state of the art avionics equipment, integrated Global Positioning System and Flight Management System/Electronic Flight Instrument System and a heads up display. Heading the safety equipment list is the Traffic Collision Avoidance System and enhanced weather radar. The aircraft is a variant of the Boeing next generation 737-700, and combines the 737-700 fuselage with the wings and landing gear from the larger and heavier 737-800. The basic aircraft has auxiliary fuel tanks, missionized interior with self-sustainment features and managed passenger communications.
The cabin area is equipped with a crew rest area, distinguished visitor compartment with sleep accommodations, two galleys and business class seating with worktables.
The C-40B is designed to be an "office in the sky" for senior military and government leaders. Communications are paramount aboard the C-40B which provides broadband data/video transmit and receive capability as well as clear and secure voice and data communication. It gives combatant commanders the ability to conduct business anywhere around the world using on-board Internet and local area network connections, improved telephones, satellites, television monitors, and facsimile and copy machines. The C-40B also has a computer-based passenger data system.
On my work table (the dining-room table), some tools and some sketchbooks:
I acknowledge,organizing myself with Sketchbooks is really a challenge I never won. I have different quality and sizes of them, for pencil drawing and for watercolour, some in France and some in Limburg, some for the daily sketches and some for travels… They are often gifts and I like each of them all for it specificities.
(Pencil, Ink and watercolour - 21 x 60 )
Rock maple was the choice for this Chalon worktable. As the name suggests its hard, durable and will remain looking good for years to come.
Steady hands keep toolshed walls up as others make adjustments during it's construction when U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans volunteer in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
I pushed whimsy all the way into making a movie, one of my favorite movies I've ever made....a movie that absolutely changed my life....Push whimsy; that's all I'm gonna say.
Never mind what the marketplace demands. Nobody's looking for a movie about a guy who turns another guy into a walrus except you. Make it the ultimate movie that you wanna watch.
Let's see how weird we can take this.
– Writer/Director Kevin Smith on making Tusk
What kind of movie is this?
In Tusk, a horror movie written and directed by Kevin Smith, controversial podcaster Wallace Bryton (Justin Long) gets into a bad situation while looking for a story for next week's episode. He meets old seafaring adventurer Howard Howe (Michael Parks), who has a story to tell and a hidden agenda. Eventually, Mr. Howe reveals that, while trapped on an island, he formed a life-changing connection to a walrus and, since then, intends to find someone to replace his long-lost friend. Wallace's podcast partner (Haley Joel Osment) and girlfriend (Genesis Rodriguez) become alarmed by phone messages from Wallace, saying that he's in the backwoods of Canada, trapped in a creepy house with a crazy guy who wants to turn him into a walrus. So, they set off to rescue him with the help of a special investigator who's already on the trail.
Why does Johnny have to be in this movie?
I've never been so freaked out about seeing a movie. You might remember that, these days, scary movies really scare me. I must have watched An American Werewolf in London and Poltergeist too many times as a kid.
When Tusk arrived in D.C., I planned to see it in the middle of the afternoon so that I'd be able to go home in broad daylight and have the rest of the day to shake it off. As it happened, however, I was out of town over opening weekend and realized the following Thursday that Tusk wasn't going to last in theaters. I had to go that night, if at all. I texted my dilemma to a friend, who always helps me reason these things out:
- Me: I think Tusk is leaving local theaters today. I might have to see it tonight, in the dark.
- Her: Don't do it! For your own sake!
- Me: Really? Is it THAT bad?
- Her: It depends on your tolerance, but the trailers are not encouraging.
- Me: I know, yet I'm hoping for some Kevin Smith humor to diffuse things...I'm reading moviegoer reviews...
- Me, a little later: Reviews are not helping to make up my mind.
I made it across the street from my apartment before I realized that my friend is right: there is no shame in waiting for the DVD so that I could be freaked out in the comfort of my own apartment with my cat for company. Netflix delivered Tusk to me in January, and I texted my friend the news:
- Me: I just watched Tusk and survived.
- Her: Ewww!
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I really like this movie! I started out peeking through my fingers to watch it, waiting for something sudden, awful, and disgusting to happen. I was cozy under a blanket with my cat by my side and found myself entertained, intrigued, and impressed.
See where creativity can lead?
I think most people know Kevin Smith from his popular films Clerks, Chasing Amy, and Dogma. As his popularity grew, so did his studio offers. One of the best things about Kevin Smith's work, though, is that he fully immerses himself in it by writing the story and script and filming it as he sees it. When he started getting hired as a director for movies he had nothing to do with developing, he didn't see the point and became disenchanted by the movie business. So, he walked away from Hollywood, content to make a decent living doing other things, like making live appearances about his work and podcasting.
Since 2007, Kevin Smith has been broadcasting podcasts (or SModcasts, as he calls them) through his company, SModCo. During his SModcast, called "The Walrus and The Carpenter," he mentioned an ad that he saw in a British newspaper: someone has a room to rent, and all you have to do to live there is dress up like a walrus for 2 hours every day. "The line that really captured my imagination was, 'I have for some time been constructing a realistic walrus costume.'" The story was a hoax, but by the end of the podcast, Kevin Smith had worked out a horror flick based on the story. He called for the opinions of his listeners: if they want to see this movie, tell him through Twitter by using #WalrusYes. If not, use #WalrusNo. More people responded positively, so he got started on a script. "I could've been stopped any step of the way," he says. "I could've been stopped easily, but I just pushed whimsy every day. I said, 'let me see how far I can take this.'" Along the way, many people encouraged him because they just wanted to see if he could pull off this crazy idea.
Why didn't this horror movie traumatize me as expected?
Apparently, Kevin Smith and I love movies for the same reasons.
Good acting gets us every time; it beats car chases and explosions, hands down. "The movie magic to me is always performance. Acting is the real magic trick of movies to me – that goes beyond even movies, into theater and stuff like that – telling a lie that tells the truth. So for me, the idea of Tusk was a movie about acting. It's an acting movie. It's actor porn. It's like watching people delve so deeply into their character that you forget."
Michael Parks is in some things I've seen, like the Twin Peaks TV series, Kill Bill Volume 1, and Argo, but I don't remember him in those. In Tusk, he's amazing as a calm, creepy psycho. I was hooked very early on by his lengthy conversations with Justin Long, which slowly reveal that he's off his rocker. As Kevin Smith says, this is Michael Parks's movie.
Kevin Smith takes the best approach to horror.
Because this movie is so focused on the actors' performances, you only get suggestions of something disgusting. I appreciate that! This movie only shows a few glimpses of blood and gore and let's your imagination do the rest. Your imagination can probably create something scarier than anything anyone could physically show you. The gross factor is not overplayed in Tusk. It's on film purposefully, though the premise of Tusk does call for a little shock value: after all, this crazy guy has a hostage whom he plans to turn into a walrus. Be prepared: you will see some making of a walrus costume out of disgusting materials. You will see the walrus costume itself, which is disgusting (especially when you think about how it was made and with what).
But don't worry; it's movie magic! Makeup and special effects expert Robert Kurtzman created the walrus costume lovingly, thoughtfully, and with skilled detail. "Where I think Bob really earns his money is in the eyes, Production Designer John D. Kretschmer says. "He created these wonderful imaginary creatures for the show, and for several weeks, we saw the creatures on the worktable, but what really surprised me is how elegantly and seamlessly he can join the actor to the creature. The money's in the eyes – the expression, the emotion, stuff that prevailed in the walrus suit is amazing, and that's truly where I see his genius." I can handle it when you put it that way.
Kevin Smith is a clever writer and makes me laugh.
As I had hoped, Kevin Smith did for Tusk's script what he does for all his scripts. Tusk is infused with smart dialogue and his sense of humor. What you get is a great mix of creepiness and horror with a wink to the over-the-top ridiculousness of this situation. "Tusk is best viewed through a comedic lens," he says. Some lines in this movie made me laugh out loud. One of my favorite conversations follows, courtesy of Hayley Joel Osment as Wallace's best friend Teddy and Johnny Depp as investigator Guy LaPointe:
- Guy: "These are guns."
- Teddy: "I don't want one."
- Guy: "You don't want a gun? What kind of American are you?"
- Teddy: "The kind that's never used a gun before!"
Can you believe I haven't mentioned Johnny until now?
Johnny's involvement in Tusk was kept pretty well under wraps. The credits even say that "Guy LaPointe" is played by Guy LaPointe. I found out about his secret role through other fans and eagerly awaited this collaboration with Kevin Smith, despite my reservations about the genre. Guy LaPointe is a character from one of Kevin Smith's older SModcasts. Originally, Quentin Tarantino was approached to play the part but turned it down to focus on non-acting pursuits. I'm glad because I immediately fell in love with Johnny's performance – the accent, mannerisms, and humor. I should disclose that I was also very relieved to see him and that he offered some laughs after all the stress that Michael Parks was inflicting on me. Some reviewers think that Johnny's performance in Tusk is out of place but most were just surprised by it and his unrecognizable look. Entertainment Weekly's synopsis of Tusk recommended, "Wait until an uncredited A-lister (we won't say who) turns up two-thirds of the way through to hand in his most berserk performance to date (and that's saying something)." I won't ruin it for you, but I agree.
The Kitties are in Canada
The most exciting thing about this movie for me is that Johnny's daughter Lily-Rose makes her screen debut. Kevin Smith's daughter Harley is always in his movies somehow, but Tusk offers her first speaking role as a teenage store clerk. I think Kevin Smith and Johnny have been good friends since their daughters met in kindergarten, and the day Harley shot her scenes, Lily-Rose came to the set. Kevin asked Johnny if he thought she'd want to be in the scenes with Harley, they asked, and stars were born!
Aside from these girls' convincing performances as teens tied to their cell phones and bored by their after-school jobs, I love the store's Canadian decor with a bunch of flags of all sizes, tourist traps, and a wall of maple syrup. I also love that when Guy LaPointe does his trick with the pad of paper, Teddy (Comet) explains to Wallace's girlfriend (Ashes) that it was done in The Big Lebowski (because that's the first thing I thought of when he started scratching away with that pencil).
Tusk is among Kevin Smith's favorite film experiences for many reasons:
- It gave him the opportunity to share the creative process with his fans from start to finish. The moment of inspiration and brainstorming phase are captured on that infamous SModcast episode. His followers encouraged him from the beginning to move his idea forward, and they watched it grow from there to silver screen.
- The experience of making Tusk was similar to that of Clerks: he was making a movie because he wanted to see it, and he did whatever he could to take his inspiration as far as it could go. The experience reawakened his love for filmmaking.
- He worked with his daughter and witnessed how she and Lily-Rose discovered how much they liked acting. Their few scenes in this movie led him to write another movie, called Yoga Hosers, in which they are central characters. (Guy LaPointe returns in that movie too!) In fact, Kevin Smith was so inspired by Tusk that he turned it into The True North Trilogy. Can you guess what the third installment, Moose Jaws, is about?
- Because of Tusk, he has the money to finance Clerks 3, a sequel that continues Kevin Smith's cult classic.
See what can happen when you get the silliest of ideas and a little encouragement? Kevin Smith is a believer and he hopes we all are too: "It costs you nothing to pat an artist on the back, man, and the potential yield from it: maybe you get your favorite movie, a song that saves your life, or an idea where you get to express yourself through art. Keep doing that! People who are really profoundly affected by the movie, they're going to make some art, and that to me is one of the many reasons the whole journey was worth it, man. That's a cool thing! Art begets art, even weird art." I'm a little late to the party, but #WalrusYes!
Johnny seems more like himself here.
In 2013, Johnny made a quick appearance in a film called Lucky Them. In this movie, a music journalist (Toni Colette), whose musician boyfriend released a spectacular and hugely popular debut album and soon after disappeared, is tasked with trying to find him 10 years later. As I watched this movie, at first, I was unsympathetic toward Toni Collette's unlikeable character until I realized that, if I were traumatized by my boyfriend's disappearance and possible suicide, I'd probably be pretty messed up too. Then, the ending credits turned me into a fan of this movie. It is sweetly dedicated to one of my heros, Paul Newman, and produced by his wife Joanne Woodward! Here's the scoop:
Lucky Them is written by Emily Wachtel, who is great friends with one of Paul Newman's daughters. He read drafts of her script, gave her some advice about it, and even planned to be in the movie. Years went by, he got sick and died, and his wife helped out once the project started to gain momentum. Johnny was the first choice for his role, and I see why the character appeals to him. Besides that, a couple of his old friends are in this movie: Thomas Hayden Church, whom he first met on the set of 21 Jump Street, and Oliver Platt, with whom he costarred in Benny and Joon). For me, Lucky Them is as close as I'm going to get to my dream of having Johnny and Paul Newman work together. I'll take it, even if one of them is only helping out in eternal spirit.
And I think Johnny did this too.
Though they haven't confirmed it, evidence is out that Johnny and Amber Heard, his costar in The Rum Diary, got married last month in a private ceremony at home in Los Angeles on February 3. They followed that with a fancier ceremony and party the following weekend on Johnny's private island in the Caribbean. Congratulations to the happy couple. I'd share photos, but they're not.
What's next?
Let's go Into the Woods, but beware the Big, Bad Wolf! This DVD is set for release on March 24, 2015. A Johnny Kitties tribute to it will soon follow.
To read this original blog post and see images from the movie, visit Melissa's Kitties blog: melissaconnolly.blogspot.com/2015/03/johnny-kitties-celeb.... While there, you can find all other Johnny Kitties blog posts and artwork on Melissa's Kitties' new Johnny Kitties page: melissaconnolly.blogspot.com/p/johnny-kitties-celebrating.... Enjoy!
The appliances are hidden inside this lovely traditional Housekeeper's cupboard. Its strong lines are counterpoinbted by the soft curves of the worktable.
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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbit, Chapter I: AN UNEXPECTED PARTY
Welcome to the Shire. The starting and ending point of the famous books and films “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings”.
It is a perfect place to relax, read and fill your hobbit stomach with plenty of delicious food.
The Hobbit hole consists of 5 different rooms. A nice kitchen with a big table, a full storage chamber, a cosy living room with a fireplace and a worktable, an entrance room to welcome invited and uninvited guests and like all hobbit holes it has a round tunnel that connects the rooms.
I would suggest that it would include the minifigures: Frodo, Sam, Bilbo, the 13 dwarves and of course Gandalf.
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SOURCE: New York Magazine
TITLE: See Here Now
Three art-rich neighborhoods, 25 new galleries.
DATE: Oct 4, 2009
AUTHOR: Rachel Wolff
MAP BY: Jason Lee
Every gallery here has opened since the start of 2008, and all are exhibiting art that’s startling, affecting, or just plain fun. Since most (though not all) of them show emerging artists, the barriers to buying—financial and otherwise—are low. If you like what you see, you just may be able to take it home.
Downtown
Jonathan VanDyke at Scaramouche.
(Photo: Courtesy of Scaramouche, NY)
1. Scaramouche
53 Stanton St.; 212-228-2229
Stand back! This little gallery’s first fall opens with Jonathan VanDyke’s minimalist sculptures rigged to spurt out brightly colored paint (through November 1).
2. *Sue Scott
1 Rivington St., second fl. 212-358-8767
Scott’s sizable space, known for group shows and curatorial projects, is presenting an installation by Franklin Evans, who has transformed the gallery into a weird riff on his own studio (through October 24).
*= Jerry Saltz Recommends
3. Nicelle Beauchene
163 Eldridge St. 212-375-8043
Beauchene—who represents a nice mix of emerging and emerged artists—is showing Brooklynite Rachel Foullon’s wall-mounted sculptures of cedar and stained fabric, evoking the textures and details of life in rural America.
4. *Rachel Uffner
47 Orchard St.; 212-274-0064
Uffner’s September opening for Sara Greenberger Rafferty—who’s showing her murky manipulated portraits of seventies comedians through October 25—was packed to the rafters. A definite up-and-comer.
Saltz's Fall Gallery Tour
5. *Lisa Cooley Fine Art
34 Orchard St. 212-680-0564
Cooley represents a small crop of eclectic (and critically well-received) artists, and with the exception of a Texan and one West Coaster, all are local. Up now: a two-man show by painters Jon Pestoni and Zak Prekop (through October 18).
6. Collette Blanchard
26 Clinton St.; 917-639-3912
Blanchard made a splash last October with “Belle du Jour” (images of the female figure as imagined by E. V. Day, Mickalene Thomas, Shinique Smith, and others). Feminism is on the roster this fall, too, with Nancy Friedemann’s unexpectedly dramatic enamel paintings of lace and embroidery—a confluence of traditionally male and female media (through October 26).
7. Satori
164 Stanton St.; 646-896-1075
Like Blanchard, Satori is farther east than most local spaces, and both are worth the trek. This month, see one of the area’s few sculpture shows: Benjamin S. Jones’s wooden models inspired by not-so-stable urban architecture and planning (through October 18).
Lilla LoCurto at Sloan Fine Art.
(Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Sloan Fine Art Gallery)
8. Sloan Fine Art
128 Rivington St. 212-477-1140
Alix Sloan worked as a private art dealer in Los Angeles before opening here in 2008. In November, look for a series of anthropomorphic digital animations and prints by Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault, which look like high-tech medical illustrations run amok.
9. *X Initiative
548 W. 22nd St.; 917-697-4886
A one-year project in the old Dia space, this is a not-for-profit spearheaded by dealer Elizabeth Dee. Phase two of its three-part season is on view through the end of this month. In addition to seeing the three artists within the building, don’t miss the roof installation made of swimming-pool noodles.
10. *Horton & Liu
504 W. 22nd St.; 212-243-2663
This gallery specializes in painting and is located on the parlor floor of a Chelsea brownstone, giving it the pre-white-cube vibe of an earlier age. It debuted in September with a show of brightly colored, densely structured, faintly Cubist paintings by Michael Berryhill (through October 10).
11. *David Zwirner
524 W. 19th St.; 212-517-8677
Mega-dealer David Zwirner—who’s showing Chris Ofili and Raoul De Keyser across the street through October 24—will open his fourth Chelsea storefront early next year, expanding his retail space to an immense 40,000 square feet. The new building, a.k.a. Shigeru Ban’s Metal Shutter Houses, is almost an exhibit itself.
Joe Fig at Hendershot Gallery.
(Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Hendershot Gallery)
12. Hendershot Gallery
547 W. 27th St., Ste. 632 212-239-3085
James Hendershot represents commercial as well as fine-arts photographers, giving him a cash buffer in tricky times. He also reps a wide range of up-and-comers like Joe Fig, whose witty paintings and sculptures of artists’ studios—reproducing in micro-detail the worktable of, say, Ross Bleckner or Chuck Close—go on view October 15.
13. Slag
531 W. 25th St.; 212-967-9818
A passion project from Romanian-born collector Irina Protopopescu, Slag (named, symbolically, for the unwanted but recyclable by-product of ore smelting) opened last summer to showcase Eastern European artists. Right now, she’s hosting Romanian artist Mircea Suciu, whose bleak paintings look like fifties ads stripped of all their chipper optimism.
Kenji Hirata at Joshua Liner Gallery
(Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Joshua Liner Gallery)
14. Joshua Liner Gallery
548 W. 28th St., third fl. 212-244-7415
Liner, who built up respect at his now-defunct Philadelphia gallery Lineage, shows contemporary illustration and work with street-art influences. Up next: Kenji Hirata’s incredibly cheerful acrylic abstract paintings, riffing on Southeast Asian billboards, nature, and Italian Futurism (opens October 17).
15. *ZieherSmith
516 W. 20th St.; 212-229-1088
Inaugurating its huge new ground-floor space, ZieherSmith kicked off the season with a big group show celebrating its roster. Highlights include Rachel Owens’s sculptural jabs at consumer high society—junky found objects painted gold, sculpture incorporating Manolo Blahniks—and a rollicking mechanical-bull chair by Javier Piñon.
16. Silvershed
119 W. 25th St.; abcyz.org
The indoor/outdoor, artist-run space brings that grassroots Bushwick vibe to Manhattan. On October 23, it will host the launch of the collaborative “ABCyz,” with projects and installations from some 40 local artist-run spaces and collectives.
17. *Hauser & Wirth
32 E. 69th St.; 212-794-4970
The Swiss mega-gallery finally gets a home in America, and though it’s way off the Chelsea rounds, it’s also too big to skip. The gallery’s first show, “Allan Kaprow: Yard” (through October 24), is William Pope.L’s restaging of Kaprow’s 1961 tire-pile installation—which the mid-century dealer Martha Jackson mounted in this very house in 1961.
Brooklyn
18. *The Boiler
191 N. 14th St., Williamsburg 718-599-2144
Joe Amrhein and Susan Swenson, who run the nearby Pierogi gallery, use their huge space (yes, in an old boiler room) to foster bigger projects from Pierogi artists like Douglas Henderson, who (on November 7 and 8) will stage a live musical composition of contractors hammering on-site.
Julien Gardair at Eyelevel BQE.
(Photo: Courtesy of Eyelevel BQE)
19. Eyelevel BQE
364 Leonard St., Williamsburg; 917-660-4650
Devoted to Brooklyn and Queens artists, this gallery’s season highlights include Julien Gardair’s show (opening October 17) of surrealist felt, paper, plastic, and cardboard cutouts, which look like cartoony 3-D riffs on Man Ray photograms.
20. Capricious Space
103 Broadway, Williamsburg 718-384-1208
Founder Sophie Mörner, a Swedish photographer, gives artists and curators the run of the space with each installation: Currently, Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo has the windows tricked out with candy-colored paper. Look for her tiny finger sculptures, lined up like minuscule versions of China’s terra-cotta warriors (through October 31).
21. Camel Art Space
722 Metropolitan Ave., Williamsburg; camelartspace.com
Open only on weekends, Camel has a promising three-artist show (opening October 9) that includes Elisa Velazquez’s crocheted sculptural wall hangings and Lauren Gibbes’s Poppy, slick oil-and-diamond-dust paintings.
22. Horse Trader Gallery
519 Grand St., second fl., Williamsburg; 646-247-8042
Six days a week, this space is Chris Uphues’s apartment. On Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., it exhibits—this month, a show of drawings by William Brovelli, Scott Wolniak, and Joy Drury Cox, who makes fun, oddly elegant pieces by precisely redrawing death certificates and other standardized forms, sans relevant information.
Factory Fresh.
(Photo: Courtesy of Factory Fresh)
23. Factory Fresh
1053 Flushing Ave., Bushwick 917-682-6753
Artists Ali Ha and Ad Deville cut their teeth as dealers with the late, lamented Orchard Street Art Gallery. Factory Fresh has a similar emphasis on street art and culture; starting October 23, in a meta twist, the gallery is showing works by 28 graffiti artists “in disguise”—i.e., using their real names.
24. Eastern District
43 Bogart St., Bushwick 718-628-0400
Stylish owner Michael “Tido” Cabrera has smartly forged an alliance with his widely loved former neighbor Ad Hoc Art. Their first collaboration is a trippy tape-and-mirrors installation by street artist Aakash Nihalani (through October 25).
25. Possible Projects
68 Jay St., No. 510, Dumbo; possibleprojects.com
Married artists Trevor and Rachel Reese show work more challenging than you might expect in Dumbo—Dada, ready-made, lo-fi new media. Its hours are likewise perverse: It’s open only on Mondays.
PCB worktable finally liberated from the Temple of the Zombie Spiders. First mission accomplished! Now wait some weeks for Shapercube manufacture and delivery.
Some relevant links:
wiki.shapercube.com/wagn/Shapercube_2_1_Manual
wiki.shapercube.com/card_images/0000/1826/IMG_5511_web.JPG
My workspace -- books, computers, light box, camcorder, cutting table, blanket over the windows to keep the cold winter air out... This goes along with my interview by Julie of 8Balloons. Read more here: ruralpearl.com/blog/?p=2432
The Chalon worktable is one of those classic chalon pieces that is often emulated but never matched. The sheer weight and scale of these pieces impose warm authority into the space the occupy. Instantly calming and resorative. Clients can be reassured that they will preserve their value for the years ahead.
The business end of my worktable.
Thought this unintended byproduct of my paid work deserved some attention. This is the front edge of my carving/painting worktable - the colors are years of enamel paint spills and brush cleanings, the nicks are from years of cleaning debris from my grinding tools on the wood's edge
The fourth book in my Foldable Dispatches 2021 project is finished and ready for you. This book contains drawings i made specifically for this book. You can see full size images at Selected Drawings, Foldable Dispatches Book Four
These drawings were started serendipitously.
I had been doing some color on a very large drawing and still had vinyl paint on a sponge brush that I use to draw on large areas. I didn’t want to waste the pigment so I put the brush aside and looked for some small sheets of watercolor paper. I found a small block of 10 sheets. i used the thinned paint to draw lines on all the sheets and left them to dry.
When I returned to the studio I was resolved to use only white ink to make my marks. i spent some time with the drawings hung in a group on a wall. I made myself an espresso and sat with my sketchbook. I looked at the gaps and thought about how they felt like terrain. The marks I make would map that terrain.
This idea would provide an excellent visual narrative for my next artist book/zine. I began to create a very small vocabulary of marks. I selected just a few and set up my worktable to begin making them.
This is an exclusive gift to my Patrons.
This one of a series of books made from the paper I place on my worktable. They form a diary of marks related to the period of time they are in place. Some have dates, this one does not. The paper here is a heavy cartridge paper, the front nad back covers have been coated in beeswax to give them some strength.
This particular book was produced in 2012 whilst preparing for my Painting with Natural Dyes workshop.
It has a tape binding, so all pages will open flat, the tape used is naturally dyed silk which has then been made into silk string which wraps around the book and is tied to secure it. It has been hand bound using a linen thread.
There are some awesome marks in this book, many pages appear to be maps of myserious places. There is quite a bit of colour in this book, featuring experiments with natural dye pigments to make paint such as , cochineal, logwood, indigo, madder, alkanet, lac and querabacho also play with tea and dandelion coffee.
This book can either be left as an artist's book or you can enter into a collaboration with me
by working into the pages
If you do that please share the results with me
Book is 7.5 x 10.5 cm (3 x 41/2") and has 62 pages.
GONE--Our industrial vintage style dining table has plenty enough space to make a work table for two, with plenty of space for both, AND to load it up with the important doo-dads that make goofing off worth goofing off for.
On each side of my workbench are large windows. Crazy light streams in each day and makes for a beautiful room... to work, to photograph, to dream!
Image of our new colour matched Britannia oven.
It fits seamlessly into a Chalon Worktable and can be colour matched to any of our colours. This one shown is Chalon’s Vintage Burnt Umber finish.
Ellen Anderson guides two young gardeners as thet mix potting and conditioning soil in a raised planter box, when U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans volunteer in the District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More the 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
I need sum tips for the entire front end of the weapon to make it moar N3-like
EDIT: and the scope, the scope needs moar N3
credit to Xanatos for the worktable :D
FURTHER EDITS: it seems I have canceled out of my page by accident and lost the weapon, and I have tried remaking it, and it just isn't working for me. I am abandoning this project, it's out of my league.
Chalon used this image in its advertising as it combines great proportions with a popular colour palette.
U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Emily Orler removing weeds in a walkway, during People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans volunteer effort with the District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready for planting.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbit, Chapter I: AN UNEXPECTED PARTY
Welcome to the Shire. The starting and ending point of the famous books and films “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings”.
It is a perfect place to relax, read and fill your hobbit stomach with plenty of delicious food.
The Hobbit hole consists of 5 different rooms. A nice kitchen with a big table, a full storage chamber, a cosy living room with a fireplace and a worktable, an entrance room to welcome invited and uninvited guests and like all hobbit holes it has a round tunnel that connects the rooms.
I would suggest that it would include the minifigures: Frodo, Sam, Bilbo, the 13 dwarves and of course Gandalf.
Please support this creation and help it to become an official Lego Set.
Remember, it doesn’t cost you anything and you would do me a big favour.
There is lots of period pine finish in this kitchen and also the worktable is very open. Great for working or sitting!
Sometimes, there comes a moment, a split second in infinity, a thought so great and so all-encompassing that your world stops and stands still while that moment washes over you. I call that moment, "indescribable joy." I was fortunate enough to have such a moment today.
I was sitting at my kitchen worktable, an old science table covered in gray arborite rescued from some 50s classroom. I was writing a story for our local senior's paper. My eye was ever trained on a small window directly across from me. It is my bird window. It is kept fastidiously clean, and several feeders are usually kept full with a variety of foods to attract several types of birds.
Behind me lay my Canon 7D fitted with a 100-400 mm lens, shutter set to 1/640 and aperture set to its sweet spot of f/8.0 or thereabouts. ISO was on its own.
I heard a squawk, looked up, and there sat my jay. He didn't feed; instead he looked at me, watched me, and I watched him back. We studied each other and I advised him that I had to pick up my camera, and that he shouldn't be alarmed. I got it, rested it on the back of a high stool I have near me for just that purpose, and I took his picture. A second jay flew in behind him, and I got his picture, too. Then they grabbed peanuts and flew off.
I looked across the way to the deck railing; the sun had come out and was spotlighting a small sparrow, a busy little fellow, his mouth stuffed with nest-building twigs. I lifted my camera again and shot.
When I reviewed the images and marveled at the details I had captured, and then realized how lucky I was to have this opportunity, that's when I experienced my moment of indescribable joy.
In that moment, nothing mattered except my window on the world, my bird visitors, and my camera...there was no sadness, no sorrow, no stress, no worry about tomorrow. It was the sweet savoring of an instance in time, a moment of blissful reflection. A moment to thank God for His perfect wisdom.
Might I share this sweet shot with you, too? Just a tiny slice of life, a bird's eye view on the insignificant goings-on outside our windows.
I have learned so much from my bird friends, and from some of my birder friends. You know who you are. :)
Love and hugs to all my Flickr friends. May you be blessed with many moments of indescribable joy, too.
~~Sheree~~
School front and existing raised garden beds, before U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans arrive to volunteer in the District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.