Time to Kill

If you got time to kill and are looking for a movie I am going to tell you to get "Project Grizzly" (netflix it or whatever). The doc is about Troy Hurtubise and his quest to make a "Grizzly-Proof" suit. Troy is out there... he even got himself an Ig Nobel Prize* in Safety Engineering. You can Check out Troy's web site, here.







*The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. (Part of me wantsto win one.)

Trash Art?

The San Francisco city dump has an Artist in Residence program. My first thought was what?!??... then, right San Francisco. But beyond, that I looked in to it more and it looks like a great residency, it has all the things one might expect 24 hour access, studio space, a monthly stipend and the thing that sets it a part is artist a encouraged make work from reclaimed metreials and they are free.
The current artists are Barbara Holmes and Casey Logan
Some of their work:

Barbara Holmes "After Hours"

Casey Logan "Galactic Tumbleweed"

There is even a sculpture garden. Check it out here.

The I-35

The I-35w bridge reopened early this morning, so i thought that I would post pictures I took after the bridge collapsed.

Dark Evil Matter

The CERN Large Hadron Collider is up and running although nothing has been collided..... yet.
What a sweet machine tunnel smashing thing. I'm still not sure what a Hadron is but when they collide I'll bet it's cool.






I'd be willing to bet it's something like this:




Or this:



One more if I can get a way with it:



I think it might be on a smaller scale, more controlled and more science-y.
In all the things I learned/heard about the LHC is that there was going to be a even bigger collider built in the only place that could handle 54 miles of underground tunnels (the LHC is only 17 miles)... Texas. The Superconducting Super Collider (that's two supers) was underconsturion untill 1993m in Waxahachie, Texas.

5 things.

yep.

Canoe

Not to long ago I repaired and gave my canoe a custom paint job.

Who doesn't love PIRATES!!!!!!!

Basically I re-glassed the bottom of the boat and filled the scratches.
Painted the gold.
I made the Jolly Roger in illustrator that masked off the skull and painted the brown over it.

I could not find the picture of it when I was in the BWCA in the summer.So one more when I was painting it.

MAKE THINGS

I have need a place to sit in my work space so with some scrap from a round the garage. I cranked out this stool.


Plus there is always room for pirates.
I'll get to my bike soon.