Cabin Fever

Birdland

Grass Roots In Concrete

Years and years ago, a buddy of mine named Adam was in a hiphop band called Apogee. They had a song that contained the lyrics "grass roots in concrete". This is what they meant.


Pete Dungey via Oh Joy!

...And A Pool Table.

I need more slate in my life.

 

Slate picture frame from Shaker Museum Store  

 

 Slate cheese board from VivaTerra  

Banded Slate Collection Vases from Target

Where I Feel Right Now

 

  

Up North 

Eureka!

Does this ever happen to you: You see a work of art or several works in the same style and you have no idea who the artist is or what the style is called. Even worse, you google and google with what you think are appropriate search terms but come up empty. Well, that's been happening to me until now, thanks to Reference Library, who recently posted about the Charles and Isabella Edenshaw, two popular Haida artists. Finally!

Below are some examples of Haida and Haida influenced art.

 

  

Isabella Edenshaw

 

Bill Reid

 

Robert Davidson

First Non-shelf Project?

 

While I imagine the above awesome-wooden-gear-clock was made using a CNC machine, I'd like to think that there is some person somewhere who could build one of these using only a carver's knife.

Either way, the design is beautiful and I'd love to have one of these on the wall, especially if I was the one who made it. Right now, I've got my first three woodworking projects on my plate and they all involve some sort of shelving. Maybe I'll work on one of these alongside the other projects just to keep me from getting bored.

Clayton Boyer Clock Designs via BoingBoing

Wise Words

"Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences, will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed and sold to the people you hate." - Mister Jalopy

Name?

Did you know that the Shakers used to make bourbon? Apparently they made it for the "world's people", a.k.a. non-shakers, so as to bring in a little income to the village. I learned that little tidbit from the Ken Burns series "American Stories", an episode of which focused solely on the Shakers. In addition to that program, I also suggest watching Burn's documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright.

The Age Old Question

Appalachia
Architecture
BBQ
Beer
Bourbon
Bread Pudding
Buddhism
Elephants
Folk
Hand-tools
Jazz
Jill
Letters
Meat
Modernism 
Mountains
Old
Outsider Art
Personal Finance
Pre-war Blues
Raw
Running
Shaker
Simplicity
Signs
Spies
Vigor

Ten Minutes Ago

9. You are free to invent your life.