Design homework

Been working on a styrofoam eggbeater for a couple days. Today we'll cost it with a super fine resin then paint it. The idea was to magnify an object which had dimensions of less than 8x8x8. This is 8 times it's original size. It measures 32 inches tall.
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Michelle, America's Bell

Happy Thanksgiving, but what I want to recognize is this; Jay Leno is a rerun tonight and the guest is Michelle Obama. The episode is from about a week before the election and they're talking about campaigning and issues. I don't usually watch Jay Leno; I'm more of a David Letterman guy. Seeing this episode and hearing Mrs. Obama speak, I am so impressed with her intelligence and charisma. She understands the issues in a way that seems so obviously necessary. She reminds me of Mrs. Clinton in the sense that she could very well be as capable of commanding the office as much as she is of providing the necessary support a successful presidency requires. She is articulate! She is brilliant! Mrs. Obama will lead America along side our President; I believe this to be true, and I look forward to her contribution!

I thought initially that Clinton was the best choice for the office because of her intelligence, experience and her spouse and his experience. Now, I'm convinced that the Obama family is the better choice because both Obamas are brilliant, the children will add a sense of innocence and spontaneity to the white house, and as a family the Obamas have so much to offer the country. Thank you Obama family.

Two am commute

Foggy night riding can be pretty spectacular.
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Afterwards is always a little hollow

Last night was the benefit show for the Leukemia/Lymphoma society. It was a tremendous success! Brian and Dave were Tractor Operator with me and we rocked some Pgun songs at the end of our set. Waking up today I found myself replaying the night in my head and wondering if it was all as good as it felt. It was. It definitely was. It started with a very out of tune soundcheck, and ended with Dave sleeping on the couch while I made bell pepper and corn quesadillas.

Eluvium played and was very good. His songs are constructed using guitar, piano and computer sounds. My friend Jessica says that she plays his stuff at Loyly, her Finnish spa, and nobody ever gets bored or annoyed by it. Laura Gibson played a short set. Much too short of a set since she is really wonderful. Every time I hear her sing I simultaneously fall in love with something and experience tender heartbreak.

Delorean played next and were very good. Kate, who organized the show, played violin with them.

Visual Artists were sketching the bands all night and the drawings were auctioned off for the fundraiser. Overall, the night was just great. We raised over $4000!

Menomena was awesome. I'd never seen them live. Their latest record is awesome, and I've spent hours listening to it. It was really cool to see them pull off all the weird changes all while the drummer struggled with some internal demons. He kept clutching his chest and grabbing his face. Very interesting. . .

Ok, I've gotta study for a quiz. Peace out. Check out Dave's blog for some pics. It's the one in the hot tub that says "run with the hunted".

Building an Army

Eddy Merckx was called the Cannibal and is widely considered the greatest cyclist of all time.

I learned how to make molds using Silicone Caulk. I made models out of plastilina then created molds. I'm working with wax right now and looking forward to investing these in two weeks. It's looking like we definitely are not going to be casting any molten metal this term, despite the title of the class, which is casting. . . I started casting my concrete sections this weekend. That is a much less interesting and aesthetically striking part of the process, but still very important. I'll be continuing this work for the next two weeks and then I get to assemble the whole thing. Should be interesting to see if it works the way I want it to. I was planning on using a stump for a base of my concrete and steel form, but I just realized that my stumps have termites. I'm not really sure what that means aside from, I don't want to introduce termites to someone's house, regardless of the fact that the vessel would be a piece of art. Improvisation is exciting.

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Sometimes you clap because it's over

This is the local band "eat skull" - give them some time to get over themselves

you might be asking yourself where the other drummer is, and also what is that guy doing? ? ? the answer is that he is playing his guitar behind his back and the drummer is playing drums on the floor surrounded by dancing crazy people!

These bands opening for the Dirtbombs are fucking terrible! Wow! I think the part about the first band that took them from bad to theruble which is cellphoneblogging speak for terrible, wa that they were so serious. The second band, eat skull, made the mistake of not getting me as drunk as they were.

Ok! Just watched the dirtbombs encore with one of their drummers on the floor killing it with his beats! The show was amazing! It mwkes watching two terrible bands perfectly acceptable! Fuck!

Al and I have to decompress over a beer closer to home before we attempt to sleep. What a great show! ! ! Agghhhhhhh!

We decompressed at the basement pub. I'm actually changing things up in the middle of a blog right now. You see, the first part of this post, including the pics, was from my cell. This part right here is after I arrived home safe and sound, although, I wanted to cry a little bit as I rode up and over MT. TABOR! Man oh man the Dirtbombs are a great band! I wish I didn't have to work in 6 hours. . .

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Weird writing get in my head!

Maybe if I just nap for a minute with my head on this book, i'll be able to read and write Katakana. . .
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