That big FKAB box along with all my other treasures packed away are driving me crazy. The cold, bare, damp dungeon (basement) where my computer and office is currently set up is a big motivation as well.
So with Janis' blessing it was time to go on another spending spree for materials for the new studio.
I've decided to build my desk of solid steel. I am welding up the tubing and sheet stock to make a very sturdy desk. It's twenty-two feet long and wraps around the huge curved windowed wall that looks out to the mountains. We poured the supports into the concrete walls so it is freestanding without any legs. I am going to patina it to age it to warm rusty colors and then wax it for a final working finish. The base board heaters are down at my feet so the working surface should stay warm even though it's metal.
I picked up 20 sheets of oak plywood today too for the new built-in bookshelves. This huge wall is where the FKAB panel will be proudly be displayed along with lots of the other treasures I've picked up in my travels over the years. Books will live there too.
I'll start the concrete & steel, knarly, oversize bonsai tree today as well, which will 'grow' beside the stairs between the two levels of the studio. It needs to be started so I can put up the railing to get our occupancy permit at long last.
I'll post some pics when we get a little further along...
-dan
Posted by Mike Languein (Member # 319) on :
uh, Dan -- you don't know this guy -- do you?
IT'S NOT LIKE THE ERROR IS SET IN STONE. WELL, MAYBE IT IS: The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. says a granite map of Canada just installed in the lobby of its new building in Ottawa, Ont., has several geographical errors, such as making Vancouver Island a peninsula and annexing Alaska. The broadcaster says it's up to the building's owner whether to fix it, but a spokesman for Morguard Corp., who commissioned the building, claims the map is "not a map of Canada, it's a piece of art" which is "not representative of Canada, per se." Will they fix it? "Why would I?" the spokesman asked. "You wouldn't go back to Picasso and say add another nose over here on this piece. You wouldn't do it. I'm not going do that. I'm not an artist." (Ottawa Citizen) ...Yes he is. A spin artist. And a bad one at that.
