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Sometimes I wonder if I perhaps do indeed have an over active brain. I just can't NOT think about things or projects. About what I can design and perhaps even build. And none of it can be ordinary either.
Over the last few days I recieved the six books I ordered from Ballistic Publishing in Austrailia. They feature the best digital art from all over the planet. The editors tout it as the best in the known universe... and I BELIEVE it too.
You can just imagine how my brain kicks into overtime when it is stimulated by reading and looking at SIX whole books filled to the brim with far out ideas from artists from around the world. The works in the books are juried and the published work is the best from thousands of submissions. (and yes I have entered a few pieces for consideration in the next publication)
On top of that the artists featured in the book have their websites listed as well... and YUP there's a whole lot MORE stimulation there for my overactive brain. Like I need it.
My sketchbooks are the gathering place for my ideas and thoughts... some small scribbles, fragments of what I've seen, assembled in whole new ways.... others totally original ideas.
I now have a ton of new ideas which will appear in upcoming projects. Others will languish in the sketchbooks, to be reworked time and time again until I have a project that needs them.
Other ideas still lurk in my subconcious still forming. I know they are there, and I can vaguely visualize the concepts. Sometime soon when I have a quiet moment they will pop into focus, ready for recording in my handy, dandy sketchbook and ready to come into being in the real world.
Its exciting, distracting, exhilarating, laborious, fun and a hundred other things all at once. My mind simply won't sit still.
On top of that I have a few projects patiently waiting on ideas not yet fully formed. One is the interior door in my design studio. I know exactly what I want, but have not YET been able to design it right. The ideas are there I know, lurking in my subconcious, just below the level I can articulate them.
I know I will come up with the perfect solution... and soon. In the meantime I try and concentrate on the other jobs which MUST be done.
Trying to be mellow in soggy Yarrow...
-grampa dan
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Dan - I just visited your website and I don't know that you need any more inspiration.
I am totaly amazed at the size of the projects you've undertaken. I could ask you about a million questions on how you construct all that stuff. Especially interesting to me is the Sea Lion habitat - I would love to do something like that around my pool. Where better to try my hand than in my own backyard? I'm getting ready to do a Zen garden this spring in my side yard and a cave would really make my plans come to life. That is, if I'm not asking for your trade secrets, I would absolutely love to know how it's done.
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Dan, could you tell me the names of the books, It would be nice to have something on my desk to breeze through when I need an extra kick of inspiration. Thanks!
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Teresa I don't have any trade secrets... I'm proud to be a Letterhead. Letterheads share... (Everything 'cept my router)
If you have any questions. ask away.
As for the books I just got... www.ballisticpublishing.com they are a relatively new publisher with about 10 books currently available. I have the three Expose books, Challenge-Grand Space Opera, Challenge-Machine Flesh, and Oddworld. There are a couple more I would like to add to the collection too in time.
The order process was hassle free and they were quick with paperwork and the order came in about a week... pretty good for being on the other side of the world!
They didn't have ANY books on coating out MDO or on regular signs either for that matter Raymond. Go figure!
-grampa dan
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With my total lack of knowledge in doing something like this cave - where do I start? I don't see a walk in cave, but one in which toads might gather. More of a 4' eyebrow, with a water feature and some moss.
I was thinking of welding a frame from some tubing,forming a close knit mesh over it, then spraying it with a textured finish of some type. What type I have no clue, as it would need to be weatherproof and fairly strong, workable with a trowel- it gets really cold here AND really hot.
My other thought was to take out a loan, buy a ton of HDU and have at it with a chainsaw.
I have a sketch so I can scale it out and frame it- but I don't want to end up carrying this thing to the dump all soggy and sad.
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If you look close at the post high speed travel without a map you can see much of our structure. The concrete mix is troweled over that and then carved while still wet. Then paint. No sweat.
I wrote a how-to article in SignCraft a number of years ago. I am currently working on a follow-up article (probably with the current project) which will better expain how we now do our projects with a range of materials.
--grampa dan
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