House Construction

There's also this I'm working on:

Our New House!

Coop Pictures

So this was finished up a while ago, but I neglected to post pictures. Here they are.

Coop Progress

This has happened in a couple days over the past few weeks; hopefully it will be finished this weekend:

Modern Chickens!

Some may know of our love of chickens (not for eating, though), and it turns out we need additional space for all the girls. Here are a few drawings of my proposed Modern Misty View Farm Coop. It features a sealed OSB coop, corrugated translucent windows and roof, painted rafters, and stained framing. Each end of the coop opens for cleaning, and there is a drop-down door for access to nests.

Furniture Design

So I've designed (based largely on a piece seen online - edit: see http://www.moormann.de/en/moebel/other.html) a flat-packing bed built from plywood and ash (or oak). The colors are entirely flexible, and I may actually prefer to use a walnut or cherry veneered ply instead. The bed should be pretty inexpensive - hopefully less than $300.

I am also doing my best to source affordable FSC certified and low- or zero- VOC plywoods, and MDF.

The renderings picture a queen size bed, and the headboard is approximately 5' tall.

Want to buy this bed? I'm looking for someone in need of a new bed to make this project a reality; I don't have the space or the money to complete the piece without knowing it has a home!

Feel free to contact me however you'd like.

Handmaps

I heard about this site on NPR, and it's pretty fun. It's kind of a tangent of Found, but with a specific artifact requested: hand drawn maps. The maps illustrate creativity popping up where you might not expect it, and are sometimes very visually interesting as well as being more conceptually complex than one might expect.

Art for Obama

While I haven't been posting much at all lately, this warrants some attention: Art for Obama (found on Conscientious).
I'm sure I won't be able to afford anything in this auction, but for the sake of fundraising, that's a good thing.

Andrew Burton

I'm not usually attracted to narrative work, or even pictures with people in them, but this work by English photographer Andrew Burton really got me. It's concrete enough in content to allow me the choice of whether to build a narrative or let each image stand as individual statement; I like that each picture has nearly as much individual power as the last while remaining so similar in subject matter.