00418 Going nowhere

Sometimes you want to go somewhere and you just don't know how to make it happen

Other times you don't want to go somewhere but someone makes it happen anyway.

Then there are even some times where you don't get anywhere and then someone says "hey come over here, there's like this little door in the next room", but when you get there you discover it's just the door that leads into the room and the only door in the room next door is the one you came in through.

And then, oh, hang on, I'm not going anywhere with this am I?

00417 Rooved

When it's hot you need shade.

But it'll make you a loser.

Although to be fair (as Matthias pointed out) the winner had God on his side:

00416 the balloon cloud

Imagine if you will the clichéd image of the sullen man being pursued by his own private storm cloud.

Now ...

We met Paddy at a friend's house. He had just come from his daughter's 7th Birthday party and announced that all he could think of was seven-year-old girl's party stuff, as if it weren't what he would want to do given the choice.

Five minutes later (he hadn't moved since he told us about the party), we saw that he had been standing underneath a pink balloon all the time, just as if he was being haunted by an all-consuming and inescapable girl's party vibe.

No camera, and so - drawing.

I had a wide on.

This is a crop.

00415 Headlight

he's going to LIVE!

but not really

i tried to steal a brain from the village nearby, but I kind of chickened out and it probably wouldn't have fitted anyway

meanwhile the queue for the boxes is growing:

patience, my pretties

surely no one actually talks like that

00414 L' M' UUUUT!

'course he might have said something else. It's hard to hear when they're so tiny.

00413 All shapes and sizes, but always two wheels

A recent surge of interest in cycling has been brewing in my shed and legs.

First of all there's this holiday to Jersey which makes me want to clean the steed:

There's nothing like silvery chains and sprokets to make you feel new again.


Then it's off for three (ish) days of cycling, CYCLING and fine wines (the upper case is for tall bike riders).

Next up, the respray and leather goodies.

00412 Paper

That sinking feeling:

It's only a matter of time before you're going to have to ask "What would McGyver do?"

00411 Track it

Make is running an article calling for readers of their blog to chime in with what things they are tracking and how.
Naturally it immediately makes me think "what can I make to help me track stuff?". And so begins another loose end waiting to be tied up. I've got some really cheap seven segment displays arriving in the post today, I've got microprocessors hanging around. The world is my data filled oyster, waiting to be analysed.

How awesome.

How terribly geek.

00410 Make it

If you don't love Make, then you should.

And if you still don't, then have some of my love for it. I've got plenty.

And this is just one of the gazillion reasons why.

It's not a sexual thing, ok?

Here, have another hug, just to get you going:

No? OK, suit yourself, then.

00409 Mini plane

Mini planes are go:



That one was, like, an hour in the making.

I've seriously got to re-evaluate the use of my time.

00408 Hug?

Sometimes you just feel down and the only way you're going to get out of that nose dive is if someone is there for you. I mean, really there for you. You know, someone who'll just come straight out and say "I love you man".

Other times you just want them to piss off.

Usually if you have a hangover.

00407 I don't know jack

Nobody knows jack.

Until you're staring down the barrel:

Now you too know jack.

Fear it.

(unless you are more than 2" in height, in which case don't worry)

00406 Spring sticks

With the advent of Spring and it's clement environs comes the inception of the usual stickery (pooh stylie):

More fiddlings imminent.

00405 It's all in the mind

It's all rattling around in there and if you stick a tube in my ear and look down it, you'll see loads of drawings.

Eventually it seeps out through my hands. Bit by bit.

So this is really just a list of manual secretions:

Coffee table becomes dining table
Ottoman becomes coffee table and cushion
Moulded stuff around USB flash drive
Decoupage
Glass shark in a box
Rocket with wood and copper pipe
Wood, glass and plastic mix table
Jar full of heads
Glass cast in resin
Frames with lights behind pointing at the wall
Rockets out of valves
Tea light holders - mdf
Light socket stuff - frames, lights
Glass game boards with photocopied sheets underneath the glass
Picture frame - metaframe
Solar stone polisher
Wind powered stone polisher
Beambots
Robot/beambots for sand drawing
Bone breadsticks
"Daisy chain" breadsticks
Sparebot bookends
Cable drum beach relief kit
Balloon and parachte camera rig - balloon popped with pin via microcontroller

If I get run over tomorrow I can only hope that someone out there will continue the good work.

00404 Error - Pooh Stick not found

Oh, no, wait, there it is:

She's made from stuff found in the water lanes, as well as a bench.

Mostly just the stuff.

00403 The doors. THE DOORS!

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man you've got to love doors.

No, really, you have to love them or the police will come and take you away and drown you in your own doorlessness.

Then you'll be sorry.

I keep all my business secret behind the green one. I also keep all my secret business there, too.

00402 Cakes The Show

Following it's huge on screen success (oh, wait, that should read in-mouth success), we've decided to open on Broadway and the West End simultaneously.



I should be retiring any time soon.

00401 The doors

I can't seem to get an adequate image of them, but believe me when I say that I have finally put tiny doors inside boxes.

That's right, tiny doors.

Inside boxes.

What's that you say? "They said it couldn't be done".

No.

They never said that.

What they said was, "You really shouldn't do that".

But I did it anyway.

Next on my list is to stop the voices.

After that it's back to the bots in the boxes.

In other news, I can feel a resurgence of "Robots that draw in the sand". Just you wait 'till I get my hands on two similarly sized drill motors and a motorbike battery.

Actually, probably best not to wait.

Summer's coming and that means beach, which means, rakes and pooh sticks. Probably some KAP too

In the other news that isn't that, I'll mostly be continuing with making a slideshow of small cakes, some of which will have letters, faces, random and fractal patterns, or all of the above.

As you do.

00400 Casting pieces

Room temperature vulcanising silicone.

It just sits there looking lovely.

Then, just when you don't thing it can get any better, in goes the Fastcast polyurethane resin with marble powder and pigment:

And you think you really have got it as good as it gets.

Of course, you're right, because your OCD has reached a psychotic level and the authorities have decide that it's probably best to shelter you under their wing, pumped so full of downers that you think you're the bed.

Hey, but I still cast backgammon pieces, so I guess i rock.

00399 Trapped

The first one with the coins on the top and the hidden wiring. It's the coolest thing, if you're into electronic components bent into the shape of armless and headless cripples stuck to wooden columns inside a reclaimed woos display case. With painted toothpicks.

I'm so into that. Spank me.