Cool cart for sean: HAND CART COVERS – M3A4 UTILITY HAND CART. This guy is very critical of hand carts: “I think this cover is Reproduction or produced by foreign country? Manila rope is suspect. Stock number does not show up in manual. No snap hooks to snap on tow rope loops” Claimed to be [...]
moving katonah
Katonah is named for Chief Katonah, an American Indian from whom the land of Bedford was purchased by a group of English colonists. Founded with the name Whitlockville, the town changed its name, and later was moved to its present site in 1897, when its former site (Old Katonah) was flooded by the construction of [...]
Bowerbox : The Albatross
Bowerbox Press » The Albatross This print was debuted at the BMA’s Print Fair last weekend. A companion print to The Raven, it measures 15×21 inches and is printed from a woodcut and polymer plate. The woodcut bird, title and border was carved in aspen and inked up by hand; then the block is sent [...]
“weekend” at matt’s
I spent a few days at Matt Bua’s “B-home” up in the catskills, working on some of the small, strange and wonderful buildings scattered throughout his land. We started work on “crotch rocket” – a sort of boat-like structure that’s gonna look an awful lot like a dinosaur-head once that eyeball window goes in there [...]
Eye of the Albatross
Back when I was working on my own albatross in Nebraska, Val/ Bowerbox recommended I read Eye of the Albatross. I just finished it (actually, I quit partway into the second chapter on the fisherman’s boat, page 215 – I felt like I had gotten out of it what I would by that point, and [...]
mammoth trailer
rebba mammoth trailer I’ll add that to my trailer collection.
sisyphus
When people point out that many of my projects are Sisyphaen, I’m usually dissapointed. Yeah, yeah, they are tough and futile, but the point is that the futility is a path to somewhere new, a freedom. Calling me Sisyphus is as just so simplistic, I knew it meant I wasn’t getting anything across. Until I [...]
things on wheels
Another for the Albatross House / Mobile Unit category comes from Cosima von Bonin. I’ve taken many photos of things like that. Or meant to. See also potrc. I saw someone living in something like that in Westport, except it was painted like the American Flag. Shit, I guess that’s an art idea now. Of [...]
trading dirt
trading dirt: “Stories can be used to obfuscate or inflate an item’s value- as in the pitch of a used-car salesman- but Kaprow’s telling of how meaningful the contents of his bucket were had to be trustworthy for a fair trade to take place. Since all fair trades are based on a mutual trust, “the [...]