Had to post 'cos it's too funny.....

I will never hear church bells ringing again without smiling... Upon hearing that her elderly grandfather had just passed away, Katie went straight to her grandparent's house to visit her 95-year-old grandmother and comfort her.

When she asked how her grandfather had died, her grandmother replied, "He had a heart attack while we were making love on Sunday morning.
"Horrified, Katie told her grandmother that 2 people nearly 100 years old having sex would surely be asking for trouble.
"Oh no, my dear," replied granny. "Many years ago, realizing our advanced age, we figured out the best time to do it was when the church bells would start to ring. It was just the right rhythm. Nice and slow and even. Nothing too strenuous, simply in on the Ding and out on the Dong."
She paused to wipe away a tear, and continued, "He'd still be alive if the ice cream truck hadn't come, along."

doris salcedo

Jean Tinguely...(for manny)

duchamp valise

thats the way the u turn

Joinery Help

I would really appreciate some help if anyone knew how to make a piano hinge/joint using the woodshop. I havent found anything online.
Thank you so much.

Processing Pinocchio

Adi's project

post

considering the extension...
although you clearly need it...
please post your current progress.
read jeffrey's comment...

Concept Models

I enjoyed seeing your work in the review and I applaud your courageousness in undertaking a joke studio. However I would like to see more diagrams that explain the process you undertook to move from a narrative to a joint. Word associations, concepts, dialectics, binarisms would be useful at this stage. Keep up the good work!
Jeffrey Hogrefe

Joint Sketches (very rough)

Materials:

Press Board = Situated Chaos:
War is a form of situated chaos that fragments and tears people's lives apart. The fragmentation in the press board represents those who are casualties of war.

Knotty Pine = Military/Government Action:
The knotty pine represents the Military/Government's Actions. The knots are to be viewed as bullet holes which serve to remind us that the soldiers also suffer in war.

*The horizontal members represent the military and government; while the vertical members represent the citizens and soldiers who are most affected by government decision and military action. There's only one vertical member (the military) that penetrates a horizontal member (the government): This illustrates the criticism that the government receives over the dead soldiers. The other horizontal member (the military) penetrates the other vertical member (the people) because the military is the "extending" arm of the government that actually executes their decisions.

Apple I-rack

maria and raymond

in addition to being absent, you are not responding to the blog.
we are at a critical phase here, and you need feedback.
has anybody seen our classmates?

question for marc

i posted the joint i had for today, it is a detail of the 3 walls hinging from one column, top corner... (hasn't been photoshoped). i will start to construct this for friday, unless u have critical comments...the other 2 joints are almost figured out but i was wondering what should be the main concern for friday? the other 2 or the full scale of this joint...

thanks

kimberly

i just realized what is weak in your current sandpaper detail...
you need to over expose it.
the 'sanding block' needs to be bigger than the frame (extend horizontally)...
it could even follow the entire sweep of the door panel...so that it was always sanding...
you could even use sanding disks that are round...
the movement that gives it vitality is eroding it...right?
so over express this...in the hinge.

the book by milan kundera, its title is joke. The main guy's life goes in a total different direction because of a joke he makes in a letter to a lover, and this takes place more in a communist era, , when people don't have privacy in writing letters and, in one of his letters, he says something to his lover, and she takes it seriously, turns him in, and his whole life changes, because of that joke, also
there is a movie by kieslowski, called "blue", the family is in a car, and driving , the husband is driving, and he makes an accident, (himself, and the daughter dies , but this happens again because he is telling a joke while driving, and it creates distraction and laughter.... maybe these are good things to look at... there is alot about the joke and how it penetrates in a second, and changes the direction of things, or becomes a reveal of truth..

thats the way the fence post.

when the shop closes...i would recommend posting as shown below...
i will invite michael eng to join...hopefully he will join us for a crit soon.

joke.
diagram.
philosophy.
model(s) and/or sketches
proposed sequence of construction (materials and methods.)

note to studio:
you are not thinking enough about the construction narrative.

museo castelvecchio

In the work of Carlo Scarpa
Beauty
the first sense
Art
the first word
then wonder
then the inner realization of Form
the sense of wholeness of inseparable elements Design consults Nature
to give presence to the elements
A work of art makes manifest
the wholeness of Form of the
symphony of the selected shapes
of the elements. In the elements
the joint inspires ornament, its
celebration.
The detail is the adoration of Nature.
- kahn

wood joinery in action

This site too has examples of woodjoints, in construction mode and a linke to see JJ within a temple, hope it helps ...it definately helped me a bit

http://www.daikudojo.org/Archive/wood_joinery/misc_joinery

wood shop- today- tue

open until 8 pm

wood joinery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodworking_joints

http://www.diyinfo.org/wiki/Angle_Or_Cross_Joints

wood shop access

do we know what the situation is with maybe being able to work after 5?...