Forty-six & 2

My shadow's
shedding skin and
I've been picking
Scabs again.
I'm down
Digging through
My old muscles
Looking for a clue.

I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been.
I've been wallowing in my own confused
And insecure delusions
For a piece to cross me over
Or a word to guide me in.
I wanna feel the changes coming down.
I wanna know what I've been hiding in

My shadow.
Change is coming through my shadow.
My shadow's shedding skin
I've been picking
My scabs again.

I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been.
I've been wallowing in my own chaotic
And insecure delusions.

I wanna feel the change consume me,
Feel the outside turning in.
I wanna feel the metamorphosis and
Cleansing I've endured within

My shadow
Change is coming.
Now is my time.
Listen to my muscle memory.
Contemplate what I've been clinging to.
Forty-six and two ahead of me.

I choose to live and to
Grow, take and give and to
Move, learn and love and to
Cry, kill and die and to
Be paranoid and to
Lie, hate and fear and to
Do what it takes to move through.

I choose to live and to
Lie, kill and give and to
Die, learn and love and to
Do what it takes to step through.

See my shadow changing,
Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor.
Hoping I can clear the way
By stepping through my shadow,
Coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow.
Forty six and two are just ahead of me.


Maynard
forty-six & 2

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

-Gustave Flaubert

Its not daily increase, but daily decrease. Hack away the unessential

Bruce Lee

Pottery Class is about to begin

Soooo the winter session for pottery class is soon to begin January 8th to be exact, and i am already jazzed.
Im so looking forward to this session i have so many ideas im going to be working on.
For the past 5 yrs i have been working in glass and love the medium but i am finding more and more to be drawn to pottery.
Its a very hands on medium through and through, not that glass isnt but i have always been a person who works on many different mediums to achieve the final concept, i use whatever materials to achieve the idea. Im looking forward to meeting Beth Cavener Sticher as well who is doing a residency at the school. Here is some picts of her work

Right in 2

Angels on the sideline,
Puzzled and amused.
Why did Father give these humans free will?
Now they're all confused.

Don't these talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around?
Plenty in this holy garden, silly monkeys
Where there's one you're bound to divide it
Right in two

Angels on the sideline,
Baffled and confused.
Father blessed them all with reason,
And this is what they choose?

Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs they forge a blade
And where there's one they're bound to divide it
Right in two

Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs they make a club,
And beat their brother down.
How they survive so misguided is a mystery.
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability,
To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here.

Cutting it all right in two
Cut it all right in two
Cutting our love right in two

Fight over the clouds, over wind, over sky
Fight over your lie, over blood, over anything
Fight over love, over sun, over nothing
Fight till they die,
over what? for their ending

Angels on the sideline again,
Benched along with patience and reason.
Angels on the sideline again,
Wondering where this tug of war will end.



Tool
Maynard
Rightn2

Time well spent

I was browsing Uwajimaya for some delicious items when i ran into David Huchthausen. To bring everyone up to date, the reason i moved to Seattle some time ago was because the posititon that i was offered by him in regards to his studio. I was offered a position to run his studio, which i accepted and 5yrs later here i am in seattle, but to make a long story short, his Studio is where i learned every facet to Cold Working glass, to this day the time and experience i attained at the studio was priceless. I have moved on since then but still cherish the time spent.
Anyhow he asked if i had any free time to which i informed him that i had only weekends due to fulltime work during the week and my studio in the evenings. He accepted and said he would love for me to put some time in on the weekends. So i started spending some time in the studio on the weekends. It hit me when i walked in that i had a connections with his pieces because i had made almost 3 years worth of gallery work for him. I would begin them and see them all the way through.
The pieces take roughly 3-4 months per piece to make because of the nature of his pieces. Upon entering the studio it was like seeing lost children, I hadnt seen some the pieces and the newer pieces for some time in the stages of being fabricated, they all look like diamonds in the rough waiting to be touched, worked, machined and designed and polished.

PixelRoller

The "PixelRoller" project is a collabortive investigation into a new creative tool between Stuart Wood MA (RCA) Interaction Design and Florian Ortkrass MA (RCA) Design Products.

PixelRoller is a paint roller that paints pixels, designed as a rapid response printing tool specifically to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces. The content is applied in continuous strokes by the user. PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld “printer”, based around the ergonomics of a paintroller, that lets you create the images by your own hand.

http://random-international.squarespace.com/pixelroller-overview/