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/

This is the Sea

This is the Sea


These things you keep
you better throw them away
Turn your back
on your soulless days
Once you were tethered
now you are free
Once you were tethered
now you are free
That was the river
this is the sea

If you're feeling weary
maybe been alone too long
or else you've been suffering from
a few too many plans that have gone wrong
and you're trying to remember
how fine your life used to be
running around banging your drum
like it's nineteen-seventy-three
Well that was the river
this is the sea

You say you've got trouble
You say you've got pain
You say you've got nothin to hold on to
nothing to trust, nothing but chains
You've been scouring your conscience
and raking through your memory
scouring your conscience
and raking through your memory
But that was the river
this is the sea

I can see you wavering
as you try to decide
You've got a war in your head
and it's tearing you up inside
You're trying to make sense
of something that you just don't see
You're trying to make sense now
and you know you once held the key
But that was the river
this is the sea

Now I hear there's a train
It's coming down the line
It's yours if you hurry
you've got still enough time
and you don't need no ticket
and you don't pay no fee
You don't need a ticket
You don't pay a fee
That was the river
this is the sea

London 1984
Mike Scott
On "This Is The Sea" and "The Whole Of The Moon"