CELLAR MEMBER ART GALLERY
 

belestieri has me thinkin' that maybe more of you kind folk have some art/sculpture that you'd like to show us. I have some, but i don't have any photos of any of it yet. let's see what you can do!

no stick figures, sycamore.

Uhh aint that what the dodad thread is for ??

no. it's for dodads......

i meant art as in you created it....do you think bruce made all that stuff? he's just collecting it. c'mon zippy, i know you have some doodles of tractors and such laying around! give it up!.....here's on e my son did for me. Its called "walking to your house on a sunny day"

Ok JL i raise to your challange . Now I can't draw for spit , but icome from an artistic family ,, so pic 1 is one of my moms paintings .

and one of my dads ,

Mom once again

and Dad one again ,

and an Uncle ,

All pics hastely taken with a crappy digi cam ,
but this cam can take better pics ,

No stickfigures? Fine...you get a sand creation then.

I know the white ballance is WAY off and the depth of field sucks in that last pic , but i like how the apple blossom jumps out at ya. like i said i can't draw or paint for spit , but i can every now and then take what I think is a good pic :biggrin:

which is an art. hey, dad's a vangogh fan huh? i like the sunflowers...and the watermelon boy is awesome too. the abstract your mom did frightens me. I like that too.

all hung around your house, i presume? that's pretty cool.

Why thank you LJ . If my parents were alive they would appreciate the praise .

One last pic for the nite . I took this one in fla this past summer . Evening stroll on the sand with the wife , oliver , and a cold corona .

that's a good wallpaper
 

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zippyt,

I'm very sorry your family had to withstand the indignity of an uncle who went through a Keane period ...

*****

LJ,

Quite a few of bruce's doodads are his creations. He does a lot of cool artistic things. The man has many hidden talents, and more depth than the Marianas trench.

Why thank you LJ , I had it on my desk top for a while as well

Talk about timing. I just got a digital camera as an early Christmas present, so I'll start playing with it here.

This is a bookshelf my father and I made. The Audubon print above it was mounted and framed by my parents. The wooden box on the top right was a stocking stuffer from my grandfather from last year.

Only decent picture from my recent "stupid night explorations" -- the theme was "security" or "bad security". I thought the rust was kinda cool.

http://fox.org/~vince/photos/out/lock.jpg

LJ - that one from your son looks like "riding a great wave home on a sunny day" - sweet

Happy Monkey ... Great bookcase, although you have to reshoot the picture with better resolution on the books so we can snoop on your shelves ... I mean I can identify some Baen SF, and a Tony Hillerman, but what else you got there?

(I do not own a book case. I have enough books to stock a library. I have floors and what the apt. manager idenfied as a "linen closet".)

I'll show you some of mine. Warning: Abstraction.

Here is some color. (sorry. larger image than I thought)

Warch -- the black and white one is awesome! Is there any story behind it, or is it just complete and total abstraction? I love the angles.

Here is an intaglio print.

Here's a collage thing.

And here's a textile I made. Ikat technique.

Thanks. Its from a series of charcoal drawings, they are quite big, and based somewhat on landscape impressions- Prairie farmland, but I like that the scale could be almost anything, macro or micro.here's another one:

It looks like someone has microdots in their hand.

(No, I haven't been drinking...yet.)

Good stuff, Warch!

Can you tell I'm killing time till I can leave work?

I can see through the back of someone's head into their brain...

One more then its adult beverage time! sexy!

Did you guys notice that warch freakin rocks?! Too bad Ogg isn't here to explain it all to us.

That last one is a myopic hairy eyeball, with an astygmatism.

It reminds me of the cover of Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante CD.

I am not sorry that i had an uncle that went thru a Keane period . As ANY artist can tell you there is a period where they replecate other atrist works to get their methods right . He died befor he could come to fruition however. So there are DAMN few of his works in existance :(

And there is NO denying that Bruce has the dodadest dodads of ALL dodadnum. I pointed out to LJ that there was a dodad thread already. I took his responce to imply that he wanted to see some of the creations from fellow cellerites .
I would like to see some closeups of the joints of Griffs timber frame house. I see that as art .
And more of Beasts' pottery .
InMyHumbleOpinion .:D

I'm not at all dissing your uncle, zip, I'm sorry if it came across that way.

Speaking as someone whose artistic talents are not of the making recognizable pictures on paper with pencil variety, I respect ANY artistic endeavor.

That doesn't stop me from making fun of Keane, though. It's pretty much a life long aversion.

Wolf, Thats ok . Every body has their own tastes .
LJ liked one of my sun sets from FLA , here is another . The Schmootzy scmears are from my digi cam lense.

One of my favorite photos...I took this photo of the Sears Tower in Chicago while laying on the sidewalk on South Wacker Drive (February 1998)...

And this one would have been perfict exept for the MFin flash .

these 2 pics need some explaination . I was on a fly fishing Club outing, fishing with a friends rod that they had just finished building , the whole club ( 100+ folks ) was watching , and lo and behold i cought a fish . They all cheered for me , thus the shit eating grin on my face .

I fought the fish and got him in , they ALL cheered again . thus the bow . Then i proceded to fall flat on my ass in the river infront of god and every body. :3eye:
There was a club member with a cam on the shore with an auto winder and a telefoto lense . He got the WHOLE sequense on film. These are the only 2 he thought i would want . I told him i wanted the WHOLE thing , me falling and all .
I meen HELL if you can't laugh at your self WHO the can you laugh at ???
This was a few years ago and i haven't heard from him since .

here is pic #2 ,

Actually Zip, that sunset one is great, regardless of the flash issue. It has that "scorched earth" look to it, which is very cool.

Why thank you SYC :D :D

zippyt -
dodadnum is the coolest word I've heard in a while - :)

You asked for it
 

This is the beam that helps keep the rafter from flexing under load while resisting spreading. I made it with a half-lap dovetail joint pegged with an oak trenail (peg).

http://home.epix.net/~griffins/CathHalfLap.jpg

This is the corner above the "cure couch" the knee brace keeps the weight of the roof from flexing the post above the joint for the first bent.

http://home.epix.net/~griffins/Corner.jpg

This is the south post on the 2nd bent. You can see the joists going into the main beam as well as the brace which protects the shouldered tongue which goes into the post.

http://home.epix.net/~griffins/ThirdBent.jpg

I'm not visually artistic, I'm aurally artistic, but I've posted a couple of links to some of the work I've done and didn't get any response. Either I suck, or the file size is intimidating... :confused:

aurally + artistic = autistic ?

Thank you Mr. Griff !!!!!
I have seen your web site with the pics of you makeing your house . How did you get the design for the house ?? did you make it , or did you hire the design out ??
This is what I like , functional art :D :D

You're welcome zip! Considering the number of hours I've put into her, I'm always happy to explain what I've been tooling away at. I read the books and designed the frame around what we wanted to include. A professional architect would have kept me out of trouble but its not the same as doing the whole process.

Sorry, I don't think I have any Baen SF or Tony Hillerman. It seems to be mostly Ace, Bantam, Del Rey, or Tor SF.

It is primarily everything I could get by Larry Niven and Neil Gaiman, sprinkled with some Tolkien, Asimov, E.E. "Doc" Smith, Stephen Donaldson, Neal Stephenson, and Robert Anton Wilson.

There's another (Ikea-style) bookshelf in another room. It's got textbooks, reference books, children's books, and a full shelf of books I haven't read yet. Both shelves are almost full, so my dad and I are in the process of making a new one 8 feet wide by 6 feet tall. Should last a while.

Coming up soon: My enertainment center.

Entertainment Center:

Another project my father and I made.

Computer Desk:

Keyboard drawer closed:

Keyboard drawer open:

Dining Room Table:

Another project with my father. My mother and sister restored the chairs.

HM,
Verry nice furniture , well made , nice detailes , nice choice of wood and stains. I don't quite get the "stripper tassle "pulls on the computer desk though . But hey , to each his own .
Nice work ;) ;)

Happy Monkey is hearby invited to do all the finish work in my house.