Just another night at waterfire in Providence, RI... wish you could hear the music...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmtorrone/3937409448/in/pool-makerfaireri

oh yeah, the domes..

Hmm.. can't get the picture off of flicker, but here's me at the local MakerFaire RI... First east coast MakerFaire, first east of Michican, I think... me and the Tensigrity spheres... http://www.flickr.com/photos/evilkrumpis/3942887847/in/pool-makerfaireri

and here's the 30 struts, and the.. er, "rescued" trash window blind that they came from.. all those little slats, begging to be used..

completed, ready to paint...

cute, eh?

Knockdown furniture idea...

A friend gave me a store display from Patagonia, made of teak, that he saw on the side of the road on trash day. He knew right where to take it.

I found it in the back of my truck later that day. It fit together in this interresting way! The uprights slip over a bridle joint in the base pieces. It's about 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide.

Here is my prototype of the system, about 3 feet by 3 feet. It's made out of old scrap pine from a house trim replacement job, old doors, and an old oak futon frame. The shelves are a variety of widths just to experiment with form, utility, and proportion.

The design really grabbed my interest. Next iteration will be made of hardwood and incorporate some changes suggested by folks who have seen it. This mock-up is made of trash wood, 100 year old trimwood, old fir doors, and a futon frame I found two days prior to getting this crazy idea!

It, surprisingly, fit together kind of nicely after disassembly, too..

Here's the joint detail....

Here's a nice frame, large, made out of tropical hardwood rescued from a pallet pile and the landfill, or a woodstove somewhere....

my downstairs neighbor who's a seamstress had a fabric piece from Italy that she wanted to display.

The frame is about 2 1/2 feet by about 6 feet.

Here's a detail.

Natural edge Mushrooms, from logs.

Hi, a first post to a first blog.... there's a great Goethe quote on beginnings...

Here are some cute little mushrooms, two from an oak log, and the large one from maple. All are finished with a penetrating oil finish.

I think this blog will be a great place to throw out cool ideas that just pop out of my head... and hands.