May You Live In Interesting Times. What can I say? The American crime empire ain't trying to hide it anymore. And we chumps? We Munchkins waiting for a Dorothy? We are just going to put up with it. How Russian of us, and I mean that in a good way, like "Russians can handle suffering". Your average candy ass American not so much, except through not so quiet desperation.Regardless, I have to continue to make things. The cool thing about me is I'm a process not a product kind of guy. If stuff I make gets recycled, thrown away, I don't care.
Art is not an escape from living but it helps. I'm retiring, which means I am going to make a shit ton of stuff. Metal stuff of course. Here we got the latest but I want to go big. I want to cast art in steel. That requires electricity, the miracle of the Modern Age, the Monkey Singularity. Anyway, latest wax works.
Same theme, Monsters Are People Too. But miniature versions of earlier works. The monster can be gravity cast with ceramic shell. The figurine needs to be centrifugally cast. Here's my rigging for a flask.
The flask is too big for our spin caster, so I fabricated an arm for the bigger flask. I think I just need to build a big ass spin caster, which makes me think about a wheel caster with a central crucible, and that is a very dangerous spring. Here's a shot of my kitchen workshop with ongoing shit and unfinihsed business.
