Pointless Meandering

More progress on Sergio Leone.

The eyes were a bit too human, so here I’m knocking down the brow and rotating the axis of the lids to be more leonine.  This also lengthens the snout a bit.

Last week I had so much crap in my studio that I couldn’t even walk the 10 ft from front to back without a breakdance move.  After I stumbled into a rasp and got a two inch gash on my left moob, I decided it was high time to clean up.  5 or so hours and twenty pounds of rock chips and dust later, it was clean enough to walk around in.

Now I’m afraid to do any work in there ‘cuz it’s so clean.

This is an architectural piece that I started on years ago, then lost interest in.  I’m either going to finish it, or turn it into something else.  The chippy parts at the bottom are where Jake practices with his own chisel and hammer.  He doesn’t quite have the patience yet to follow through, he just likes hammering the chisel in until it stays up.

Oak leaf and acorn frieze

I think this is finished, but I was hoping for a more subtle shading of the colors.  I’ll try setting it out in the weather and letting it get a bit gray.

Frog Spire in progress.

Interesting thing about limestone is it’s extremely permeable.  This means there’s lots of unfilled space in the stone and they’re connected, so that water can soak in.  What with the “unexpected” rain this past week, the orange lady’s bed got soaked.  Leaving it out in the sun for a day usually would help, but the rain’s been persistent so the all-day drying session has inevitably been followed by another soaking.

A couple of hours in a 250° oven will clear that up.  The stone is drier, and understandly lighter, too (color and weight).  Still, it perplexes the kids: “Daddy, why is that rock in the oven?”

This is the piece that for years I’ve called “orange lady” or “naked chick”. I may actually be finished, though I know I have a problem with knowing when to quit. Maybe I was done weeks ago.

Tools down, step back… there! It belongs to the ages!!

Hard to tell here whether this piece is concave or convex.

Cutaway view, the making of the Orange Lady’s bed

Best. Dessert. Evar.

I can’t decide if they’re being serious or seriously ironic, but this recipe appeared in a cookbook that Jill’s mom had on her shelf. Someone seriously sat down and created this dessert, took a picture of it, and published it for real in a book of banana recipes.

I can’t even imagine how one would go about tackling the consumption of such a delicacy, or why. Except that, if I were to make it I’d substitute a pair of kiwi-fruit for the pineapple ring (think about it).


Banana Candles
3 bananas
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons lemon juice
3 glace cherries
6 pineapple rings
Halve the bananas crosswise, dip in lemon juice and place each half, end uppermost, in a pineapple ring. Drip mayonnaise down the sides of the bananas.
Using a toothpick, fix half a cherry on top of each banana. It will resemble a burning candle in its holder. Place each “candle” on a small plate, lined with lettuce leaves.
Orange slices can be used instead of pineapple rings. Serves 6.

[Be Bold With Bananas, Crescent Books, New York. No date on the book, no page numbers, no copyright for that matter. It reeks of late fifties or early sixties.]

PaperForms Acoustic Wall Tile

I want to do up my office in this.  There are some other designs there on their site, but I like this best.