The city of my birth holds a big place in my heart. Within, Forest Park holds a special mystique. After living for 20 years in a cabin in the middle of the wilderness of Canyon, just outside of Oakland, I can well imagine what wonders...
In my last post, I discussed some of the inspirations involved in the Capitol Theater. We are fortunate in this era that despite the loss of many great movie houses of old, that others still are being restored to their former glory. The Fox Theater...
"We believe that value begins with the mastery of making. Throwing vessels on the wheel requires the use of a number of carefully controlled ‘gestures´, each suited to shape and guide the clay in a different manner as it spins on the wheel. Each has is own distinct shape, function, or even design one could say. These gestures, nearly artworks in themselves are perfected to sense and lure the best out of material. Sturdy yet delicate hands, shaped by time and clay, apply the careful yet impulsive pressures that give each piece its own unique character. These are just a few of the gestures we use every day."I first started working with clay in the early 90's, under the tutelage of Ken Stevens and Reid Ozaki at the University of Puget Sound. I quickly shifted my focus to working with The New Clay, which offered exciting opportunities to work with multiple traditional craft techniques with one simple material and virtually no tools. Thus I launched a career of handcraft, using for many years just my hands, a mayonnaise jar, a tissue blade, and a convection oven. My tools and techniques have become much more complex over the years. Now I work with virtual clay. I 3D print. I use metal clay. Seeing these photos, I can feel the spinning lump of wet earthen clay,
Check out what Alan is up to over at Almost Scientific. It's electric. Photo by Nick Winterhalter...
Some of these fantastic pieces are space pennants, which were created to travel aboard actual spacecraft as a sort of time capsule and proof of passage. Both Soviet and American spacecraft carried such pieces, which were designed to survive planetary impact, even to the extent...
Humanity has been looking forward to the age of the jetpack for some years now. Sometimes the results are beautiful utopias that may yet materialize. More often are humorous and naive dreams. Paleo-Future Blog brings it all to you. Still waiting for your flying car? Ready to...
Where the sublime and frightening beauty of outer space meets action, adventure, and stylish spacesuits:
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Only among lustrous tomes like this 1926 Amazing Stories will you find the likes of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Allen Poe all sharing a cover with ice skating space monkeys of Titan:
Did I mention skin tight space suits?
It was an innocent time when humanity's apparent path of forward progress was most purely symbolized by it's inevitable arc upward and outward to the stars. Sleek and stylish rocketships carried our imaginations in soft force fields of anti-gravity cushioned comfort to a future where...