Iron-ney

Isn't just like an artist to design something that BEGS to be climbed, 

and for it to be commissioned by a committee that figures that out after it is installed.  

Berekley

Walking This morning around the bay we found this giant chain and anchor being used as garden edge.

I know, the shoes in the shot are already a gimmick.........

Light Animation from Japan

Amazing performance light animation -- try it full screen (click the little box at the bottom) and sound up - long but amazing.

Chandelier Chardin - Pallazzo Verdi

I never really posted this video, due to a little glitch in part 1 - here is part 3 - this was an amazing project:

TED Lecture on OK GO Video

I am sure you have seen this video, but this lecture at TED by the chief engineer is work watching!

WATCH FULL SCREEN!!!!!!!

Comedic Re leaf

Ok, sorry to be so macrabe' yesterday. One of the most influential people in my life, an old friend and ex-business partner is dying. Not sick, but dying. He and his wonderful wife were to arrive in a couple of weeks to spend the summer with us, as several times before.

We got news that he is too weak to travel, and that he has a few weeks on the short, the end of the year

on the long side. I know he is in his 80's. I know he has led an incredibly full life. I knew he was in his final chapter. But I did not know how deep he was in my heart. I did not know how much he has influenced my work. I did not realize how much of me is him and me of him.

Meanwhile, here are some old sketches that fall forward the kind of inflatable sculptures I am cultivating, and the king of ornament that the honorable WNF, or Henly Swerthing, would want me to be.

Heartbreak

I suppose the upside to having your heart broken 

is that it proves that you still have one, 

and that it still can be broken.

And it will grow back again. 

with this scar, 

another part of your mosaic.