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I built this press in 2003 out of pine salvaged from bed frames that were being thrown out by University House at the ANU. I’ve barely used it since, and the time has come to admit that I’m never going to be the small-time bookbinder fellow that I perhaps at some point thought I might [...]
[Keywords: ANU School of Art, bookbinding, bookpresses, books, woodworking] [2 comments] [Permanent link]
All has gone well, since my last post, with my intra-office carlessness. My announcement (“I don’t go in cars; don’t ask me to.”) has been met with near universal acceptance (or silence), to my great relief. I had wondered whether the conversations in the tea-room about various cars’ power-ratings and other such motorcar trivia would [...]
[Keywords: A Place of One's Own, cars, dichotomy, Making, woodworking, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
During the last few days I’ve been working with Margo Kingstong and Kate Tucker on porting Kerrie Tucker’s website to WordPress. I’ve also set up the new ACT Greens online merchandise shop, Green Shop. So I’ve probably had about enough of sitting at here at our kitchen table hunched over this laptop; why I’m not [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, Miscellaneous, People, politics, technology, woodworking, world wide web] [No comments] [Permanent link]
(So why am I saying this?) I am looking forward to the day when I will again have something worth writing about (and I’m thinking here of woodwork: one of the happiest times of wood/tech union was back in 2003 when I was working at the art school wood workshop. The web then was a [...]
[Keywords: dichotomy, technology, woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Procrastination — September 7th, 2006, 3PM
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I’m lost today, lost in a dull quagmire of concurrency, Ada and the oppresive weight of too much stuff. I have an assignment to do and I understand very little of it. I suspect that I could figure it out, but I can’t be bothered. If I could see clearly the important things, in life [...]
[Keywords: Bicycle, technology, woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Often, when I’m sitting in a lecture about concurrency, say, or sketching a possible design for some program, I actively love the fountain pen that I’m using at these times. Engaging with I.T., I find such great comfort in using such an old and ‘outdated’ technology. I usuallly don’t find this particularly interesting, becuase it [...]
[Keywords: Miscellaneous, People, technology, woodworking, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
So, we’re all sitting around, I’m sort of pissed (from a bit of a bottol of beer, and a bit of a bottil of wine) and life’s okay. Thing is, I’m in here typing away here, ’cause the girls are out there talking about teaching and I’ve got little to say really and that’s okay [...]
[Keywords: alcohol, Canberra, joy, Miscellaneous, Posts written when drunk, rants, woodworking] [2 comments] [Permanent link]
I awoke this morning with a very sore back, but got up, breakfasted, read for an hour and was out of the house by eight. I had no wish to go back to the workshop, nor to make anything; all I wanted to do was read. There is so much that I want to read [...]
[Keywords: University, woodworking] [One comment] [Permanent link]
In which I work on the catalogue for the workshop exhibition and do no woodworking but lots of thinking.
In which I work on the catalogue for the workshop exhibition and do no woodworking but lots of thinking.
[Keywords: 2XXFM, dichotomy, InDesign, podcasts, radio, technology, University, Walking With Water, woodworking, world wide web] [One comment] [Permanent link]
I can’t wait to get to work! I’ll avoid transport; I’ll dig the skips; I’ll code to my heart’s content (and no farther)!
I can’t wait to get to work! I’ll avoid transport; I’ll dig the skips; I’ll code to my heart’s content (and no farther)!
[Keywords: dichotomy, focus, materials, reuse, shipping, transport, woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
This morning was my final assessment for the Diploma. I was getting pretty nervous beforehand, didn’t sleep much last night (for a host of other reasons, not just the assessment) and had had little to eat. As I moved my work downstairs ready to bump it in I thought how poor it looked next to [...]
[Keywords: art school, assessment, dovevtails, future plans, manifesto, woodwork technique, woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I get back from the library and cheer up, but have a bit of bother with my plane iron.
I get back from the library and cheer up, but have a bit of bother with my plane iron.
[Keywords: planing, posture, sharpening, stock preparation, Tools, woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have begun dressing the ash, but am quite disheartened today; I don’t want to be doing it. I feel like my work is not ‘good enough’, too rough, or ugly… Why this society, myself included, is so hung up on the smooth, square, fair, straight, even and ‘perfect’ I do not know! I like [...]
[Keywords: dichotomy, dispair, internet, not good enough, woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
What Fine Woodworking has to say about making small treenails or pegs for pinning joints.
What Fine Woodworking has to say about making small treenails or pegs for pinning joints.
[Keywords: Fine Woodworking magazine, technique, treenails, trunnels, woodworking] [One comment] [Permanent link]
After many weeks of thinking, scheming and proposing I have at last settled upon this blog form, and so must begin. Have I anything to say? Not much, but this morning Yanagi (yet again) gave me something to think about, and I think it worth sharing. “Crafts are of and for the great mass of [...]
[Keywords: art school, Reading, Soetsu Yanagi, The Unknown Craftsman, woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
