December

Looking forward to Rural Winter (but enjoying City Autumn for now)
Freezing weather renders the woods better for walking, clearer view and different crunching.
 :)

Underneath a large pumpkin I found a "grub" - Commence magnified Video

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(~00:02:00 ->movement!)

shadow sketches on super skinny wrists

        (kidnapped two people on their way out of the studio...

                                    this is personal reference material...)

As has been typical, this is unedited - though it has some really great bits.
I suggest turning sound off the video (traffic...)

Loupe (8x-18x) plus video-camera digital zoom
Video features a few clovers, a couple bugs, and a wire sculpture made from brazed and hand-filed 14g brass wire, aprox 5'' in height, submerged in the grass.

This was not the intended documentation of the piece, so that's still to come.

(VCU Jewelry/Metalsmithing Course: "Mechanisms" 2011 w/Stephanie Voegele)

 

Gessoed Bisque-ware played by Nevin Kight (preview)

From collected crystal clay earth mush, wedged to airless ball shapes slapped onto a wheel and moistened, pushed to pulling up and opened out, cut off wrapped up and waiting on a shelf.  Fired to over 1600*F and again waiting on the shelf.  Brought home and set in a hallway, bottoms pierced, body covered in white polymer goo, waiting in a bucket, frequently tripped over for about a month, finally hung and played.

Oh no...

I seem to have forgotten April... Oh... oh my...

This is one of those space-saving posts, final photos soon.  Right here. Yup.

astro-biocentrism

http://www.radiolaria.org/what_are_radiolarians.htm

...1)...with solid skeletal elements of simple opaline silica...

Radiolarians have existed since the beginning of the Paleozoic era, producing an astonishing diversity of intricate shapes during their 600 million year history. 

The central capsule . .  enclosed in a membrane . .  contains not only the nucleus but mitochondria (respiratory organelles) and Golgi bodies (secretory organelles), as well as vacuoles, lipid droplets, and food reserves. Reproduction, respiration, and biochemical synthesis are functions carried out in the central capsule.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Phytoplankton

Phytoplankton are also crucially dependent on minerals.

While almost all phytoplankton species are obligate photoautotrophs, there are some that are mixotrophic and other, non-pigmented species that are actually heterotrophic (the latter are often viewed as zooplankton).

The term phytoplankton encompasses all photoautotrophic microorganisms in aquatic food webs.

...unlike terrestrial communities, where most autotrophs are plants, phytoplankton are a diverse group, incorporating protistan eukaryotes and both eubacterial and archaebacterial prokaryotes.

There are about 5,000 known species of marine phytoplankton.


https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bacteriophage

A bacteriophage (from 'bacteria' and Greek φᾰγεῖν phagein "to eat") is any one of a number of viruses that infect bacteria. Bacteriophages are among the most common biological entities on Earth.^[1] The term is commonly used in its shortened form, phage.



In July 2007, the same bacteriophages were approved for use on all food products.^[17] Government agencies in the West have for several years been looking to Georgia and the Former Soviet Union for help with exploiting phages for counteracting bioweapons and toxins, such as anthrax and botulism.

MARCH!!!!!

Mostly a chrono-space saving post.  No more room for pictures currently, time for a good full-blog edit.  Turn things to pdfs, etc.

Making noises and being with people, pushing moistened minerals into rotationally symmetrical vessels, loving the chemistry of oxides and digging around with thermodynamics. 

Interest in record technology extends from photo, film, to sound. Film chemistry deserves research in the nearing future.

Petro arts and earth mounds this summer.  USA please, yes.  Ok geology.  'Sa.

Word, y'all.

Teapot made using Solid Tools in Sketchup8.  The program is not vector-based and its ability to mock up realistic objects is approximate - great for problem solving an environment.

 sketchup.google.com.

http://dtti.wordpress.com/2006/11/18/che-mangino-brioche-digital-rococo/

Happy 2nd Birthday, CalmCraft :)

Yesterday (it's 12:35am Monday) made two years that Calm Craft has been up with increasingly consistent posts  -  albeit they've become less directly about my work of late.  The aim of my energy is being directed toward the eventual mobilization of a modern library/art action unit. Semantics and Tangents aside, *yay*.
It just so happened I bought a domain name and soon I'll decide on a host :) yea, sunn
calmcraft.org
But you can still use this address (calmcraft.blogspot.com) to get here.

More soon, as usual.

Happy New Year.