| Details, Long Overdue. |
[Oct. 31st, 2006|12:36 am] |
Ok, so, Myles is right. He pointed out that "Details never followed," referring to the post about the chair (see two below.) Apparently the blank look on my face following his keen declaration was priceless. But I get it now! Details never followed! So here are the details for anyone who didn't hear the results. More than anything, this post is just 'for the record.'
Mero took Honorable Mention at the convention in Los Angeles. The prize for honorable mention was $500 (which helped cover moving expenses this summer.) There were 93 contestants in total. And here is the official page for the competition finalists:
2006 Jury Results
Thanks, everyone for your support! I'm looking forward to doing this again next year! |
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| Nutsy Cumulative Graph! |
[Sep. 25th, 2006|05:59 pm] |
The results from four nights of nutsy added together.
I'm not winning. |
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| For Immediate Release! |
[May. 1st, 2006|11:02 am] |
Details to follow....
Mero the cardboard chair has been selected as one of the six finalists in the AIAS national cardboard chair competition! The six finalists will be shipped to the national American Institute of Architects convention in Los Angeles and will be in a prominent place on display in front of ten-thousand architects. Yay! Oh--prizes for the top six (which will be ranked 1 through 3 with three honorable mentions) range from $500 to $2500. Heh. I'm gleeful. Thanks everyone for helping me out with this and thanks especially to my roommates. Aside from this and last year's chair, I think all the cardboard is finally out of the living room. |
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| I live in a box. |
[Apr. 10th, 2006|07:45 pm] |
Hello! Thanks all for looking at Chair '06 preliminary photos. It needs a name and it wouldn't hurt if you would tell me if you think it has got a chance or if its abundance of personality will harm its odds. Thanks in advance!
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| Alas. |
[Dec. 19th, 2005|01:39 am] |
Last Job Update: Finished Product
I'm blogging from a Motel 8 in Cookeville, TN. I am one my way home.
I'm mostly going to let the photos do the talking. I'll mention a few things, though. The walls and window/door frames have not yet been painted. Aunt Lorraine will do that and send the finished pictures along soon afterward. The trim on the ceiling lights is hanging so the paint can be applied easily. They'll be pushed back up afterwards.
Have at:
And lastly, here is a cross-eyed stereo pair, for those of you who know what to do with it. (For those of you who don't, this makes a way, way nifty 3D image when you point your right eye at the left image and your left eye at the right image. It literally pops out at you.)
Thanks for your patience, all! See you soon. |
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| Running water and sinks....a great gift idea! |
[Dec. 5th, 2005|11:50 pm] |
Ah, snapshots. Chilly moments in time.
It's warmer inside. Let's have a look at the progress:
The water is running in the sink, toilet and shower. This is now a functioning bathroom! Only a few things like medicine cabinets and towel bars are scarce.
You'll note, perhaps, the remote control unit on the lid of the toilet. It CONTROLS the lid of the toilet. Or the seat, more like. It's a washlet! No, I haven't tried it. My excuse so far is that it doesn't have a power source. The outlet it's plugged into isn't live and won't be until tomorrow, at which point I will make up a different excuse not to have used the bum-washing toilet seat. It has been tested, by the way, without the use of a bum. We ran an extension cord over to it, covered one of the sensors that allows the device to determine if anyone's sitting on it, and told the thing to go for it. If you don't put your hand (or personal parts) in front of its sprayer, the stream ejected would easily make it into the bath tub. This machine heats the water nearly instantaneously, and has plenty of water pressure.
The sink and its stand are the best part. Heh. That counter came out pretty ok, didn't it?
It's a vessel sink. There are hundreds of varieties of these made out of everything. The blown glass ones catch the old attention, especially. You can get square ones, naturally / randomly shaped stone ones, lacquered wooden ones....
I've filled it completely (to its top edge) full on more than one occasion. It has no overflow allowance so it can be filled right to the brim. It likely holds three or four gallons. Look:
Isn't that serene? I want one. Really, I want a whole house of my own I can do these kinds of treatments to. I'd take just the sink right now, however. I would have no immediate purpose for it, but I'd treasure it, I think.
Oh, the other thing that's fun to do with these? Roll a penny in it. It spirals into the center in a hurry, but it's a good 25 seconds of fun. Repeat, and kill hours at a time!
Pictures of pennies, set glass, glass block and the new cabinet tomorrow or the next day. Almost done! There's just not that much more to do! |
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| A floor update is a down-date. |
[Nov. 23rd, 2005|11:23 pm] |
Hi!
Floor here, with test-squares of glass:
Remaining to be done to the floor: Seal tiles, set glass, grout.
We need your help! Which of the following four glass colors is most at home with the floor? They're all up for consideration and we'd like more opinions. There will be fifty-seven glass squares set in the floor. You can see the empty places above just waiting!
Blue:
Green:
Aqua:
Teal:
Thanks!
In other news, it's snowing on my car again. Crap. Cousin Zoe spent most of the evening checking for flurries every twelve minutes, and she got what she wished for. I don't get the magic, but that's just me.
Thanksgiving at the Uncle Terry's house tomorrow! I get to see my other local cousins. Pictures to follow. Is everyone going somewhere or seeing folks for Thanksgiving? If I extend a "David Says Hello" to all your favorite people, how many people will be greeted? I suspect there would be many. So Hello, all you extended family members and friends, happy Thanksgiving. |
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| Another brick on the floor. |
[Nov. 22nd, 2005|10:27 pm] |
Today's work:
Almost there! (Floor-wise.)
Oh--to those of you who called me around 1:00AM....thanks. I love you all. I will pound you. I know who you all are; even if you didn't leave a message (which caused my phone to ring at 1:15) I heard you laughing. Pound, pound, pound. |
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| Tile! |
[Nov. 21st, 2005|11:32 pm] |
Hello. Today was door-hanging, glass-buying, tile sanding day. I rounded the sharp edges over on 200 beige travertine tiles (shown below) and made the bathroom door hinge on the proper (opposite) side. Now it does not occupy the middle of the room when fully opened.
What you see here is a yellow marble border which is stuck with thin-set mortar to the ground. The vertical yellow parts look like they're set to the walls, but they're not. The mortar behind them is for the purpose of joining the wall and floor backer boards. Therefore, you can expect that upright row of yellow tiles to be straighter in the finished product. In the middle of the floor is the arrangement we have chosen for the travertine squares. They will be oriented diagonally like you see them and will feature glass squares at every fourth intersection. See the glass tipped up against the bath tub in the background? Those will be colors used in the custom glass border that will run the circumference of the bathroom at 3 feet above the ground (except by the bath tub, where they will run at a height of six and a half feet.) The green piece of glass will be used for the diamonds in the floor. Way nifty, eh?
That's a pretty good job update for now, I figure. I'll see if I can make another picture update tomorrow. The more cool stuff there is to show, the easier it is to post updates! With the progress I'm making now, there will be lots of cool stuff to show.
In other happenings, there are animals involved. Let us see....Aunt Lorraine said today, "I think you need to design some contraption whose bottom drops out at 5:00 AM and releases food to Purrkins so she doesn't wake up your parents." Not waiting 'till the end of Aunt Lorraine's sentence, I began to formulate the plans for a device wherein the bottom dropped out at 5:00 AM releasing the cat into a pit of burning kerosene. But it seems as if, in a dramatic change of events, that Purrkins yowls all night now 'cause she's lonely, not because she's hungry. It turns out that the daily crying fit she pulls off just outside Mom and Dad's bedroom door at 5 AM every day is probably because she wants someone to play with. She just wants someone to love her! So instead they've been throwing her in the garage every night so they can't hear her. Not completely insensitive to the needs of the cat, (and by the way, we know she isn't just hungry at 5 AM 'cause there's food left out for her every night at 10 PM) Mom says the consensus is that they need another cat to keep Purrkins company. I'm placing my money on the probability of inaction as concerns adding cats to the drama, but I'm amused. I think Purrkins needs to be let out in the daytime to keep from getting bored but the wild life in Riverside is more treacherous than it was in Agoura. Maybe from Purrkins's standpoint, some lazy fuzzy to beat up all day would be personally fulfilling.
Lastly for tonight, I'll add a feature to my blog. It's called "What's Wrong Now?" and features the newest fit of personality my car has taken on.
What's Wrong Now?
Well, it seems as if I've burned out the resistor pack that controls the speed of the blower on my heater. I used to have twelve blower settings available to me, but now I have three. One is "Full Blast" and can be activated by setting the blower dial to one of the two highest settings, one is "Low" and can occasionally be selected by running the dial down to its lowest setting, and the last one is "Low/Default" which accounts for every setting in between. Manageable, maybe, except for the fact that the blower runs continuously now whenever the car is on, whether or not the climate control is turned on. The blower continues to run at its most recent setting, Full Blast, Low/Default, or Low, and seems to blow lukewarm air. I doubt I'll take the time to work on this dilemma before I leave for home so maybe my trip back will be well-ventilated. At least I can still adjust the temperature of the air that comes out of the vents and which vents it comes out of.
Estimated Fixability Rating (1-10, ten being most easily fixed):
9
Estimated Cost (including the possibility that 1.) I'll make some new part out of copper wire or 2.) just buy a replacement ):
$40 (junk yard part)
Just remember, I'm not complaining. I do this for love of my car AND for love of repairing it. Except when I get stuck in Fresno. I don't love that.
Enough of this for now. Good night. |
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