Here is a pretty cool wide angle photo that Gregory Hayes took several weeks ago for an upcoming article in Make Magazine. In addition to my motorcycle project, if you look close you can see “Mandolinsect” and “Djinn” in various stages of development on the workbench, as well as some other pieces that have yet to be defined..
Saturday was Lost & Foundry Oakland’s open house. It was our best attended event yet! I can’t thank everyone enough for participating, and coming out to support us!
I’ve posted a slideshow of photos here for those who couldn’t make it.
We’ve got lots of great art out in our gallery, so I’ve set up a smaller show in my office with the remaining pieces.
I’ll have my studio open this weekend along with my awesome neighbors Jeremy Mayer, Christopher Palmer, Alan Rorie, Jeff Hantman, Ben Carpenter, and Matt Feeney. You can find us at:
305 Center Street, Oakland CA Saturday Feb. 9 from 6 – 10 PM
Facebook event here.
Jeremy did real honor to my cat Ingot by making her the star of our event flyer for our open house coming up on Feb. 9. I added the photo of her for reference.
The gallery space at Lost & Foundry Studios is coming along nicely. Should look great in time for our open house on February 9th.
So, I made these legs a few years back. They were an early attempt for my Minotaur sculpture. The proportions didn’t work out for that piece, but I held on to them in the hopes that some day I’d find a good use for them. Last week I found this old radio and I’m hopeful that I can make them work together.
This is an old piece. Just thought I’d share how it looks at this time of year in the morning sun.
Wow, huge thanks to my awesome, top secret, anonymous sources for this incredible haul of unobtanium!
I totally did not mean to make a sculpture that looked like Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars. Apparently these things just happen if you’re a big enough nerd.
Big Thanks to all who came out to Natural Selection last weekend! For those who couldn’t, I’ve uploaded a collection of images to Flickr and Facebook.
If you can’t see the slideshow below you can view the images here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nemomatic/sets/72157629728025960/
Or here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150969884489187.482278.66801769186&type=1
I’ve put it off for a long time now but I finally moved my mailing list over to Mail Chimp. If you’re not already on it, please consider signing up. I promise to use it sparingly, and only to announce things I think you’ll want to hear about like new work, shows, etc.
Thanks!
The mornings haul. I’m feeling fortunate to have had yet another visit from the broken violin fairy. The Zither is pretty cool too.
Motorcycle disc brake assembly + electric drill handle = geriatric robot.
This is a “tree” made from an industrial dough mixing blade and several motorcycle parts. The little tabs with holes are for mounting a little creature which will “climb” the tree.
This welding clamp is one of the most useful things I’ve ever made. It’s like a shop assistant that I don’t have to pay!
One of my older (2005) insect pieces was included in a pretty cool survey of wasp themed sculptures over at Environmental Graffiti today:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/art/news-10-amazing-recycled-steampunk-wasps
Oh boy! Just got a box full of horrible taxidermy eyes in the mail! Think of all the nightmares I can make with these.
Motorcycle disc brake caliper assembly on its way to becoming a monkey-monster-thing.
This is the second time Wired Magazine has printed this photo (this time in their UK version) without bothering to credit me or my sculpture. The image is used to support an article about Andy Rubin (he’s the one wearing pants), the man behind the Android operating system. Is it too much to ask that Art be considered as intellectual property, or at least valued in some way like every other business? I mean, come on, they’re printing a picture of a giant, anatomically correct, gun toting robot. Why bother even staging such a photo if it’s image isn’t compelling enough to warrant some kind of interest from their readers? Why not do the honorable thing and at least mention the guy who spent countless hours and dollars creating the thing? How hard is it to print a tiny little image credit?
O.K. done ranting now.
Finally finished replacing the motor bearings and belts in my lathe. What a job, it was like cracking a Swiss safe! Big thanks to the human Wendell, and to a lesser extent the cat Ingot. I couldn’t have done it without you guys.
This little machine will be installed in the head of the large cyclops-octopus-robot thing I’m working on. Its made from a truck wheel hub, a candle holder, the motor from a dollar bill intake machine, some LEDs, and a few other random parts.
“Above it All” and “Conganaut” leaving the nest. Sometimes the crating of a piece is nearly as challenging as making it in the first place.
I’ve been working on a simple little machine to cause an eyeball to track back and forth. So far so good. LED light effects coming up next.
This mechanism causes the head of my new “octo-thing” to rock back and forth. A good amount of energy went into the mattress spring suspension joints for each tentacle. At this stage though the machine is too smooth to make use of the springs. I may have to re-work things to get better results.
This is a combined haul from the flea market, scrap yard, etc. I’m on a junk binge.
About 100 cabinet knobs and 2 rocking chairs generously gave their lives to the cause of making tentacles for my new piece. It’s been a tedious process that I hope to wrap up today.
Making some progress on my latest octo-thingy. Had to cut down the height of each radio cabinet about 20% to get the proportions right. I think it looks much better now.
I just got some photos of the Blooom fair in Cologne from the folks at Strychnin Gallery. It looks like it was a terrific show, I’m sorry I wasn’t able to be there myself.
http://strychningallery.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/update-from-art-fair-blooom-in-cologne/
My piece “Re: Animated” at Varnish’s Relaunch Part II opening last week. Despite what this image suggests, the show was actually full of great sculpture by many different artists.
Last weekend marked the first show at my new studio and adjoining gallery. Many thanks to all who were able to attend, and the artists involved. Below is a photo set of the exhibition, reception, and a few images from the studios of Jeremy Mayer and Nemo Gould (myself).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nemomatic/sets/72157628080026234/
