Lynette is so one of my favorites.
yo eastling:
rrose-cestlavie: did you see Gabey runnin around SCAD earlier this month?
“Gabriel Craig was also a visiting artist at the Savannah College of Art and Design November 5th and 6th”
bbygrldreamz: Oh Gabriel… hint of advice if you ever do run into him. Never ask him a question while he is on his computer. Because its not like looking something up and showing your friend is more important than helping out an undergrad. Because that’s not your job or anything.
I did in fact see him! He was on a discussion panel with a few other artists about “Making Meaning in the Marketplace” and it was sort of interesting. The moderator was Fabio Ongarato, which was way cool in theory, but he didn’t do a very good job asking questions so the whole thing was sort of dull. Gabriel was kind of awkward, but in a cute way, not in an obnoxious way, haha. I wish I’d gotten a chance to talk to him though!
Superglue + cotton = NOT A FUN MIX.
This is what I have been working on for the last month, but most especially for the last three days… all day yesterday, all day the day before, and all day today in the studio. This is the most intense project I’ve had in this major yet. So much heartache, so much excitement, so much alcohol… so many injuries… so much N*SYNC… Alex, Terran, Becks and I had the back room mostly to ourselves last night, so we checked out the CD player and found Now That’s What I Call Music 6 in Alex’s CD case. You can imagine how the night progressed.
Now I just have one project left for this class and THEN I’M DOOOOOOOOONE.
![Marielle Debethune[apparat]](http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksmkv9NCqx1qz7dlvo1_500.jpg)
Marielle Debethune
[apparat]
![Sarah Rhodes[mar de color rosa]](http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksbbryVxjz1qz7dlvo1_400.jpg)
Sarah Rhodes
[mar de color rosa]
ninakix: Heatherwick Studio created this “Extrusions exhibition,” which is on display at Haunch of Venison gallery in London. There are six pieces of extruded aluminum furniture, made by the world’s largest extrusion machine and required 300 hours of polishing each. (via Dezeen)
300 hours of polishing. 300 HOURS of polishing. 300 hours of POLISHING.
OMG I WOULD KILL MYSELF.
My friend Terran sent this to me, and it's funny because it's TRUE:
DRILL PRESS:
A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.
WIRE WHEEL:
Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, “Oh, shit!”
SKILL SAW:
A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.
PLIERS:
Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.
BELT SANDER:
An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.
HACKSAW:
One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle… It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.
VISE-GRIPS:
Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.
OXYACETYLENE TORCH:
Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race..
TABLE SAW:
A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.
HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK:
Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.
BAND SAW:
A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.
TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST:
A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.
PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER:
Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.
STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER:
A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms.
PRY BAR:
A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.
HOSE CUTTER:
A tool used to make hoses too short.
HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit.
UTILITY KNIFE:
Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use.
Son of a bitch TOOL:
Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling “Son of a bitch” at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.
ganoskin: Recently a fascinating thread has been circulating that someone started by asking a simple question. What do people who make and/or sell jewelry call themselves?
You might think we’d know this seemingly simple answer but it sparked a debate that is going on several days now.
The consensus seems to be that we are JEWELERS…and that a person is a JEWELER is they sell jewelry, even if they don’t know much about making it. However that doesn’t make a person necessarily a BENCH JEWELER who must apparently know how to do repairs as well as make jewelry.
And, a person can be a GOLDSMITH even if they never work with gold. A goldsmith, we learned, is any person who makes small objects of precious metals, usually for personal adornment. It was also said that a GOLDSMITH must see the big picture; creating from initial conception through completion.
A SILVERSMITH on the other hand, is a person who works on larger hollowware; things like candleholders, knifes, forks, spoons, plates etc…
Some call themselves METALSMITHS, however, one person mentioned that she has been contacted to make wrought iron and shoe horses…not exactly the same thing!
Given that I rarely work with gold, I hardly feel that “goldsmith” works for me, though it sure sounds nice! I previously thought a better term for me was either “metalsmith” or “silversmith” but I learned that neither of those are right at all!
So, I have decided I am a JEWELER. I like the ring to that as well, although as a “jeweler” I have so much still to learn from far more accomplished jewelers. At one of my classes, I noticed a man wearing an apron that said “Jeweler In Training”. Maybe that’s me!
I’ve been wondering this same thing for the past few days. I feel like a jeweler is someone who works at De Beers or Zales… which is not at all the direction I’m headed. I don’t think goldsmith or silversmith are terms the general population understands (one doesn’t work purely in gold or silver; the name refers to the wares and process as the article described). I think I have accepted the title metalsmith for myself. It seems to be very all-encompassing, since not only do I work with nonferrous and precious metals, but at some point I’d like to pick up iron and steel and work larger. Plus, you know, Metalsmith magazine, produced by the Society of North American Goldsmiths? It works for me.
ninakix: Laura Lombardi dips quartz in 24kt gold to create these beautiful necklaces.
Tim McCreight is guest lecturing next Tuesday.
I mean, wtf Scad, why you so good to me?
Isabell Schaupp
Funnels and Moths
Frieda Kahlo
I realized tonight that her self-portraits always involve something interesting on her neck, so I’m going to start work on a Frieda-inspired line. We’ll see where it goes.
![Sara Westermark
[etsy metal]](http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqm2fq4yJl1qz7dlvo1_400.jpg)
Sara Westermark
[etsy metal]
![Delias Thompson
[etsy metal]](http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqm2e8Wpbk1qz7dlvo1_400.jpg)
Delias Thompson
[etsy metal]
![Lorena Angulo
[mar de color rosa]](http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqm1dxas141qz7dlvo1_400.jpg)
Lorena Angulo
[mar de color rosa]
