Today I got to spend some time with my freind Seth. his brother Stefan died 4 days ago . You can read about Stefan here http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/burlingtonfreepress/obituary.aspx?n=stefan-pierson&pid=175999230 Stefan lived with cancer for  four years .  .. I just stopped myself from using the normal words there ‘battling’ , ‘fighting’.. because what Stefan did s live with it.. Throughout his disease he kept pushing forward.. when he got the prognosis last year that his cancer was terminal, he decide to go to the World cup in Brazil.. then he got married.. he was living ! .

 

Today Seth and Hannah met me at the generator. A friend of Stefans had made a beautiful Maple box to hold Stefans ashes. Seth wanted to put Stefans face and a quote on the top. Luckily there were serval folks in the Generator that new the Laser better than we did .. (Thanks Gemmi, Brooke, Alex)..  We had only hd one chance to get it right on the box itself.

Hannah did the photoshop to get the contrast right

 

we tried a bunch of different combinations of power, speed, dithering styles and resolution on wood scraps.. the thought thing is.. all wood responds to the laser differently

 

we had quite a crowd at times.. folks understood how important this was to Seth and his family .

 

finally we were ready to go

 

It really came out great.. it made me really happy and really sad

tomorrow is Stefans memorial service..   It’s going to be tough..

night all, night sam

-me