I had a great time today with my good friend Elliott. Elliott is a fantastic artist and maker. And a truly wonderful person.. One of his super powers is casting metal. He makes very cool casts of everyday objects with a special ‘twist’.. check out his stuff here
was in his shop learning how to cast pewter. My friend Ben 3D printed a small stylized version of our plane. Then Elliott helped us make a high temperature latex split mold to cast it. Elliott did the bulk of the work.. he had to engineer in wax channels for the hot metal to get to all parts of the cast.. and to allow the air to escape. It was a ton of work. I had come in a few days later to help him pour the top half of the mold. TOday I helped pour the top half of the mold.
While we were at it, we made a mold of a samstone, Elliott designed a pour and vent hole using wax rods… then we poured it in a paper cup. Pretty cool !
Now all we have to do is wait for the molds to harden
Exciting day at work.. cant go in to it here.. but an experiment went quite well at work.. that always makes me happy
The only thing I can show from the experience is this picture.. Who can resist ?! (ps.. I didn’t do it .. I promise !)
After work I met Diane and Finn at Pap Nicks after Finns basketball game. We love Papa Nicks.. they have great greek food !
My freind and co-worker Lauren sometimes works at Papa Nicks.. she asked me to say hi to the owner Voula for her .. I’ve always seen VOula.. but never met her.. so this was a good time to do it
Tonight we had one of our roughgly quarterly dads group nights. As always we go to the hinesburg puplic house.. Its a great time to catch up with old freinds.. We reaclen this groub has been running for about 33 years. .. We’ve all been thorugh alot together.. heartbreak and happiness.. Lots of love in there
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My friend steve was there.. .. it brught back a great story.. I fires met steve on a plane somewhere.. he had some interesting ink including some stylized atoms on his arms.. I recognized them by there electron count that they were Carbon, Hydrogen Oxegyn and Nitrogen (CHON).. My name sideways.. It gave me an idea for a shirt that I made for the boys..using atoms to spell out our name.. THh catch was I couldn’t find any drawings of atoms as nice as steves.. I didn’t know him at the time.. buyt i managed to track him down and ask him for the art he’d used for the tatoo.. he shared it with me and the rest is history
Wow.. I was looking up the story and came across some pictures of steve’s tattoos.. In this post there’s also a picture.. of the memorial stone for our friend Elijah.. We’ll never for get that fine young man. rest in peace friend . http://johncohn.org/base/2014/05/30/friday-night-elijahs-stone/
We still have beautiful snow.. but rain is coming.. diane and I decided to grab it while we could. We took a quick early morning hike up to duxbury window. On the way we notices these cool ice formations on Gleason Brook.. They look like frost fried eggs
I spend some of the day at our SOuth 40 site.. they have a great library there.. I found this book.. Great Ironic title..
My dad once saved Wes Anderson from drowning when he was a small kid. He’d fallen in the neighbors pool.. and our neighbor kid (aleksander- kumquat-george-and-I’m-a-grapefruit) came running out from behind his house. crying . and told me “my friend drowned:.. my dad heard what alex said and ran to the neighbors back yard. he pulled wes from the pool and gave him artificial respiration.. and he started breathing again..
Hows that for a story ?
Later on in the day.. yoga and soup night.. I love these potlucks
