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Sunday night – Dylan Peters – 2 years.

Two years ago our very good friend Dylan Peters was gravely injured in a car accident near his home. His strong organs went on to save several other folks lives..

. Dylan had been a good friend of Sam and Gabe’s. Dylan was a smart, funny and very able guy. We all looked up to him. I was there with Gabe, Dylan, Dylan’s mom Sue and our friend Matt to see him win first place in the USASA freestyle snowboarding championship in Copper Mountain Co… That’s when I took this picture.. What a cool kid

You and your family on all our minds today. Dylan.. can’t believe its been two year man..   I can’t eat wasabi without thinking of you….

 

nite all. nte sam

-me

Friday night – floored again

Another 2 AM night at the Miller Center. Furiously feverishly foolishly flailingly finally fixing to be Faultingly finishing our floors exhibition . to say we're finishing is a great exaggeration but things are actually blinking. It's going to be a long weekend… But I love this kind of work. Not much else to report .

 

driving home now Max is in town which is great he'll be a huge help. More tomorrow

Wish us luck.

Night all, night Sam

-me

 

 

Thursday night – so simple

Diane pointed out to me today a funny coincidence She got a fb post from a friend about life simplification just on the day that I mentioned I started all my blog post with such a busy day or something like that. True, it seems like paste my life has been accelerating for the last 30 years. Maybe it's the season but I sense that everyone around me is in that same accelerating swirl all the time. Everything so complex, too.

There was a funny contrast to that last night. Two friends of friends from Sweden happened to be in town and needed a place to stay, Simon and Eric. They are friends of my friend Michael . Both Eric and Simon are expert makers. They came and visited the Floorish team while we were working on the exhibit last night and then showed up here at the house around midnight . I was still working on the project. We still managed to hang out for a couple hours and talk. Then again this morning before work. They were able to show me some of the very cool stuff that they made. Eric had some die cut plastic stuff he'd made that was both simple and elegant

 
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They made things like these iphone holders, and clothes pins out of waste plastic.. So simple…
Also pyramid building blocks out of construction paper and animated sculptures out of soda straws.
My favorites were a bike fender called the ass saver and a clip on mustache for beer bottles.. Again all made out of plastic that would otherwise have been scrap.
 

Their full time job is to make thigns and tell folks about it…and that includes traveling the world and meetign other makers (like us) What a great job.. And how simple !

 

Hope we get to see them again !

Nite all, nite sam

-me