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Mar

3
2010

Sketches!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted sketches and we just got a scanner soooooo...

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Feb

15
2010

The great Reddit Art Swap: Results

Feelin': Inspired

So the day has finally arrieved! My package from B.C. containing my artswap piece from Michael Parker came right to my door. It’s a family day miracle!

I sent him "Old Friends" and in return he sent me the above titled "Nothing Personal": a beautiful piece of altered art from watch and piano parts. "Nothing Personal" is outstanding. So many interpretations too, as a beast or as a robot, as a fight or as a parts scavenge. He also snuck in a touch of my favorite of your previous works "almost there" with the trailing off of parts. Very subtle. I don’t know how he managed to tell so many different stories all with one work. He has an amazing talent.

I also sent him one of my older works which he bought for a friend’s birthday with the most valuable of currencies: parts. "Nothing Personal" came with a massive metal box filled with wood, metal, and even a speech by Kurt Vonnegut! I’m very excited to get this all into my workroom.

This was a great experience and we’re working on setting up a page on reddit for more people to take part in Art Swaps like this.

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Feb

10
2010

Old friends

I would sometimes go visit him. He lives in that abandoned building on Cumberland. We’ll sit on the roof, talk about old times and sometime’s he’ll ask me about my new life.

"So how are your real friends?"
"They’re good... Teddy and Jess are having a baby."
Silence.
"Maybe when it’s born you two could, y’know, be friends. Come out of retirement?"

A car horn honked and someone yelled a rebutal

"Maybe..."

We sat in silence as we watched the stars glow into existance.

"I miss you, buddy" He said.
"I miss you too,"

I sent this as part of an artswap with fellow redditor Parker. My piece from him is speeding cross Canada on bison express as we speak. I will report on it when it arrives

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Feb

8
2010

Me and Mr. Bubbles

Bioshock 2 comes out this week! I took some inspiration from my good buddy Parker on the west cost of Canada and his wonderful clock part paintings to come up with this little tribute to the series.

Buy this item!

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Feb

6
2010

The AutoGent

Developed by the SR Corp. the AutoGent was designed to be 55% more dapper than any known gentleman. Each AutoGent came equipped with a pocket watch with which to compare a train’s schedule with it’s actual arrival time and comment thusly.

The Titanium tophat is just that and for appearances only.

Tags:Art Cute Robots

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I am an artist for lack of a better word. I hate the term "artist" because it conjures up the vision of a holier-than-thou hipster type who makes up profound meanings for a blue canvas. Post modernism is rarely art. I’m not really an artsy person either. My wife studied art history and I enjoy things like that. I mostly subscribe to the "I may not know art, but I know what I like" philosophy.

I prefer terms like "Tinkerer", "Creator", "Maker" and "Builder". Constructive terms.

I like to make new things out of junk, bits, pieces and various miscellania. I recently decided this compulsion to build complex compilations of simple parts has roots in my childhood obsession with LEGO. My father made me a LEGO table from an old door and steel brackets that sat in our basement. I think I spent more time seated at that table bushing aside an ocean of coloured bricks searching for the specific one I needed than most people spent outside in their childhood.