Thrift Store Pants

Wow, was that two months?  Whoosh, gone.  The past does not exist.

Well, here we are.  And what do I have to show for it:  A new body of work, including a giant freakin' painting I'm going to have to give to a museum or something; a new-improved (read cleared out and expanded) studio; a new-improved office (read moved out of the studio); and three pairs of thrift store pants I picked up while on vacation in Connecticut.  I'm particularly excited about the pants.

Let me describe them to you:

1. 1960s grey pinstripe suit bottoms, with narrow legs and a change pocket.  Nicely tailored, material unknown, possibly wool.
   
2. Recent Old Navy brown cords, very comfy, slightly baggy.  Should be back in fashion any minute now.
   
3. Sort of yoga pant black girlie tight soft cottony things.  Like euro pajamas only more ninja. 
   

I've also been gathering driftwood and other Hudson River detritus for said River series.  The oval is on vacation and I'm painting all sorts of other hard-edge shapes on old plywood and other stuff that's washed ashore in these parts.

And I have a stack of 2x lumber, also beach combed, that I'll either use to build a long wall in my studio (long enough for that 15-foot painting I mentioned) or a sort of Miesian Romany caravan idea I've been kicking around.

More later.

Picture is Vincent van Gogh's Caravans - Gypsy Camp near Arles, 1888, oil on canvas

Hermitage, Beacon

The Hermitage bookshop, letterpress printer and exhibition and performance space has a new website.  Jon Beacham has created something special here in Beacon.  "Gem," is the word that comes to mind.  For those in the know, Hermitage is a wonderful symbiosis of clean, simple, warm space, its proprietor, contents, events and participants.  Think analog, not digital.

Photo Jon Beacham.

Will the Real Billboard House Please Step Forward

Pic from Flickr.

Billboard House

Via Tuvie.  And this other billboard house has been fairly well publicized.

Old School D.I.Y. Camper

Can't afford a Unimog or Unicat?  Just collect some old barn wood and build your own "go anywhere" house on wheels.

Pic from Offbeat Homes.

Unimog Campers

Pics Travelmog.  The hand, by Mario Irarrázabal, is in Chile.

ICEPAC Interview Coming Soon

I'm in the middle of an interview with Thomas Mulcaire, the co-designer of ICEPAC, a very cool mobile structure that has just been field tested for the first time in Antarctica this International Polar Year (IPY).  Unfortunately, I got the questions to Tom rather late in his expedition and, as of 07h00 GMT today, he's on a ship back to South Africa and without email until March 5.  So, we'll have to wait until then for the answers and the serialized interview posts.

Photo of SA Agulhas (the ship that Tom and his team members are now on) by SANAP, via Erika Blumenfeld's Polar Project expedition blog.  Wishing them all bon voyage.