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Random fun with Cole Gamble. I can’t figure out if I like him more with or without the settings. You decide which is more awesome.

Thanks for tuning in.

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These photos are all from a Professional Man show at WorkSound in industrial SE. Lesson in photographing shows: Never be the guy with a camera taking yourself too seriously, you only end up looking like a chump. That’s why I just try to have fun and take fun photos.

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A small photo series I shot mid last year. My own fascination with ducks manifested in this piece. They seem to be these incredibly confrontational birds. It is hard to tell the difference between mating and fighting. Or maybe there is no difference.

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This bag was a lot of fun to create. It was a gift for JonnyPockets on his birthday, Jan 29th. I actually was working on a wholly different messenger bag for him, but after its tremendous failure (having to deal with binding two types of fabric for a shell and liner), I had to move onto this smaller cloth incarnation. I salvaged the llama, which turned out really well, cut from white vinyl. As you can see, the bag is loaded with features including a buckle flap, buckled shoulder strap, and should slide adjuster. I am so rad.

Also check out my awesome sig XXI.

Bag Beta….SUCCESS!
This bag was a huge step for me. But first, things first. Photo dump….then see detail below.

-bag itself-

-bag on hot model-

As I said, the production of this big was a big step for me. I did it in about the same time as the first bag, but with planning and being less rusty on my machine, I made a superior product.

As you can see I added the following features:
• Padded shoulder strap (words were a nice touch too)
• Shorter top-flap
• Inside pocket (has proved very useful)
• Sternum strap (for stabilizing when riding)
• Much taller

With all of these additions and a big growth in the pattern, I feel I am on the road to building the best bag. The bag rides pretty well, but the strap could use improvement in placement. As you will also notice, there were two beers missing from the six-pack in my demonstration, so I’m off to rest now and think more about the pattern.

Goals for the next bag version:
• Better top-flap
• More pockets and/or large pocket on outside, under top-flap
• Fabric trim to take off the sharp edges
• Better strap placement

That’s about all for now. Tune in later.

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I really liked making these.If you cannot tell yet, I prefer working with my hands and brain, rather than just my brain. I put these pieces together from some parts I found. The black painted one was also weathered by me. They are both gone now. I believe the three-mirror piece was last given to Kristin Pippin of Costa Mesa, and the five-mirror piece I do not know.

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These are some flowers I made a few years ago for friends. It was something one of my friends had commissioned, but as the others saw her little fabric flower, proudly displayed on her chest, the others asked if I could make more. I tried to produce very over-simplified version of real flowers. Things that were more like a child’s drawing of the plant than the way it exists in reality. As you can see, also, over the few weeks I made these, my designs got more and more perverted from the original “simplified” style. The last one I created was more of an expression than a flower itself.

I used to fancy myself a chef of sorts. Although I still cannot make a casserole to save my life, I learned to master the art of “mash-up” entrees. These mainly consist of whatever you can find, prepared in some classic method and served in a standard venue. I think everyone has done the noodle “mash-up”: grabbing any noodle ready (Ramen normally) and throwing in veggies you find in the fridge and chicken or tofu. Well, today I decided to rekindle my love for the “mash-up” entree and devised the PDX Roll. Prepared and wrapped similarly to a traditional egg roll, however this roll has some ingredients from all over. It’s basically a giant potatoey, cheesy, green veg lover’s treat. There is no meat so it’s also vegetarian.

Here’s the low down:
• Egg Roll papers (New Seasons fridge section)
• Fresh Broccoli (Uncle what-his-face farmer’s market)
• Dutch Blu Cheese (New Season again)
• Tillamook Sharp Cheddar (Any Market - God bless those crazy effing dairy farmers)
• Brown Potatoes (Diced, frozen or fresh -Any Market)
• Extra Firm Tofu (Anywhere but Texas)
• **Secret Spices** (Sorry kids, find your own spices)

Basically, saute the stuff that needs it, wrap em up in the papers and deep fry away.

Yours should look something like this:

Now you are equipped with my newest culinary creation (yet).
So go ask out the cute girl from Powell’s/Buffalo Exchange/Montage/Backspace, prepare some PDX Rolls, serve up a chilled glass of Riesling….and score like a professional athlete on “performance enhancers”.

Enjoy.

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Another organic item I attempted to juxtapose inorganically. This is a anatomical horse heart, to scale 1:1.  It includes the main parts of the heart that I have since forgotten the names of, as well as the main Aorta. Perhaps one day I will have it transplanted into my chest.

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Albeit this piece is not my best in form, it is my best in concept. I wanted to configure an extremely organic activity into an inorganic medium. While this is not as mechanical as one could get, I thought the nature of the sheet metal carried the task rather well. This piece is lost as of 2007, after being displayed at CSUF’s rotating gallery and then disappearing.