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new screen printing

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:01:12 -0800

Quick update: Doing some two-layer screen printing (not on the screenprinting project page yet), for the first time in a year or so:

Yes, that’s a beer in the apron pocket. It’s almost water.

Voila!

New custom pannier with compression straps, spring-loaded rack...

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:28:02 -0800

New custom pannier with compression straps, spring-loaded rack hooks (with reinforced double webbing + spur grommet mounting, not shown), and removable-for-security external pockets for wallet/keys/cell phone.

Backpack as Pannier

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:39:00 -0800

Hey, I already have a waterproof roll-top backpack— why not use it as a pannier?

1. Mandrel/anvil and heavy-duty spur grommets (with teeth).

2. Grommets added to the bag, rack hooks bolted to them with locknuts. I could redo this later to have the grommets set in a separate piece of sturdy webbing, which is then sewed to the bag to distribute the force.

3. Loaded with groceries: (the straps are folded under the bottom of the bag and held in place with velcro, to keep them from getting sucked into the wheel)

[also cross-posted to the biking blog]

making bike panniers

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:31:17 -0700

Over a rainy weekend, I modified a purchased bag:

And also built and tested a first prototype of a bike pannier.

More info and photos on the bags page.

Screen-printed aprons for a wedding

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:00:00 -0700

The goal: screen-printed wedding souvenirs for friends of the bride & groom who helped cook the 100-person wedding dinner. And the bride & groom liked the “block print” style of art.

I started pretty last-minute on a busy week, so just had a few evenings to get it done. I started with a pen sketch, scanned it, and inverted the image (I’m under no illusions about my artistic ability or lack thereof):

The bride & groom approved, so from there, I decided to be ridiculous (given the deadline) and carve the design in scratchboard rather than using some sort of Photoshop effects filter I’m sure must exist. It took most of an evening.

From there, the image was scanned and turned into a screen and screen printed aprons, success!

making dumplings

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 21:00:00 -0700

I normally don’t post food-related things here— but I’ll make an exception for any all-day or especially-involved cooking adventures. Recently I made a few types of chinese dumplings, adapting recipes from a dumpling-cooking class I took at Cavallo Point last fall.

pork + napa cabbage water dumplings

baked bao with curried beef

Eldash zine updates

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:00:00 -0700

With a table at the 2010 Portland Zine Symposium as a deadline, I finished two zines:

eldash #7: In the format of a binder-clipped set of index cards, Recipes (“for food, drink, and disaster”). Ranging from a scone recipe I’ve made dozens of times, to infused vodkas that worked or didn’t, to recipes “for insomnia”, “for a mauling”, or so on.

eldash #8: Volcano-Trapped! A journal of a week trapped in Switzerland and Italy by Eyjafjallajökull, also recently published in the slick one-shot magazine-by-the-dispossessed “Stranded”.

I also spent an afternoon doing my once-a-year update to the eldash web site:

Biking... quite a bit

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:00:00 -0700

It’s not a project in the same sense as the other things I post here, but I’ve been biking… a lot. Probably 3000 miles in the past year, a mix of some really scenic 30-70 mile weekend rides and a 450-mile, 7-day ride across Iowa (RAGBRAI). I have a separate “bike ride blog” at bikeit.tumblr.com.

eldash web site update

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:00:00 -0700

I made a quick update to the eldash zine web site (putting up some photos of zines made in the past year and a half, including issue #4: surly animals and issue #5: i lead a charmed life).

I also was recently stranded in Switzerland by the volcano, and am working on a travel diary zine about the experience, to be part of a magazine-by-the-stranded someone’s putting together (see this article on a BBC blog for more info).

Linoleum-block carving and printmaking for the first time....

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:00:00 -0800

Linoleum-block carving and printmaking for the first time. I’m no artist, but it’s interesting to try out a new process.

New fabric, new test bag.

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:39:59 -0800

New fabric, new test bag.

Pickles (cucumber, carrot, daikon) and infused vodkas (dill,...

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:00:00 -0800

Pickles (cucumber, carrot, daikon) and infused vodkas (dill, persimmon, lemongrass).

The cucumber and carrot pickles and the dill vodka were great successes, the others were okay.

Other interesting vodka infusions made in 2009: cardamom-coffee-cacao nib, carrot, meyer lemon. Now if only I made cocktails or used vodka more than a few times a year…

Tabling at SF Zinefest this weekend

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:19:34 -0700

The title says it all. A last-minute decision. Also, the Portland Zine Symposium was great.

i put up photos of a new bag.

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:19:37 -0700

i put up photos of a new bag.

zine fests

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:55:08 -0700

I’m tabling at the Portland Zine Symposium.

I’ve also updated the list of 2009 zine festivals with new information about zinefests in the Twin Cities area, Boston, Philly, and Denver.

grinding down welds and getting ready to paint an old chopper...

Sun, 10 May 2009 17:01:06 -0700

grinding down welds and getting ready to paint an old chopper bike. hoping to put up a web site section of bike-maintenance-related photos at some point.

To my surprise, an issue of eldash zine is in the San Francisco...

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:52:15 -0800

To my surprise, an issue of eldash zine is in the San Francisco Public Library’s “little maga(zine) collection”. Neat!

I also put together a quick page of some zine resources.

2009 zine fests

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:01:00 -0800

I just put together a list of zine fests and related events in 2009.

Bag-making resources

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:53:25 -0800

I just created a few pages of bag-making (and heavy-duty sewing in general) information:

Resources (fabric, hardware, tools, etc.)
Links to Interesting Bag Makers

¡Zombiachi! is now online

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:57:00 -0700

Hey, back when we made Zombiachi, there wasn’t really a way to share big good-quality videos online. Things have changed a lot in a few years…

Anyway, you can now watch it in full (well, low-end miniDV camcorder) resolution on the videos page.

Happy Halloween!