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Jem is working with me on all of these. She is actually saving the life of the one on the right, which I started and disliked greatly. It’s now looking pretty effing cool. She had to remind me, “Wait until it’s done.” Yeah…I knew that.
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My old boss gave these to me, handmade marbles. I don’t have a sculpture that will fit them…yet.
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There is this bucket of smithereens in my shop area. A bit before Christmas my 4-year-old nephew was down there looking at my rolling ball sculpture stuff. He saw this bucket and asked, “Uncle Tom, why are you saving those rocks?” I laughed, because, quite obviously, I was not saving them! They were trash, leftovers from a (de)construction project that dad had helped me with way back two or three years ago when we had made some work space for me in the basement. I mean, yeah, I’d had them for…several…years….but…..I……wasn’t………uh……..saving…………them.
I thought about it, and realized no traveling smithereen-removers were going to come to my home, knock on my door, and ask if they could remove any detritus from buckets that were definitely NOT being saved in work areas in my home. Little by little I will now begin putting portions of it into my trash on a weekly basis to get rid of it, because I am most definitely NOT saving it! It, um, just took a while to, you know, do stuff.
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Fender’s finest in the early sixties, a brown tolex model. I love the artistry in the lettering. It’s not just a simple block style. The words look like they are promising something pretty fantastic, and this unit delivered it. I like the lighting I got on this one too. Beats another photo of me driving to work, eh?
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As backlash to missing several days of photos in the past month’s period of time, I give you…another driving-to-work photo! Yes, I’m sure you’re pleased. Well, I had plenty of time to take this photo, as the drive to work time was lengthened by forty minutes thanks to the soap flakes falling from the sky. Oh well, could have been worse!
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Ah, THIS is what I’ve been going after. I think this is finally a photo that feels different for me. I guess it’s a lighting thing. It started with the dirty salt shaker, and now we have this. It’s possible that something may finally be happening with my photography. I hope. I don’t know, but I hope! I don’t know quite how I did this (other than a couple of obvious things), but I hope I can do it and do it better further down the road.
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Yes, it does bother me that my salt shaker looks that dirty, but not extremely because I pretty much never use it, which I guess is why I never noticed it was so dirty until AFTER I took the photo. Anyway, I love the lighting in this photo, which is the whole reason I shot it. For some reason I like this a lot better than a lot of other pictures I’ve taken that don’t have dirty kitchen items in them. Go fig.
Missed another photo day! *sigh* *GRRR!*