WHAT PASSES FOR IRONY AROUND HERE
Truth is, Dexter is more like the ProjectCalc Plus and "Dave" is more like the piece of steel tubing with the duct tape handle.
Sandwiches
DB CUTOUTS
We had these db cutouts made for the new fence out front—yes, the gate is coming soon—and we sent them off to the powder coater this week with a couple custom tables for our friends at Futuristic Films. The d will be our standard cream and the b our standard blue. Very fresh indeed, especially against a rusted steel backdrop. As soon as we mount them we'll no doubt post up the smashing results.
MILLARD TILLMAN MAKES PRETTY LIGHTNING
The final section of the canopy over the pad outside the shop is up and the thing is fucking gorgeous. Seriously, it is. Sure, the roof it replaced was a saggy bit of underbuilt sadness, so most anything would be an improvement. But really, this thing is lovely, at least as far as roofs go. There's another layer of decking to go, and the gutter system, and a bit more welding, and, and, and. We'll get to all that. Meantime, we're putting together the time-lapse of the erection and planning the christening party. To hold us and you over (as if you care . . . ), here's a 4-shot gif of Millard Tillman welding a piece of the structure in place yesterday evening.
CLOVIS TILLMAN AND THE SLIDE SCANNER: THINGS SEEM TO BE GETTING STRANGER AND STRANGER
What the hell is this? Clovis tells us it's a crease in a piece of tape, treated like a negative, scanned in our slide scanner. But really: come on, man. This is supposed to be a straight-up blog on a furniture company's website. You want to keep the hippy-dippy to a minimum. Still, it fits with some of the lines in that last photo we posted up and it's strange enough to be sort of interesting, so why not? Oh, by the way, do you get the sense from this blather that we like this image but we don't really know what to say about it?
WE ARE MEN AND WOMEN OF INDUSTRY (PART 2)
Another assembly of our workwear and gear, for the good folks at Men and Women of Industry (more on them and this project in a post below).
DOUBLEBUTTER COLUMN CLIMBING
Of course it was inevitable that some fools—namely us—would turn the new pad canopy into a tool for sport. It didn't take long. Told by Millard Tillman about the regular Ironworker column-climbing competitions we had to try it out. And really, once you're up there why not traverse the bit of tubing and slide down the other side? This event is still in the exhibition stage so all visitors are welcome to give it a go—no winning or losing, just for show. Of course you'll first have to sign our forty-page liability waiver and tell us what to say to your mom if you fall and crack your coconut on the pad below. We haven't yet gone up-and-over on the taller frame toward the big blue Bron Tape building to the west, but in time we're bound to go for it. No one ever accused us of being very bright. Give the gif a minute to load.
WE ARE MEN AND WOMEN OF INDUSTRY
Our friends at Men and Women of Industry have a regular feature called "Off the Hanger" wherein they showcase clothing, gear, accessories and sundries organized around a character, idea, activity, or what-have-you. Click through to their site and scroll around to see what we mean. Anyway, they did a bit on us and here's what we sent them. Work wear—none of it too clean—off our bodies and some gear from our shop. Why? Who knows.