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Last night I completed a new computer key brooch. It has a Perspex frame, that was cut on the Roland CNC machine, using Rhino 3D CAD. I went to Mantech Electronics
to try and buy blue flashing LED's, which they did not have. I found something even more amazing, red and blue flashing LED's.

Carbon Kevlar Trilby

I made myself a Carbon Kevlar Trilby for a hat party that i went to. It came out pretty cool, needs a bit of a fix up tho. making the patten was the hardest part. The carbon kevlar has a great parrern. The weave was done purely for aesthetics, and on the reverse side, the pattern and colour is reversed. Next time i make one i need to use a heat resist resin, perhaps an epoxy. The resin that i used tends to go soft when its hot, so the hat deforms on a warm day.

Kim Kyeok: Aurora, Light as Jewellery

"Jewellery expounds its value by blurring various boundaries,from the material to the immaterial, the tangible to the intangible,conveying sensuality and emotions surrounding the body." (Kim Kyeok)

I found Kim Kyeok through one of my favourite websites, geekologie.com .Kim has made a collection of jewellery using emanating LED light in a controlled pattern, to decorate the body. This is something that i've been toying with. In combination with the ideas of Leah Buechley and her e-textiles

Graffiti?

On the graffiti line, is this graffiti?

Space Invaders

Ive found a really awsome site called space-invaders.com . which i can't actually access right now so when i do i'll write some more...
But here's a pic which relates. I saw them in London on buildings, and thought they were really amazing way of doing graffiti.

Drilling and Joining

I clamp...drill... then glued.....oh and put the dowel rods in then clamp for 8 hours to join

Plaining the wood

Last night... or sometime in the weee... hour of this morning i did some plaining to flatten the faces of the wood that i am joining together. i used a combination of a rasping plane, and a belt sander.
It seems to be working, even if it is taking a while.

National Architecture Day

Today was National Architecture day. So I thought i'd put up a pic of one of my favourite houses. This is the Cascade Lake house By E. Cobb Architects Inc. They have some amazing designs on their website, and I have always been influenced by their work.

Switch earrings

I made the these earrings a while ago. They are made from switches that I took off the PCB from my friends HiFi. The same HiFi that the laser from the "Laser Brooch" came from.
The switches make a really cool sound when you click them, which is great as they are earrings so the sound is really close to your ear. I wonder if people will have the courage to press them when they are on someone else's ears? Ha Ha. Need to give a pair to one of my friends and find out!















"Laser Brooch"