Here is where I am recording the July 2012 configuration of my display at Coyote Counter Collective. 423 40th street in Oakland. This month I’m showing framed prints on cardboard, Michelle’s beach print on pine, and a mini installation of wooden tiles.
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Mystery tiles, out of order, for the time being.
Hello. I recently completed a small commission to develop this photo into a series of prints, using only nine planks of laminated pine and one slice of homemade Ranier cherry pie:
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The commissioner? My sister Michelle. The event? Her birthday in July. The final prints can be found in my objects section. Here is a small sample:
The art of instant gratification has come a long way since 1977, but this peel-apart Polaroid of my parents and I taken this weekend is pretty much perfect.
After sitting around the kitchen counter for the better part of a week developing a rind, my first homemade cheese is waxed.
Here’s the new Hillside logo, looking natural and at ease on the hips of chef Tony Ferarri‘s Vespa scooter.
Here is the photo dispatch from my first all-grain beer crafting experience, brewed on location in Vallejo with Sir Thomas.
Utilizing thirty pounds of grain and almost one pound of hops for a mere ten gallons of beer, this has to be one of the more triumphantly excessive beer recipes I will ever pursue. That’s why I am writing it out here :
Grain Bill
22 lbs American two row malted barley
2 lbs Munich
1/2 lb Aromatic (what the hell is this?)
1 lbs 50-60 Brit.
1/2 lb Cara Muncih
1/4 lb Black Patent Chocolate Malt
1 lb Cara Pils
2 lbs 15L Crystal Malt
2 lbs 50L Crystal Malt
Hops Bill
2 oz Nothern Brewer (bittering)
2 oz Amarillo
2 oz Amarillo
8 oz Cascae (Dry Hopping)
Yeast
2 vials California 001 Ale Yeast
Laudered at 158°F, Preboil specific gravity: ~1.057
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Check it out:
Our first retail license at Coyote!
And I have been finding our screen printed signs popping up all around the Temescal environs of Oak-land.
All of this activity coincided with our grand opening party last night. To mark the occasion, EB and I printed some shirts re-appropriated by Rachel H.
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Thank you to the devoted lot who stopped by to mark the occasion.
My just-completed voyage to the US easternlands resulted in some interesting artifact finds at home, as well as the creation of some new ones. Now I am back.
Some pictures of note:
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And finally, a video of me and Danny dominating The Looper at Knoebels in Elysburg:
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