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The winged foot and korean words
The 240 red, blue and white LEDs all light up,the propellor rotates with a golf buggy motor, the headlights are rewired with LED corncob lamps, there is a red uplighter and a klaxon in the cab. I paint a winged […]
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Cafes, shopping centres and a bonfire.
. The convoy of cars assemble, and surprisingly overlooked by the police. We joke that if the government wanted to round up everyone who is a threat to decent society they just have to descend in black Chevy Tahoes and […]
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Old folks homes & schools
Our crazy convoy tours Tulsa, noisily interrupting folks lives. It is good to meet folks from Houston, who have driven 10 hours to be here.’ Heroicar’ , that i built in Houston 4 years ago arrives. I built it in […]
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Finished!
After twenty 10-12 hour days the little spaceship’Zephyr’ is built.
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Storms, the daily trip to Walmart, and the end is nigh
The ‘spaceship’ is too big for the garage so i am outside in the hot sun whacking aluminium to make it fit. Storms keep passing, dumping inches of rain in minutes. 1300 screws, nearly 2000 rivets, 5 sheets of birch […]
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Making an Art car in Tulsa
Five sheets of birch plywood, 7 sheets of .025 aluminium, over 1000 rivets and 400 screws later and ‘Ming the Merciless’ spaceship is coming together, from 8 till 8 every day, measuring and cutting panels and wrangling them into place, […]
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Workshop day
On a hot day, in Erics garden i demostrate the fine art of taking a perfectly nice vehicle and ruining it, to local artists. Charlie keeps finding shiny, space-age vacuum cleaners, lamp fittings and vintage headlamp bowls for me to […]
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The rhythm of the day
The days settle into a rhythm, coffee, muesli, sit in the chair and work out what to do next, Home Depot/Walmart/M&M lumber, saw up sticks, glue and screw, measure, wish i was better at maths, coffee, eat, go out for […]
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The ‘fisher-price’ welder and blood loss..
Using really shitty d-i-y tools is making my life miserable,chinese tools are so dis-spiriting, jigsaws that cut at an angle, drill bits that are blunt even when they are new, and angle grinders that vibrate despite being new. Plywood formers […]
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