Posted by on under christoph niemann, craft magazines, evening hours, coffeemaker, creative director, art director, lunchtime, illustrator, drawings, pot, coffee |

Daniel Carter, creative director of MAKE and CRAFT magazines, told me about illustrator Christoph Niemann's remarkable coffee-on-napkin drawings. When I was 21 I worked as an intern at a magazine. The art director and I would brew a gigantic pot of coffee around 9 a.m. to help us get through the day. The pot would simmer in the coffeemaker, and through evaporation the coffee strengthened noticeably at lunchtime. In the evening hours, the remaining coffee had turned to a black concoction with a stinging smell and tar-like taste. We endured it without flinching. Christoph Niemann's coffee-on-napkin drawings...

Tagi: christoph niemann, craft magazines, evening hours, coffeemaker, creative director, art director, lunchtime, illustrator, drawings, pot, coffee
Posted by on under christoph niemann, craft magazines, evening hours, coffeemaker, creative director, art director, lunchtime, illustrator, drawings, pot, coffee |

Daniel Carter, creative director of MAKE and CRAFT magazines, told me about illustrator Christoph Niemann's remarkable coffee-on-napkin drawings. When I was 21 I worked as an intern at a magazine. The art director and I would brew a gigantic pot of coffee around 9 a.m. to help us get through the day. The pot would simmer in the coffeemaker, and through evaporation the coffee strengthened noticeably at lunchtime. In the evening hours, the remaining coffee had turned to a black concoction with a stinging smell and tar-like taste. We endured it without flinching. Christoph Niemann's coffee-on-napkin drawings...

Tagi: christoph niemann, craft magazines, evening hours, coffeemaker, creative director, art director, lunchtime, illustrator, drawings, pot, coffee
Posted by on under christoph niemann, craft magazines, evening hours, coffeemaker, creative director, art director, lunchtime, illustrator, drawings, pot, coffee |

Daniel Carter, creative director of MAKE and CRAFT magazines, told me about illustrator Christoph Niemann's remarkable coffee-on-napkin drawings. When I was 21 I worked as an intern at a magazine. The art director and I would brew a gigantic pot of coffee around 9 a.m. to help us get through the day. The pot would simmer in the coffeemaker, and through evaporation the coffee strengthened noticeably at lunchtime. In the evening hours, the remaining coffee had turned to a black concoction with a stinging smell and tar-like taste. We endured it without flinching. Christoph Niemann's coffee-on-napkin drawings...

Tagi: christoph niemann, craft magazines, evening hours, coffeemaker, creative director, art director, lunchtime, illustrator, drawings, pot, coffee
Posted by on under grained hardwood, firewood, right tools |

Gnarly, knotty, crooked-grained hardwood can be difficult to split for firewood, but there are occasions when it either must be split, or left to waste and rot. If you have a strong back and the right tools, most wood can be split.
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Posted by on under derelict vehicles, wheeler bicycle, pop up camper, cormac mccarthy, truck camper, sculptural piece, delivery trucks, mobile vehicles, self reliance, datis, kickstarter, cabover, 3 wheeler, rickshaws, mobile unit, artt, cyr, fructose, rvs, graffiti |

Artist Kevin Cyr is building a pop-up camper atop a shopping cart. This is a follow-up to his Camper Bike, a 3-wheeler bicycle with a truck camper on the back. Cyr is looking for donations to help complete the Camper Kart. Cyr writes: It's a functioning sculptural piece that seeks to explore aspects of housing, mobility, and autonomy. It is also largely about self-reliance and making due with less. I have always been interested in bikes and vehicles and for many years they have been the subject of my paintings. My paintings document odd and derelict vehicles: old delivery trucks inundated with graffiti and rust, well-traveled RVs, Indian rickshaws and Asian bikes. Throughout the last year, I decided to build my own type of vehicles. On a trip to Beijing, I conceived and built a CAMPER BIKE: an amalgamation of a Chinese 3-wheeled flatbed bike with an American cabover style camper. Interested in building a series of mobile vehicles and inspired by Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Road, I started sketching plans for CAMPER KART: a mobile unit built into a shopping cart--an ubiquitous urban object. Camper Kart (Kickstarter) "Kevin Cyr's Camper kart" (Hi-Fructose)...

Tagi: derelict vehicles, wheeler bicycle, pop up camper, cormac mccarthy, truck camper, sculptural piece, delivery trucks, mobile vehicles, self reliance, datis, kickstarter, cabover, 3 wheeler, rickshaws, mobile unit, artt, cyr, fructose, rvs, graffiti