art

Here’s a beautiful video detailing designers Marc Newson’s process for making an hourglass. A huge cylinder of glass is placed on what appears to be a special lathe, and is then spun while heating to create the hourglass shape. Finally, metal beads are added until they take the appropriate amount of time to fall through the timepiece, and it is sealed up.

My friend Mike is making a trapeze bar, cool stuff – Recently, while watching me splice a thimble for the 2nd time, a friend of mine made the observation that a trapeze bar is made entirely of work… and a little bit of rope. Indeed. Sewing the covers on is even worse. I put off […]