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Letterpress Sculpture Prints FREEDOM

Letterpress Sculpture Prints FREEDOM

Over on CRAFT, Katie Wilson has some exclusive comments from Oakland artist Shawn HibmaCronan, whose mechanical sculpture “The Press” is on display at Terminal 2 of the San Francisco International Airport until 2021. I’m guessing the lawyers put a rope around it when they saw those big potentially-finger-crushing gears, but Shawn talks about how important it was to design the mechanism to be operated by a single person. So it’d be cool if they actually let people operate it.

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How An Hourglass Is Made

How An Hourglass Is Made

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.

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Making a Trapeze Bar

Making a Trapeze Bar

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 […]

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