My friend Anne, over at AMPLE SANITY loves robots. She just posted a link to a cute little robot clock. I thought I'd post a picture of my little robot tire air pressure guage. He bends in the middle so you can stash who knows what in his legs. Have a look at the robot clocks.

Sunday night: Putting a final polish on some of my things before Tuesday's drop-off at the Peninsula Arts Association FALL SHOW
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Here is the press release as composed by the Peninsula Arts Association for my spot in this Fall (October 10, 11, 12, 13) Art show in Long Beach, Washington

Featured Artist Joe Chasse’s “Raygun” Makes Unprecedented Second Appearance

Ocean Park, Washington, September 26, 2008 - Joe Chasse, winner of Best in Show at Peninsula Arts Association’s 2008 Spring Art Show and Featured Artist at the upcoming PAA Fall Art Show, creates a genius array of three dimensional collages and free standing sculptures honed from his eclectic collection of salvage treasures.

Chasse’s studios, one of them a vintage Spartan trailer and the other a large outbuilding, attest to his creativity. Odd pieces of computers, tools, exotic rocks, old car parts, machines and just about anything else you may imagine, hang from the rafters, perch on shelves or pop out of cabinets, awaiting their chance to become part of just the right piece of art. “Snooping Around in The Old Man’s Shed”, a piece Chasse is creating especially for the upcoming show, uses an array of these items. This assemblage will be featured in Peninsula Arts Association’s 38th Annual Fall Art Show and Sale, held October 10 through 13 at the World Kite Museum in Long Beach, Washington. Also making an unprecedented repeat appearance will be the crowd pleaser, “Rocket brand Raygun”. This interactive favorite garnered Chasse the Best in Show title last spring.

Chasse’s eclectic collection reflects his life history. The child of artists, his mother a painter and clay artist and his father a silversmith, he was creating art at an early age. The Washington native has lived and worked all over the Pacific Northwest and Alaska and has spent time on the water as a tugboat engineer and time in the mountains homesteading. Chasse is married to an equally talented lady, Ellen Chasse, who makes

amazing bead constructions and is an extraordinary gardener. They reside in Ocean Park, Washington.

Further information on the upcoming Peninsula Arts Association 38th Annual Fall Art Show and Sale may be found at www.beachartist.org.

So - let's say you have a bundle of rear view mirrors you want to hang from a loop of wire:





Instead of TYING a loop into the wire from which you could hang it, I decided to use this cute little
wrench laying on the work table I am cleaning off:






You want to be very careful in and around my shop/studio/garage areas - I got shit like this hanging all over...

Here's a little steampunk item from my collection: It's called a POST DRILL. Back in the days before electrification, one would mount this on a post that holds up the barn or shop building, and hand crank your drilling jobs. I just took this down from out in my shop building, I have been dragging it around for 20 years. It's in the way. I'd like to trade it for something way-groovy. Leave me a note if it rings your bell.

9 September - decided to keep this one. I have a smaller one and onery old busted knuckles gets dibs on that one. This thing is just too cool. When we sell this place and are ready to move to New Zealand, THEN I will sell it if it hasn't been incorporated into an art piece...

WHERE IDEAS COME FROM

Filmmaker David Lynch and folk-rock icon Donovan reflect on the creative process

Just ran across this old picture - must be 1947 or early '48. Shows my older brother watching me navigate my way up the step to the front porch at the old house on Drakeway street in Camas, Washington USA.

it’s time for a list about brilliant bridges, but not the bridges you normally see in these kinds of lists. WOW, STUNNING!

FUNNY BUT NO - SPECIAL VIDEO EDITION:

Bringing The Body Back Home - a beautiful/strange animated short. Via Anne

Looking forward to volunteering again for the 15th year at JAZZ AND OYSTERS in the schoolyard of the old Oysterville schoolhouse. A great Sunday is to be had by all!

Your employer can read your e-mail, and even right now may be... um... the most awesome employer ever!

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The grand railway stations of European and North American cities are among the most impressive monuments of the industrial age and have often been likened to cathedrals. It is perhaps appropriate, then, that New Zealand’s finest station, in Dunedin, celebrates the glory of rail in stained-glass windows. LINK

ROBOT IDEAS

WHEN BOB MET THE BEATLES:

via Growabrain

BREAKING NEWS: President Bush Vetoes Medicare Bill

TELL CONGRESS TO OVERRIDE PRESIDENT BUSH’S VETO OF THE MEDICARE IMPROVEMENT FOR PATIENTS AND PROVIDERS ACT OF 2008

WE DID IT!!

YOU CAN POINT A GUN AT ME, ROB THE STORE, BUT
YOU DO NOT WANT TO CALL ME "GRANDMAW"!

Found in the 51 Spartan pictured in the previous post below are these pictures of a bike club called "The Stinkers". I don't have any idea where they were, but looks like 50's or early 60's to me...And here is another picture from the old trailer. Labeled on the back "1960 Gypsy Tour".

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A FREE ROCKETSHIP?

I know I know, I SAID I was DONE with these damned aluminum trailers with the last one! Well, I'll tell ya...the hippie dippy gypsy artist in me just can NOT refuse a free 1951 33 foot Spartan. This thing has the way cool art deco honey birch panelling inside with rounded corners...it's full of crap right now, but this is going to be a BEAUTY.

A firefighting airtanker drops fire retardant near homes along West Camino Cielo Road, Friday, July 4, 2008 in Santa Barbara, Calif.. The Golita fire has doubled to 5,400 acres and triggered more evacuations but has not destroyed any homes. Residents of more than 1,700 homes remained under evacuation orders. (AP Photo/The Los Angeles Times, Spencer Weiner)

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

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I have been going through my old Dad's huge matchbook collection, and actually making money on a few of them through Ebay. I trimmed these and posted them here just because I really dig old cars and these graphics are cool...a type of art never to be seen again:

This is an ancient blast furnace. WOW. Dig the metal straps and the fire brick. That peep hole is too cool...via The Steampunk Home

Medical researchers now say Magic Mushrooms are GOOD for you

They could have just asked ME, but NOOO--OOOO....of course one has to be either careful or very lucky that you don't get the WRONG magic mushrooms as some people never came back from the trip. But then, me and reality never WERE the closest of acquaintances anyway...
thanks Les

Extraordinary mind

Thank you Anne

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Just trying to get some ideas...as you know, I enjoy junkyard art, or steampunk, as a lot of it is known now. Trouble with Summer and nice weather (WAHOO - ONE DAYS IN A ROW!), is I find it hard to stay inside working on my art.

ANYHOW, please leave a note and let me know what you think of this.

15 (More) Amazing Tree Houses from Around the World: Unusual, Ecological and Inspired Designs

MORE, MORE!

A new paved road has made Cape Flattery, the most northwestern point in the continental United States, more accessible.

Yesterday my pal Jerry and I convoyed our two trucks up to Portland to Schnitzers with loads of scrap metal. I managed to raise a bit North of $350 after gas and lunch. I had a full ton of scrap iron and a pretty good pile of non-ferrous.

BUTCH MUSHROOM click~n~play!

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I just ran across this old photo that I took of a 1985 sunrise rondy-voo with the Tanana Chief (left) on the Kuskokwim River in Alaska.

The Kuskokwim runs somewhat parallel to the Yukon and empties into the Bering Sea. The Tanana Chief worked out of the town of Bethel, and was once a stern wheeler. Years ago they simply cut the big paddle wheel part off the stern and stuck a couple of 6-71's in the bilge with propellers in tunnels and away it went! It had a HUGE open space inside (perhaps the steam boilers were there at one time). The Eskimo crew had outfitted the common area there with old couches and whatnot to make it a real party boat. It was a river tug with a storied history, and was still a working boat when I saw it, as you can see from the photo.

PS-I did a search on Google for the Tanana Chief, and the only boat I come up with is some sort of "replica" stern wheeler that runs around in the Fairbanks area. I suspect this old boat in this picture is in the riverboat boneyard back in an arm of the Kuskokwim River near Bethel with it's old mates...

Rock pioneer Bo Diddley dies at age 79

THANK YOU BO DIDDLEY, I OWE SO MUCH TO YOU...ROCK ON BIG DADDY.

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