Art & Industry Open Studios Showcase

I’ve recently joined a community of “So much old people and garbage” that houses quite a spectrum of people making things with machines and their hands and brains. There is an open house in a couple of weeks that will be worthwhile if you’re in the bay area. Be there if it please you:
Please join us May 11-18 for an interactive, behind-the-scenes look at the community of artists and innovators that make up American Steel Studios. Not just open studios On Saturday and Sunday May …

Homiez Gabe and Mark and I putting up walls and drinking beers. This big building is drafty and home to all kinds of machinists, stone workers etc., so the dust is pretty brutal. We’ll see if closing off the whole space is necessary, but I hope not cause the sense of community is really great.

Homiez Gabe and Mark and I putting up walls and drinking beers. This big building is drafty and home to all kinds of machinists, stone workers etc., so the dust is pretty brutal. We’ll see if closing off the whole space is necessary, but I hope not cause the sense of community is really great.

New digs. We just moved to American Steel in west Oakland and are really enjoying the open space and the 220v power.

New digs. We just moved to American Steel in west Oakland and are really enjoying the open space and the 220v power.

home improvements.

home improvements.

Calling cards for Ritual Coffee Roasters. Printed in three colors on two sides and trimmed to 3x3 inches.

This is Monroe Postman’s MonoMac interface. It connects a decade-old Macintosh to a Monotype composition caster and is one of the strangest, neatest things in my garage.

This is Monroe Postman’s MonoMac interface. It connects a decade-old Macintosh to a Monotype composition caster and is one of the strangest, neatest things in my garage.

Portrait of Henry David Thoreau by Nate Van Dyke for the forthcoming Civil Disobedience. To be published this spring by Shart Peeth Press.

Portrait of Henry David Thoreau by Nate Van Dyke for the forthcoming Civil Disobedience. To be published this spring by Shart Peeth Press.

Stairway to heaven! Inside one of the kettles at the Anchor Brewing Co.

Stairway to heaven! Inside one of the kettles at the Anchor Brewing Co.

Dampening paper at two a.m.

Dampening paper at two a.m.

The layout of the California Job Case, hand-set in 72pt Franklin Gothic Condensed. Printed at the actual size of a job case on Canson Watercolor. 22 x 30” in an edition of 45.

The layout of the California Job Case, hand-set in 72pt Franklin Gothic Condensed. Printed at the actual size of a job case on Canson Watercolor. 22 x 30” in an edition of 45.