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Recycled Metal Sculptures

Cindy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:45:26 +0000

I heart these recycled metal sculptures by Patrick Amiot.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/albaum/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Tiny, wooden art

Cindy — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:06:30 +0000

I love this tiny, wooden art from Fiona Macneil. Lovely.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fionamacneil/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

iPlanter

Cindy — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:44:31 +0000

Below is the growth of my iPlanter project. Read more about it here.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

iBook…getting close!

Cindy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:24:14 +0000

Assemble?

Cindy — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:53:38 +0000

Picking up where we left off…

I did want the bulbs from the monitor for the project, but you’ll remember that the cathode ray tubes were shot. Luckily, I had an old scanner with a broken motor, but working cathode ray tubes, so I jury rigged it. Yes, that is a 9-volt.

No disassemble!

Cindy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:08:31 +0000

Here’s my iBook, circa 2001. Her name is Janey5 (just kidding, I made that up).

Janey5 broke in 2007. I had her fixed. She broke again. I had her fixed again. She broke again (you see a pattern here). Finally Janey5’s cathode ray tubes burnt out, and you know what that means (maybe you don’t, but it means your monitor is done for, and on a laptop, that means laptop death).

So last summer, I had this brilliant idea.

The pictures don’t show it, but laptops are really hard to take apart. They are screwed and mashed together so tightly.

I only got as far as the disassembly last year, but I picked up the remaking a few weeks ago. I’ll be posting more as it progresses. Don’t you hate cliffhangers?