Archive for August, 2009

Thunder Mountain

Friday, August 7th, 2009

I thought I knew about most of the Outsider enviroments in the United States.  But driving down Hwy 80, which runs across the top of Northern Nevada, I spotted something very unusual.  I recognized even at a distance that I had come across an art enviroment. There are no signs directing you to it, but there is an exit from the freeway.  When you arrive at this structure you are greeted by the signs that you can see in the above photo.

I have many Thunder Mountain photos to share with you, so I hope you will bear with me since I will be posting 3 blogs regarding this monument. First, I will cover the overall look of the buildings, Second, I will show the various sculpted figures and lastly, I will post details of the construction.

I hope you guys don’t get too bored with me…

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You want to see something cool?

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

See, I told you. Here is my daughter, aka McBlaimy, with Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbitt, and Mike Nelson of Rifftrax and Mystery Science Theater 3000.  She said they are a swell bunch of guys. (more…)

Buffalo at the speed of light.

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

  I thought I would blog about this beautiful interpretation of August’s free Embroidery Pattern.  This lovely piece was stitched by Angie, aka glazedange101.  We (all of us at the Flickr group Badbird’s Patterns  ) were surprised to see how freakishly fast she stitched this pattern.  She did a  beautiful job to boot.

I will recommend for newbie’s to embroidery and who want to use my patterns to go my Flickr group Badbird’s Patterns to get idea’s. 

You also might learn a thing or two about buffalo huffing*.

*Sorry, inside joke.  

Gauntlets

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

  A gauntlets are a type of cuffed glove.  Over the years there have been many types of qauntlets made by different cultures. They have been made from chain mail, leather and fabric.  They have been used in battle, work and fashion. (more…)