Duck Store light pendants -- finally installed.

Wow what an epic struggle to get these installed...the fabricator was not quite on the same page as the rest of the team, and relations got strained when we learned that costs were not contained, that we were not getting quite what we paid for, and the timeline had shifted on us.

But the fixtures were finally ready to get out the door late Monday afternoon, and were installed at 10:00 pm, just so that we could get them in for KGW's Drew Carney and the early morning sunrise show.

Table light shade v.02.01.a.

Been going at it lately. This version "a" is in-process, so I've already moved onto v.02.01.b, which is currently rendering in different views. It started out with an idea of doing an all-metal shade with bent tabs to fix the shades in place, once inserted into a support base at the top and bottom.

Table light shades v. 01.01c

The other week I drew up a plan to design and realize new projects; this is the first in the series, with the first series based on simple geometry, designed around Ikea fixtures.  In this case, utilizing Ikea 14" Hemma and Ikea Sparsam bare CFL bulb (E12 - narrow base), first by building from scratch, SketchUp models.  Neither were in 3DWarehouse, so I had to create my own; I posted the Hemma model here, and the Sparsam model here.  These models are each under 200KB, so as not to create a buildup of size in a model -- something I notice is a problem with most people who have created models in SU and populated 3DWarehouse.

These photo-realistic renderings were made utilizing (the always free and recently updated) Kerkythea Boost x64 on my new machine with an Intel quad-core i7-2720qm running Win7 x64, using Nvidia's 555GT with Optimus.  Edited in Photoshop to add watermark and title.

The Boost version of Kerkythea made a huge difference in rendering times, but so does the new GPU / CPU engine in this workstation-class laptop.

It's going to require some modifications, but I really like the direction of this design and I think I'm going to get it prototyped shortly.

Some old, self-built furniture from the 90s.

Back in the day (as in, over a decade ago), I'd compiled a bunch of hand power tools and would semi-regularly build things.  Found them while looking through some slides and negatives today -- decided to scan some of them.

Dual-purpose coffee table / model base - 1993.

The hibachi holder - 1994

The planter - 1994.

The kitchen cabinet - 1994.

The CD wall unit - 1994.

It's all coming together...just 3 weeks more.

Retail project: coming along...just two more weeks.

It's not going to look finished until all the furnishings and finishes are completed, but things are coming along, despite all the bumps in the road.

Light fixture fabrications...in process.

Fabrication completed...now to have them installed...but the space is not yet quite ready for finished electrical.