Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
A couple of weeks ago, I crafted a hope chest from old wooden Coca-Cola soda crates.ย It was a fun project, and I had a great time bashing out the wood and re-assembling everything. So much so, in fact, that I decided to build a second chest.ย This chest will incorporate various other popular sodas…
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Two weeks ago, I showed off the lid of what I hoped would be a new art project – creating a hope chest or storage box from old wooden Coca-Cola soda carrier crates. Now comes the rest of the fun.
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Okay, okay, so I’ve graduated from destroying milk crates to destroying wooden soda crates.ย Let’s just get that out of the way now. But for me, it’s not “destroying” these pieces.ย It’s “upcycling” them, taking what was old and fashioning them into new, functional projects. Case in point. I recently acquired several soda bottle crates…
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Yesterday, I posted my six photographic entries to the New York State Fair.ย Today, I’m sharing the entries that I’m submitting for OTHER Fair competitions. Let me explain.
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Damn it.ย The more I looked at my Honeywell Farms artpiece – the reconstruction and salvage of an old milk crate into wall art – the more I grew disenchanted with the piece. I mean, yeah, I was able to remove the fugly battleship grey paint smears while retaining the original logotype of the New…
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I can enter six photographs in the New York State Fair Photography Competition. But what if I entered a seventh piece … outside of the photo competition?
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Last week, I started a project involving a dairy and produce crate from Honeywell Farms, a New York City-based agricultural produce center. I disassembled the original crate, removed as much of the old battleship grey paint as possible, and cleaned the front with soapy water. Now for the next steps.
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I wanted to create another painted crate artwork, similar to my Norman’s Kill Dairy piece.ย And after searching through eBay, I found a farm crate from Honeywell Farms in Jamaica, N.Y. No problem… all I had to do was purchase the crate, have it shipped to me, knock the boards apart, wire it up, hang…
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Update.ย For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on turning an old wooden milk crate into a piece of waycool hanging art.ย I removed the oak slats from the crate, sanded them down to bring out the grain in the planks, and stained the edges of the planks with black stain. Here’s where…
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If by chance you followed my previous blog post … I acquired a vintage milk crate from the old Norman’s Kill Dairy, a historic Albany creamery.ย Rather than just keep an old milk crate around – even though old retro wooden milk crates are kinda cool – I took some of the oak slats out…
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