Wearable Mueller Report
My foray into fast political fashion; a series of t-shirts using mueller_report.pdf as its source, a document so full of AG Barr’s redactions that pages and pages are total semantic rubble.
Whether there was ever a smoking gun under all that blackout is up for debate, but it sure looks like a bloodless document to me. Sans clear legal and political import, it’s a pretty casket for a certain line of questioning that seemed like it might save us in 2019.
What stands out now four years later is the aesthetic beauty of this document. Its compositional disorder is fertile ground for ludic remixing, which is totally in the scope of fashion. Why not make a shirt?
My foray into fast political fashion; a series of t-shirts using mueller_report.pdf as its source, a document so full of AG Barr’s redactions that pages and pages are total semantic rubble.
Whether there was ever a smoking gun under all that blackout is up for debate, but it sure looks like a bloodless document to me. Sans clear legal and political import, it’s a pretty casket for a certain line of questioning that seemed like it might save us in 2019.
What stands out now four years later is the aesthetic beauty of this document. Its compositional disorder is fertile ground for ludic remixing, which is totally in the scope of fashion. Why not make a shirt?
01 - dream journal of pvt c. medina
02 - controlled burn
A couple of weird little machinimas plundering the hypnagogic imagery of war gaming to tell stories about confused people. In empty servers, the war in Vietnam is not so thoroughly gamified to provoke vestigial guilt and uncertainty.
primitive tech
The Youtube algorithm is obsessed with tossing out recommendations for “primitive technology,” a genre where guys build pools and saunas by hand while performing colonial tropes of the Primitive, probably in their own backyards.
Primitive tech pulls footage from this genre, with audio from Biden’s Cornpop speech, recorded off-the-cuff at the commemoration of a swimming pool in a suburb of Wilmington, DE.
Way back in 1962, Biden almost met his match here at the end of a straight razor.
The Youtube algorithm is obsessed with tossing out recommendations for “primitive technology,” a genre where guys build pools and saunas by hand while performing colonial tropes of the Primitive, probably in their own backyards.
Primitive tech pulls footage from this genre, with audio from Biden’s Cornpop speech, recorded off-the-cuff at the commemoration of a swimming pool in a suburb of Wilmington, DE.
Way back in 1962, Biden almost met his match here at the end of a straight razor.
is this line secure?
Music for an imaginary techno-thriller.
Music for an imaginary techno-thriller.
Casino Relics
from Casino by Lavi Tang
Role - writing
from Casino by Lavi Tang
Role - writing
“Statues in Vegas remind us that statues exist and what else can we even say? They’ve been stretched so far beyond any referent, what do they project but monumentality itself? This is a purely sensorial experience: feel magnitude and gravitas, no connection to memory. At most, we are granted recognition. This is an eiffel tower, this is a statue of liberty. This is my death when I am no longer inside history, but gazing at it through a hyperreal prism.
Vegas is a city of amnesiacs. We’re helped to forget who we are and how much we have to lose when every repository for memory stands blank, pointing vaguely at itself.”
Walla Walla
Submission for zine on life during COVID.
Role – Design and writing
Submission for zine on life during COVID.
Role – Design and writing
“Out in the country where I was born. Having a sesh. Driving back before my parents got off work. There were combine harvesters down in the valley that night. Everything was quiet except for the dead hum of their motors. On the opposite hill there was a car. Its headlights were blinking...”
Fabs
I built these colorful windows for a certain unnamed member of Guns and Roses. Rain glass, simple diamond pattern, but 3/8” lead was tricky to weld!
It’s standard to use a soldering iron to fabricate leaded windows, the same kind engineers use on PCBs. The ideal leaded joint is soldered in two passes, anything more and the joint will look lumpy and overworked.
First, you tin the surface of the lead with a light coat of solder. Then you come through with another thin layer, this time with an eye for detail and structural integrity.
The wider the lead, the harder it is to get completely flat and even joints. I’m happy with my results though, and so was the customer!
The transom was a run-of-the-mill design with a nice stock bevel pattern, notable really only because I saw the project all the way through. I drew up the pattern by hand based on customer specs, and I installed it myself, over their front door.
I built these colorful windows for a certain unnamed member of Guns and Roses. Rain glass, simple diamond pattern, but 3/8” lead was tricky to weld!
It’s standard to use a soldering iron to fabricate leaded windows, the same kind engineers use on PCBs. The ideal leaded joint is soldered in two passes, anything more and the joint will look lumpy and overworked.
First, you tin the surface of the lead with a light coat of solder. Then you come through with another thin layer, this time with an eye for detail and structural integrity.
The wider the lead, the harder it is to get completely flat and even joints. I’m happy with my results though, and so was the customer!
The transom was a run-of-the-mill design with a nice stock bevel pattern, notable really only because I saw the project all the way through. I drew up the pattern by hand based on customer specs, and I installed it myself, over their front door.
Repairs
I handle all kinds of unique will-call repairs, which is a rewarding part of the job. Hobbyists love to work with copper foil (see rose windows) and their creations come through all the time. Copper foiling is a technique where you adhere thin strips of copper foil to the edges of your glass and solder the seams. The result looks a lot like leaded glass, and when a piece breaks it's fairly easy to desolder and remove. I replaced three rose petals for each of these repairs, but I couldn’t tell you which!
The two doors are examples of more traditional leaded glass, viz., glass slotted into strips of lead, called “came” and puttied. The arched window was a full re-lead (reuse the glass and rebuild the window). The French doors were a tear repair (cut the window and replace broken pieces), which had to be surgical given the exquisite overlay work.
I handle all kinds of unique will-call repairs, which is a rewarding part of the job. Hobbyists love to work with copper foil (see rose windows) and their creations come through all the time. Copper foiling is a technique where you adhere thin strips of copper foil to the edges of your glass and solder the seams. The result looks a lot like leaded glass, and when a piece breaks it's fairly easy to desolder and remove. I replaced three rose petals for each of these repairs, but I couldn’t tell you which!
The two doors are examples of more traditional leaded glass, viz., glass slotted into strips of lead, called “came” and puttied. The arched window was a full re-lead (reuse the glass and rebuild the window). The French doors were a tear repair (cut the window and replace broken pieces), which had to be surgical given the exquisite overlay work.
Church Windows
Church windows often demand the most technically complex and precise repair work. There are also usually like twenty of them, so accurate labor estimates become the difference between profit and loss.
The ones pictured came from a customer who had purchased a church in Ballard to live in. I think he was an atheist. The windows are somewhere between 70-100 years old, right around the time the lead begins to develop fissures. Our job was to fix the cracked pieces, replace the broken lead, and clean decades of candle smoke from the textured side of the glass.
Fixing the broken pieces in the center of the windows was a challange, especially since we were operating under a limited budget. What saved time was a beautiful technique called the peel repair. Using lead snips we separated the face of the lead came and replaced the broken glass underneath. Then we sweat soldered a new face onto the existing lead. This proved much faster than tearing the window open.
Sweat soldering leaded windows requires a good deal of finesse. Your soldering iron must apply sustained heat to the new lead face (using a buffer, like a strip of aluminum cut from a can) while you hope and pray it mates with the old lead underneath. If you’ve properly beaded both segments you can expect them to come together in a few minutes, depending on the heat setting of your iron. This is a nervy process. The longer you keep your iron down, the higher the risk of a thermal fracture to the glass underneath. You would never want to do this to panels from the Chartres Cathedral, but the customer said fast, fast, fast! And my soldering iron aimed true. It turned out well.
Church windows often demand the most technically complex and precise repair work. There are also usually like twenty of them, so accurate labor estimates become the difference between profit and loss.
The ones pictured came from a customer who had purchased a church in Ballard to live in. I think he was an atheist. The windows are somewhere between 70-100 years old, right around the time the lead begins to develop fissures. Our job was to fix the cracked pieces, replace the broken lead, and clean decades of candle smoke from the textured side of the glass.
Fixing the broken pieces in the center of the windows was a challange, especially since we were operating under a limited budget. What saved time was a beautiful technique called the peel repair. Using lead snips we separated the face of the lead came and replaced the broken glass underneath. Then we sweat soldered a new face onto the existing lead. This proved much faster than tearing the window open.
Sweat soldering leaded windows requires a good deal of finesse. Your soldering iron must apply sustained heat to the new lead face (using a buffer, like a strip of aluminum cut from a can) while you hope and pray it mates with the old lead underneath. If you’ve properly beaded both segments you can expect them to come together in a few minutes, depending on the heat setting of your iron. This is a nervy process. The longer you keep your iron down, the higher the risk of a thermal fracture to the glass underneath. You would never want to do this to panels from the Chartres Cathedral, but the customer said fast, fast, fast! And my soldering iron aimed true. It turned out well.
Works in progress
Complex and fairly large (50”x73”) transom. Stay tuned...
Complex and fairly large (50”x73”) transom. Stay tuned...
