Clocks, incense burners, and other strangeness

[bobenhotep]

I started uploading pictures of my work to photobucket. I wanted to post some of them here, I am in a rut and need to stay connected to the build stuff thing, so posting pictures of the things I have built helps with that. You guys are pretty cool about stuff like that so here it goes.


The mellow lamp. I built it as a birthday present to the wife. I never built another one.



The first of the glow in the dark clocks. It lives in my kitchen.

Please ignore the click here thing, it was on another site.

Good incense burner picture.


Another lamp. It turns on and off via a key switch that sticks out of the side of the jar. It operates both the top bulb and the one inside the jar. The second picture shows the switch detail a little better, and the bulb inside the jar.

[simonscr]

Very cool! Functional art! I like all of the clocks that you have posted pictures of. Do you build things with an idea first and then find your material, or do you take materials and let them become your finished product? Did you ever figure out your shipping/packaging problem?

[bobenhotep]

Thanks!

I do both in a type of feedback loop process. Ideas and materials are constantly influencing each other. I get ideas from found items, and I get ideas and look for parts. So a sort of " I have this idea, need this- found this instead, but I could build this, then I have to find a part to get this to work with that...)

The short answer is that I do both.

I have switched over to FedEx, the shipping is usually low enough that I can afford really good packing materials and all turns out well.

[Oregoon]

Cool stuff! I too, endlessly tinker with odds and ends.

[bobenhotep]

More strangeness

Lamp



The first of my copper clocks
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I sold this clock, this is its new home in a recording studio in California.

[bobenhotep]

Finished a new clock design. Hopefully it can get me many truck parts.