Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Art(s) in progress

building a bike is an art form... so is painting, drawing, sculpting, printmaking, sewing, filming, editing, performing and lots of other things...

here is a thread where you can post documentation of ongoing art projects/bike builds

no one likes showing work that is in progress BUT doing so pushes you that much harder to make the end product as amazing as you can, plus it's cool to see progressions.

So post your Art(s) in progress...

In progress.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/MriKel/lastscan1.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/MriKel/lastscan.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/MriKel/lastscan-med.jpg

Can we also post finished products? Or would that be totally forgetting about the point of this thread (aka to inspire ourselves)

http://static.flickr.com/56/167492788_ef3b801a61.jpg

a half built wheel and the drawing at the bottom left is from a (less than) half finished project.

http://onetwentyeight.com/1_portfolio/3_worksonpaper/802_ledger2.jpg

writing...
the fact that I am going to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing keeps me writing as much as possible. Even if what comes out is horrid. More often than not, it is detestable. But it may be something to work with in the future.

I also look at others' art (photography, painting, ink/prints) and gain inspiration in writing. They are all doorways we can use to enter others' thoughts and interpretations. Great thread idea.

found negative...just want to clean it up and print it 4X4. just cause I can...it is from an old Warner Bros flick.
http://static.flickr.com/37/80682722_2c71579116_o.jpg
this piece is done...but right now I am just teasing everyone...
http://static.flickr.com/47/125505195_016ec45cec_o.jpg
best bike I have ever ridden!

He receives an instant endorsement of himself when they respond to his laughter.


The people drawn towards political careers are usually the most susceptible to corruption, people who join the military are those with the least reluctance to kill, and the people who become artists are the most likely to mistake self-infatuation for substance.

Art, like all forms of human communication, can transmit only within the limits imposed by its participants.

Anyway, I like art. Thanks for starting the thread.




']writing...
the fact that I am going to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing keeps me writing as much as possible. Even if what comes out is horrid. More often than not, it is detestable. But it may be something to work with in the future.



Let’s see some detestability.

In progress.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/MriKel/lastscan-med.jpg

Props.

every day. or night, actually.

pieces of a jersey i just sent off to be manufactured:

http://visitordesign.com/rag-frntbak.jpg
http://visitordesign.com/rag-parts.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/47/125505195_016ec45cec_o.jpg
best bike I have ever ridden!
the elephant makes it great.
3r's are the jam.

pieces of a jersey i just sent off to be manufactured:

http://visitordesign.com/rag-frntbak.jpg
http://visitordesign.com/rag-parts.jpg


teh upside down burning flag is a bit distateful eh?

teh upside down burning flag is a bit distateful eh?

nope. it's just a piece of fabric. anyone who thinks a flag is anything more is a simpleton.

teh upside down burning flag is a bit distateful eh?
:rolleyes:

the elephant makes it great.
3r's are the jam.
now I just need to get the matching track bike. that is your job to find.

OH! good thread. Here's what I'm working on atm...

Kris Drake Photography (http://www.krisdrakephotography.com) - almost fully complete, just some minor tweaks to some of the actionscript.
http://www.andrewgruhn.com/bikePhotos/krisdrakephotography.jpg (http://www.krisdrakephotography.com)


and Sound Unseen 2006 (http://www.soundunseen.com/2006) - which is almost built (on the back end) and in limbo waiting for new content as movies and events are booked
http://www.andrewgruhn.com/bikePhotos/soundunseen.jpg (http://www.soundunseen.com/2006)

teh upside down burning flag is a bit distateful eh?
By definition I think that an upside down, burning flag is distateful. Whether it's distasteful or not is really a matter of opinion.

By definition I think that an upside down, burning flag is distateful. Whether it's distasteful or not is really a matter of opinion.

ha. +1 for semantics

teh upside down burning flag is a bit distateful eh?
as distasteful as using an image of a baby in the "middle" of an artillery strike as your avatar.
Incoming indeed.

end.

now - back to good things.

i don't have any pictures of any of my in-process art, but i paint some and throw pots quite a bit...

here's a teapot i recently made that i'm pleased with:
http://myspace-284.vo.llnwd.net/00809/48/28/809348284_l.jpg
if anyone is a potter and cares, it's porcelin, with a carbon trap shino glaze fired to cone 10 with HEAVY reduction. i made the handle as well... it's my first one like this. actually i did the mosaic on the tabletop it's sitting on as well...

here's a painting i did awhile back:
http://static.flickr.com/70/172074582_9dc34b84b7_b.jpg
"a lament for the boy who lives on my stairs"
mixed media on linen (a curtain... ha!) it's all found objects from my old house. it's a curtain stretched over an old window frame. there is also old wallpaper and photo's from 'have you seen me?' cards i collected for two years.

and another:
http://static.flickr.com/60/172074583_4877b80a71_b.jpg
"10,000 deaths! to great expectations"
also stretched over an old window frame.

That teapot is most amazing. Massive props for that.

LóFarkas: Thanks :).

I like the handle on that teapot a lot.

teh upside down burning flag is a bit distateful eh?

i like it just fine! appeals to me much more these days than an right side up, non-burning one.

are those going to be available for purchase, or are you just doing a one off one for yourself? that **** is hot.

thanks guys! i really like it too. i made another teapot for a friend's wedding (no picture) and am going to make another handle like this. i hope round two turns out better.

I would totally be into buying one if you start selling. My 3 that I have now are most likely mass produced, so getting one made by and individual's love would be amazing.

are those going to be available for purchase, or are you just doing a one off one for yourself? that **** is hot.

+1, orange by chance :D

yeah, that teapot is awesome. haha somehow i've ended up with many friends who do ceramics so i've gotten pretty into it. one of them is actually from colorado springs too! she lives in louisiana now. you know a girl named tina from up that way?

also, you get the record?

isotopedopearope - that handle looks to be Asian-inspired. Nicely done. The glaze/finish lends to an overall autumnal feel. Whether or not that was your goal, it was what it achieved.

i like it just fine! appeals to me much more these days than an right side up, non-burning one.
isn't an upside down flag a sign of distress? so is vistordesign suggesting anarchy is in distress and we should burn that idea? thus, anarchy needs help? interesting idea, because it sort of does.

i don't have any pictures of any of my in-process art, but i paint some and throw pots quite a bit...

here's a teapot i recently made that i'm pleased with:


that teapot is gorgeous.

and yes. anarchy, patriotism, nationalism and State are all in confused states of distress.


evan, shishi, etc.,
i only had 8 jerseys made, so... no. they won't really be available. i'm trading them with some people for stuff that they've made/designed/built.

yeah, that teapot is awesome. haha somehow i've ended up with many friends who do ceramics so i've gotten pretty into it. one of them is actually from colorado springs too! she lives in louisiana now. you know a girl named tina from up that way?

also, you get the record?
evan,
i did indeed get the records. thanks so much. i like the bullets*in record, but it didn't kick me in the face. i do like that reds album though!

i actually at least might know who your friend is... friends of friends sort of thing. i doubt she knows who i am. i think she's a bit older than me, i'm 29, and i think she used to work at the place here called van briggle. also, i think she used to work at this sculpture manufacturing place called terrance patterson that i later worked at as well... which is how i got to know of her.

isotopedopearope - that handle looks to be Asian-inspired. Nicely done. The glaze/finish lends to an overall autumnal feel. Whether or not that was your goal, it was what it achieved.
josh,
japanese pottery is my main influence. i really am into their idea of wabi sabi... the beauty of imperfection. though this teapot is very round and straight, i enjoy making more "loose" forms. i have another shot at home of a tea bowl of mine with the same glaze that is very wabi-sabi. i don't have many shots of my pottery. i give it away or sell it too quickly.

that glaze is also a japanese style of glaze called a shino, though this recipe i made is more americanized, than the traditional japanese pure feldspar with little ash used for flux. shino is very very very old glaze. 1500's or probably even older... i think it might be one of the first glazes, and not just a salt or ash fired. but i'm just speculating. i need to learn a lot more. shino's also tend to crawl and break up or bubble... i love very earthy looking glazes. this glaze gets even more dynamic on other clay bodies, but still reacts greatly to porcelin. the heavy reduction firing i did (meaning i starved the burners of oxygen and heavily restricted the exhaust) also lends itself to more of this palette of color...

hope i didn't dork out too much.

-chris

dorking out? not at all - this is an art thread!

I grew up around ceramic and pottery. My mom had a Scut kiln in the garage.

i love process. that to me is art, not the artwork, which to me is just the end result of process. the process of creation is much more enjoyable to me than the result. i love understanding how and why things work.

i love my job. my dad and i run a tool and die shop (a machine shop), where we make the forging dies (molds sort of) for craftsman and rigid tools. we actually make the dies for park's adjustable wrench. i love being involved in the processes to make the dies.

i get techincal drawings, build the parts in cad, program how the cnc's will cut them out, then run the cnc's to cut everything out. i love thinking about how i make stuff that makes stuff that makes stuff. then i think about everyone involved in making what we use... cnc's, cutting inserts, the steel itself, etc. and then everything involved in making those things...

i attached a screenshot of some 6'' diagonal cutters i've been working on.

props to all who have posted. while most of my photographic and sculptural work is documented, it is usually in 35 mm format, and i'm too lazy to scan them to post a few here. i do, however, own a small gallery/artspace that functions as an artpiece. it has walls that are on casters, allowing the space to be redefined as the artist(s) see fit, and as such, allows the gallery space to exist less as a container of space and more as an conceptually defined environment/event. it is a multi-use venue, with a gallery in front, and an artspace/studio in back, which functions much like the bike kitchen, except i help people make visual art instead of bikes.


previous and future posters, feel free to submit a proposal for a show at the space... i'm booked through mid-late spring '07, but i'm lookin for summer shows.
http://bivouacartspace.org

to sweeten the deal the city finally broke ground on a new bmx course, as well as velodrome which should be ready by next summer

goathedz represent!!!

teh upside down burning flag is a bit distateful eh?


My clown bike loves its upside down burning flag decals, and I only endorse that which is in the best of taste.

chris - where are you getting the jersey's manufactured and how much does it cost?

not so much stuff in progress, but a few pieces. the portrait is of one of my favorite painters, r.b. kitaj.

chris - where are you getting the jersey's manufactured and how much does it cost?

i think here (http://www.hiddenbaysports.com/) but i hadn't noticed their insane setup fees when i had thought that. but their prices for small runs are pretty ballpark--about 48 bucks a jersey. i'm not sure where they get off with the gnarly setup fees though. i'm making some other calls to US manufacturers now.

it kinda makes the feel like you want to hang your wife.

Her PMS does that to my creativity I suppose.
All I know is you need to up the contrast on that bottom one.

yeah, not enough pop

http://www.solographic.com/web/buick.jpg

this was the final result, it got made into a satchel bag for the Jeremyville Sketchel show.

http://www.solographic.com/web/bag.jpg

RJD2 4-layers (stencil + spraypaint):
http://www.solographic.com/web/layers.jpg
http://www.solographic.com/web/record1.jpg

a couple other finished ones
http://www.solographic.com/web/record2.jpg
http://www.solographic.com/web/shirt.jpg

skelly,
those are fantastic!

a couple other finished ones

2nd record and car stencil are awesome. great stuff.

i love stencils. i have an entire wall plastered with mylar stencils i've cut for various projects.

http://www.parazz.com/photos/23907484838_17385.jpg

finished.

RJD2 4-layers (stencil + spraypaint):
http://www.solographic.com/web/layers.jpg
http://www.solographic.com/web/record1.jpg

a couple other finished ones
http://www.solographic.com/web/record2.jpg
http://www.solographic.com/web/shirt.jpg
bigg fan...hook a brother up!

']yeah, not enough pop
shouldnt you be gone...

film from 2001 (http://boss.streamos.com/download/sonicyouth/videos/hires/potwithacover2.mp4) that's making it onto a DVD of stuff i've made which a record label is putting out. it was made back when making your computer speak was still an untapped novelty. now... not so much... it's part of a series of films i've been working on involving the shedding of contrast and conversational poetry.

i'll mp4 other stuff after i get done rendering.

shouldnt you be gone...
rain delay...grrr.

weather is the worst. ima have a few jackncokes.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j46/pinkfixie/DSCN3842.jpg

a piece I made for the Bicycle Film Festival (http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com) art show (which opens tonight for those of you in the LA, CA area... and I hear there is free beer... ;)