Not too much to report. I finished an exciting and exhausting week of shooting in NYC with my favorite client Rev'It!.
That's me hanging off the back of the pickup in a climbing harness holding my $30k Hasselblad an inch off the pavement at 60mph down the BQE. My crew is all there with me as we shoot tethered (always) and my assistant actually runs the camera's functions as we shoot so I can concentrate on framing. Once the shots are made public I'll update this post so show you the final shot we got which was very cool.
Anyway, I came home for four days which consisted of sleeping, the beach with the kids (yeah!) and then running errands, doing paperwork and catching up. Fortunately while I was gone Jorgé had been plugging away on painting and finishing.
I did manage to do a bit of trim work on some of the doors. Most of the house was trimmed in that fancy, fluted trim common in faux colonial McMansions so obviously it all went. A nice thing about the mid-century aesthetic is that it is largely unadorned and that often means no trim but to keep things consistent between new and old I will trim the whole house in the simplest trim I can find.
When I look at this photo I almost want to keep the trim on the doors natural but then I stop myself as that would be needlessly complicated. The reason for painting the doors and window frames black is to make them "disappear" so that they appear to be more of a portal and less of a decorative element.
In looking for tasks that I could do that would at least give me a sense of a small victory in my short time home I realized that I needed to finally get my mill and lathe off their pallets if I was to ever use them. While I want to put a tile floor down I wanted to use the machines for the railing so I needed to get them off the pallets.
When your machine weighs 1300lbs and you have only a pallet jack and an engine hoist you need to work creatively. Sorry for the iphone photos...
It's not much but this tiny corner is close to done. The ceiling and beams are painted and much brighter. I had found that gray wall cabinet ages ago at a BMW dealer but never had a place for it. My friend Chris had one for his mill tooling and I liked it right next to the mill so tooling was all visible and close.
It's not organized but between that cabinet and the rolling tool chest below I was able to unload most of my mill/lathe tooling and get rid of an old rolling cabinet I had used which will free up floor space. Something I'm realizing I'm going to have very little of when I go to put bikes in there. Judiaann has a phrase for complaints like that, "Oh, my diamond shoes are too tight!" but I like the other version, "Oh, these bags of money are so heavy!"
So, to be clear, I'm not complaining.
Gregor
That's me hanging off the back of the pickup in a climbing harness holding my $30k Hasselblad an inch off the pavement at 60mph down the BQE. My crew is all there with me as we shoot tethered (always) and my assistant actually runs the camera's functions as we shoot so I can concentrate on framing. Once the shots are made public I'll update this post so show you the final shot we got which was very cool.
Anyway, I came home for four days which consisted of sleeping, the beach with the kids (yeah!) and then running errands, doing paperwork and catching up. Fortunately while I was gone Jorgé had been plugging away on painting and finishing.
I did manage to do a bit of trim work on some of the doors. Most of the house was trimmed in that fancy, fluted trim common in faux colonial McMansions so obviously it all went. A nice thing about the mid-century aesthetic is that it is largely unadorned and that often means no trim but to keep things consistent between new and old I will trim the whole house in the simplest trim I can find.
When I look at this photo I almost want to keep the trim on the doors natural but then I stop myself as that would be needlessly complicated. The reason for painting the doors and window frames black is to make them "disappear" so that they appear to be more of a portal and less of a decorative element.
In looking for tasks that I could do that would at least give me a sense of a small victory in my short time home I realized that I needed to finally get my mill and lathe off their pallets if I was to ever use them. While I want to put a tile floor down I wanted to use the machines for the railing so I needed to get them off the pallets.
When your machine weighs 1300lbs and you have only a pallet jack and an engine hoist you need to work creatively. Sorry for the iphone photos...
It's not much but this tiny corner is close to done. The ceiling and beams are painted and much brighter. I had found that gray wall cabinet ages ago at a BMW dealer but never had a place for it. My friend Chris had one for his mill tooling and I liked it right next to the mill so tooling was all visible and close.
It's not organized but between that cabinet and the rolling tool chest below I was able to unload most of my mill/lathe tooling and get rid of an old rolling cabinet I had used which will free up floor space. Something I'm realizing I'm going to have very little of when I go to put bikes in there. Judiaann has a phrase for complaints like that, "Oh, my diamond shoes are too tight!" but I like the other version, "Oh, these bags of money are so heavy!"
So, to be clear, I'm not complaining.
Gregor
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Here is to hoping there are more updates on the way!
And congratulations on your latest progress!