{"id":252,"date":"2005-08-06T21:19:19","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T04:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/06\/more-doings\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T17:43:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T01:43:58","slug":"more-doings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/06\/more-doings\/","title":{"rendered":"More Doings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050605-grinding-colossus-IMG_2824.jpg\" alt=\"Grinding Colossus\" align=\"right\" width=\"400\" \/> I&#8217;ve been working on <a href=\"http:\/\/zacharycoffin.com\/colossus\/\">Colossus <\/a>the last few evenings. I&#8217;ve been grinding metal to prepare it for welding and to protect people from cutting themselves on the installation. In the image, I&#8217;m grinding the center pole down so the gussets can be firmly welded on.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few days I&#8217;ve met a guy that participated in <a href=\"http:\/\/simnuke.org\">SimNuke<\/a>, some of the Burning Man <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=%22burning%20man%22%20thunderdome&amp;num=20&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;safe=off&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi\">Thunderdome<\/a> guys, a group building a giant nose-picking machine powered by a human-sized hampster wheel, some folks building a statue of Ganesh, art-car builders&#8230; phew!<\/p>\n<p>Much of the time, as projects were discussed, they&#8217;d point to a far-off corner of the studio and say something like, &#8220;Those are the giant fans we used to push all the gasoline in the air before we lit it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.<\/p>\n<p>There was supposed to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magiccityfest.com\/\">Music and BBQ event<\/a> just 2 blocks away from me but it got moved to 2 miles away. I was too tired from grinding all night anyway so I just got a sandwich from the shop ON MY CORNER. :-)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to a pinball party right now at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ujuju.com\/index.php\">Lucky Juju Pinball<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on Colossus the last few evenings. I&#8217;ve been grinding metal to prepare it for welding and to protect people from cutting themselves on the installation. In the image, I&#8217;m grinding the center pole down so the gussets can be firmly welded on. In the last few days I&#8217;ve met a guy that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-distractions","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}