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IgniteWaterloo #5 rocked
Hit up IgniteWaterloo tonight with…
Art Allies rocks The Communitech Hub
My good friend, Jacqui Murphy, of Art Allies rocked The Communitech Hub down at The Tannery tonight with a really great show of artists who are represented on the Art Allies web-portal-of-local-art-goodness. Jacqui’s vision of connecting local art collectors with … Continue reading
Made: canvas stretcher for oil painting
Photo: James Bastow My brother from the very same mother, Dave White, is doing a series of oil paintings on canvas. It turns out that canvas stretchers, the frames that you stretch canvas over to paint on, are pretty … Continue reading
Cake imitates art imitates life
So… one brick is like half a normal cake? Now you tell me!
11111 Arts&Culture Rally last week
My arts sensei, Cathy Farwell, forwarded an invite to the 11111 Arts&Culture Rally hosted by The Alliance for a Grand Community (AGC), correctly gauging that this was yet another opportunity to connect with the local arts community. Ben Brown and … Continue reading
Local Laser! Waterloo Engraving fieldtrip
Last Tuesday, a half dozen of us from kwartzlab took a (short) fieldtrip over to Waterloo Engraving to meet up with owner, Bill Jermyn. Bill had dropped by Tuesday Open Night at the lab a few weeks back and we … Continue reading
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Tagged contractable toolset, cut, etch, laser, rapid prototype, tour
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Back to THEMUSEUM in greater numbers
Friday night, a dozen or so of us makers from kwartzlab…
Ceci n’est pas un mur en briques
I took a peek at the kwartzlab cam from home tonight and saw the most wonderful trompe l’oeil in the workroom. Curious, I grabbed my camera and headed over to the lab…
Memories of the Box 10 Art Show & Sale from November
More blog catch-up! Before we get too far from November and from Cathy Farwell & Co’s fantastic Box 10 Art Show & Sale, I wanted to share these pics from the event and suggest you talented makers queue up your … Continue reading
On the humble power brick…
Reading Karl’s great blog post on repairing a kijiji’d synthesizer, I thought about how sad the original owner must have been when he smoked his nice Korg Poly-800 MKII just by plugging in the wrong power supply. I also thought … Continue reading
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