Maxx's October 29, 2012 blog about art

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OCTOBER 29, 2012 @ 12:05 PM

Instead of a halloween costume, I spent the month building a pool house with my girlfriend's father. (and my girlfriend and her mother helped with the finishing).
I'm really damn pleased because I've never really built anything. It's amazing to do something that lets you completely rethink what you can do.

Here are more process photos. Expand if you want to see them.

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bean

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

OCT 29, 2012 12:28 PM

Congratulations! That's quite an accomplishment. I'm really impressed by this. When you said you were going to be building a pool house, I really had no idea what you meant, and was thinking you meant something considerably less ambitious.

I hope to be doing lots of things that make me rethink what I can do over the next year. The tricky bit is that doing that, by definition, starts with thinking you can't do something and then setting about doing it anyhow.

Drehx

Oak Park, CA

May 2012

OCT 29, 2012 12:29 PM

That's very cool. Looks like you did a really good job. And yeah - your enthusiasm shows - as it should!

Were you working from a design you or he found or was it part of 'kit?'

Fixer

Los Angeles, CA

October 2002

OCT 29, 2012 12:42 PM

bean nailed it.

well done Maxx!

d23

I'm lost

January 2003

OCT 29, 2012 01:50 PM

*high five*

baudot

Oakland, CA

February 2004

OCT 29, 2012 02:02 PM

And this is why I now live in TechShop: The high of building new things.

Drehx

Oak Park, CA

May 2012

OCT 29, 2012 02:08 PM

Wow. Nice find. So, for slicing and dicing your own wood, you save so much and get so much more. And it's absolutely gratifying. Kudos! I think that deserves a beer! Or two... or three!