Eclectica

Here is the working whistle I printed out at home. I downloaded the file from here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1046 and 24 minutes later I whistled away. Pretty fun.
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Who could not want this?

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I finally have worked out most of the bugs of my Makerbot. See the 1/4″ scale staircase I made:

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I made the last little thing for Arden’s halloween costume. Guess what she is going to be…

Owen Collins
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So we have finally completed our dog run. We started it in 2007, with grabbing aluminum fencing that our neighbor was throwing away.

We just wanted to double up the uprights so that the dogs wouldn’t be able to see out(and bark at the neighbors when they walk by). In order to do that I [...]

I am working with my brother Matt on The Nativity Scene he is sculpting for the church of San Ambrogio in Florence. My main contribution has been life masks of Ann and I to be Mary and Joseph. Here is a taste of what Matt is doing

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I wrote the title of this post a long time ago, so long I can’t even remember what it was in reference to. but it is applicable once again. I type this on the road to where we (the family) will be vacationing for a week.
It will be great to spend time without focussing on [...]

ETC is about singing songs, making music and theatre. One notable part of that is when we perfrom our children’s show over at Camp Dost http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doMwyD_gLYc
 here is a strange but beloved part of ETC- Unwinding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJepTdUMEk
 Although it is a summer theatre school there is our school song traditionally called our ‘camp song’ even though we [...]

Star Wars Anti-Smoking PSA

Found Via theHuffington Post-

McCain mentioned “Joe the Plumber” almost constantly throughout the final debate — even tying him into an attack on Obama’s health care plan. But the move led to a “deer in the headlights” moment for the Republican.

See it here: