WARM LEATHERETTE…………….

The coolest version I’ve ever heard!!! 

Nutting new really to post so I thought to keep in posting practice I’d post this Feist video:

Too coooool. Love the arch top!

Cheers,

Paul

October is here and so is the cool fall weather(HA) and that makes it perfect for scootering! Problem is I have never had a scooter.

I have been working for my brother trying to catch up on bills and such being that the art furniture business, like most luxury sectors, is struggling. While on the job one day the kind homeowner was walking by with some (3) Razor type mini scooters that she was tired of finding in the yard around her house. I happily offered to take them from her. My brother got one, since he too didn’t have a scooter, and I took the other two.

Discarded scooters in my truck.

One of the scooters was a Hotwheels and he other was a real Razor! The hot wheels was really nicely constructed but carried this ominous warning:

Now I fit the age thing, but the weight thing? Like what old guy is going to weigh 132 or less?? and I’m sure there is a safety factor but I like to jump scooters and do tricks on them. My potential weight could be way over 200 pounds. I was going to have to modify my scooter. First I wanted to combine the two and make one with the coolest parts. I like the all aluminum scooters so mine was going to have as much aluminum as possible.

Combined scooter in front, partsmobile in back.

Note the Razor gooseneck and front fork. The only steel parts now are the front fork and the fender.

Now a great journal entry would include step by step pics and explanations, but screw that. Here’s the finished product. I did beef up the main frame by adding a strip of aluminum to the underside and each rail  and completely welding the edges so there are triangular structures running the length of the frame. I also cleaned and lubed the gooseneck bearings and installed new ABEC 7 bearings in the wheels.

I hope your October is going well too. So get out there and scooter. Also, wear a helmet!!!!

Cheers.

This is how I feel today and just about every day:   

Today and yesterday I went to Art Basel on Miami Beach. I was helping my friend Marcus Haugg again with a photo shoot of an installation. I had fun and I am now part of the “Press.” 

Marcus was making something look way better then it actually did in real life. The finals were pretty amazing.

On the way to Basel for the third time in two days, I noticed this building being constructed close by. I’d noticed it before but for some reason it really caught my eye the third time. I think it must have been the light, because the red, which I don’t normally see was really bright. Maybe because it looked more yellow.

Well hope you are having a great weekend.

Cheers,

Paul 

November is almost done and December is just around the corner.

It seems like things have slowed down but really they haven’t. The end of last month and the beginning of this month found me tooling around North Carolina in the snow on a motorcycle, down into North Georgia and then back home. 

The beginning of the rest of the month found me shooting new pictures for my portfolio and for some printed collateral that I will be sending out in Dec.  I now am the proud owner of a photo studio so to speak. I’ve always wanted one.

That all brings me back to the Carl Auböck table. Carl was a Bauhaus era designer that has this uncanny design that is similar to one of mine. Although I’d never seen his work till my wife sent me a link, I figure since he did it before me, he should get some credit. Anyway, here’s the progress of that table. It’s made from Swietenia Mahogany. It’s a mahogany native to South Florida. It’s also a wood that was salvaged from North Key Largo in the early 70’s during the construction of Ocean Reef Yacht Club and community. Where this once numerous species grew is now a fabulous golf course. 

This particular section is from the lower trunk and the start of the roots. This tree had been dead for many years before it was found. It was speculated that it had been killed during a hurricane flood of the area it was in.

Although I have only seen pictures of the Aurora Borealis, that’s what this section of wood reminds me of. Unfortunately this coloration will change over time as the UV rays darken the wood.

Here is a close up of this very unusual hardwood.

Scroll over to Oct. to see the first part of this post. Or Click here 

I plan on incorporating more of this material in my pieces in the future.

Keep posted and thanks for stopping by.

Cheers,

Paul 

I usually only post things related to what I do at the studio. This Enviro section was originally about the types of trees that the wood I use comes from. Today though I’m posting about some Cuban Tree Frogs that are finally emerging from the aquarium (thanks Carol) that has been their home for the past 3 weeks.

The tree the frogs are perched in is one of two Paradise trees that were put into pots by my daughter and me. I figured that it would be OK to post these pictures here. 

I never realized the process of the eggs turning into tadpoles turing into frogs was really that incredible until the aquarium they were in sat on our kitchen counter for 2 and half of the last three weeks. I might attack documenting the process as we experienced it but right now, here are my newest babies.

Thanks for checking in,

Paul 

March, April and June saw the design, fabrication and delivery of the largest project to leave PM Custom ever. M&M Aerospace/ the Display.  

See here: www.pmcustom.com/mm-aerospace/ 

This was the customer link used to look in on progress. As the project neared completion, actual walk-thoughts were done so there are no posts of the final stages. I hope to get back to finishing my Jamaica Dogwood story. The young Stripling was weed wacked by an over zealous lawn crew.

 My daughter and I transplanted him to a pot.

He has since resprouted and is waiting completion of a project at her school so that he can be replanted there along with some transplanted paradise trees, pigeon plums, white stoppers and a lignum vitae tree.

Pigeon Plum -Took 3 months before the first new shoot appeared.

The whole crew

Hope all is well and happy fourth. 

Paul