And the performance begins

At three seperat locations I had my prstetic limb on to show of an have questions asked. At one location I went to the moutians in a small town, I then deminstrated my superrior mechanical strength by pulling a wagon. As you can imaine and see it didnt go so well. The wagon was stuck in the ground. Laughter ensued.

All these items were part of the arm an the hand. The contraption actually broke at the elbow so I adjusted the item to attach to my leg to still act as a prostetic like I originally planed.

Ok, crap. Second attempt is better.

Ya it took a few trys BUT I eventually built a hand out of thick tubed material. pull on the wier and each finger moves . . . kinda.

Performance art . . .or pile of crap???

I opted to make a roboticish giant hand out of what ever materials I could smugle out of this old factory That my boss told me was empty . . . He lied. The people let me take lots of cool stuff though. As you cansee I started to make the hands out of old hydralic hoses and copper wier.

Ooo! Piece a candy . . . wait a minute!?

so ya its agoat. and a ball hitch. Also two giant m&ms! noooo, tey are metal painted cadillac symbols. All of these wounderful items came out of a $200 truck my dad bought earlier this year. The detail in the Rams head, the attention to details, its art all in itself . . . will probaly og on the hood of my toyota.

This ball hitch Im sure has towed a many a story accross this great state of ours, family picnics and camping trips in a tear drop trailer.

these hub caps? I hope some old man or kid with a low rider didn't loose them? Cause Im not

giving them back . . . . In The words of Scruff the Homless guy "It's scruffies stuff now."

This colection project is going an interesting, soon I will be taking a trip to a local creek to see what I can fish out.

more metal junk! WEEEEEEEE!!!

Now this is a cool piece that I have found here. It's a metal casing of a 1950's matchbox car! and it says made in the U.S.A.! How cool is that. I found this when I went with my grand father to help clean out a friend of his' garage/shake in back yard. I picked it up and aske where it came from, he said it was a broken toy from one of his kids and showed me the original box it came in and sid he was going to fix it but never got to it. (better late than never I guess?) He then gave it to me stating take it if you can do something with it. so i have a piece of a kids childhood that his father never put back together. . . . Wonder what I'll do with that?

We have started a long term project, which the end rsulte is yet to be revialed, where we collect 3 objects a week for ten weeks. I being the overly enthusiastic, over thinker that I am has choosen metal. They will be old metal objects, but not ordinary, old rusted and full of histry. So if I pick up a paper clip it's because it's the paper clip some rebeliou nazi soldier coated with poision to assassinate hitler! or was originally holding together the deed papers to what eventualy became a haunted mansion. (Getting the idea? Good.)

To the left is the discustingly coated nickle plated 1991 quarter that laid in the street stairing me down with inspiration for this project.

I assume that this coin has had a terific, Ill be it, short existance. I wounder what would the eagle on the back cough up if it could squack, or what the image George wasington would have to say if he could talk. Plus how long was this quarter pased upp to make it look this old and degraded and who passess up a quarter!? That's good money man! Almost can get a sam's club soda for that.

So each item I find I will tell where I found it, how I found it and what story I believe it has. So look out fo . . . entertaining boardium?