Some Great Examples Of What’s Possible With Cellphone Photography

Check it out here.

Post-It Note Art

Love it:

Finished The Window Bench

This was a long-overdue finish job.

Before:

After:

Finally Got Around To Installing The AC

I woke up on a recent morning, and it was hot. That was the inspiration I needed to turn a hole in the wall beneath a porch into a built-in AC cabinet (with shelf). 

Before:

After:

Here’s the gallery.

Drupal Is Awesome

I don’t know why I didn’t just listen to other developers sooner — Drupal is amazing. It’s taken me a solid two weeks to really get my head around the functionality and modules (especially Views), but, man, this thing is going to change my life. And I’m sure I’ve only broken the surface of its potential.

WP is probably still the simplest and most-customizable for the straight-up single publisher, but, for anything community-oriented (user accounts, forums, etc.), Drupal has to be the best out there.

Only (main) complaint is the lack of official overarching documentation. Seems like every nasty little bug can only be fixed by extensive Google searches and random, one-off forum discussions. But that’s the nature of open-source stuff, I guess.

At any rate, Drupal is awesome, and I am looking forward to this whole new world of possibility.

Time-Lapse Star Photography

This is pretty amazing.

Not Finished, But The Studio Is Taking Shape

Spent a day cleaning up this area, which was previously filled with tools and paint buckets. I still have to finish that window bench (an upcoming weekend project), but, in the meantime, I’ve got a place to finally get around to learning to paint! (Sorry for the low-res photo… quick shot with the iPhone.)

Everytime I See This It Makes Me Laugh

A Fun Little Art Project

Via the always-interesting BOOOOOOOM! blog:

And here’s how that’s panning out on Flickr.

Painting Wooden Countertops, An Adventure

I had a nice finish-ply base for my countertops, which I installed with the help of my dad about two years ago, and over a recent rainy weekend, I had an idea for finishing it. Because the walls were crooked to begin with, which threw my countertops out of square, I didn’t think a finish with strong lines (like tile) would look good, because it would show the crookedness. Something with thickness, like concrete or granite, was too high-end for this application, plus it’d be way too thick when added to the 3/4″ ply. I considered formica, but I had never done that sort of work, the quote I got seemed too high and I didn’t want to risk learning on my own kitchen.

So, I looked into painting the wood countertops. Just regular plywood, more or less. After looking around, I settled on an unexpected solution: epoxy-based concrete floor paint. It was super thick, and it turns any surface it’s applied to into a non-porous, water-tight piece of continuous smoothness. Like one giant span of tile. It cost about $200 and took three days to do, mainly a few hours each day. I’d recommend it.

Anywho, click here to see the whole photo slideshow of the process!