The Stupendous Boiler Bar Holiday Party Dec 13th

Benefit for the Golden Mean

Our Halloween party went so well we decided to host a Holiday party this year. We will have some amazing talent on stage including but not limited to:

The crew is putting together a few new surprises including the shocking new Acme photo booth with a flash of fire, Electrical shock and bubbles to capture those special moments of life.

Details

Homemade Fig Jam

The rains a few weeks ago came at just the right time for our last fig crop of the year making them nice and plump. Conveniently the biggest branch, well out of reach and covered with figs, snapped in the rain giving us figs galore right at our feet! Zolie and I picked them and cut firewood Sunday and started making Jam early Monday morning. After getting things started, Zolie got Kyrsten up to speed so I could get to work. While I was gone the two of them reduced the mix down to very nice jam, canned it and even made beautiful labels. We tried out the new fig jam this morning on pancakes with the homemade butter we made a few weeks back. Yum! Apple butter is next!

Make Magazine’s story about the Golden Mean

The Golden Mean

A good friend of mine at Boing Boing, David Pescovitz wrote this great article for Make Magazine about the giant snail Kyrsten and I made.

Thanks to our wonderful friends who made it possible to make this artful creature come alive.

Link

Look Inside >> Volume 16

Form & Reform on Prototype This!

Prototype This Backyard Water Slide Simulator Build

Prototype This invited Hino and I to be part of the crack team to build the Backyard Water Slide Simulator a few months back. This show will air this week Nov. 12th on the Discovery Channel. Air dates and times. We had a great time building this wonderful machine with a great crew of artists, designers, engineers, videographers, producers and all the others who took care of our every need including the cast of Joe Grand, Terry Sandin, Mike North and Zoz Brooks . I don’t get to be “not in charge” very often and it was enjoyable to go home every night, not having to worry about if this thing would work! Thanks Joe for taking the lead!

Tune in to see how it all works out!

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Wow that edit was really bad! This was a great project and the details of building it were far more interesting then watching the hosts play in the water or with a CB radio. There are 2 whole hours thrown on the editing room floor of a great show with all kinds of real drama and education.

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More Photos

Remember: Fire Is Hot

1920’S Boiler Bar for your Holiday Event

We are looking for Gigs for the Holidays!

Our Oil Punk set has been a big hit with every show we have done. We have the following items available to make the illusion of a 1920’s Oil town bar complete with a stage, dancers, performers, fire sculptures, a still and furniture.

1. Boiler Bar (shoots flames from the top)
2. Boiler Bar Theater (dancing, song, and sites to amaze)
3. Bar stools and tables
4. Fire Gardens to warm and entertain
5. A Still to make fuel for the soul
6. The Golden Mean (a giant snail car)
7. Volt Aged mini bar

Rental prices

510 444 7007

fire sculpture

Homemade Butter

My daughter Zolie and I thought it would be fun to make butter to go with Mom’s pancakes. My local homeless friend Hank found this great Daisy Churn #4 for me a few weeks back. With the leftover cream from the birthday pies we made last week and a copy of Joy of Cooking from 1964 we got to work. Right away we knew we were in for the long haul when we read “how much slower the process was in threatening or stormy weather”. We looked outside and saw it was still raining. We worked the handle on top of the table, then on the floor and finally we moved out to the living room to catch a movie while we finished. Finally we had what looked like butter. After removing it from the churn and washing with cold water we had to decide what kind of salt to add. We split it up and added French British Maldon sea salt to half and Korean parched salt to the other. The whole time we made it Zolie kept telling me to go slower dad. How she knew that I have no idea. I kept asking her where she lived last and who she was. Old souls make great butter even in the rain!

cranking hard on the table

It’s thicker now and she had to move it to the floor for better leverage.

Home made butter on Kyrsten’s buckwheat pancakes!

Update

The butter tastes great and the little bit of Buttermilk left in pockets of the butter makes it moist on toast.

Buttermilk will get used this Sat. for more Pancakes and fresh butter!

Here is how you can make at home

Make Butter

Sacramento International Auto Show – November 6-9, 2008

The Golden Mean will be showing here this weekend.

I can’t wait to see what Ford thinks of my new 2009 model.

Sacramento International Auto Show – November 6-9, 2008
Cal Expo Fairgrounds
Sacramento, California

Over 500,000 square feet of Indoor and Outdoor Display Space Featuring 36 Manufacturers with Hundreds of 2008 Cars in a Non-Selling Environment
Presented by: Central Valley New Car Dealers Association
Tickets Available at the Door
$9 for Adults; Children 12 and Under are Free
$2-off coupons available at all Central Valley New Car Dealer Members and participating Golden 1 Credit Union locations

Update

We set up the car yesterday and got a chance to look around. We were disappointed to see most of the new cars still only get high teens/low twenty’s for gas millage. I’m still amazed and saddened that my 1958 DKW gets better millage than a Prius 50 years later!

Here is a taste of the show

Sat. Nov 1st, First Church of the Buzzard present The Boiler Bar!

For your pleasure and amazement we will present the Boiler Bar, the Golden Mean (a gigantic snail car) and other oddities not mentionable in public.

Costumes encouraged!

SAT NOV 1 …8pm….Entry….$5-10
@    THE FIRST CHURCH OF THE BUZZARD
2601 Adeline @ 26th St. (enter on 26th) Oakland

Cattail Candle Holder Sale

I started out my metalworking career designing and making furniture for my company Form & Reform. 20 plus years later I’m still selling those same timeless designs. I developed a method of forging pipe with a power hammer without crushing it and here is a wonderful example of simple, functional furniture by Me.

Cattail Candle Holder

9″x9″x61″

Made of thick pipe and a solid metal base, this hand forged Cattail Candleholder will last for generations.

$275

price includes shipping in USA

see in Napastyle’s catalog

Please contact me at:

Form & Reform 510 444 7007 or books@formandreform.com to place an order. I take visa, mastercard and cash.

More furniture I make

Boiler Bar In Austin TX for Maker Faire this weekend!

We will be there with the Bar and stage. Please come by and enjoy the show. Zolie has been practicing her new song, Deep in the Heart of Texas.

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