The 2011 Oscars with Skywalker Ranch

Tron was up for an Oscar for sound editing  this year. Gwendolyn Yates Whittle & Addison Teague along with the their team from Skywalker Ranch that included Kyrsten Mate, got to attend along with their families.

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Kyrsten & Jon on the red carpet. We had a lot of fun and I was so proud of my wife! I got to see lots of stars and hang out with real Oscar winners! The Oscar itself is very heavy. Looking forward to one on our mantel soon.

Gary and Kyrsten with the Oscar he won

Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick all took home Oscars for sound mixing on Inception

Skywalker crew and family ready for the Oscars

Jana Vance, Maya, Cecile Benson, Denise Thorpe, Kyrsten Mate

Steve Boeddeker, Phil Benson,  Mac Smith, Jon Sarriugarte, Dustin Cawood

 

Eli Wallach is saying to Kyrsten “You look gorgeous in that dress! Gorgeous!” No joke!

 

 

Kantor Light Fixture

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This is a light I just did for a local home here in California. 24″ x 24″ Iron Seen here with carbon element bulbs.

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Lighting By Jon Sarriugarte

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IDEO Party

IDEO Holiday Party in SF 2011

The Boiler Bar crew got a chance to show off our toys and bars at IDEO party this weekend. Great event and lots of great people. So fun to hang out with such creative people. Great costumes, and the sets they made for us were over the top! Events like these remind me why I moved to the bay area and stayed!  Hope to do more with the people I met last night.

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Kyrsten and Emily

You don’t have a giant Iron snail in your living room?

Water slide for Prototype This

Here is a project I helped build a few years back.

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Post Party New Years 2011

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Joe’s Pictures

Camino Light with Patina

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I recently made this light for a customers home. This is a smaller version of the one I made for Camino’s restaurant a few years back.

Details on this light

More lighting here

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Electrobite Instructable

I made a new Instructable for the Electrobite

Please vote in the upper left corner of this link for our creation so we can win JOBY contest

You will have to vote here for the Craftsman contest for us to win $5000 in tools!

Click on view entries and I am on the 2nd page. only click vote and not on the picture or links.

An Old School West Oakland New Years

An Old School West Oakland New Years

Enjoy the Boiler Bar Speakeasy heated room, couches and old time sing along movies.

Watch and listen as DJ Kyrsten spins tunes and cooks you homemade food!

Tis the Season to burn trees
Golden Mean Snail Art Car
Justin Gray Robots
Boiler Bar and performers
The Swamp Kirin has been spotted late nights !

Live Music on the Front Porch!
Tiger Honey Pot
Sour Mash Hug Band
JD

Fire Sculptures

Hugh fire barrels

Mini-Mega Junior by the Flaming Lotus Girls

Dave Andres

Live Music Inside:
Holiday Heart
Ava Mendoza
Oolies (Mitchell Brown/Josh Lindenfelzer/Christopher Sprague/Bobby Adams)
Tummy Troll
FCotB DJ’s :Count Loachfillet , junkdrawer, Sir Bo Turbo

Dismal Illuminators & Burning Trees
plus More!!

2601 Adeline, Oakland CA

enter on 26th
8pm to the next year!
$20 to support the Boiler Bar/Snail, Dismal, and the Front Porch.
Too much? Follow this link for the password to get in for $10

Artist & Blacksmith Mark Krause Arrested

Mark was arrested in Seattle last week while visiting friends. Krause is accused of placing a homemade explosive device six months ago at a church in Osage, Arkansas, that was serving as a polling place.

Mark is no killer and he needs our help. Please see the link below to donate to his defense and get up to date info on his case

Free Mark Krause.blogspot

Full FBI Affidavit

TPMMuckraker

News Story Dec 9th

Boing Boing Story

ABANA Article

Benton County Jail address

IMAGE: CE Nelson/Nelsonfoto.com, 2009, All Rights Reserved

Mark’s website and a look at his art:

blacksmithmark.carbonmade.com

Fayetteville artists headed to San Francisco for Maker Faire

Below is a story I did about Mark earlier this year. This is what he was building when they claimed he placed the bomb.

My friend Mark Krause has come all the way from Arkansas to attend Burning Man with his wonderful almost finished creation Icarus.

I’ve know Mark for years though the California Blacksmith Ass. He has made some wonderful smithed sculptures seen at Maker fair for the last few years and has fixed most of the power hammers we smith use in the bay area over the years. Now it’s time to help him out with a financial last push to finish the last leg of his trip. I’m setting him up in my shop for the next few weeks. He needs both skilled help and money. He’s set up a Kickstsrter account here. I will personally vouch for his art and skill and welcome him to his first trip to Blackrock!


A three wheeled vehicle in the shape of a crashed airplane with the wings melted off just beyond fire belching machine guns. This is a scratch built vehicle made almost entirely from recycled or repurposed materials.

Using Icarus as a model, I am attempting to describe the absurdity of warfare. While being held captive, Daedalus made wings for himself and his son to escape from the isle of Crete. Icarus, through youthful exuberance, flew too close to the sun and melted his wax and feather wings only to perish in the sea. Placed into modern context, the superfluous use of technology for warfare, only leads to a similar demise. In my example, the modern flying machine was destroyed by melting off its waxy wings with its own guns. I intend to present an aesthetically pleasing, interactive, object that hopefully will make some people think a little.

Merry Christmas in Vallejo

Mad Hatter Holiday Vallejo 2010

Great fun to participate in a small town holiday parade! The town really appreciated us coming and everyone who approached us struggled for words and wanted to talk about how great it was to see art drive down their Main street. We will be back!

Sam Coniglio Pictures

Local Paper seemed more concern with how to explain why Santa was in in 3 places and road in on a Snail!

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