The Serpents are growing and taking shape everyday. Lots of wonderful friends and new faces showed up to help Sunday and lots got done. Still needing skilled volunteers. Contact me if you have skills in metal fabrication, general fabrication, LED knowledge, soldering, Flash animation of LEDs. car stereo installation, sewing. For people with no workshop skills – be a gopher for hardware or food runs, help us organize and mail out rewards from our sure-to-be-successful kickstarter so we can keep moving forward… I’m sure I can think of more!
The kickstarter fundraiser is going well but we still need more than $4000 to get our funding! Please tell your friends, spam the world, pitch in a $25. Less than a week left and if we don’t fully fund we lose the $6000 we have already raised!
Pictures of our progress
past posts
The head begins to take shape. It looks incredible and I can’t wait to see it filled in with sheet metal.
Tansy and Kyrsten have been working hard to get the fins cut.
Me laying out the head on cardboard.
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art cars,
The Serpent Twins
This post was written by Form & Reform on June 27, 2011
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Receiving the healing powers of the Violet Ray
Wonderful set of homemade Steampunk goggle
The Next generation of Aerospace-punks
Jon’s Pictures of the Nova Albion Steampunk Ex.
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Boiler Bar and Theater
This post was written by Form & Reform on March 15, 2010
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The Boiler Bar & Theater
above photo by R. Dusty Rhodes
Ta Dah
Wow that was a hoot! Great performers EVERYWHERE. You couldn’t spill your beer without hitting some amazing talent.
Big hand goes out to Tony and crew at Lagunitas for hosting such a fun free event!
more:
Sarriugarte’s pictures
R.Dusty Road’s story
R Dusty’s pictures
Performers or the entire stage show and bar are available for events and parties!
Set a scene and entertain your crowd with:
Daring & Darling Burlesque
The Serpent Queen
Slack Rope Balancing
Circassian Dancing Beauties
Dancing on Glass
Can Can Girls
Fire Breathing Vaudeville
Old Timey Music
ANd Much Much More
For more info see: <a href=”http://www.oilpunk.com”>www.oilpunk.com</a>
for bookings call 510 444 7007
boilerbar@oilpunk.com
Hand Crafted Metal Lighting Fixtures
Here are some examples of custom metal lighting we have made for clients. These light fixtures are hand forged in our shop in West Oakland Ca.
We also have experience with LED lighting combined with old world ironwork. This combination is economical to run, gives off a wide spectrum of lighting colors and can still fit in with Old World styles.
Contact me if your interested in a quote or have an idea of what your after.
books at formandreform dot com
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We just finished and installed this wonderful hand forged light fixture in a private home. It looked great installed and really completes the already great patio area. These blacksmith light fixtures are hand made in our shop by Hino and I. I start with the client’s napkin drawing, photo, or drawing of what they’re after, offer them different textures, then make a site visit to get the scale and feel of the room so the fixture will work with it.
We have been doing a lot of custom metal ceiling light fixtures for homes lately. I will start posting pictures as I get them photographed.
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
With the head now done it’s time to add a patina!
I posted more pictures here
When I have more time I’ll post about how we did the patina.
before (I hated to change it!)
During
After. Wow!
Zolie and I got a chance to see Dorkbot last Wednesday at:
Polly Harrold’s Sometime Gallery
4701 San Leandro, #15c
Oakland CA 94601
Thanks Karen
dorkbot
Jeremy Bornstein – Introduction to Soapmaking
He gave us a no nonsense demo of the basics of soap making which included scaring his volunteer with a caustic solution of lye that they had to hold out an open window. Now I know just enough we might have to make some at our next craft night. Zolie enjoyed trying out her new word “Soap!”
http://soap.ramified.org/
http://jeremy.org
Jeff Wishnie – Harsh Computing: Designing Computing and Communications System for Way Out There
Jeff had some great stories of setting up communications systems and computer labs in very remote places. I enjoyed his story of finding a bee hive in one of the communication towers after the system had stopped working. Zolie started to get sleepy, so we packed it up for the night and went home.
http://inveneo.org/
DV Rogers – Parkfield Interventional EQ Fieldwork (PIEQF)
I got to meet DV again, but missed his talk. Next time!
The Parkfield Interventional EQ Fieldwork (PIEQF) is a geologically interactive, kinetic earthwork that will take place in the township of Parkfield, Central California between the 28th June and 28th September 2008. This machine controlled installation converges a USGS reported Californian earthquake list with the near real time control of a hydraulically actuated earthquake shake table. Each time an earthquake occurs, an array of 1/2 inch and 5/8 inch steel rods attached to the shake table will oscillate and resonate, reflecting the dynamic nature of the Californian landscapeBorn in New Zealand and raised on earthquakes, D.V.Rogers has spent a a good part of the past ten years re-engineering an earthquake shake table. Collaborating with seismologist Andy Michael of the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, this summer the shake table will be installed on the San Andreas Fault in the remote central Californian township of Parkfield.
http://blog.allshookup.org
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Babalou and Zolie
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Karen
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No chin shots please
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Polly our host
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Jeremy Soap making
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Caustic Lye venting
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edibles by Eva Destruction
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yummys by Eva Destruction
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Zolie’s art
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Time to go home
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General Announcements
This post was written by Form & Reform on May 30, 2008
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Power Tool Drag Races
The Big Wheel 15′ Drag racer built by myself a few years back took 1st place (design) at the races held at Ace Auto in SF. Alan and I both got a chance to race and we actually won a race! We strongly believe we lost the rest of the races due to the wind, uphill course, lack of quality 110v power, wrong t-shirt, lack of support form our sponsors, not enough NITROUS, no cheerleaders, too little red, white and blue, and the fact that we ran the bar. Next race we plan to incorporate more smoke in hopes no will notice were not really moving too fast. The fire behind our seat in the last race helped distract the attention away from the real winner significantly.
I’m really glad I have such great friends that put on such great events! Make sure to support these events by any means necessary!
Big thanks to John, Big Daddy, Hal, Katie Bell, the bands, the racers and especially to Charlie, and Puney.
The Bar raised a bunch of Money for Todd! Here is the next event for him.
Link
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Scott Beale
Me laying out the head on cardboard.
