City fire

Lord of the Flies

When you reserve a spot for campfire at Dufferin Grove, expect this. Witnessing their little barefoot society was stressful. I felt like I was being swarmed by bold city pigeons. Stealing my food, co-opting our habitat. SHOO dirty children! I blame the parents. One kid was wearing just a t-shirt and underwear, no foolin.

Ferret Bueller

You guys like Ferrets, but they smell.

Marshmallows

Teach me, tiger

woah woah woah woah woah

President Susie

Just 'case you didn't know, this is a calvin and hobbes comic. Susie and calvin are playing pretend.

Nurd sucks!

Vampyros Lesbos

before playing this number, please, crank your volume knob to the max, turn the lights down low, drop a gram of mescaline, and get down heavy.

Toys

Everyday spray

So just go to this shop on Queen street and go to the back to find your potions.

Sample-sized girl

These are my new sneakers and man are they sneaky. You'll never find this shop.

Sold

Won it in auction.

and this girl makes it.

Daughters' lovers

Sometimes I just want to kiss someone on the cheek like I'm about to whisper something. And it'll say everything I need it to.

It'll be an apology, it'll be some sympathy, it'll be comfort, it'll be doo-wop, it'll be love. And it'll be quiet.

Bend bible verses

I'll go if they compare Jesus to Lex Luther and Israel to the planet Krypton



Let's step into my office. Do you like it?

I'm not a spectator, I'm a witness

Yeah just watch the thing. If you`re reading this, Tahar Rahim, e-mail me.

It was the best dream in the history of dreams

May I show you what just broke my heart anew

http://www.imheremovie.com/

oh

Metal

Today I painted new letters onto a Steinway B from 1927 that had just been refinished. It is a fucking gorgeous piano. Steinways are great, and this is a great Steinway. So I got some India ink (contains shellac) and a fine brush and spent 5 hours delicately not fucking up a 45 thousand dollar piano. I think it looks good. Some technicians who have this done call in an `artist`. In da house yo.

Better you'll never get to know me

To start the day

make ghetto folk art. And all you have to do is turn the can upside down and spray until no paint comes out and your nozzles won`t get clogged. new to me.




Lunchtime! Today I was feeling eating a sandwich from 7/11, and there was too much pita for one girl. I`m talking much too much. I rearranged the pieces to prove it.



Afternoon delight. Next door chinese and philipino catering service pig truck day.





Bad piano, nice font.



Then it`s time to stop by the law offices of law & office



Check your scrabictionary, eaqwaiterr is by definition, a 10 letter word used mainly in scrabble to mercy your opponents.



This song makes me want to ride wheels. Electric wheels, wheels with motors, two wheels, fuck it, four wheels. I`m thinking about it...

I`m spending all of Thursday listening to Os mutantes. for sure.

High quality secret society

Ah this is a cool Steinway from our visit to AC pianocraft in Queens, NYC, last year. I love the case. Doesn't it make you want to be mod?

Cat has eaten 20 tomato plant sprouts. I've been trying to grow them, and she's been eating them in the night and only leaves piles of dirt in the morning. I've been patient.

But now I'm going to punish her with what I've learned from the school of retro-parenting. Make her smoke a whole pack of cigarettes. Also mod.

I've been eating cheetos and listening to Deerhoof for two days. Played some sidewalk Tennis. Got another job (1+1=2).

I ain't scary

The most rippin' piano

Re-post about this old Irish piano company. Sometimes I lose my mind and delete things that I think are cool. As I understand it, the pianos made at the Shannon factory are named Lindner, a subsidiary of Rippen.

So to re-cap.

In the 1960s Ireland had lots of unemployed, and the Irish government was looking for investments in order to create more jobs. Therefore they published a bill in which they declared that in Shannon, a small city nearby the local airport, foreign companies could achieve quite substantial tax reductions, if only this would led to a certain amount of jobs.

Rippen already was selling pianos in the USA, using the Thomas organ connection. But pianos are heavy, so shipment had to be done by boat, which made it necessary to take care of sea-packaging, and so on.

They had a brain-storm: if they could make a lightweight piano they could ship it by air. And if they produced it at Shannon the investment would be low and for a nice number of years the tax reductions would be profitable.

So they started the development of the "plastic piano". They used a frame of aluminium tubes welded together, and they replaced as much as possible of the wooden parts by plastic, and ended up with an instru- ment of only 75 kilos [165 pounds]. Since the keyboard could be turned downwards inside the chest, as in all Rippen pianos, they were able to ship two pianos almost in the space normally used by one. And they could send them everywhere, as long as an airplane could land.

The production of the Lindner piano began with founding a factory at Shannon, Ireland. Only the plastic parts were produced at Shannon; the normal parts were purchased from external suppliers, and Renner even developed a special mechanism. The main factory at Ede in the Netherlands supplied some parts as well.

Thank you

Interesting pianos : folk art

This piano is covered in bottle caps. It comes from a diner that is covered in some 4 million bottle caps or so. I don't think that's reasonable. But I'll go. If it's on my way.



This is the Steinway M I'm working on, it's fully naked.