Bone Yard

[Aaron Schroeder]

Ya know Steven, you are allowed to make stone, as big as you want. Concrete, plaster, clay and other materials can be used in numerous ways. I know that most stone carvers tend to prefer working with nature made stone but it doesn't have to be that way. You have options, affordable ones....is all I'm saying.

[evaldart]

A new load, ton and a half, random bits...Check it

[GlennT]

You found my missing wristwatch!!!

[Giotto]

Ev,

I totally get this... I have spend a great deal of my life in junk yards and auctions. My favorite was where HP tossed it's misadventures. There "affordably" in my hands were all the hopes and dreams of engineers and scientists...thousands of hours and dollars.. gone into the making of some high vacuum polymer still and now it's mine. I miss that

G

[Aaron Schroeder]

Hmmmm. A lot of circulars with engaging rims.

Danger !!!

Don't consider even for 4747 seconds about using any of these objects as kinetic elements, especially ones that engage with one another. Such thoughts will lead to certain madness and pretension.

Even a suggestive arrangement could lead to temptation. Once the wheels start turning ( even in your imagination ) ........Oh man I can't even speak of it.

Some scary looking stuff in the bed of that truck.

[evaldart]

No, no kinetics A. I bust my ass to be sure that NOTHING ever moves again once I've had my way with it. Yeah, lots of big cast iron gears....what to do with those? I cant twist them up or knot them together. Suppose I'll just have to let them have a skeletal presence. A host for contour, a substrate for shape...bones for the mangled metal meats that get lashed onto them. Anyhow, thats what goin on in the walnut for now...but who knows; I'll be a new man by the time I get around to doing anything with this junk.

[grommet]

Yeah, lots of big cast iron gears....what to do with those?

WWSD
What would Scrumble do?

[evaldart]

Originally Posted by grommet

WWSD
What would Scrumble do?

Exactly, G.

[suburbanartists]

I guess everyone gave up on their time machines.

But I say yes to making kinetic piece. How about a bone crusher or crap art masher. Shred up some of those damn cambel soup cans.

[Nelson]

Envy ! Wish I could lay my hands on that precious junk... The only scary, ugly things I see are those plastic buckets

[StevenW]

I don't know what to do with my own stuff anymore so I usually just do what I'm not supposed to and I'm more or less happy with that.

[evaldart]

A shot before the snow blankets it.

[GlennT]

Looking at the boneyard photo sideways bears a symbiotic visual relationship to your current icon picture.

I get to say that because on some other thread I won the "amateur psychiatrist" or psychonanylst or some such thing award.

[StevenW]

My first thought was that what we're seeing here is the Evaldart dewey decimal system in action. When the snow falls in back there he'll be able to look at this pic and say aha, that's where I put it.. etc..

[evaldart]

Originally Posted by StevenW

My first thought was that what we're seeing here is the Evaldart dewey decimal system in action. When the snow falls in back there he'll be able to look at this pic and say aha, that's where I put it.. etc..

I keep hoping that the telekinesis or "force" kick-in and I'll be able to "think" the piece I want out of the pile. Like Skywalker did with that submerged X-Wing. But I got no Yoda...have to get there all by my self.

You're quite right glenn. I'm no fan of psychoanalyzation; but I DO suppose that one atunes to their own very unique perceptual "tone"...that likely presides in everything they do; even as it changes.

[GlennT]

You could use those flags used to mark buried utility lines to mark each piece, and add a drawing of the item to each flag, which will then remain above the level of the snowfall, maybe.

[grommet]

or you could throw a tarp over the piles & peel it back regularly to view the sculpture seeds.

[evaldart]

I try to plan for it by pulling for enough larger projects to keep me busy for the few months of winter crap. But inevitably a fresh idea ambushes me and demands that I go dig through the snow (through the chaotic tonnage of tetanus maybe for a single bolt or length of bar). Its an easy place to get impaled by an icy slip.

[scrapartoz]

well Evald, i am pleased to see neither of us listened to the teacher that said : 'neatness counts'. I see you have leaf litter and snow to contend with.
I also see you have some good 'stuff' to play with. My boneyard is now full of native grasses with irritating spikey seeds, ( which I should have sprayed weeks ago) and lethal brown snakes along with a few hundred deadly redback spiders. quite a family. I will have to spray and burn next winter. There is a vague system of order based on similar shapes or function . it works for me. Boots are a must for those walking in my rusty garden.
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[evaldart]

LOVE IT Scrap. Whether you like it or not, we're family. (but that doesnt mean you can have one of my giant sprockets) Hah. Poisonous critters...no thank you. The foliage makes it hard for me. I put down tarps and wood chips but every year the weed grow plush obscuring the view; just to be sure I have ti DIG. And the ground there is real marshy, I'm ever at risk of losing something into the muck. No real order other than the heaviest stuff is near the entrance.

I'l be scoring a 50 foot pipe tomorrow (15"diameter, 1/2 wall thick ness. I did the math, it weighs 4000 lbs). I'll (sadly) cut it into manageable pieces (8 - 12 footers). I wont be able to put it in the boneyard though as it will be needing gantry access. And I've already topple the gantry once by trying to use it on softer ground.

[scrapartoz]

Eval good luck with the pipe. thats a real treasure in the rough: rings. tubes .sinewave curves. c shapes. straps .twists .a blank canvass for perforations and additions etc. cant wait to see wot u do with it.

[Tired Iron]

Nice to see others that appreciate such collections. Too bad my wife and son don't appreciate mine till a check rolls in. Then they soon forget where the check was birthed from and they grumble some more about the pile.......

[evaldart]

Originally Posted by Tired Iron

Nice to see others that appreciate such collections. Too bad my wife and son don't appreciate mine till a check rolls in. Then they soon forget where the check was birthed from and they grumble some more about the pile.......

Oh yeah, my fam doesnt get it at all. They dont get how often they are eating scrap iron for dinner, and burning it to keep warm in the winter. I dont expect them to become philosophically advance by it (like me). Just acknowledge that my little rusty jagged Disneyland is not just a fun place for daddy to play. Maybe some folks think that the blooming lilacs are quite the eyesore...and I never say a word.

[The Forge]

Gone are the days of getting scrap from the junk yards. OSHA has issued the 'kill the fun' orders here. I really cannot complain too much as the strap that I can get is quite sufficient to keep my creative juices flowing. But, I can still remember those 'glory days'.

[evaldart]

No those days are not gone at all, Forge. I have many relationships with facilities, yards, individuals and always am pursuing random opportunities for my tonnage. It has not changed one bit. You just got to get out there and PIONEER for the sake of art (and your personal improvement, of course). Cant sit around being satisfied with enough junk for only "juices"...it takes hard work to keep the RIVERS flowing.

NO EXCUSES! have I said that before?