How-to Hew Wooden Beams By Hand
I spent several days this week at the cabin collecting logs and hewing timber for a wood shed. I did most of the hewing by hand, though I used a chain saw on one very large timber for the first step. The process of creating a square beam from a round log, by hand, is...
Leather Bird Scares
In an effort to keep birds from flying into the windows of our cabin, I’ve made several distinctive bird-scare silhouette from thick leather dyed black.
Deer Axe Sheath
My sister and brother-in-law have been asking me for a while to make a sheath for their axe. The family was getting together yesterday for dinner to celebrate my sister’s birthday so I told my brother-in-law to bring over his axe so I could take a look at it. The axe in question is a...
Three Old Bags
The title of this post is not meant as a euphimism. Quite by accident I have started a collection of old backpacks. I decided to document some of my vintage backpacks here.
Eight Axes And A Knife
I’ve been meaning to document my growing axe collection and now seemed like a good time.
Base Camp X: Artemis Axe Supports Breast Cancer Research
Canadian boutique axe maker, Base Camp X, are donating $100 to Breast Cancer Research for each Artemis axe sold.
Getting Weird
I’ve always considered myself a bit of an asocial eccentric. I hate crowds. I like being alone in the woods. And I like objects that are utilitarian but well made: wooden canoe paddles, axes, and now pipes.
Design Is Not A Product
As in a Japanese garden, aesthetic and experiential beauty are found in harmony, rather than in singularity.
Innovation Is Scary
The recently released beta 4.3 version of Apple’s iOS for iPhone and iPad contains references to a feature called “Find My Friends.” According to MacRumors, “the obvious interpretation is that Apple may be looking to offer a location-based friend-finding service like Loopt and Google Latitude.” When I read this news I thought “that’s cool.” When...
Supply and Demand
After the announcement of the original iPad most other major computer and mobile phone manufacturers announced plans to enter the touch-based tablet market. One year later and most of these rumoured devices are still nothing more than vapour-ware.
Tom Waits vs The Internet
Last night I went to a see Quebec City’s L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres perform Tom Waits at Calgary’s historic Grand Theatre. Their show is part concert, part vaudeville theatre, part mayhem. L’Orchestre pour all their energy into each arrangement, finding inventive ways to make music and channel the spirit of Mr. Waits.
I Wish My Computer Could Do What My Phone Does
This past fall and winter I decided to start traveling with only my iPhone and iPad, and to leave my laptop at home. Now each time I sit down at my desktop, I find myself wishing it functioned more like my iPhone and iPad.
