pops got a new plane today. i helped mellow out the paint scheme a little bit about 3 months ago. this things is a sweet machine. looking forward to puddle hopping in this pad boy.
this is what the inside of a new engine looks like
we had a party to bless the plane with safe travels, that is if you believe in that sort of thing.
i crissen thee ….. ummmmm… ok well we havent got around to naming it yet but shes flight ready

the KLUGE video made the front page of vimeo yesterday. pretty cool…..

it was great hangin my good friends from california over the weekend. lets do it again soon!

Ive been rifling through some old photos getting ready for a project that bobby, ryan, and i are going to be working on. found some old shuttle launch photos that i thought were fun. here are a couple of my favorites.

Meet Nick Sambrato. He runs a print shop in Orlando, Florida called Mama’s Sauce.

Nick isn’t a very smart guy. At a time in history when the print industry is pouncing from one space-age technological advancement to the next, Nick has decided to take a giant leap backwards into the industrial revolution.

Meet the Kluge letterpress. An 8,000 pound, cast iron, electric powered monstrosity of vacillating rods, giant spinning wheels and pneumatic hoses. The Kluge is Nick’s weapon of choice in his battle against the future.
So why does Nick use the Kluge? A clearly outdated, cumbersome and obsolete machine? The same reason any craftsman uses any tool: for the quality of the finished product. A letterpress offers a tangible, three-dimensional look and feel to the printed image that no other technology can replicate.

Let Nick take you on a trip back in time as he runs through the process of turning an ordinary piece of paper stock into work of art.

here are some photos of this letter press that the guys at mama’s sauce have. they did the annalemma business cards on it. i shot a little short on it that will be up on here shortly.

one of these pictures is getting published in an upcoming mag. so i thought i would post some of the candidates because i thought they were cool.  circa 2006.

so i am doing this slide show for my moms 60 birthday and while scanning through my moms photos i came across some jems. heres a preview.

hi grandmom…. i love you, wherever you are.

this is a drawing of my grandads airplane and boat. the boat was called the ” ivory gull ” i might have to use that name somewhere.

this is the plane my grandad blew up submarines in during world war 2
‘my mom and some kid riding the waves on the ivory gull

MAKR has a new site up. go and buy some shit.

i looked at my desk today and realized i might have a problem.