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♫...Please allow me to introduce myself... ♫
Howdy folks...
Now that I seem to have offended just about everyone in this community in one way or another... I'd like to introduce myself :)
My name is Elliott, and I leave in the Seattle area of the Pacific NorthWest...
I am a carpenter, gardener, and teacher of integral design and natural building techniques...
I salvage building materials from remodels and dumpsters and repurpose them in creative ways to make functional art... like furniture and musical instruments & toys/games...
I enjoy working on my sailboat and go for picnics on the water in the lakes and Puget Sound...
I don't own a car by choice... rather prefer to walk, bike, bus or carpool where I need to go...
I have travelled all over the Americas... by boat, bicycle, car, plane, & train...
I am in the process of converting a suburban wooded lot into a food forest & micro-farm...
I collect functioning antique hand tools, toys, musical instruments, furniture, and fixtures...
I collect books; mainly about history, religion, politics, homesteading, sailing, & DIY manuals...
I read the King James Bible and started a lending library at my local Independent Baptist church...
I love the Rainbow Family of Living Light, with all of our diversity of expression and opinions... and I invite you all to come to the National Gatherings that take place between Solstice & 4th of July...
Peace, Love & Light..!
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Permalink Reply by Carl Monster on -
Well, I'll be the first to extend my hand (though I actually have already).
You started a dog group, which is way cool, and said great things about my dog, so you've done the opposite of offending me.
As a design-build landscape architect I really admire the environmental aspect of your work, and the fact that you bring that to your lifestyle. My hat is off to you sir. You've got a friend here in me.
Welcome, for better or worse.
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Permalink Reply by Elliott Jason Ridgway on -
Thank you kindly.. :)
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Permalink Reply by Elliott Jason Ridgway on
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I've been around a long, long while... seen many a man fall from grace...
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Permalink Reply by Brandon Michael on -
I'm way too young for that reference.
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Permalink Reply by Carl Monster on
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Took me awhile too, and at my age..
Didn't pay attention to music until the B52s.
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Permalink Reply by Elliott Jason Ridgway on
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Some seem to think so... it's the nature of my game... :)
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Permalink Reply by Chuck Knight on -
As a life long fan of Bucky and Snelson, it seems we have a lot in common.
In fact, my current fascination with Frei Otto's non-linear minimal surface forms is quite compatible with, though completely opposite from your interest in natural construction.
This is going to be interesting.
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Permalink Reply by Elliott Jason Ridgway on
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bucky balls... tensegrity... geodesic domes... whats not to like..?
Having no formal schooling in architecture nor training in construction, this conversation will likely get beyond my comprehension rather quickly... so don't mind me if I stop to ask for directions along the way :)
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Permalink Reply by Chuck Knight on
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Tensegrity...very good! Snelson is not nearly so well known, despite being Bucky's best student. LOVE his needles.
In fact, there's a tensegrity icosahedron on my desk.
But my current passion is for minimal surface architecture. It's those big, undulating, fabric sail looking installations that motivate me. For my first full scale project, I designed a 37 foot installation that functioned as a rear projection screen for my church's VBS.
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Permalink Reply by Elliott Jason Ridgway on
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I love Sacred Geometry... Golden Ratio... Platonic Solids... etc... the elegant design forms that manifest in molecular and geological scales...
the projection screen sounds wonderful... functional art is where it's at :)
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