http://benshook.com/words Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:48:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://benshook.com/words/?p=543 The air raid siren just sounded, 10 PM.  I learned this week that besides being set up for a missile defense warning system, it denotes the vestigial curfew time and internationally accepted noon lunch time.  I like both as daily benchmarks or a synaesthetic occupant of one's time... marking activities ... http://benshook.com/words/?p=501 There is a serene dusky evanescent pink glow in the sky right now, quarter to one oclock AM.  After 15 straight days of work, I am starting to hit a stride... now knowing that there will be no break until it's all done and we're getting on the plane.  No ... http://benshook.com/words/?p=484 I have spent several long days in the shop getting things ready for construction of the qalgiq, and finishing up the kids' dress up house... adding the finishing touches today of two little clothes hangers fashioned out of caribou antlers.  (Had caribou chili last night... and felt a sense of ... http://benshook.com/words/?p=464 My work routine has me rising at 4-5 AM to stretch and have tea and get started by 5:30.  Somehow, it is the least distracted time to work, those early hours, here brightly lit.  My projects so far have been the assembly of two medium sized display cases whose parts ... http://benshook.com/words/?p=450 The flight from Calgary to Yellowknife was striking: at dusk we took off over Calgary, about 9:00 P.M.  As we flew North the dusk became subtly brighter; after nearly three hours flying straight North, we landed in a bright dusk evening about quarter to midnight: I went out to a little ... http://benshook.com/words/?p=434 I have been engaged to travel up to the Canadian Arctic to work in an Inuit Heritage Museum.  I will be building a traditional style, communal building called a "qalgiq," pronounced QUAL GHEK.  I have been studying the Inuit vernacular architecture and reading about the uses, means and methods of ... http://benshook.com/words/?p=420 Just made this with my friend Ben Pederson in his shop.  It is solid oregon black walnut, book matched and engineered with a drawer in the skirt and easily packs flat.  One meter by two meters; made for two German engineers. http://benshook.com/words/?p=412 i check from time to time the "creative" jobs page on craigslist and recently found this interesting posting: "I am looking for an artist that will help my company create our logo.  We are a small business services company looking to build our brand.  Only serious people relpy [sic] please.  I ... http://benshook.com/words/?p=409 is this: in a way, this is amazing architecture too, committed to the earth's surface for pennies compared to, say, a cathedral.  1/5 of the world's population lives like this.  THIS is eco friendly.  forget about low VOC paints and cork floors.  these have dirt floors.  and i bet the people ... http://benshook.com/words/?p=401