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Torah Cover
A torah cover I designed and made was selected for permanent display in the Jewish Museum of Florida. The top portion is butternut wood carved to bring to mind the ark of the covenant. The two carved cherubim face one another with their wings outspread, surrounded by a border of carved pomegranate blossoms. The bottom portion is linen, brocade ( Read more... ) -
Happy Purim
A Museum in which my work is displayed invited me to create and donate a 3d, Purim-themed sculpture to be used as a table centerpiece at their annual Purim fundraiser. At the end of the evening, the centerpiece will be auctioned off as part of the fundraiser, to benefit the museum. The museum gave me 5 weeks to create the object. Oh yeah, and ( Read more... ) -
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Martha Stewart hosted Richard Garriott showing off his Automata collection.
A must see at:
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Luca the cat sits calmly, unaware that the dreaded Elmo chair is preparing to consume another victim.
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Simchat Torah
So ... My latest creation is in honor of Simchat Torah (The celebration marking the conclusion of the annual cycle of Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle).
Turn the handle and the Rabbi spins with the Torah, much like our own Rabbi.
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En"lite"ned Kosher Cooking
Yesterday, I spent what I consider to be an exorbitant amount for a cookbook. I tend to buy my cookbooks used. But, once I saw this cookbook and started to examine the recipes (and the pretty color photographs), I knew I had to buy it right there and then (Darn you, Barnes and Noble ( Read more... ) -
Head Start
Well, I finished the project I had been working on (the model of which my son did not like) and entered it in response to a "call for entries" for a gallery show. The show was called "A Show of Heads". My mother and my partner thought it was perfect for me, since I like to carve heads (as longtime readers of this blog know). I just learned that ( Read more... ) -
I don't like this . . .
So, on July 30, 2009, my 23 month old son uttered his first complete sentence. Previously, his "sentences" consisted of "my this!", "more this" or "no!" (he also says "Agua" and "mas" or "no mas". So much for sending him to Synagogue day care ( Read more... ) -
A Fool and His Head . . .
A big thankyou to rospberry for sending the photos of her dad posing with his very own custom-made Jester's Bauble. For those of you who don't know, rospberry made a generous contribution to the LJ initiative "Live Long and Marry", organized to fight Proposition 8 in California, stripping legally married same sex couples from their status in that state. In ( Read more... )
