Thinkcorps

Every once in a while, I get an idea. I’d been walking past Powell’s technical bookstore and they had a rack full of these punch-out wood puzzle kits that made different things: heavy machinery, navy ships, etc. I figured I could do something cool with them, being that they’re basically 3D puzzle kits.

I only had to fabricate two pieces (from puzzle pieces I wasn’t going to use), so it’s pretty much all snap-together. The two pieces formed the top and bottom of the cage surrounding the light bulb.

Unlike most other projects I’ve done, this one was mostly about staring at the pieces and thinking about how they could fit together. I actually let it sit, hanging above my workspace for about a week, coming back to it every day for a few minutes. Eventually, I stumbled upon a set of combinations that I liked, at which point I took a bunch of pictures for reference, then glued it together for stability.

I put up a few more pictures on Flickr.

It’s long overdue that I write something up on A.D.: After the Deluge, the webcomic we’ve been producing on SMITH since early this year. I’m tremendously proud of how this story is coming together, and it’s great to be a part of something this good.

A.D. is the story of 6 Hurricane Katrina survivors, written and illustrated by Josh Neufeld, a tremendous artist, and produced by Larry and myself for our webzine, SMITH. It combines an original webcomic, presented in monthly installments, with in-chapter hyperlinks, along with audio & video shot by us with the characters from the story.

If I’ve piqued your interest by now, then by all means, go—read the story! Otherwise, I figured I could go into some of the behind-the-scenes action detailing how we’ve put all this together.
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