Anthony Garcia’s garage The work of Anthony Garcia Sr. is familiar to just about everyone in Denver. The one-time graffiti writer is now a mural-making maven with public projects in neighborhoods across the city. He’s also co-founder of Birdseed Collective, a group of artists who show their own work and mentor scores of young people. Stuck at home like the rest of us, he turned his signature move — geometric murals made with bright colors inspired by sarapes and other textiles — on his own abode, gathering his family together for this hand-made redo of their North Denver garage. For a more public piece by Garcia, check out his “Crossroads/Encrucijada” painted on the traffic bridge at 6th Avenue and Federal...
I was enchanted by a failed project this week. [Andrew Consroe]’s CNC scroll saw doesn’t work yet, but the emphasis is on the word “yet”. Heck, even when it does work, it might not make sense, but that’s not the point anyway. A scroll saw table has a vertical reciprocating blade perpendicular to a table, a lot like a band saw but with a shorter blade. You push the wood sheet to be cut into the blade, and because it’s thin, you can twist and turn all sorts of interesting jigsaw-puzzle shapes. [Andrew] automated this with an X-Y gantry and an innovative geared rotating ring, needed to keep the wood fed into the cutting edge of the blade. It’s a...
Even before coronavirus shuttered their colleges, disappeared their first jobs, or derailed burgeoning careers, millions of America’s “emerging adults” were stuck at home. Between 2000 and 2017, the number of 25-to-34-year-olds living with their parents doubled to reach 22%.Blame the battering ram of a bad economy. Recessions in 2001 and 2008, along with wage gaps, growing college costs and the crushing weight of student debt, have left younger Americans late to reach traditional adulthood milestones like marriage, homebuying, and kids. The Washington Post reported that, compared to Boomers and Gen X’ers, Millennials — the “unluckiest generation” — have experienced the slowest economic growth. Members of Generation Z now emerging from college may face even tougher challenges.Coronavirus isn’t helping. Facing down...
"17 Words that Changed My Life Forever"by Jerry Clark “I remember several years back I heard something that changed my life forever. Up until that point I had been struggling through life - doing everything the hard way. I couldn’t figure out why my life wasn’t going the way I felt it should be. I saw some people going through life effortlessly and seemingly with less tension and frustration while I was wondering if I could ever straighten out the mess my life had turned out to be. I was behind on my dreams, my promises, and my bills. Then one day I was listening to a tape and the lady was talking about the power of having dreams and...
Three years have passed since a cladding-fuelled fire claimed 72 lives in Grenfell Tower, London, on June 14 2017. The construction industry and its regulators around the world are still grappling with how to create effective regulations to ensure dwellings are built to keep their occupants safe. The New South Wales Parliament passed two important bills last week: the Design and Building Practitioners Bill 2020 and the Residential Apartment Buildings (Compliance and Enforcement Powers) Bill 2020. This put in place two important pieces of the “jigsaw puzzle”, as NSW Better Regulation Minister Kevin Anderson put it. Read more: NSW building certification bill still lets developers off the hook The Residential Apartment Buildings Bill in particular could be a game changer...
