Eureka Beer Guide (website)

Imagine if your job was educating people about BEER! 

This is what Ken from Eureka Beer Guide does. Ken needed a website and was working with Michele from wordglow.ca .

They asked me if I could help them design a logo with the inspiration ... Experiencing a eureka moment about beer! 

The eureka Beer Guide Logo

 The eureka Beer Guide - light-bulb beer-head

Website: I guess they were happy with what I did with the logo because they asked if I could help with the website. I set-up the theme of the website, added design elements/pictures, general flow/workability and feel of the site ... of course with the guidance of Ken and Michele.

Screen shot of Eureka Beer Guide

Please check out the site, the information is amazing and Hey ... its about BEER!

www.eurekabeerguide.com

The Attic - Wall project

I have been creating a little space in the attic to relax and have my own space. I have one wall that I never finished.

I have been doing some spring cleaning and wanted to get rid of some wood ...
Do I have any wood to finish this wall???
Well, I have a bunch of pieces of wood.

Welcome to The Junk-Wood Wall

On the way ... not too sure this is a good idea.

The finished wall, I think it looks pretty good.

Side view of the wall ... it is quite practical since it has natural occurring shelves

The many layers of wood at different and random thicknesses creates a wall that has many natural occurring shelves. as you can see in the above picture. 

Also another bonus is I do not have to make a trip to the garbage dump.

Pure Touch - Business cards

A Fellow Reflexologist asked me to make him a Business card.
Here was the first Idea

Front - Pure Touch 1

Back - Pure Touch 1

After sitting with the design for awhile Gary felt it was not him anymore and came up with the next design

 Gary does amazing work you can check out his website: www.puretouch.ca

Lighting my Desk

I live in a very old house. Good Lighting is a little difficult to get without having to re-doing the entire electrical in the house. Simple cheap solution: 2 hanging lights, like cafe lighting above my desk. I have a dimmer switch on an extension cord that I will plug these lights into.

I went to Ikea and bought the cheapest hanging wire with light socket and plug, (which happened to be on sale for $4.99each) they were this funky green colour which I liked. My neigbours fence had fallen down and there was this amazing weathered wood which I grabbed up right away before it went straight to the dump.

I cut a hole to fit the light socket, in a small 4inch X 4inch by 1inch thick cedar board that was in my to burn pile. Then cut the fence boards to 9inch lengths and found the ones that fit nicely together. I Used 2 different sized drill bits to randomly drilled holes to allow some light through. Screwed the fence boards onto the small 4X4 board put the light through and tightened the plastic ring to hold the lampshade on ... there you have it! sweet inexpensive one of a kind, your very own internet cafe lights.

Kids Stool

My Friend asked if I could build him a kids stool for his 2year old. He looked everywhere for the right size but could not find it.

I built it with a left over 2X10 (legs) and some 2X4s pieces (the top of the seat). To make it safe and not easy to tip over ... the legs are out by 5degrees. The finish is some left over solid stain, sanded of on the edges to give it that worn look.

The finished Kids stool

Tall Buildings - Welcome to Cardboard City

Mike Southworth a friend of mine gave me a call and asked if I would be into building a set for a video. "Sure", I said not knowing what I was getting myself into. The idea was to build a cardboard City on top of a cardboard life size Grand piano. My main job was to build the Grand Piano and put some buildings together and help establish a look for this project.

Another environmentally friendly project! 

Had some used 4X4's laying around to use for the legs. It did not matter what shape they were in since they would be wrapped in cardboard. I was on my way to Rona to buy some plywood for the top of the piano but stopped at my neighbour's house to see if he had some ... Yes he did ... recycled and Free. Mike scored a keyboard that never got picked up from the repair shop that was going to the garbage. Most of the Cardboard was picked up from the alley and I had some moving boxes that were given to me.

Trying to figure out how to make the piano???

Finally the basic shape for the Grand soon to be Cardboard Piano

It took a full 2days to get to this point but as you can see a Cardboard Life size Piano sit in front of us.

The 2 main building in the video - with lights

Mike's amazing bridge - with some of buildings I made around it.

I was there for the first part of the project while Mike and Hilary with help from some friends chugged along. After many days and hours of cardboard addicted work, in-between tours and summer the video is finished. Enjoy!!!

Hilary Grist - Tall Buildings (Official Music Video)

The Making of 'Tall Buildings' by Hilary Grist

Buy on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/imaginings/id384516084

 ||||||| Credits ||||||| 

Directed, filmed and edited by Mike Southworth for Collide Entertainment. http://www.collideentertainment.com

Set construction and design by Adam Thomas, http://adamprojects.blogspot.ca/  Mike Southworth and Hilary Grist

Additional building construction by Cory Lake, Adri Lake, Tim Cyr, Dawn Pemberton, Kathy Fitzpatrick, Alison Maira, Mike Zobac, James Scholl, Steph Jackson, Ryan Grist, Charmaine De Los Reyes.

Clothing by Motel http://www.motelrocks.com/shop/ Clothing supplied by Brooke Roth at Skout Lighting by Toby Gorman, Mital Gorman and Mike Southworth

Additional styling by Dani Barnes http://danibarnes.blogspot.com/

Funded in part by the generosity of 100.5 The Peak, Music BC and The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group

Our house - bathroom

When we moved in here this bathroom looks 10X's better (in the before pic) then it actually was. It smelled, it was not functional ... there were bi-folding closet doors for the door to the bathroom I guess because the cabinet was too big for a door to open.

Before

  So I thought one day ... I'll just rip up the tile and give the floor a quick sand and be done with it. but no ... the floor was in amazing shape halfway through but then the entire other half was completely rotten. I could remove the flooring with just a puddy knife. Not good. But I was able to find some cheap hardwood that was sold in 4ft chunks. Now we have a floor that I know what is under it.

After