Anastasia and Albert talking about Anastasia’s work.
A reverse angle shot of Anastasia and Albert talking about Anastasia’s work.
Megan looking sly as she shines her iPhone flashlight through her lightbox.
Megan and Albert meeting.
Megan and Albert continue to meet.
Group lunch at Cafe Ynez!
Max stares down a honking big chunk of wood he’s just loaded onto the lathe.
And then, he attacks! Shavings fly everywhere.
Anastasia’s mortises, or mortices, or mortae?
Daniel loads a file on the CNC control station.
Daniel puts a bit into the CNC.
After affixing the piece of wood he’ll mill to the CNC bed with double sided tape and screws, Daniel gives it a final check.
The CNC CNCing.
Freshly milled daxophone tongues!
Jason calls these things “segmented pieces” but I prefer to think of them as multigrain cardboard loaves.
Jason slaps some plaster onto turned cardboard.
At the end of every working day, Jason deliquesces, becoming a viscous, milky fluid. We pour him carefully into this container and close the lid tightly. In the morning, he assumes his human form once again.
He has a collection of these, but only one of them is labeled. Imagine how much trouble we’d all be in if we put him into the wrong container! Sometimes I feel like he’s daring us to make a mistake.
A hollow cardboard vessel by Jason.