My light and lamp autism struck again today. I’m on good enough terms with the guy at the architectural salvage that he saves anything weird for me. Not in an official capacity but he usually pulls out a box when he sees me and has something weird in it. Today on a very innocent walk to the book store I popped in and he had these for me. Two of the strangest sconces and ceiling fixtures I’ve seen. A long time ago somebody explained to me how to tell if something is nouveau or deco by asking yourself if it looks like it was made by elves or dwarves. Elves are nouveau and dwarves are deco. These defy that categorization method. They’re vaguely Spanish Missionary but highly interpretative like elves and dwarves collaborated in this project. They might be a bridge between when nouveau was starting to lose dominance but before deco took over. Anyway, I’m going to put them up in the studio and kitchen where a a weird artifact of the 1960/70s Midwestern clown fish is currently residing.
Went to the op shop to get rid of some excess clothing, undermined myself a bit with this norse projects/elka raincoat. Not sure how much use I’ll get out of it, but if for some reason I must go out in heavy rain it should keep my upper half dry. There were also some oilskin trousers that might have done the same for my legs but they were too small and kind of smelly. Also got some Portuguese chilli peanuts and a rather nice card apparently hand made by a 94 year old Nana, all for less than $20 Australian. I hope that next time I have reason to give my wife a card I’ll remember that I got this one.
A felted Dorothy doll. I love strange and uncanny things.
This post, out of context, for me in my current context, is lynchian. I just opened the thread four beers deep and accidentally clicked play and suddenly the drill is drilling.
I spent $115 at Habitat 4 Humanity Restore Yakima today on a bunch of wood crap*.
Now, (again, four beers deep) I am going to teach myself how to break into a metal filing cabinet. Just like in the movies / the TV games.
Long live this thread. I remember its humble beginnings. It’s really grown.
Got this for only four bucks. It works. That’s a steal compared to what these go for in the city nowadays 
even when they’re in shitty condition with concrete all over them because you know they were used on construction sites for years
Don’t talk to me or my son ever again
Excellent hang-out going on there.
I think I need to keep my eyes peeled for a cool tapestry.
You can only drink coffee out of a fire king glass mug when sitting next to a 60s tapestry.
Wow you spotted that one! I found two more at the same apple barn.
Lemme tell ya, this place I moved is a gold mine. Old farm towns rule for this kind of stuff.
I could easily amass enough CRTs to run my own tournament venue— kind of already on my way there, I’ve gone from one CRT to seven.
My autistic fixation is slightly old to very old commercial products. I practically have lived at the various thrift stores in the various towns I spent any time in for the last 30 years. I’ve been going since I could take the bus on my own.
I’m also going overboard on the CRTs. I can’t seem to stop.
we may have noticed…
Do you know if Fire King contains harmful materials like lead or cadmium? Obviously the fire king uranium milk glass does. Also: same. Only instead of the bus it was my bicycle.
thankfully my partner is the same way
here’s some junk i got this weekend
details. first, this is just a book of short stories. i only picked it up because it has a hunger artist in it, and recently i posted a screenshot of a comment on a reading of a hunger artist, and, i don’t know, it seemed like the thing to do.
this is a design book. somewhat familiar with bauhaus, beyond that, don’t know much about it, but it has some cool illustrations, such as:
i think that animal looks like a cat somehow. it’s probably a dog, but there’s a catness to it, if you ask me.
the third book is a book about knots. i bet i could find a lot of use for knots, but what really drew me to it was the sailor on the cover, with his friendly, yet slightly perverse vibe.
last is this little vase. it’s very small. i think it’s pretty. my kind of colors too.
absolutely goated
also this is giving tom of finland