A Veggie-Montage

radical radishes breaking through the dirt

baby jalapeno just starting to grow

shooting blossoms of sugar snaps 

snazzy colors of the new cherry floor in the Airstream pod paired with pointy purple radish

Cherry Floor

We put in the floor today, glued and nailed down.

More animation work too, simulated moonlight.

Tiny Circus and Clouds

Wood Walls

We are filling in the tiny trailer with wood floors and walls. The floor will be cherry, thinly sliced to save on weight and wood. Here, a 1" thick board is cut in half to make two boards. The surfaces were planed and the edges given a lap joint.
Greta made a template by laying out construction paper on the trailer floor, then chose boards to fit the space. We will cut them to exact size later.

The baltic birch panels that we prepared are going in too.

Greta drills some holes for the rivets.
Then she rivets them in.
This is the rivet gun, air powered, very satisfying to use. It makes a nice wooshclick sound.

Wiring, studio beginnings

We put wires in the little trailer. We're not sure what will go where yet for lights and pumps and things, so we just put in extra. It's ready for walls now.
The first studio work session. Nick and Greta snipping and gluing. We are making a Tiny Circus explanation animation for our first project.

A still from the first animation.

Circus Hot Spots

Carlos=Participating in morning weeding ritual and dodging sprinkler showers

Beans= Single file, ready for growin'

James= Studio cat in training
New Studio Wall= Hung by Carlos, ready and waiting for large circus drawings and animations

Gloamy radishes and lightning bugs

The corn is knee high and the alfalfa is cut and baled and so Iowa is patterned with these stripes and polka dots. The lightning bugs arrived all-at-once, after a hot day, before a storm.

Today we weighed the small trailer, 920 lbs.