The practice bombs I use in my Blitz lamps are cast iron. Something I didn’t know about cast iron until I started using it, is it can shatter. Like pottery, except with fewer pieces. A while ago, one of the practice bombs arrived with part of the fin snapped off. The missing piece wasn’t in the box, and the rust [...]

I love American military design, but nothing can beat the combination of ambition, incompetence, and insanity seen in some Communist projects. For example there was the Lun-Class Ekranoplan, a Soviet hydrofoil that looked like a seaplane driven by the Road Warrior. Or what about the Trabant, a tiny car that produced as much pollution as a Western truck. The body [...]

Saturday, December 15th, I’ll be selling in person at two (TWO!) holiday venues. The first is 3rd Ward’s Holiday Craft Fair, running from 12-6. For one day, our Brooklyn workspace becomes a marketplace with TONS of vendors, including dozens of my fellow 3rd-Wardians. Later that night, I’ll be set up at Barb & Bear’s launch party at Freecandy in Prospect [...]

A pizzeria near my apartment in Bushwick needed indoor and outdoor bench seating for their clientele. Being a charitably-inclined guy, as well as a starving artist, I was happy to put something together in exchange for free pizza. Since the budget was so low, my materials were limited to steel and construction-grade lumber. The original plan was simple: a rectangular [...]

A new version of the Bomblet pendant is coming in time for the holidays, plated in 24k gold! But that’s not all – thanks to the amazing folks at Epner Technology, I’ll be incorporating a unique design touch originally used for optical and weapons systems. Shown here are the original Vietnam-era “Lazy Dog” bombs, pre-glamification. Now imagine them in gold. [...]