Steampunk My Ride
Take one BIG-wheeled vintage bicycle and add a rider, gears, chains and mysterious mechanical modifications and you have a unique means of transportation, or as we like to call it: “Steampunk My Ride.”...
View ArticleOil and Water – or, Oil Well That Ends Well
Ooooh! It was a dark and stormy night. Mystery snow globe. A Black Snowstorm. A riddle: What’s thick and black and swirling with potential? What? A steam-powered oil derrick? Isn’t that a...
View ArticleAirship Cadillac – In a Realm All Its Own
In the late 1950s, Cadillacs were sometimes sold with the slogan, “In a Realm all its own.” Cadillacs are often associated with mystery, imagination, elegance, luxury and power. Sort of like Steampunk,...
View ArticleTesla Mends a Broken Heart (snow globe)
One of my favorite scientists talked to me about Nikola Tesla a few years ago, saying that if he’d had the support and resources, he could have done amazing things. In fact, we have no idea what he...
View ArticleBelow the Storm – Submarine Snow Globe
What if someone was diving who did not know that all kinds of storm was raging above? Swimming, as it were, Below the Storm. This piece is just that: the quiet calm place below the storm, where we...
View ArticleGoing Steampunk (you could say, “under construction”)
When asked, “Are you going Steampunk?” this globe says it all. Inside the miniature world of a swirling, glittering snow globe, tiny workmen on ladders remodel a plain fairy cottage into a steampunk...
View ArticlePartly Cloudy, Chance of Ants
Atypical Ant-eater with friends. “We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from here to the ark, and then brought back afterwards....
View ArticleRemnants of Tesla
Nobody really knows what Nikola Tesla would have been capable of, if he’d somehow had the unlimited resources and scientific support needed to research, test and implement all the off-the-wall ideas...
View ArticleEvergreen Holiday Walk December 5th
Stop in to Main Street Fine Art Gallery (Evergreen, Colorado) for a wonderful display of original art from more than a dozen talented artists. It’s a unique, juried, co-op with high standards of...
View ArticleMen At Work
Machines both fascinate and frighten me. Sometimes their impact seems to overwhelm the presence of the very people who created them. This sparkle snow globe, Men at Work, illustrates that feeling. Just...
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