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Phase... well it's finished now

Posted by Matt Stuckey on 25 July 2008 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Alternate view.


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Phase 05 - Primo

Posted by Matt Stuckey on 25 July 2008 at 10:37am — No Comments

All the parts modified, primed and ready for the next phase.


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Phase 06 - Carbon Graphite Transferral (Tracing)

Posted by Matt Stuckey on 25 July 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Tracing the artwork onto the kettle body. Again, this worked better than I expected, better than any tracing I've ever done actually. I think I might work only in the medium of 'kettle' in the future.


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Phase 04 - Bogging, docking

Posted by Matt Stuckey on 23 July 2008 at 10:42am — 1 Comment

"Ebony and ivory, joining a kettle lid and an iPod dock in perfect harmony..."


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Phase 03 - Drilling, cutting

Posted by Matt Stuckey on 23 July 2008 at 10:39am — No Comments

The metal casing was incredibly strong, if you ever need to really smash something, grab a Mistral kettle! Eventually the speaker holes were cut out. DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME (the metal gets smoking hot and it stinks).


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Phase02 - Patchwork

Posted by Matt Stuckey on 17 July 2008 at 1:45am — No Comments

Creating some texture and adding some pattern to my kettle. This worked a lot better than I expected, I'm not much of a quilter or tailor myself.


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Phase01 - Kettle Deconstructionism

Posted by Matt Stuckey on 15 July 2008 at 11:55pm — No Comments

n. A philosophical movement and theory of hot water appliance criticism that questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth; asserts that appliances can only refer to other appliances; and attempts to demonstrate how statements about any appliance subvert their own meanings
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