I have mostly known that it was possible and easy to post slide shows to the web, but I didnt know how to do it ... Ive seen them up there. I had a pretty mellow day Saturday so I took a couple of hours and figured it out .. It is, actually, a snap, once youve got it ....I think to communicate a sense of depth and variety of work there is probably nothing more immediate and grabbing than a parade of projects, both completed and in process flashing by on the screen. Ive got one scrolling across my website homepage that sort of annoys me by now, but its there to stay for now Im afraid ... Try the links below for an idea of what Im talking about. Almost all of these photos (except the Greene & Greene photos) have a corresponding blog post and if I take the time, I can add captions with links to the photos ... Try the search box above for more info ... The amazing thing is that you can scroll through these full screen images as fast as 1 second per image and the quality remains excellent.
2010 and a few stragglers This show is some/most of the stuff we have made so far this year
160 photos .. it takes zero time to load ...
2009 and a few from 2008 This ones got a few pieces from late 2007 and 2008, but mostly its 2009 stuff ... 192 photosA Trip to the Gamble House, Oaklawn, and The Huntingdon Museum in Pasadena ... a collection of random images of Greene & Greene design and Pasadena downtown ... that I took on a visit in 2003 .... 77 photos
If you would like to do this for your own work, heres the deal ...go to picasa.com ... download the program ... (surprisingly quick)
tell the program to search for photos and it will make a browser display with the folders on your computer that contain photos. (I had 1091 folders with photos in them on my six year old office computer) !!!!
click on the folder and upload or sync or something ... (the help section is good here)
when its synced, push slideshow and copy the browser link
paste it in an email or to your blog or website ...
you can then edit and organize the folder to get the photos in the order you want ... similar to facebook
heres a you tube video that was helpful
Pretty Slick Google ... Thank You ...
A couple of weeks ago, Sam installed the balcony he was working on back in September and October ... It was a very cool project with some somewhat daunting challenges. Build it here ... install it there, 15 in the air ... Make it safe ... That kind of stuff. I swung by last week and took some pictures ... Looks like it was made to be there .. Click the photos to enlarge them ..
The platform with its expanded steel floor and outline of the rails
Sam had made a couple of sketches but mainly, on this one, worked as the spirit and his vision moved him ..
Until he had had basic decorative design figured out ...
Next were the support brackets with some ideas sketched in ...
Back to the circular elements of the main railing
and then a test assembly on the wall of the shop ...
All welded up and ready to prime and paint
One of the fishies on the floor of the balcony ...
From afar
From below
From the end, showing the 4 supporting brackets
3/6/2012 ... thanks to my website designers, my site is back up! severals readers offered their input on the problem, and i thank them for that. from reading their suggestions and some of the links that they sent, i realized that the problem was a server update problem, the solution to which was kind of technical, and without doing this every day, not easy to comprehend. back in business now ... if i can just get some of our new stuff up there, ill be all set ... soon ...
ok now ... will says we have inherited this problem due to a a server update at one and one ... havent a clue ... any of you coders out there care to comment? thanks ..
well, sam had another second floor balcony project recently ... heres the first one ... there was some head scratching and a little rework, but in the end, it looks great and the clients are pleased ... ever since i was a carpenter in the 70s i have struggled with the oval shape ... its been a lot easier since the advent of cad drawing and cnc cutting, but ovals are never easy ... its just a difficult shape to do gracefully. so, try it in steel ... see how it goes .... click the photos to enlarge them ..
sam is lucky to have both the cad program and the cnc, which easily cut his main templates for the shape of the platform .... a little rolling, some torch work, and a fair amount of hammering and he had the platform shape under control ..
he then added the expanded steel floor by welding from the bottom.
then came the hard part ... forming the top and bottom rails from flat stock by cutting almost through every inch or so with the bandsaw, and then heating and bending it to shape ...
this picture is from an earlier post, linked above, and shows the cuts after the bending, but before the fill welding .... the fill welding on these 6 top and bottom plates added a new challenge ... as the cracks are welded, the piece grows, which isnt surprising when you discover it ... as you weld, you heat the metal; it expands; and you fill in the cracks and it stays at the larger size ... duh ... so a little cutting and rejoining in the flatter parts of the ovals and he was back in business...
then all you have to do is align the 3/8ths spindles so that they are square, plumb, parallel and in the right plane with the walls of the house. again with the cnc for the jigs, some judicious eyeballing and he was good to go ... to keep the frames square as the spindles were welded, sam added 1.5" verticals which were later cut off to form the clapboard angled mounting tabs you seen in the top photo ... it all required a test fit or two on site and some minor adjustments ...
he then fabricated the 5/8ths round stock detail, which was taken from the base of the clients desk which is in the room behind the balcony ... i think he made that in about 4 separate pieces that he then curved around the main railing and welded into place ...
it was all graceful and smooth in the end ... gold star for sam ... not an easy project and he came in right exactly on budget ...
