Today, Douglas Paulson, Eva La Cour, Chris Domenic, Christopher Robbins, and Colin / Emcee C.M. Master of None spent most of the day attaching four paddle-boats together to create a base for an island.
We each had very different techniques: Eva and Colin had a minimalist angled approach, very sparing of wood, and with nice bird-mouth notches cut into the 2x4s; Doug went for a very uniform grid structure; I made it u as I went along: place a 2x4 here, wedge one there, cut and drill, and ended up with something that looks like a jumbled pile of wood but actually held together; and Chris D. made these neat little back wedges that slotted in quite beautifully and reminded me of the neat modular squares you can break off of some chocolate bars. You know, like the hershey's way, not the snickers.
I got to the boathouse early this morning, so while I waited I became quite transfixed by the orange foam used to plug up the holes in the boat house we're working at.
And I was amazed to find a PRINCESSES bicycle that pulled out all its star princess power to amass one sparkling mother of a bike. Essentially the DOMINGO, PAVAROTTI, CARRERAS and LANZA of the disney princess genre, the Four Princesses of the Apocalypse are brought together in suc brilliance I'd think it would melt the paint right off the bike, we have - shelly assures me, in order - Snow White, Belle, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty.
I always thought Cinderella was a brunette - how else would she get left behind during the ball?
Anyway, you can see more shots of the process of building islands for the Undiscovered Atoll for the Queens Museum here.
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