Improving Valhalla

So...I've been doing a little work around the house and here is the most consuming of the lot. the four tall posts will support for the roof for the screened-in portion. Construction is going well despite doing it by myself which usually means some re-do's later when i can stand back and see the work. case in point, the leaning support post under the deck...Oh well...I'll get to that too.

really like this blog

i will be stopping by this one often.

usaisamonster

rooster relief

this here rooster is a comission i just finished today. carved from an old 9" plank.

and here is a game where you try to hit 'ol W in the head wich yo shoooooz! its awesome.

Another baby leaving the nest

Here's one of my babies ready for leaving home. this painting's goin to be livin on southside now. One of the leftovers from my last show and a favorite too, is now finding a home with my buddy, john. there are a few paintings left, i will post some pics later.

andrew brandou's website

saw this today on boingboing and i felt like sharing. his work reminds me of some of my own work of late and also of my friend kat lamps art as well. we are all different yet heading in similar directions.

gear test

cool lil diddy

a new logo for my buddy ryan

goat premonition

oscar the goat showed some amazing skills of precognition as he pulled this picture out of a box and ate part of it. not an extraordinary feat on it's own but...on this day kevin was to arrive on his first trip up to our house and not fifteen minutes after the discovery too! it's a strange world out there and each day is a mystery.

"rubort" the robot finished and delivered

my first commissioned piece of junk sculpture! RUBORT!! He's a sandwich board of sorts...the black areas on his front and back are chalkboard paint. you can see him this weekend at the HEAVY REBEL, he'll be hanging out at tokyo cowgirl's booth and later at their liberty street location.

i love sites like these

site to see

stumbled upon this and thought of you.

A New Adventure Begins Today!

Today is a special day...it is the day that I followed through. What I followed through with is a "space" at the local craft mall. I put up 9 or 10 paintings and a sign with my junkranch.com web address. This is an effort to make good with a promise I have made with myself, which is to rely on my art sales more and my handy-manning less. not that's one is better than the other mind you...it's just that one is more inviting right now. Here's to keeping promises.

RIcky Needham, Ryan Pritts and John Bryan

Tonight at Gateway Gallery at the Enrichment Center, Ricky, Ryan And John had a wonderful opening, featuring paintings by Ricky, sculpture by ryan and lamps and sculpture by John.

this is one of Ricky's Painting's entitled "Rainbow Rocket Motorcycle"

these are some of John's sculpture

A nice Lamp by John.

this piece by Ryan is titled "damn, i'm outa here".

You just missed my art show!

yup...it's true, if you missed the most recent show at the electric mustache gallery in winston salem, fret not as you will be able to see images of the pieces as i post them here as well as my website(junkranch.com). so if you like something and want one of your own...just drop me a line at blobjunkranch(at)gmail(dot)com. this here painting is called "the scarlet arrow" and was sold at the show, BUT for a very reasonable price of 150.00 USD you can have a hand-painted reproduction made by your's truly. thanks, johnthis one is called "endangered species" and is for sale for 250.00 USDthis one here is titled "dang i love me some soup!" and is currently for sale at JUST PLAIN COUNTRY in Walnut Cove for 85.00 USD

eli and liz

eli and lizzy doin the beach thing, looking cute as poop!

eli says howdy from the coast

just wanted eli to see all of ya'll...say hi now!

aaron and the jelly

Wicked storms follow us to the coast

we left the tornados at home(winston salem-ish) for the cool cool waters of the atlantic, BUT alas they did find us here at emerald isle, NC. No funnels were spotted by this reporter but plenty of blackened stormclouds with fire-cracker sound effect loops playing in the dark dark.

eli see's the big big ocean

and saw this awesome lil spectacle...

mysterious polkie-dotted fuzzball

this crazy creature pooped-up in our neighborhood recently and has been the subject of intrigue for this blogger...WTHIT??? As one can see from the first photo, "it" appears to be "growing" from or on a tiny twig/limb of this here tree. The HOT PINK polkie-dots let me know that it is probably toxic, not that it looks appetizing mind you. If any of you's have seen a similar botanical oddity, please do comment your experience. cheers. ***UPDATE***Shari Wrote and said:"Howdy Ho, There. Your mystery is solved.

This is a parasitic gall, specifically a wool-sower gall. Ye are about to be the proud pappy of gall wasps."

Thanks Shari, That is exciting!

0502 at the electric moustache gallery

ebay good lookin out

my brother darrell had one of these, it was SO much fun. wish we had a couple these days.

ebay highlight

TRUCKTOR!

ebay spotlight

nice 1974 honda elsinore cm250. dudeman says its new outa the box.

http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/index.php

kimbo's countertop

dang i really like this guitar and i never even knew they existed. it's a silvertone and i think he called it a countertop or tabletop but i be daggum if i can find another one in the intense five minute search i just made on google images. lemme know if you know what it is.

eli and the glowing orb

i love this little guy.

1st project with the new welder

a piece of square stock, a bearing race, an angle bracket and an old bolt make this bracket for a "zap" custom hanging lamp, my first project w/the new welder. i'm diggin it.

eli's new vehicle

well our friends in east bend have given lil'e his first quadsicle. looks like a nice'un too. motorcycle people are good people, i mean it, i'm excited about the whole fam damily putting around in the woods out here. god bless us everyone.

boys will be boys

the whitest of landscape...the yellow writing tells all.

daddy's new toy..i mean tool

oooooo i is truly excited aboot the upcoming metalworking projects, but i have to clean up the shop first, talk about dirty bombs...looks like one blowed up in there! i can't wait to tell my buddy steve that i finally got one, he'll surely run with dread.

steve's new logo

i just finished this for st wishnevsky. fo his bad ass geetars.

eli does DANG by john spencer blues explosion

i know you shouldn't be talkin like that lil e, ima good mind to tell your momma.

so...i'm not the only one...

a couple-few weeks ago I posted something VERY similar to this...it was a photochopped image of a design i had. well this guy obviously beat me to the punch by creating the same thing in the real world...assuming cali is the real world...and it's street legal at that. Cheers to you mr. awesome inventor dude-man, i,ll be right behind you.

triphibian cover taking shape

this is going to be the cover for st wishnevsky's new book. i began blocking in colors last night. its really starting to liven up.

snowfall on Valhalla

the whitest of blanket gently draped on the thankful landscape, droops poopily from the junk pile to drift at the feet of 'ol 900. jah bless.

zippie electric from atomic zombie

Builder: Sam Cragg / Location: Hobart, Tasmania

the very smart...aquaduct trike

this is so cool i can't nearly stand it! please watch the short youtube vid, it's super.

invisible bike

local inventor astounds pet cat with new no-see'um technology!

okie dokie...now we're getting somewhere

ok...my gues is a river/pond vehicle. guesses?javascript:void(0)

site du jour= Atomic Zombie

neat stuff here...lots of plans for the DIY'er.

solar junk trike

Mick Cafe of Alice Springs Australia, has built a solar powered bike from junk salvaged from the local tip(dump). He estimates his cost at about 5 bucks. Photographer: Nicole Lee

bennett robot works

i wanna bout 60 or 70 of these. for christ-mass. next year. ok?

Site du jour=iron cow productions

super-cool stuff from a multi-talented dude. wowwwwwweeeee this guy is busy.

another prototype inversed three wheeler

Yet another photo from my buddy jordan, this one is also an inversed three wheel'd atv. It features a super-fatty rear tire with more traditional swingarm set-up. I wanna ride one.

prototype three wheeled atv

Jordan Birchbark, motorcyle enthusiast and self-proclaimed crackpot inventor, sent me this inversed 3 wheeler design based on the yamaha raptor. I'd sure like to give a go around the track.

my new favorite animator, Ivan Maximov

check out this video on youtube by ivan maximov. i have found another member of my karass, living far far away. I found this on Dark Roasted Blend, thanks dave.

meet meat robot

Gastrobot for now eats sugarcubes...but inventor says meat is the best source of power for this cute lil train named chew chew. ok...i know i am not the only one who thinks that a meat eating robot is a bad idea. somebody back me up...i mean anyone who's ever read ANY science fiction involving robots gone bad, surely can put together these key points, realizing their recipe for disaster. 1)create a robot that eats meat. 2)add AI(artificial intelligence). well thats enough for me! if you factor in nanobots it gets really scary, i'll explain, meat robot gets smart, realizes that human, albeit it's creator, is mostly evil and made of tasty food...case closed. and thats all well and fine if the robots are big enough to see and run from, but what about those tiny nanobots that folks think are so neat. try a flying cloud of meat eating nanobots on for size...or vice versa. people are dumb as meat.

pretty freakin creepy yet still way cool

same as above post...this is one step away from being "run away, run away" kinda creepy...or creapy...either seems to work. the truth truly is stranger than the past versions of the future that is now. thanks and goodnight.

my fav portrait

photo is an unintentional double-exposure, april took this photo using some old film from her uncle which had been wound back...this is how the prints came back from processing. pretty cool huh?

look at the freakin teef on dat one wood ya?

it disappeared.

scene from another time. long live the dead.

snapped from the mensroom wall at the morning dew in w-s mf'n nc in 92 or 93 or 94...? those might be times to be repeated in lives to come. cheers everyone. jrb

DIY voodoo kit

Create your own mayhem with the help from the undead. cast your spell of love on the unknowing or uncaring. Give your boss chronic neck pains and warts! Again!!! Fun for all!

eli's a little tired

egyptian secrets revealed

ok this guys pretty cool. i love the round road method of rolling the chunks of concrete. check the site out, its got some cool links also. He's got several videos on the site so check out a few pages...and a DVD i am gonna get next spare 15.00!

MY WEB SITE IS UP!

hail! the digital deities have allowed me to enter there kingdom if but ever so meekly. junkranch.com is the place and it's silly how long it takes sometimes.

suzuki RK67

a 14 speed! thats what i've been thinking about for a long time. micro tech! my dad told me about these racers that were turning nearly 18k redlines. sweet looking bike.

EVERYBODY LOVES THE BANANA part 1

Gabcast! telemarketing id theft scams and other invasions of privacy #2

EVERYONE LOVES THE BANANA

Gabcast! telemarketing id theft scams and other invasions of privacy #1

Climb Dance

WOW

Up the hill

holy crap

Stunning Fully Functional 1:3 Scale Ferrari 312PB

thanks jack and phillip for sending this our way.

diy of the week

Nice example of what can be done with a butload of time and brain power and minimal budget. visit the original site for all the info and schematics.

re-craft saluted

ScrapHouse

Anna Finch shows her house made from recycled marterials. cost at 2200.00. One should also check out the work of Sam Mockbee, rest his soul. kudos to all who have the vision for re-craft. cheers Anna.

DIY of the day: wooden tone arm fo yo hi fi

click on the title for original site with more info and pics...nice stuff!

Steorn: Sky News: Race On To Prove Free Energy

interesting technology to be watched

home built jet bike

Russ W. Moore of Bad Brothers Racing is working on this jet bike. The motorcycle frame is from a Yamaha YSR-50. The gas turbine is being constructed from a Cummins ST-50 found in large trucks.

chicken shack upgraded to shanty

finished roof, man door with latch and awning, chicken door/ramp with latch, also installed roost pole. next: nesting/brooding boxes and windows. weeeee!

chicken shack at night

our four foul will sleep in sweet warm goodness this winter. like most things here at the ranch, scrap or salvage is the key word. ive spent about fifteen bucks so far. bless this mess.