Friday
Seven people came on Friday night. Luckily, the UPS dude had come early and brought with him the supplies to mix up some thermite. Multiple pounds of thermite will be an integral part of the Bicycle Holocaust
sculpture, which is currently a work in progress, but is destined to become Töad Meädow’s flagship art project.
So on Friday night, we mixed up some thermite and burned it to start familiarizing ourselves with this often overlooked artistic medium.
Jameson twists a magnesium ribbon used to light the thermite
Thermite burning
A padlock welded to an old hard drive with thermite.
A proper lady wears her best hat to the thermite burn.
Beers were drunken and thermite art was made and burned and blowed up.
Saturday
The Baroness headed up work on her art car beautification project. This is a labor-intensive project that will consume over 12,000 zip ties by the time she is done. The art car will look like a furry hedgehog that you can pet.
Art car zip tie fur
Underneath it all
At a previous art build weekend, Jay the Töad started work on adding jump seats to the art car to increase its passenger capacity. Unfortunately, the seats were not finished yet. But on Saturday, Mark and Melissa showed up in the afternoon and immediately set about to finishing the seats.
Cutting pieces for extra passenger seats.
Tyler is a the guitarist/vocalist from local band Folkfaces. He had never been to the Meädow, but wanted to check out our scene. Once he got his bearings and was reoriented, he dove right in and helped the Baroness decorate the art car, as well as gathering and cutting up firewood for the bonfire later that night.
Welcome Tyler!
Sun and Julie continued work on building the Bench of Reformation: A Töad Meädow Massage Table.
Sun working on his massage table.
The Töad King did some work on Bicycle Holocaust by cutting a small piece of bicycle frame out to be later filled with thermite and test burned.
Cutting a sample piece to test its burning properties.
As the day wound down, Melissa Campbell the Hoop Lady cooked chicken and chuck roast for everyone. Tim stopped by and brought his homegrown fresh vegetables and eggs (still warm from coming out of his chickens minutes before) to complement the meat.
A Töadly Supper
We ate. Then we bonfired. Then we built more art.
Sunday
Sunday morning started out slow with coffee and breakfast as people woke up. We set out the miniature cardboard bicycles and over breakfast we modeled different configurations for Bicycle Holocaust.
Modeling the bicycle sculpture
Then it was back to the shop as Mark and Melissa finished the jump seats on the art car.
Mark and Melissa on the finished seats
The Baroness worked some more on making the fur.
By now, Tyler was thoroughly bitten by the Töad Meädow bug, and, feeling inspired, he grabbed some junk laying around and made a banjo out of an old paint can and some scraps of wood.
We may or may not have made an explosion happen just to break up the excitement.
It started to get dark (Daylight Savings Time sucks!) and people left.
The end.