Lamp made by my grandfather from a piston connecting rod (hope I have that right). The lampshade is hand-painted silk botanicals, something I found. I love the two together. I have a lamp addiction. It's kind of a problem.
Dinosaurs and Robots is a blog about objects by Mister Jalopy and Mark Frauenfelder.
Rather than focus on the newest trend, we will seek authentic, handy, rarefied, disgusting, illuminating, delicious, mysterious, intoxicating, commonplace, historic, intensely personal, entertaining and enlightened objects, both priceless heirlooms and exquisite trash.
Business drop-out Greg Allen chose the righteous path and is now a filmmaker, artist and D+R guest blogger, while his better half is a NASA astrophysicist. As a long time D+R reader, Greg has been our resident art expert for years, capably answering Donald Judd questions when they arise. In addition to editing the high style daddytypes.com, Greg also ruminates at greg.org.
Long-time Disney designer, Kevin recently hung out his shingle as half of the epic Kevin and Jody Company. Kevin is an art director, illustrator, writer, sculptor, maker of things and is the first annual winner of the coveted D+R Defender of the Eternal Flame Award for his team's tireless efforts in the restoration of Mr. Bali Hai.
To the best of our knowledge, Robyn's body was mysteriously fused with a plastic dwarf toy. No one knows exactly how it happened, but things haven't been the same since. He's now available on eBay for only $3.50, which he believes is a real steal.
Before the accident, Robyn enjoyed occasionally painting, writing music, and directing video games.