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Spare chair

At last I’ve processed some of the photos of the chair I designed and made for the Alumni exhibition last year. The spare chair is lightweight in mass, design and use of materials. It is designed to be easily carried out onto the deck or anywhere it’s needed.

Material is Tassie Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) and dyed nylon monofilament (ie fishing line).

The backrest supports are cantilevered through the seat frame and anchored to to back stretcher.

The supports are not glued to the seat frame so that the seat is free to flex to absorb stresses.

3 comments February 14th, 2010

Peewee chorus

We have a breeding family of Peewees (Grallina cyanoleuca) in our back yard. The colloquial name comes from their call. In the peculiarly Australian way they are also known as Magpie-larks as they are related to neither magpies nor larks. Our pair currently have three young.

When feeding the chooks yesterday I noticed them all sitting on the overhead cables so raced inside to get my camera and long lens. I was lucky enough to catch them being feed.



All shot on a Canon 7D with a Canon EF 70-200mm.

2 comments February 7th, 2010