*Wow, I just spent hours coming up with that title.

I'm very happy to have some leave from the school. It's been a good year, but I have not been 100% satisfied all the time. Luckily the last period of April/May was project work whereupon we were indulged in the design and came upon the manufacture of a chair.
I, for the first time ever, made 100% accurate 1:1 blueprints as well as made careful planning with models before starting the job. And boy did that help! Work went smmmoothly; no frustration and I was one of the first to finish. Feedback was pretty OK, altough our chief-in-design commented about my style... Too abundant in details, and restless. It was also said that my construction was very architectural, and that the design lacked an unifying theme. Well, try to communicate my particular taste borne of psychedelic trance, escapist romanticism (be it scifi, fantasy or utopian eco visions of hippie freedom) and appreciation of art nouveau & peasant/tribal art to a designer rooted in 20th century functionalism

All the latest stuff is at school, so pix will be up in August. I have some pix of the chair though, so that I will put up at some point in June.

Otherwise, my summer is going to be sufficiently leisurely after all, since most of my employment plans evaporated at last minute. Well, time to make that new album finally, and have some free time.

And there WILL be a summer's adventure afterall: very probably I'll be off to the Carpathian mountains for some weeks in July! EEK I'm excited now. Very.

I'm quite lost with my visions about craftsmanship at this moment. Our school is not exactly that motivating (the only direction that they see us going is either a better degree in design, or the welfare office and perpetual unemployment), and also being busy with the far-off school, I have been unable to keep enough contact with a sufficient crowd of utopian hippies that would give me psychological support with my visions of rural crafstman utopia.
But it must be possible. So I'm counting on that and diving head first for summer!