Little Pieces of History

My Mom, Betty Hansen, has been slowly dispersing her worldly goods out to her children, grand children and great grand children. The latest is a box of Legos and Loc Bloc sets. She worked as a Lego Designer/artist for Samsonite in the model shop in Loveland, Colorado during the nineteen sixties and early seventies. The Samsonite Lego plant itself was pretty cool as it had giant lego bricks decorating the outside of the building. They produced a lot of Lego bricks under license for the Danish Company Lego out of that building. Many of the block sets sold during that time period featured models that she had designed. She once made a four foot tall crystal cathedrals from clear blocks. She also created displays for stores. Once she built a giant chess set out of B+W blocks for the FAO Schwartz Toy Store in NY city. She also created a giant six foot Christmas tree for them one Christmas complete with decorations.It was amazing! I remember the tree had to be broken down into multiple boxes to be shipped. When we moved from Colorado to Northern California she continued her artistry working with plastic blocs by getting hired by Loc Bloc a Japanese competitor to Lego down in Los Angeles. She would fly down to LA to meet with them periodically as well as ship completed models she had created down to them. As a kid it was pretty exciting when she would bring home extra Legos that had been swept up off the factory floor or ones that had mixed colors from when they changed colors on the molding machines.It was like Christmas when she came home with a bag full of blocks. This is a little bit of Lego as well as my Mom's history.#teamcanonusa God's light and love to all in the upcoming year, chris

More Marble Madness

I have found that marbles are almost as addicting as water drops. Though marbles are a bit more predictable as to the outcome. This morning I arose before the sunrise and made quite a few images of "Sherwood Castle". Sherwood Castle is my name for the flat topped redwood tree on the Sherwood Ranch. Later on I played with the marbles for awhile. The bright colors are so captivating and interesting.

Merry christmas,

chris

Rainy Day Outside

The heavens opened and I played inside as I'm sick today. Some sort of hopefully 24 hr. flue. Headache and body aches etc. I took out some LED light banks, colored gels and some toy cars. I then tried out some new textures on the images . This one ended up being my favorite in black and white.

God's love and blessings to all,

chris