Sculptor Ruth Vodicka welds a steel piece at the Sculpture Center, ca. 1955. Vodicka and her work were featured in the Sept. 10, 1956 edition of Life magazine in advance of her first solo exhibition.⁠

According to Life, Vodicka set up her studio in a New York garage in 1953 and impressed onlookers with both her creative talents and welding skills. Her dexterity with torch and rod soon brought in repair requests for everything from sewing machines to automobile panels. This new sideline brought in money and materials she used to support her own practice. ⁠

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Galatea's Fix Up

Galatea in for repairs and maintenance.

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Drawin robot internals is kinda fun. Folks seem to like Gally too so here's more of her. Or less actually? 🤔

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Peedunkee, Caba Dee Unko!

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Request: Sturges?

sturges, my beloved <3

i think hunter, amity, and matt should go to home depot together and forge a bond deeper than blood in the midst of saw dust and industrial grade cleaners.

i wanna flesh out the FSAU cast a little more, so here are two new faces! Gisu (31) and Chloe (23) both work in the engineering department at the Motherlobe. Gisu is the de facto head of department (officially it’s still Otto, he keeps promising to retire and then pulling a Hayao Miyazaki and coming back for “one more invention”, but Gisu handles most of the practical stuff), and Chloe specialises in aerospace engineering.

Pasqual's got that Adeptussy Mechanicussy

there's a joke to be made here about sacred unguents and his actual, literal "junk" but the omnissiah has liberated me from such base concerns of the flesh

Raised a safety concern about a job at work only for my supervisor to say “just let one of the boys do it.”

Because as we all know, the presence of a penis makes one immune to shoulder injuries.

it took me an embarrassing amount of life to realize that if i wanted to light fancy candles in glass i was supposed to be using like.. a utility lighter., instead of a zippo or whatever.,, if i didnt want to burn my hand. i just assumed pain was the price for Room That Smells Like Christmaslut Pinefuck Spice and brother i was sometimes willing to pay it

Every day I wake up and think about Scorpius and then I go about my day totally unable to do that thing where you’re like “omg my blorbo would wear these socks” or however the post goes. Because he’s a freak and a weirdo. The only thing I do that makes me go “just like my blorbo” right now is get overheated and pretend not to be stressed out.

Bear Skull Larry Jones, b. 1954, Oregon 3/16th steel head, 1″ stainless steel teeth 21″x16″x10″, 2003

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brick confetti cannon

its like a confetti gun but a cannon full of bricks

this seems like a good idea

Welding is so sick, can i ask how you got trained and how long it took?

I’m actually still in training!

So the thing is that after three years of making very little progress getting a degree I wasn’t sure I wanted I said fuck it and dropped out of university and used the last of my education savings to apply to a program at a nearby college. It turns out if you want to learn a trade you can just do that.

Admittedly I don’t have like a broad base of knowledge to help advise you from because I did this on a whim and also I am in Canada so things might work different where you are, but the program I’m in is seven months, covers the basics of oxyfuel, stick, wire feed and even a week of tig welding as well as a variety of other occupational skills, and ends with an exam that earns you your logbook, which follows you throughout your apprenticeship and your career as a welder. It basically sets you up to be in a position to get an apprenticeship and there are B and A level courses that provide further training and certification once you have enough workplace hours.

But what I cannot stress enough is that I did just very much look up trades programs in my area and apply to an entry level course with zero knowledge or experience with welding and now I can do basic stick welding in all four positions so like. Look into trade schools nearby and you might just find an entirely new life path you can take you never know.