Planting the Vines

Greetings from Temple 2.0 - Komba Gameplay Research Facility!

Im going around to show some of the place and all the vines we have growing in the garden :)

Kunf-fu Construction Heavy Weight Chain

Machine Elf - Vortex Generator

This is a water vortex generator I named as Machine Elf.

Construction Komba

We try to fight every day to stay healthy while working in house construction.

Work is often hard and might make you feel old..

And besides we get to enjoy variety of terrains x)

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Stairway to Heaven

I'm making a parking lot at home!

Hundred tons of crushed stone is put in it's place to make a stone crust,

but before we can continue with that 13ton digger machine I need to do few arragements.

This is a stairway to the cellar (towards heaven if you come from there up;),

Those two highes ones are random pieces of concrete found from the ground while digging :)

We put them there with a machine, and now I need to fix them solid.

I cleaned old concrete for paint to get new one to stick

 Then I made rebaring and molds for the concrete..

And mixed in 250kg of concrete :)

And  bit of a challenge!

Most with the Least - Kung-Fu Construction

And underground drainage system additional :)

Five Grains of Sand

I wrote this epic kung-fu fantasy called The Story of Five Grains of Sand

that I perform it occasionally in Finnish.

First the story took three hours to tell, but happily last time showed it can be told in just one.

It is Kalevala type fantasy of meeting dragons and encountering the Tao..

I encountered a suprice in a local craftsman shop, a one hour timeglass (in the cardboard)!

I  said to my self, that if I find some inspiring parts to build a frame with I'll come back to get it..

And truly there was something.. These are parts of maybe a centenarian tripod, 

that has possibly passed some Finnish wars. It is tough oak, but the glue was so old

I could separate the pieces with a butter knife.

 Everything was set. I also found these beautiful brass pieces from the storage. They happened to fit together perfectly, letting me install rubber suspencions between them!

 First I rounded the corners with a miller.

 Then used this old special drill bit to make a casing for the brass..

 And used another type of drill to make the pieces equal from the other side..

 Lo and behold, a match :)

 Then I checked out the curves from the glass an drew figures upon them..

Cutted the shapes and grinded them..

 And fixed these tiny knobs in their place, after drilling a lot of little holes.

I found those from a local knob store.

 Then piled it up putting all the pieces in their rightfull places.

Put it in a light press and got help with oiling..

 And ready for action!

This timeless timeglass will help me creating more magical moments of fantasy.

I'm practicing the story every now and then and the best way to do it is to tell it to someone.

If you are interested in hearing the story privately in Finnish and by so helping out,

feel free to contact me.

The next scheduled story session would be Fri 12.02.2016  6 pm at

Arkadia International Bookstore, Nervanderinkatu 11, Helsinki

 Welcome!