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Horseshoes

While in an antique store the other day I came across some smallish horse shoes. So I decided to paint them. One I gave to my mother, It has three gold lined clovers, (because my mum is Irish), on it one on the bottom and one each on each top.
The photos below are the one I painted for myself.
It is painted black with the inside of the shoe painted gold and a clover on the bottom.

(for those who find clovers difficult to draw/paint, a useful tip is to create a heart shape and spin it, while creating heart shapes around it. And you will ave you're clover.)

Projection Final Photo

Yea it looks like a crazy hair dryer but it works extremely well and the projection comes out crystal clear

Was a really fun project.

I will be sure to add more awesome do it yourself projects as they come along.

Have an amazing week
B Kwok

Projection

Howdy,

The Lightbox final photos will be posted soon, I had to put off finalizing the lightbox for about a week or two just cause there has been so much craziness up here in the northeast what with all the snowstorms and leakage.  I was up on my roof most of yesterday shoveling off snow and melting the gutters and all of today clearing the back of my neighbors roof.
On my off time I have been working on a project for my boss at http://asianboston.com/ a magazine, TV, casting company located in chinatown Boston MA. What I have been building for him these past few weeks is a 'banner projector'. So the idea is, instead of lugging around a clunky projector that needs to be plugged up to a computer, or carrying around a banner and figiting on how to hang it up why not have a projection system that is smaller, easy to set up, and have the availability of shining it on any surface and be ready to go. So I got to thinking and the night after hearing bout it I started building a prototype. Using parts of an old broken projector, a magnafying glass, some PVC piping, a track light (slightly modified), transparency print outs, and some black paint (cause everyone knows everything looks awesome in black), I have the parts to build the projection.
My first prototype was using a MagLite (flashlight), although the projection worked fine the light source was uneven. So I bought a tack light from a nearby hardware store. I cut off the track adapter and attaching a plug wire, I cut the wire from an old crappy light I had stored away (it had one of those wires with the spin wheel on/ off switch). Now its not at all hard to change out wires and power sources with electrical appliances, you just have to remember to tape off any extra wiring and always turn off the power source (unplugging appliances from outlets is a very good idea). After the light source was squared away I glued the PVC screw adapter to the light, using my glue gun. and painted it black. As well as painted the other PVC adapters and pipes after fitting them snug inside each other.

Magnifying Glass

Transparency Print Out

Transparency fit into frame

part of old projector

prototype, first try proved success, prototype used in final completion

(left) track light with wire attached, and painted PVC screw on adapter, (right) PVC housing for prototype projection, shown above

The finished photo will be posted in about half an hour or so when the paint dries, and I glue the prototype to its PVC attachment.

Be Back in a little while.
B Kwok

Light Box

So I have decided to build a lightbox, just cause the ones in stores are too expensive or too cheaply made, or both. So today I went out and bought the wood, lights, screws, light switch, plug, and other lightbox accessories to make my life easier. I started with a 15"x28" oak base, (cause everyone knows oak is one tough wood). Next I built the frame, using two 28"x3.5"x.75" and two 13.5"x3.5"x.75" and held it together with nails and four L brackets. After finishing the frame for the light box I cut out a light switch hole on one of the short sides(13") and a power plug hole on the other side of the lightbox.
Then I noticed my lightbox frame war about 1-2 cm too short, ha, so I took some scrap wood I had cut to make my base; cut out two 28"x.75" and two 13"x.75" and nailed them to the top of the frame.
After putting the frame safely away for a while, I turned my attention to the base board, now I bought two 2 florescent lights, sorry that sounds confusing, each unit holds two florescent lights. and these aren't the cheap plastic case lights, these are the commercial grade lights so I know hopefully they won't break down on me.  Placing them and screwing them down to my base was the easy part but the wiring the lights so they would be controlled by the switch and powered by the plug is not my area of expertise. Fortunately electrical wiring is something my dad knows a lot about, so I had him help me wire it all together. So far so good for one days work. All that's left is to connect the plexiglass, (I'm going to hinge and latch them to the top of the frame so that I can open it up to change lights or fix ant problems inside the lightbox. I used clear plexiglass but might change it over to a more opaque white coloring to give it a more clean look.
All that's left is to build and attach the "accessories" for my lightbox.
I have got handles to carry it easier.
Black paint to make it look awesome.
And I'm going to build a top part frame to help measure for screen printing, etc.
(photos will be added after finished and before painting)

I use a flat sea-saw light switch which makes it easier to store and transport without worrying about breaking it.

L brackets, gets the job done :)

Front shot of lightbox

I will fill all the cracks with caulking before painting so it looks decent.

I used a cordless plug so i can store/ transport the lightbox without worrying how to wrap or that i might brake the wire. All i need to do is plug it into an extension cord and of course to a wall outlet and I am good to go.

Rear look of the light box

Plexiglass that I am going to attach with hinges, still thinking what the best way to do it is.

Have a spectacular week.

Brian Kwok

Revamping Myself

Howdy All,

I'm in the process of revamping my life which means deleting all the clutter from my life and starting anew. My old website briankwokphotography.com was getting too expense for me so for the meantime this will be my website, which makes it alot easier to share ideas and get feed back from viewers.
I will be sure to add all my portfolio work and ideas in a short while.
Well goodbye for now

Brian Kwok