Boardwalk Rides part 18

 Passed through a few sprinkles on my way up to the Studio, but by the time I got there, the rain had stopped.  That rain was expected to come back, so I hoped to find a space right next to the building.  All were full, so I had to grab one of the many spaces on the perimeter of the parking lot.  Inside I quickly noticed they had the postcards out for the upcoming Holiday Art Market.  Grabbed a few to take with me, and headed for the elevator to downstairs.

In my space I took a better look at the card and photographed the front and back (taped to my white tack wall) for future use in this space.  I'll do a posting when the event is a bit closer.  The front has the basic information, and the back lists the vendors and Open Studio people.  Lots of vendors on the first two floors (almost 30) and only 7 open studios, though that may increase as we get closer to the event.  The good news is that they spelled my name right, and mentioned that I am in the basement.  The bad news is that they spelled "arrabbiata" wrong.  Like the song says, two out of three ain't bad.

With all that settled, I got to work.  Back to the airplane ride.  Knowing that the wood around that part of the block was a little splintery, I decided to take it slow, and do a lot of gluing as I went.  So I alternated between the center part of the rotating machine, and the little girl next to the further away plane.  After that I did the wooden fence around the ride, then the woman photographer standing outside the wooden fence.  All of that was done with no mistakes being made.  I decided that was enough work for today, so documented what I had done, and headed home.  I do have to decide what I want to do about what is remaining.  I do want to have this to work on for the Open Studio, which means I have to leave some things to work on that day, still about two weeks away.  I will cut more of this block before then, but it's just a matter of how much.  Results of today's work can be seen below:

The rain was back and heavy as I was leaving (windows in my Studio told me that), so I wrapped my block in a handy plastic bag for the trip to the car.  I got a little wet, but the block stayed dry.  Rain got even heavier on the way home, but I've driven in much worse.  When I got home, the sun was out.

For music today, more cassettes.  The theme today was classic rock, and I brought two label made tapes with me.  I started with Who's Next by the Who, a classic highly regarded album.  Looking at the tape (which I had listened to many times) I realized that the song order was a little different than what I had gotten used to on CD.  Compared the tape to the official release on the internet, and found that some songs on Side A of the original vinyl record were on side B of the tape, and vice versa.  This happened back then, songs sometimes rearranged to fit more evenly on the two sided tape.  Even worse were the earlier 8 Track tapes, which had four programs to deal with, and sometimes songs were not only rearranged, but is some cases a song faded out in one program and faded in or another, or extra verses/choruses were added to fill space.  When that tape ended, I went with a tape of the fourth album from Led Zeppelin, which is sometimes called Led Zeppelin IV, sometimes called Untitled, and sometimes called Zoso, after one of the symbols on it.  (it's the one with "Stairway to Heaven" if that helps) I knew this album well from it's inclusion on many Boy Scout trips, but many of the songs also got heavy airplay on classic rock radio (as did much of that Who album) so I knew it well when I brought this tape.  The two albums have some other things in common: both are from British bands, both were originally released in 1971, I have both now on compact disc (which is why there tapes are in this briefcase), and both were regular releases of new songs by bands at their heights (5th for the former, 4th for the latter), not greatest hits albums, though many of the songs on each would end up on hit compilations albums for each band.  I'm glad to find that I still have access to both, even if it is in a less convenient form.