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The beginnings of a small portrait - I kind of don't want to finish it... More to come.

-LK

DC

Aerospace Museum / meeting FDR / Smithsonian Hirshhorn Art Museum / sculpture at the Hirshhorn / WWII Memorial.

DC was very different from what I remembered it to be like. The weather was amazing, and walking the mall, museums, monuments and downtown felt like being in Europe in the summer time. I didn't realize that buildings aren't allowed to exceed the height of the capital, giving the city a very Parisian-like feel. At the same time though, everything down to the subway entrances has a massive, monument-like quality that seems appropriate for a nation's capital, but is a funny out-of-scale type of feeling when walking around the city. It's similar to how you feel driving through the mountains - aware of how small you really are.

We spent some time at the WWII Monument, which I really enjoyed - one I don't remember from my days as a young tourist.. The Lincoln Memorial is definitely still my favorite. We were also lucky enough to tour the West Wing with our own private insider ;) Sunday we ventured over to the Eastern Market, which felt like a completely different city. I'll be back!

Oh, and best meal: Bistro du Coin in Dupont Circle

Breakform Does A Bar

We completed this project a couple of months ago, but I just got around to posting this video of the process. A couple months went into the planning of this: logistics of fitting the equipment behind the bar, field measuring, laser-cutting and labeling each steel tile, detailing the footrest, bar top, backlighting, etc etc etc. It was fun to project manage, and a very intense week of nonstop fabrication, day and night. Needless to say, every time I blew my nose at the end of the day (well, is 2:00 am is the end of the day? beginning of the morning?) it was black. Nothing like metal work in an air-tight bar at night.

The video spans only a few days. Near the end you can see the construction lights go red for the soft opening, and then the bar in its final state at the very end (Tom's Shoes private party with celebrity guests Charlize Theron, Heather Graham and Jessica Alba..omg!).

Cheers!

Lately...

Rainbows, sunsets, Bill Murray, purple paint.. October is feeling productive. Dark purples seem to be a theme lately. I'm investigating with this striped painting series - feeling out a surrealist/graphic/landscape that I'm figuring out how to translate...

In other news, I'm glad to be feeling a somewhat fall-ish weather out here. It has by no means been brutally hot this summer by the ocean, but there is something I love about the fall and winter that makes you want to get home at the end of the day and hammer out some creative work. (And I may also have loved wearing my rain gear for the first time out here..even IF it was only a mist..)