We have been pulling stuff from a great old warehouse nearby. There's a cool older eccentric couple who live there and who among other things have built a small cruiser boat powered with a wood burning oven steam engine. They are getting rid of some of their salvaged stuff collected over the years. We got about 20 radiators, a lot of wood - cedar and pine, some cool old movie lights and a bathroom and kitchen sink. Not only is it cheap, but it's such cool shit and it's nice to breathe new life into it, build with materials from the industrial soul of the city.
The Looking Glass Studio - the recording studio owned by Philip Glass that my uncle Michael has been involved with for years recently closed its operations in Lower Manhattan. Quite a sad end of an era but I had the good fortune of talking to the right person at the wrong time. I was put in touch with the guy doing the demo, and I got ahold of a truck, drove up to New York and got a whole bunch of 1" thick studio glass panels (5' wide), two huge double-insulated sliding glass doors, a bunch of acoustic sound baffles, some studio racks and all the studio wiring I could get my hands on... A huge amount of valuable stuff for virtually no cost. It'll all come in handy. Anyway here's a link to the Looking Glass Site.
120 windows in about 10 trips in the Tacoma. Why so many windows you may ask? Stay tuned.
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