Michael Bonardi (365 pieces in 365 days)

108th piece

2010-01-06T20:27:00.001-06:00

107th piece

2010-01-06T20:23:00.002-06:00

106th piece

2010-01-06T20:22:00.002-06:00

105th piece

2010-01-06T20:18:00.002-06:00

104th piece

2010-01-06T20:16:00.002-06:00

103rd piece

2010-01-06T20:15:00.002-06:00

102nd piece

2010-01-06T20:14:00.002-06:00

101st piece

2010-01-06T20:10:00.003-06:00

100th piece

2010-01-06T20:08:00.001-06:00

99th piece

2010-01-06T20:07:00.002-06:00

98th piece

2010-01-06T20:06:00.002-06:00

97th piece

2010-01-06T20:04:00.002-06:00

96th post

2010-01-06T20:00:00.001-06:00

95 piece

2010-01-06T19:50:00.003-06:00

94th post

2010-01-06T19:49:00.002-06:00

93rd piece

2010-01-06T19:35:00.003-06:00

92st

2010-01-06T19:25:00.003-06:00

91st post

2010-01-06T19:17:00.003-06:00

90th piece

2010-01-06T19:16:00.002-06:00

89th piece

2010-01-06T19:14:00.001-06:00

88th piece

2010-01-03T23:18:00.002-06:00

87th piece

2010-01-03T23:16:00.001-06:00

86th piece

2010-01-03T23:15:00.002-06:00

85th piece

2010-01-03T23:14:00.002-06:00

84th piece

2010-01-03T23:12:00.001-06:00

83rd piece

2010-01-03T23:11:00.001-06:00

82nd piece

2010-01-03T23:09:00.002-06:00

81st piece

2010-01-03T23:08:00.002-06:00

80th piece

2010-01-03T23:07:00.002-06:00

79th piece

2010-01-03T23:05:00.002-06:00

78th piece

2010-01-03T23:03:00.001-06:00

77th piece

2010-01-03T23:00:00.001-06:00

76th piece

2010-01-03T22:59:00.002-06:00

75th piece

2010-01-03T22:56:00.003-06:00

74th piece

2010-01-03T22:54:00.001-06:00

73rd piece

2010-01-03T22:53:00.002-06:00

72nd piece

2010-01-03T22:49:00.003-06:00

71st piece

2010-01-03T22:47:00.003-06:00

70th piece

2010-01-03T22:40:00.003-06:00

69th piece

2010-01-03T22:38:00.002-06:00

69th - 274th piece

2009-12-01T20:15:00.003-06:00

just kidding

68th piece

2009-08-16T18:39:00.001-05:00

67th piece

2009-08-16T18:36:00.002-05:00

66th piece

2009-08-14T11:38:00.006-05:00

66th piece

2009-08-14T11:38:00.001-05:00

65th piece

2009-08-14T11:33:00.004-05:00

stuff in my apartment

2009-08-14T11:30:00.003-05:00

64th piece

2009-08-14T11:26:00.001-05:00

63rd piece

2009-08-14T11:22:00.003-05:00

62nd piece

2009-08-14T11:20:00.002-05:00

61st piece

2009-08-14T11:18:00.002-05:00

labels!!!!

2009-08-13T09:36:00.003-05:00

I have some visitor tracking thing on the right margin of my page and noticed that I did not have a visitor other than me or somebody else in Columbus for at least a week straight. So today I started to put labels into each of my previous post and within 5 minutes I had people visit my blog from at least 10 different countries! Yes, I am sometimes not too bright with things like that... but now I see the light.
Update: Actually I don't think those were real people rather google-bots - lame

60th piece

2009-06-14T20:07:00.002-05:00

59th piece

2009-06-14T20:03:00.002-05:00

58th piece

2009-06-14T19:50:00.004-05:00

57th piece

2009-06-14T19:48:00.004-05:00

animated carlos

2009-06-14T19:36:00.005-05:00

work in progress

2009-05-16T21:59:00.008-05:00

for a possible future project

57th - 92nd piece (just kidding)

2009-05-12T20:05:00.004-05:00

These are for a future piece I'm doing. Each piece is going to have a screw adhered with epoxy in the back then installed on a wall with three separate clusters like this one seen here.

54th - 56th piece

2009-05-12T19:53:00.005-05:00

These are three bats I made last month. They are all made from white ash. The one with the Major League taper lasted less that 30 pitches - that's what happens when you get jammed with a super light bat.

53rd piece

2009-04-07T17:10:00.003-05:00

I made some sketches for a future project. These are the first and third. If anyone has ideas for making these look more like flames your help is much appreciated. Also, this red is the only color I had to work with - again any ideas are much appreciated.

52nd post

2009-03-28T13:22:00.003-05:00

51st piece

2009-03-28T13:20:00.003-05:00

50th piece

2009-03-28T13:10:00.004-05:00

49th piece

2009-03-27T12:15:00.002-05:00

This is my favorite of the warehouse photos

48th piece

2009-03-27T12:12:00.004-05:00

47th piece

2009-03-27T12:09:00.003-05:00

47th piece

2009-03-27T12:09:00.001-05:00

46th piece

2009-03-27T12:06:00.003-05:00

45th piece

2009-03-27T12:04:00.003-05:00

44th piece

2009-03-17T00:19:00.003-05:00

"Illegal lane change"

43rd post

2009-03-16T23:57:00.005-05:00

42nd post

2009-03-16T23:52:00.004-05:00

41st piece

2009-03-10T23:01:00.003-05:00

I usually don't glaze my pieces but this glaze does exactly what I want - the majority of my porcelain pieces are salt fired.

40th post

2009-03-10T22:53:00.004-05:00

older stuff

2009-03-10T22:31:00.007-05:00

39th piece

2009-03-09T12:50:00.004-05:00

several weeks ago I was drinking a heineken and realized that we had the same green color glass in the pot furnace so I decided to try and make a beer bottle. I drink water out of it while I am at work. I have to admit it is kinda weird drinking out of a beer bottle at work.

some older pieces

2009-03-09T12:44:00.007-05:00

These pieces are pretty recent but were not done this calender-year. I am shooting the pieces in my new photo tent/cube I just bought. It's great for smaller pieces.

38th piece

2009-03-09T12:24:00.005-05:00

I wanted to show more of the process including the transfer to the punty. I wanted the punty (the rod the piece is transfered to from the blow pipe) to be pretty hot to show how you kinda have to dance with it... almost got it too hot though.

37th piece

2009-03-04T15:41:00.002-06:00

there is a funny story about these pieces... i'll tell you about it later

a view of part of my painting studio

2009-03-04T15:39:00.002-06:00

It's good to be back in my studio.

36th piece

2009-03-04T15:38:00.000-06:00

35th piece

2009-03-04T15:34:00.004-06:00

this is a plastic board I put over my photographic developer. Years of drips from the holy roof of the warehouse that my studio is in. Cold in the winter and hot in the summer but man is it cheap.

34th piece

2009-03-04T15:24:00.004-06:00

This is Carlos. Believe it or not he used to be a stray dog.

33rd piece

2009-03-02T20:42:00.000-06:00

sorry about the weird smile. I was trying to say stop filming without doing the "cut" hand gesture

32nd piece

2009-02-21T23:18:00.002-06:00

31st piece

2009-02-21T23:12:00.001-06:00

30th piece

2009-02-21T22:34:00.002-06:00

i put a dozen photos with this piece so you could see more of the process

I don't know if it was this piece but my arm got burnt up on one of them

29th piece

2009-02-21T21:09:00.001-06:00

making a baseball bat - video footage

2009-02-18T21:54:00.001-06:00

video of me turning a maple baseball bat on a lathe

28th piece

2009-02-18T21:32:00.001-06:00

This piece actually ended up cracking.

27th piece

2009-02-18T21:17:00.000-06:00

kinda messing around with a piece of matte board (my sweet new photo-studio), an older piece and some other stuff. Only had a spot to work with so the bottom of the piece is blown out.

26th piece

2009-02-18T20:53:00.001-06:00

This is a bowl I made this past Saturday. I shot the piece on the floor which really hurt my neck, so I now realize I'm have to rig up a little tabletop shooting space in my place. If anyone has any ideas or has set up a studio or something along those lines
tips would be much appreciated.

If you have noticed lately, I have not been updating regularly, even though I have been making and or finishing at least a couple a day. The frustrating part and what caused me to delay the update is the fact that I feel bad, half-assing the shots. One thing I will be evolving away from is me uploading images of pieces that I did that same day. Trust me having to do that is a pain in the ass, so I figured that "365 pieces in 365 days" is a more suitable title.

25th piece

2009-02-15T20:45:00.001-06:00

simple floppy bowl. I got lazy and took the photo with a flash

24th piece

2009-02-12T21:35:00.000-06:00

This is a maple baseball bat I just made. Pitchers and catchers report on the 13th so I thought I would get ready for the season. My main summertime hobby is hitting baseballs which is much more fun when you make your own bats. There are thousands of different tapers the major leaguers use. This is something like my 25th bat I have made and each one gets a little closer to the magic taper. The three types of wood baseball bats are made out of are Maple, Ash and Hickory.

23rd piece

2009-02-11T13:18:00.000-06:00

This is a piece which concept has changed over this past year. The original used the glass sculpture to produce a shadow/drawing on the surface. Recently I drew the original shadow and then gave the piece a different angled light source. So there are now two shadows - one drawn(fake) the other real. Believe it or not all humans are pretty observant - they can see the relation of both sets of marks because they have observed their own shadows changing in dramatically with the placement of the sun. As I have mentioned in past posts - These marks are very pure in my eyes because my hand was distanced from the surface when the glass sculpture, shadow and drawings were made. I also have a performence piece which goes along with the glass sculpture which I may upload down the road.

22nd piece

2009-02-09T19:57:00.000-06:00

This is a piece I made 20 minutes ago. Even though I had the camera set up for tripod shooting I still think the images came out nice. The one on the bottom is what it looks like when my eyes are burning with sweat.

Since I have skipped some days I will try to periodically catch up by updating a couple pieces on certain days.

21st piece

2009-02-09T11:58:00.000-06:00

I went to my painting studio to paint last night and got distracted with my new camera.

20th piece

2009-02-08T18:19:00.001-06:00

20th piece

2009-02-08T18:19:00.000-06:00

This was one of my worst days blowing in a long time. Usually when things don't go well I make easy floppy bowls, and this time only one turned out nice. I'm going over to my painting studio now