TOOLS: MONTH #217
"stone used to sharpen my ax and knives and using it at first in sweden where i categorically refused to use any motor operated machines and cut my own wood using my ax making most essential to keep the blade sharpened especially after hitting several stones by mistake and then bringing it to my new property in the italian alps but here switching to motor based tools like chainsaws and trimmers but at times using for sharpening my sickle and even finding a small iron container where to also keep it wet with water"
TOOLS: MONTH #218
"western digital personal cloud installed in my swedish apartment ant first and then in our dutch house so as to back up my project but really finding it quite clumsy in the end and trying to use it more as an hard disk but not really succeeding and just using the server of my website to do daily back-ups also thinking in the long term to have my own server"
TOOLS: MONTH #219
"derwent inktense watercolour pencils bought at the expensive art-supply shop in breda but finding a whole set in discount and buying it even though many of the colours are too similar and many are in fact missing like a proper pink and having to mix these colours together in order to render the characters as well as the backgrounds of the illustrations of my ancestors"
TOOLS: MONTH #220
"welder bought initially to teach my swedish university students some electronics but finding them most upset about doing anything hands-on using later the welder to try to prototype some of the more interactive works i wanted to present in my show rooms both in sweden and later in my mountain barn in italy"
TOOLS: MONTH #221
"my first serious smartphone adopting a chinese brand huawei despite all the controversies with being used by the chinese state to gather information but feeling better than using an apple smartphone with all its limitations set up by the actual control imposed by the company an adopting the p20 model supposed to take good photos bu in fact distorting anything outside the center and also no longer offering the four three format to film my videos but finding work-arounds for all those issues and also putting a purple cover on the phone so as to distinguish it more clearly from other phones and my zoom camera in the photos i take of my right hand using objects"
TOOLS: MONTH #222
"hard-disk used to keep my project and used daily in combination with my laptop which had too little internal memory and luckily never experiencing any problems with it nor losing it despite all the traveling i did during that time and at last getting a laptop with more storage capabilities and only using the hard-disk in the mountains as a back-up device i kept hidden in a drawer"
TOOLS: MONTH #223
"stone chisel used mostly in the mountains to renovate the barn where the archive is using it also to dismantle the showroom there made of actual bricks but also using it to demolish rocks or breaking them in half to fit in holes while doing masonry work"
TOOLS: MONTH #224
"small maurer trowel bought for me by my stepfather used at first to renovate the furniture in the living room of my mountain apartment built by the previous owner with exotic wood and many decoration i just plastered over thinking at first to set up a showroom there and then partially used mostly to plaster the show room in my barn in the alps and later to maintain the barn and fill minor holes i could not reach with any of the bigger trowels"
TOOLS: MONTH #225
"adjustable wrench bought at an hardware store selling cheap tools down the mountains where our property is and using it at first to screw the bolts of some shelves I originally bought to place all my archival boxes and later using it for other tasks like the removal of the contacts of the tractor battery so as not to drain it when i am absent for a long time"
TOOLS: MONTH #226
"car bought with my girlfriend in the netherlands after knowing she was pregnant and selling my two seats van to a moroccan dealer buying this diesel car from him also realizing later it was likely stolen with a broken lock in the door and several other issues having to pay quite some money of reparation at the first check but then serving us well in all our trips to italy following there the building of the project museum and always carrying our kids and our belongings but also the equipment needed for the building and having to spend a lot of money in the netherlands just for taxes on the car and to save some often squeezing it in the back of our garden scratching the lower part against the bike shed there"
TOOLS: MONTH #227
"spade used to do preliminary work in the field where the project museum was built in the alps and mostly removing with it the first hard layer of grass digging and removing the earth underneath it using other tools and often landing this spade also to my oldest son august helping me with the making of the foundation"
TOOLS: MONTH #228
"porsche hard-drive bought for my oldest son august in sweden so that he can keep a copy of my project and later finding out that he built a complex lego structure around it to keep it hidden from his mother who is furious about my project and indeed every time i visited him in sweden updating my project there even though at times i made quite some restructuring"
TOOLS: MONTH #229
"long metal clamp bought originally to cut the wooden panels i used to build the closets for my archive in the mountains but later finding them extremely useful to build the actual museum not only to secure planks for safety when working up high but also to ground the whole structure attaching the ground of the welder to it"
TOOLS: MONTH #230
"small tripod carried often with me to begin with keeping it in my pouch and often using it also with bigger cameras but then starting to use it with more compact cameras to film the small documentaries i make of the various instances of my practice"
TOOLS: MONTH #231
"keiros five meters black and yellow tape measure given to me as a present by an old crazy carpenter and used mostly in the renovation of my mountain where my physical archive resides"
TOOLS: MONTH #232
"solid state memory from kingston used to store my project when using a laptop with little inner memory and finding thi quite light yet also very fragile especially having to connect it daily until opting to buy an older and less portable laptop with more inner memory"
TOOLS: MONTH #233
"drone bought to make some aerial views of the project museum under construction and trying hard to control it with my mobile phone not really managing to do so properly in the end letting august taking care of the flight but at last having him crashing and later being unable to fix the drone despite buying new parts"
TOOLS: MONTH #234
"stainless ruler bought in the united states and mostly used for cutting for example the edges of my illustrations or my paintings after finishing them"
TOOLS: MONTH #235
"bosch professional driller bought in the mountains to mostly work on the barn there after destroying the non professional version of the same brand trying to mix lime with it but still finding this driller not strong enough especially when drilling through the stone walls"
TOOLS: MONTH #236
"racing bike i brought to the netherlands after finding the body abandoned on top of stockholm metro and getting it fixed with wheels and all and then starting quite some journey with them to get some training going before getting too busy with the children and later with the making of the project museum also from the netherlands aso feeling it was not the best racing bike being quite slow compared to the many others passing me on the dikes and taking a long time to cut out the background from the photo with too much grass and details in the actual bike"
TOOLS: MONTH #237
"carpenter pencil i had for a long time even during my days in sweden but i was never able to use really good until i actually worked as a carpenter and began using accordingly keeping it most of the time in the mountains in italy"
TOOLS: MONTH #238
"hard-disk used while living in sweden to back-up my project later brought to italy and used there to back-up the project when traveling there from the netherlands"
TOOLS: MONTH #239
"red handle flat screwdriver used mostly in the mountains especially for fixing the battery of my tractor or anyway keeping it in the tractor so as to have it when necessary also during the building of the project museum"
TOOLS: MONTH #240
"cheap file got in holland to first start experimenting with the making of vehicles-like sculptures to show and stow my project and after dismissing the idea and beginning to work on the project museum bringing such files to italy"
TOOLS: MONTH #241
"eclipse welding magnet bought to hold together the hexagonal structures i first conceived to present my project into and later dismissed being too weak to keep the heavy beams of my mountain museum together yet still keeping the magnets in the mountains with my other welding material"
TOOLS: MONTH #242
"first welding helmet bought in the netherlands and having no trouble with it really finding it quite handy despite being unable to protect myself with it from the welding fumes especially when first using it indoor in an abandoned factory to start building a space-shuttle prototype to host my project"
TOOLS: MONTH #243
"can of co2 and argon gas bought in italy while building the project museum and realizing that my dutch can cannot be refilled there having a different nozzle and spending the last money i had to buy it realizing how the gas supplier just cheated me and wanted to make a profit when i could have just rented a bottle for much less money having to anyway keep the same supplier with not really other suppliers in the region"
TOOLS: MONTH #244
"gun used to weld with bought in the netherlands and used at first to build some sort of big hexagonal prototypes in a workshop i rented inside an abandoned factory with a croatian guy teaching me how to get started and then bringing it to italy to set up the main structure of the project museum and in the netherlands again using it to weld all the textures getting quite brave to also later weld them on the structure back in italy despite all the iron melting in the gun having to weld upward and really high up later becoming much better at taking care of the gun welding the museum floors and spraying the tip before each usage"
TOOLS: MONTH #245
"angle grinder bought in the netherlands along with my welder to use with the air compressor mostly to grind my welding creations and having to wait a very long time for the shop to send me a missing component in the end receiving it after some blackmailing but still having the grinder not working so properly"
TOOLS: MONTH #246
"cheap red magnet bought for welding different type of cornerns particularly useful to prototype an hexagonal type of vehicle i had in mind to put in the mountain field so as not to have to ask for any building permission later however making very little use of this magnet being anyway too weak for the kind of construction i actually got to build"
TOOLS: MONTH #247
"cheap file i kept in the mountains to first build a giant closet where to keep my archive and then reuse the panels to improvise the roof of a garage where to keep the little tractor i have been using to transport building equipment to the project museum"
TOOLS: MONTH #248
"old metal file i got from my partner's father in the natherlands using it a first for my welding experiments there and then using for the building of the project museum in the italian alps"
TOOLS: MONTH #249
"old wooden measuring tape i got from my partner's father and after using it for some time in the netherlands i mostly used in the mountains in italy to renovate our barn there and to build the props i used to for example position the beams of the floors of the project museum"
TOOLS: MONTH #250
"sunglasses i found in front of my mountain barn probably left there accidentally by the hunter who so much opposed the building of my project museum and who often stalked me either way keeping them and using them to protect my eyes especially when using the circular saw to build the wooden molds i used to build the museum"
TOOLS: MONTH #251
"cheap square ruler i bought in the netherlands to build the crates i used to ship my photo panels to museums at the time my work was a bit requested then taking the square to italy to use it for the building of my project museum and mostly to mark bars prior cutting them"
TOOLS: MONTH #252
"file for wood work my stepfather bought for me in my native highland after i asked him to do so when he came to visit me in our mountain village and using it at first in the buildnig of the project show-room and also for the wooden props i built to keep metal pieces in places while building the project museum"