Karl Clayton Sluis

On my Tumblr account, because Blogger has a long, long way to go...

>The Dow Jones Industrial Infantry: visualizes the size of the thirty companies on the Dow Jones Industrial Index through platoons of little green army men. We also added the market capitalization (market value) of each company --- even with over 2,000,000 employees, Wal-Mart isn't worth as much as Microsoft.

>CEO Salary or Average Salary: visualizes the change in the ratio between CEO salaries and average salaries from 1965 to 2005, through champagne glasses and styrofoam cups. As you can see, things have changed significantly.

If nothing else, we've got a future in cruise-ship-party-planning. Next week: Ice sculptures.

Just picked these up today, they'll be used in our exhibit of American Inventions. Each trophy will be topped with an influential object developed in the USA, painted gold of course.

Incredibly excited for this one. See you in 35 days!

Imagining magazine covers from the future... what might we talk about, forty years from now?

It's very exciting, and we're hoping that we might get funded by the Pepsi Refresh project. Our website, www.projectxray.blogspot.com, will be updated over the next few months, tracking our progress.

I finally watched Vanishing Point (1971) last night. I have no idea why it took me so long. What an excellent, excellent film.

The folks at Critter Barn found a plot of land near the Tulip City Airport. I thought that the project would be completely, and forever, sidelined by the Great Recession. Tremble and despair at the eternal appeal of furry creatures!

This is my stepdad Dave's '95 Jeep. Over this past week, I sandblasted, primed, and painted the wheels to match the forest green body. We turned the whitewalls in when we remounted the tires. Looks pretty tough, I think.

Finally --- that's no dual monitor setup. That is the power of TWO desktops?!

Related: 100th post! Updates have been scarce lately; I've been considering grabbing the rudder and changing the direction of this blog, now that I don't have tales from the East to share. Hopefully a new portfolio website is in the cards soon, as well as experiments with Rhino and Alias, more furniture concepts, and maybe even more car design crit...

some photographs from this year's NEOCON furniture fair in beautiful downtown Chicago. this was my third year attending... i'm starting to get familiar with a lot of the furniture, so there wasn't much surprising for me this year.

favorite chair from the show: Herman Miller's Setu. comfortable, flexible, constant seating surface: beautiful and functional plastic chassis. simple construction. really excellent.

i think this natural pattern, this idea, is finally on its way out.

it's not a movement, it's an abomination.

cool fabric at the show. from a distance, the print looks like clouds, but up close, it's a matrix of hundreds of different, colorful shapes. very cool stuff. very curious how the artist made the print, manually or through some computer algorithm...

such grace.  such contropasto.  such wind-blown elegance.