the junk ranch

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2011-11-03T23:50:00.002-05:00

piece for the krankies compilation

2011-09-22T13:44:00.003-05:00

pause

2011-09-01T00:21:00.000-05:00

80.00 would get it

book cover for my buddy steve

2011-08-18T23:47:00.000-05:00

the scarlet arrow

2011-07-03T23:14:00.001-05:00

one of my favorite paintings. its story is one of love and honor and of dogfighting a vw type 2 bi plane

framed and ready for delivery

2011-06-04T18:32:00.000-05:00

done

2011-05-24T08:01:00.001-05:00

done

window B

2011-05-13T20:26:00.000-05:00

from an old sketchbook 01-02 probably

sam moss dan electro

2011-05-13T19:57:00.003-05:00

just after printing. the "table" is an old SVT cab on it's side.

john f. commissioned me to put the sam harvey mosswald image that randy b. did in the 80's on this here dan electro and this is what i came up with. the peg head design is lifted from sam's buisness card. my buddy kevin m. made the screens and did the screen printing. tom h. did the guitar set-up and took these last two photos.

2011-05-09T23:25:00.000-05:00

sketchbook

turd

2011-05-07T12:33:00.000-05:00

this is from my first show ever! i think 1997.

donkey gate finished and installed

2011-05-02T21:07:00.000-05:00

turned out quite nice

one of my favorite

2011-04-30T20:43:00.001-05:00

2011-04-28T21:52:00.000-05:00

art hazzard 001

my first drawing

2011-04-26T22:57:00.002-05:00

donkey gate

2011-04-23T16:57:00.001-05:00

getting closer to done

lost camp

2011-04-22T00:19:00.004-05:00

chakra khan

2011-04-19T14:20:00.001-05:00

the bedroom window

2011-04-17T21:39:00.004-05:00

an oldie

countin triangles

2011-04-17T07:49:00.001-05:00

my boy

2011-04-16T17:51:00.002-05:00

psychodelicate

2011-04-13T22:27:00.001-05:00

intelligence test

2011-03-21T21:58:00.001-05:00

duh

catch and release

2011-01-08T15:34:00.001-05:00

oil on panel, currently for sale at urban artware

2 pc fun meal

2011-01-06T10:11:00.001-05:00

bwawk bwalk cluck cluck clukkers

awwwww maaaaan!

2011-01-03T08:36:00.001-05:00

deadly game

2011-01-02T22:42:00.001-05:00

blue donkey

2010-12-31T20:13:00.001-05:00

tempting julia

2010-12-29T21:34:00.002-05:00

seed gallery...1999(?)

junkranch

2010-06-26T21:53:00.001-05:00

dry-erase board

forgotten technologies

2010-06-24T21:16:00.001-05:00

i found this guy a good while back and i think i may have posted something about him before but it bears repeating that he freakin rocks! pun intended. i bought the dvd from his site and have been amazed every time i watch it. his techniques for moving MASSIVE blocks and even buildings will astound. do checkit.

GO TO HELL DANNY GO TO HELL DANNY

2010-06-23T19:06:00.001-05:00

gardens of valhalla

2010-06-22T22:44:00.001-05:00

this years garden is the best one yet! tomatoes, onions, peppers, carrots, beets, basil, cilantro, green beans, to name a-few...all doin well. thank-you food, we love you.

Improving Valhalla

2009-05-22T10:13:00.004-05:00

So...I've been doing a little work around the house and here is the most consuming of the lot. the four tall posts will support for the roof for the screened-in portion. Construction is going well despite doing it by myself which usually means some re-do's later when i can stand back and see the work. case in point, the leaning support post under the deck...Oh well...I'll get to that too.

really like this blog

2009-04-16T22:03:00.003-05:00

i will be stopping by this one often.

usaisamonster

2008-12-22T11:15:00.002-05:00

This is a little clip of the somewhat recent usaisamonster show at the werehouse. it is a lil teaser, being kinda short and all, but it gets my rock-jones on. It is always good to see tom and colin and catch up and this time was no diff...we had a potluck dinner, had good chattin and met the two new members, max and (dang i can't remember dudes name!)both played keyboard and it fit really well sound-wise.

rooster relief

2008-12-17T17:02:00.004-05:00

this here rooster is a comission i just finished today. carved from an old 9" plank.

and here is a game where you try to hit 'ol W in the head wich yo shoooooz! its awesome.

Another baby leaving the nest

2008-12-16T19:51:00.003-05:00

Here's one of my babies ready for leaving home. this painting's goin to be livin on southside now. One of the leftovers from my last show and a favorite too, is now finding a home with my buddy, john. there are a few paintings left, i will post some pics later.

andrew brandou's website

2008-11-20T11:23:00.003-05:00

saw this today on boingboing and i felt like sharing. his work reminds me of some of my own work of late and also of my friend kat lamps art as well. we are all different yet heading in similar directions.

gear test

2008-10-03T14:14:00.001-05:00

cool lil diddy

2008-09-08T23:00:00.000-05:00

a new logo for my buddy ryan

2008-08-30T11:52:00.002-05:00

goat premonition

2008-07-13T19:52:00.005-05:00

oscar the goat showed some amazing skills of precognition as he pulled this picture out of a box and ate part of it. not an extraordinary feat on it's own but...on this day kevin was to arrive on his first trip up to our house and not fifteen minutes after the discovery too! it's a strange world out there and each day is a mystery.

"rubort" the robot finished and delivered

2008-07-04T22:19:00.004-05:00

my first commissioned piece of junk sculpture! RUBORT!! He's a sandwich board of sorts...the black areas on his front and back are chalkboard paint. you can see him this weekend at the HEAVY REBEL, he'll be hanging out at tokyo cowgirl's booth and later at their liberty street location.

i love sites like these

2008-06-16T07:43:00.001-05:00

site to see

2008-05-25T22:21:00.001-05:00

stumbled upon this and thought of you.

A New Adventure Begins Today!

2008-05-24T20:51:00.003-05:00

Today is a special day...it is the day that I followed through. What I followed through with is a "space" at the local craft mall. I put up 9 or 10 paintings and a sign with my junkranch.com web address. This is an effort to make good with a promise I have made with myself, which is to rely on my art sales more and my handy-manning less. not that's one is better than the other mind you...it's just that one is more inviting right now. Here's to keeping promises.

RIcky Needham, Ryan Pritts and John Bryan

2008-05-23T22:08:00.005-05:00

Tonight at Gateway Gallery at the Enrichment Center, Ricky, Ryan And John had a wonderful opening, featuring paintings by Ricky, sculpture by ryan and lamps and sculpture by John.

this is one of Ricky's Painting's entitled "Rainbow Rocket Motorcycle"

these are some of John's sculpture

A nice Lamp by John.

this piece by Ryan is titled "damn, i'm outa here".

You just missed my art show!

2008-05-19T21:09:00.012-05:00

eli and liz

2008-05-16T09:21:00.002-05:00

eli and lizzy doin the beach thing, looking cute as poop!

eli says howdy from the coast

2008-05-15T12:56:00.002-05:00

just wanted eli to see all of ya'll...say hi now!

aaron and the jelly

2008-05-14T10:56:00.003-05:00

Wicked storms follow us to the coast

2008-05-12T08:47:00.004-05:00

we left the tornados at home(winston salem-ish) for the cool cool waters of the atlantic, BUT alas they did find us here at emerald isle, NC. No funnels were spotted by this reporter but plenty of blackened stormclouds with fire-cracker sound effect loops playing in the dark dark.

eli see's the big big ocean

2008-05-11T17:58:00.003-05:00

and saw this awesome lil spectacle...

mysterious polkie-dotted fuzzball

2008-05-07T09:43:00.005-05:00

this crazy creature pooped-up in our neighborhood recently and has been the subject of intrigue for this blogger...WTHIT??? As one can see from the first photo, "it" appears to be "growing" from or on a tiny twig/limb of this here tree. The HOT PINK polkie-dots let me know that it is probably toxic, not that it looks appetizing mind you. If any of you's have seen a similar botanical oddity, please do comment your experience. cheers. ***UPDATE***Shari Wrote and said:"Howdy Ho, There. Your mystery is solved.

This is a parasitic gall, specifically a wool-sower gall. Ye are about to be the proud pappy of gall wasps."

Thanks Shari, That is exciting!

0502 at the electric moustache gallery

2008-04-25T20:44:00.003-05:00

ebay good lookin out

2008-04-23T17:03:00.002-05:00

my brother darrell had one of these, it was SO much fun. wish we had a couple these days.

ebay highlight

2008-04-11T19:39:00.003-05:00

TRUCKTOR!

ebay spotlight

2008-04-04T15:55:00.001-05:00

nice 1974 honda elsinore cm250. dudeman says its new outa the box.

http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/index.php

2008-02-24T17:27:00.000-05:00

kimbo's countertop

2008-02-23T17:53:00.002-05:00

dang i really like this guitar and i never even knew they existed. it's a silvertone and i think he called it a countertop or tabletop but i be daggum if i can find another one in the intense five minute search i just made on google images. lemme know if you know what it is.

eli and the glowing orb

2008-02-21T22:49:00.002-05:00

i love this little guy.

1st project with the new welder

2008-02-21T14:57:00.004-05:00

a piece of square stock, a bearing race, an angle bracket and an old bolt make this bracket for a "zap" custom hanging lamp, my first project w/the new welder. i'm diggin it.

eli's new vehicle

2008-02-20T22:08:00.003-05:00

well our friends in east bend have given lil'e his first quadsicle. looks like a nice'un too. motorcycle people are good people, i mean it, i'm excited about the whole fam damily putting around in the woods out here. god bless us everyone.

boys will be boys

2008-02-14T09:07:00.002-05:00

the whitest of landscape...the yellow writing tells all.

daddy's new toy..i mean tool

2008-02-06T14:28:00.000-05:00

oooooo i is truly excited aboot the upcoming metalworking projects, but i have to clean up the shop first, talk about dirty bombs...looks like one blowed up in there! i can't wait to tell my buddy steve that i finally got one, he'll surely run with dread.

steve's new logo

2008-02-01T16:58:00.000-05:00

i just finished this for st wishnevsky. fo his bad ass geetars.

eli does DANG by john spencer blues explosion

2008-01-29T11:11:00.000-05:00

i know you shouldn't be talkin like that lil e, ima good mind to tell your momma.

so...i'm not the only one...

2008-01-22T21:36:00.000-05:00

a couple-few weeks ago I posted something VERY similar to this...it was a photochopped image of a design i had. well this guy obviously beat me to the punch by creating the same thing in the real world...assuming cali is the real world...and it's street legal at that. Cheers to you mr. awesome inventor dude-man, i,ll be right behind you.

triphibian cover taking shape

2008-01-19T22:11:00.001-05:00

this is going to be the cover for st wishnevsky's new book. i began blocking in colors last night. its really starting to liven up.

snowfall on Valhalla

2008-01-19T12:02:00.001-05:00

the whitest of blanket gently draped on the thankful landscape, droops poopily from the junk pile to drift at the feet of 'ol 900. jah bless.

zippie electric from atomic zombie

2008-01-17T19:02:00.001-05:00

Builder: Sam Cragg / Location: Hobart, Tasmania

the very smart...aquaduct trike

2008-01-16T22:32:00.000-05:00

this is so cool i can't nearly stand it! please watch the short youtube vid, it's super.

invisible bike

2008-01-13T11:42:00.000-05:00

local inventor astounds pet cat with new no-see'um technology!

okie dokie...now we're getting somewhere

2008-01-13T10:56:00.000-05:00

ok...my gues is a river/pond vehicle. guesses?javascript:void(0)

site du jour= Atomic Zombie

2008-01-13T10:30:00.000-05:00

neat stuff here...lots of plans for the DIY'er.

solar junk trike

2008-01-12T19:01:00.000-05:00

Mick Cafe of Alice Springs Australia, has built a solar powered bike from junk salvaged from the local tip(dump). He estimates his cost at about 5 bucks. Photographer: Nicole Lee

bennett robot works

2008-01-12T18:00:00.000-05:00

i wanna bout 60 or 70 of these. for christ-mass. next year. ok?

Site du jour=iron cow productions

2008-01-11T20:11:00.000-05:00

super-cool stuff from a multi-talented dude. wowwwwwweeeee this guy is busy.

another prototype inversed three wheeler

2007-12-29T18:17:00.000-05:00

Yet another photo from my buddy jordan, this one is also an inversed three wheel'd atv. It features a super-fatty rear tire with more traditional swingarm set-up. I wanna ride one.

prototype three wheeled atv

2007-12-28T23:12:00.000-05:00

Jordan Birchbark, motorcyle enthusiast and self-proclaimed crackpot inventor, sent me this inversed 3 wheeler design based on the yamaha raptor. I'd sure like to give a go around the track.

my new favorite animator, Ivan Maximov

2007-12-18T09:27:00.000-05:00

check out this video on youtube by ivan maximov. i have found another member of my karass, living far far away. I found this on Dark Roasted Blend, thanks dave.

meet meat robot

2007-10-04T08:55:00.000-05:00

Gastrobot for now eats sugarcubes...but inventor says meat is the best source of power for this cute lil train named chew chew. ok...i know i am not the only one who thinks that a meat eating robot is a bad idea. somebody back me up...i mean anyone who's ever read ANY science fiction involving robots gone bad, surely can put together these key points, realizing their recipe for disaster. 1)create a robot that eats meat. 2)add AI(artificial intelligence). well thats enough for me! if you factor in nanobots it gets really scary, i'll explain, meat robot gets smart, realizes that human, albeit it's creator, is mostly evil and made of tasty food...case closed. and thats all well and fine if the robots are big enough to see and run from, but what about those tiny nanobots that folks think are so neat. try a flying cloud of meat eating nanobots on for size...or vice versa. people are dumb as meat.

pretty freakin creepy yet still way cool

2007-09-28T14:56:00.000-05:00

same as above post...this is one step away from being "run away, run away" kinda creepy...or creapy...either seems to work. the truth truly is stranger than the past versions of the future that is now. thanks and goodnight.

my fav portrait

2007-08-27T15:08:00.000-05:00

photo is an unintentional double-exposure, april took this photo using some old film from her uncle which had been wound back...this is how the prints came back from processing. pretty cool huh?

look at the freakin teef on dat one wood ya?

2007-08-27T12:29:00.000-05:00

it disappeared.

scene from another time. long live the dead.

2007-08-27T11:56:00.000-05:00

snapped from the mensroom wall at the morning dew in w-s mf'n nc in 92 or 93 or 94...? those might be times to be repeated in lives to come. cheers everyone. jrb

DIY voodoo kit

2007-08-21T08:51:00.001-05:00

Create your own mayhem with the help from the undead. cast your spell of love on the unknowing or uncaring. Give your boss chronic neck pains and warts! Again!!! Fun for all!

eli's a little tired

2007-08-17T08:31:00.000-05:00

egyptian secrets revealed

2007-05-04T15:26:00.000-05:00

ok this guys pretty cool. i love the round road method of rolling the chunks of concrete. check the site out, its got some cool links also. He's got several videos on the site so check out a few pages...and a DVD i am gonna get next spare 15.00!

MY WEB SITE IS UP!

2007-02-22T20:40:00.000-05:00

hail! the digital deities have allowed me to enter there kingdom if but ever so meekly. junkranch.com is the place and it's silly how long it takes sometimes.

suzuki RK67

2007-01-23T19:47:00.000-05:00

a 14 speed! thats what i've been thinking about for a long time. micro tech! my dad told me about these racers that were turning nearly 18k redlines. sweet looking bike.

EVERYBODY LOVES THE BANANA part 1

2007-01-18T10:35:00.000-05:00

Gabcast! telemarketing id theft scams and other invasions of privacy #2

EVERYONE LOVES THE BANANA

2007-01-18T10:32:00.000-05:00

Gabcast! telemarketing id theft scams and other invasions of privacy #1

2007-01-16T10:54:00.000-05:00

Climb Dance

WOW

2007-01-16T03:22:00.001-05:00

Up the hill

holy crap

2007-01-16T03:22:00.000-05:00

Stunning Fully Functional 1:3 Scale Ferrari 312PB

thanks jack and phillip for sending this our way.

diy of the week

2006-12-05T21:35:00.000-05:00

Nice example of what can be done with a butload of time and brain power and minimal budget. visit the original site for all the info and schematics.

re-craft saluted

2006-11-29T13:05:00.000-05:00

ScrapHouse

Anna Finch shows her house made from recycled marterials. cost at 2200.00. One should also check out the work of Sam Mockbee, rest his soul. kudos to all who have the vision for re-craft. cheers Anna.

DIY of the day: wooden tone arm fo yo hi fi

2006-11-28T18:12:00.000-05:00

click on the title for original site with more info and pics...nice stuff!