GLOBAL MECHANIC BLOG » time-lapse http://blog.globalmechanic.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:52:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 PAINT IT GRASS http://blog.globalmechanic.com/paint-it-grass/ http://blog.globalmechanic.com/paint-it-grass/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:27:03 +0000 Global Mechanic http://blog.globalmechanic.com/?p=999 Recently, Chris Mckinlay (the other half of 1998) moved into a soon-to-be-destroyed house on Knight Street. He and his roommate James have fixed the place up quite nicely since they moved in, but you should have seen the place when they first got it. This should give you some perspective: I believe the only rule that his landlord gave them was, “No growing or selling drugs. Other than that, I don’t care what you do”. So Chris took that very seriously and we went to town thinking of some fun things we could do in his house. The first idea we had was to paint all over the walls. We thought it’d be fun to do a big mural in his kitchen. So I designed a mural idea (giant blades of grass and their root systems) and Chris and I just kind of went for it. I drew on the [...]]]> Recently, Chris Mckinlay (the other half of 1998) moved into a soon-to-be-destroyed house on Knight Street. He and his roommate James have fixed the place up quite nicely since they moved in, but you should have seen the place when they first got it. This should give you some perspective: I believe the only rule that his landlord gave them was, “No growing or selling drugs. Other than that, I don’t care what you do”. So Chris took that very seriously and we went to town thinking of some fun things we could do in his house. The first idea we had was to paint all over the walls. We thought it’d be fun to do a big mural in his kitchen. So I designed a mural idea (giant blades of grass and their root systems) and Chris and I just kind of went for it. I drew on the wall in pencil and then we painted it. We also thought it’d be fun if we did a time-lapse of us making the mural. Over the course of 4 days we planned and executed the project for your viewing pleasure:

and once the mural was finished, we had a party:

Stick around to see what else we do to Chris’ house in the near future.

-Justin

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