The Invisible Balisong

I've been flipping balisongs for the past few months. It's a lot of fun. I found a scrap piece of polycarbonate (bullet proof glass) laying around my studio, so I decided I would make a balisong out of it. This is just how my brain works. I've made a bunch of balisong so far, here is the latest.









The Invisible Balisong
Blade length: 4"
Handle lenth: 6"
Full polycarbonate construction
SS screws
Bronze washers

Quote

"Then, everything ends, and everything begins!"

-Revolver Ocelot

Framing Leadership

Check out this video.

vision

Light is a language. It has infinite words and letters. It is fundamental to existence. Light is in limbo floating between matter and space. Light is a fulcrum, a bridge, a foundation, a root ball, a nutrient.

More knives

I've made a few additions to my knife collection, so I took a new group shot.

Le SWAT

On August 24, 2010 My fiance and I took a trip to Paris France. It was a life changing experience. Paris is a magical place of beauty and culture. We stayed at Hotel Aiglon in Mont Parnasse. If you were wondering, no the parisian weren't rude, they were kind and helpful, and most everyone that works in the hospitality industry spoke english. I visited a bunch of museums, went to a knife shop, ate croissants, walked the streets and drank espresso.

I visited Le Centre Pompidou, the modern art museum, which was absolutely mind blowing. A visit to Le Louvre is mandatory while in Paris. While there everything I learned in art history 101 at AIB was brought to life and punctuated. The Mona Lisa is all hype and the french sculptures where defiantly my favorite. I also went to the Musee D'orsay where I saw Van Goghs and Gaugains and tons of beautiful sculptures. Unfortunately I could film it there, because in that museum I saw the most awesome little sculpture of a woman with a marble body, ivory arms and face and a bronze hat, it was over the top gorgeous.

We took an awesome boat ride up the Seine river and kissed under the Eiffel tower.

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I was looking at a star and I noticed something. I realized that the spikes of light that shined out in all directions were just an illusion. We can only see the light that enters our eyes. We can't see light going from point A to point B, we can only see light going from point A to our retna. The twinkle we see when looking at a star is light shimmering off particles in the atmosphere between that star and your pupil.

What I've come to realize is that light is everywhere. We only perceive it as it leaves it's source and as it reflects off of matter. Light would appear vastly more pervasive if we could see it fly perpendicular to our sight line. I envisioned in my mind the sky if we could see the light of stars growing outward like a bubble. Then I realized that the only place in space where was no light was where there was matter. Matter reflects light and casts a shadow.

There was nothing. A void. Then god said "Let there be light" and it was good. That light entered the void and turned nothing into space. That space is the building block of our universe.