Whoa this site got stale. Sorry folks, our Habari platform got hacked, infected my whole host, and I couldn't install the update. So I stopped using it. Coming soon, wiping the host and starting from scratch. We're working on a new site, and it'll be up soon. It's better.

In other news, we're done with the new album. Almost. Done, aside for the baker's dozen re-re-re-re-re-remixes we've had to pump out and are still working on...
Check it.
A snippet of album art

We filmed a music video for one of the tracks, "Running Home". We haven't seen it yet, but we had fun doing it. Here's a couple pics:
Alien Ideamen playing poker
Dave wearing a... Stick.

We have good things in store for you. I'm making an "Archimedes Trammel" (also known as a "Do Nothing Machine") to add to the merch, plus I'll finally be selling those flower holding ear clips. We made a few connections in our downtime and we will be playing some really good shows at places you'll be delighted to see us at. We will also be delighted. See you soon. :D

Just stained up the floor model Ideamen Gear Coasters. Oops, I forgot to put on the rubber gloves...

Stain...
So I've been without a computer for a looong time. I had to do *something* while I was without my screen time, so I took up a bit of fine woodworking while I was away. I learned to make mortise and tenon joints, dovetail joints, did some routing, table sawing, scroll sawing and drill pressing. As a first project I made a toolbox.

The Parts

The frame, strong enough to stand on unglued

Assembled
I actually got all the tools and stuff for an ongoing project... You may have seen the flowers I keep behind my ear at shows, the thing that holds them is actually the main reason I started the whole woodworking thing.

The flower holder, prototype
I needed to make a jig to do all the wire bending, and I needed the tools to make it, and... I needed to learn how to make more than just that to justify all these darn tools. Sooo.... I'll be making all kinds of neat things, the first of which will be the coasters. They'll be stained, sealed, varnished and screen printed. There's enough material in the boards I'm using to make a handful of extra gears for refrigerator magnets. It's a *lot* of work, I think we're looking at something like 7 hours per set in labor. I'll be making some not printed for sale to the steampunk crowd, and just so you know, those will be going for about $100 per set. For YOU, the printed Ideamen set will go for something like $60. That's less than $10 per hour, and that's how much we love you. We hope you love these things as much as I love making them.
Next up, a solid oak merch rack for the Ideamen merch booth, and a spiffy keyboard case for Timmy.
In the meantime I might figure out what's wrong with the paginator on our website... I can't go back past page two. Booooooooo.

I got me some bald. Locks Of Love got a new wig. Man this feels good, for at least the last 3 years I've been wanting to unload all this hair off of my head. Here's some shots of the process....

The braiding

The cuts

The end result
Got some other nifty things in the works. Anyone interested in Ideamen Gear Coasters? They are genuine involute gears, they mesh (as in they work like real gears should), and I made them myself. I love being an Ideamen...

The glue up

This is the last photograph of me with hair. The beard's going too, for those of you who were asking what I look like without a beard. It's summer, and I've wanted to unload this stuff on my head for a few years now, but the guys in the band wouldn't let me. Heee heee heeee, try and stop me now! After tomorrow someone will have a nice wig.

And yes, Gary Schultz, that's you in the background...

Hey folks, sorry it's been so long since a post. I've been without a computer for a while... But now that I have one, I shot someone I know a link to a youtube video of us, and while I was there, clicked on a link to the 'top Ideamen videos', and couldn't watch half of them because they were blocked by SME. Boooooooo. My own video, the one I spent 600 hours rendering and uploaded MYSELF, blocked by Sony Music Entertainment. Why? I dunno. But I'm not too happy about it. This is MINE. Not Sony's. I'd like it back. Goodnight.