HOW TO SAVE A CHAPEL: 1. gut it. (in this case, nearly a dumpster. how the hell folks managed to hoard that much stuff in a 10×10 room, well never know.) 2. evict the squatting rodents & powerwash. 3. powerwash again. 4. several layers of lysol followed by even more coats of killz. (to kill the smell of the army of mice that had taken up residency) 5. paint until your bristles fall off. 6. turn it back into a chapel. (finally) 7. fill it back up with all the religious artifacts found around camp. (in our case, a bazillion…
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IN FIVE (SORT OF) EASY STEPS: 1. gather some scrap wood (old house siding is the perfect thickness)2. cut them in equal lengths3. saw a point on one end (this will be your arrow) 4. pencil in your lettering to make sure you’ve got even spacing5. trace the letters with a router (set at a shallow depth)6. paint the lettering first (standard camp color is yellow)7. let it dry. (patience, grasshopper) THEN coat the boards in a chocolate brown paint layer.8. find a pole, bury a post, nail em’ up. …or… do what i did and feed your friends beer…
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some snaps from this weekend & one from last year. .
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from our friend T Harrison Hillman.he shoots, he scores.(here is a shot he took of the treehouse in the center of camp at last years ‘BANDCAMP’ party) check him out tharrisonhillman.com
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…these ladies documented their favorites hotels, restaurants, sports teams, college dances, and with painstaking collages. it must have taken forever to build this. and i love every square inch. (found in lake geneva. ladies: unknown. new home: wandawega dining room)
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Wandawega used to be a speakeasy. house or ill repute, polish restaurant and a bar called ‘little orphan annies’. this brochure was from the early 50’s. the best part of this is the crazy language:“making mealtime an adventure of taste thrills”“sleep the sleep of the just”“wandawega lake resort is filled with mutually congenial clientele”“electric light, hot and cold running water”
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HOW TO PIMP YOUR CAMP SHOWERS(antique spigot handles posing as towel hooks)you will need: a handful of long screws, springs, washer, hand drill, 10 minutes, patience-a beer doesn’t hurt, either.
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yup.that’s her.“Hanna Suzanna Surratt”she lived in a log cabin in “Surratt Holler” (just 10 min south of my hometown- Beardstown, Illinois). yes, I said ‘holler’. not even ‘hollow’ – not that I know what a hollow even would be. they lived off the land in the most honest way, making everything from their own homes to maple syrup. (and, from what Ive been told- corncob pipes.) god bless her sweet country soul!
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…which it typically is. but them sometimes you’re glad you did.a snap from a trip to NY.and- from a museum in Brugges last year.and- a bar in Amsterdam.(i would cut off at least one digit to be back there right now) trying to rotate more unprofessional shots through here:notaphotographer.com
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breaking the FOUND FREE & FLEA rule…. if you ever find a vintage original scandanavian rope rocker anywhere (even on ebay) get it. and worry about how to get it home later. for us, the ‘later’ part was harder than anticipated. after ringing every possible shipping agent within 50 miles of Brooklyn (where the rocker was located) we finally had to accept the fact that we couldnt afford to ship it. after a little research with United airlines, found out that for an extra handling fee, we could check it as cargo. (3 rolls of bubble wrap later it’s landed…
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