Check out this VIDEO news brief of my project on KOMO:

News is amazing, this is the third completely different version I have seen!  Different dialog, different anchors, different helicopter footage for each one!

Here is a timelapse from yesterday. It was death defying as you can see…I needed a full body harness to secure my life that was just hanging in the balance. But the clouds and sunset were beautiful. If you think it was hard for the webcam lens to adjust to the constantly shifting light, imagine my eyes!

Last Friday I got booted off the roof until my contract’s so called “tricky wording” (that took 2 months to figure out…) could  be finished for me to sign, so I took the weekend off.  But arriving Wednesday, amazingly the contract lay before me and was made of real paper and I signed it!  Finally!  There were many weird provisions for safety, (“like no horseplay on the jobsite”??- isn’t that the one thing that made pools fun?)   I  had to get a rundown on the procedure before the guy to sign me off on it left, so that sent me racing down to SODO to get a full body harness and rope anchor system.  Certainly got me stoked to return there to get a bosun’s chair for some huge wall in my future…

Coming back refreshed, I have been hitting it pretty hard, finding so many tiny yet major modifications to make to the female.  I was still unhappy with the base color of the legs, so I mixed together a drabber color that looks much better.  Its so funny…why would the 1″ x 1″ color chip under florescent lights at the paint store look any different on an 80 foot leg viewed at an angle from 500 feet up? Going thru the whole process of adding highlights and shadows has been very tedious…its tricky to guage how much shadow to show on the margin of the left side leg 3 Patella, and for that matter how much highlight on the rim of the distal part of right leg 2’s metatarsal?   Deep questions…deeper responses from my rollers.

I am elated to have the RV up here so I can get an early start tomorrow…Its gonna be a whole day on the male.  I look forward to capturing the whole day with time lapse, but the angle is tough to choose.  Puget sound in the distance like today’s video with the sunset and ferries and containers ships, (but with bad glare for the lens), or from the side or back with the space needle in the distance but a very distorted harvestman…hmmm I will sleep on it.