numberonetinbender — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:02:57 +0000

I thought that was a good pattern but a bit small. All other things being equal the dodecahedra is bigger than the icosa so lets put a square between the pentagons. It came out exactly the same as with the icosa.

That was a big surprise. I didn’t know about duality then, but I thought there must be more to this geometry than meets the eye.

I was hooked

The Hook

numberonetinbender — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:56:11 +0000

When I put the triangles and squares together and filled in the holes with pentagons it came out like this.

how i came to can bending

numberonetinbender — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:53:41 +0000

One day I saw a brass sphere with alot of holes punched in the surface in an intricate pattern,I liked it, thought I could make something like that from cans. I’d take an icosahedra and put squares between each of the triangles and see what that looked like.

numberonetinbender — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:22:33 +0000

business card, needs some work

In the beginning

numberonetinbender — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:09:09 +0000

I was looking at a dictionary and saw a line drawing of these five platonic solids and about twenty years later when I tried to think of something to make from empty cans I remembered these.

numberonetinbender — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:55:04 +0000

numberonetinbender — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:57:41 +0000

I’m going to be 60 this year. I started bending cans about 10 years ago. Bending cans into geometric forms,sculpture,art,creations, I’m not sure what to call them but that’s all I want to do these days. If all I do is bend cans I’ve got to sell’em or I’ll starve so I was looking around on the internet for a place to do that (sell’em not starve) and found a site called emptyeasel.com. EE said one should start a blog, gave some good reasons so that’s how and why I’m here.

Hello world!

numberonetinbender — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:50:41 +0000

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