We've featured the incredible artisan Kaden Harris several times on BB. He makes exquisitely-crafted "antiques from a parallel universe," from desktop guillotines to mindwarping machines (image left) to insanely intricate smoking devices (image below) that would be right at home on Jules Verne's Nautilus. He sells his creations via his Eccentric Genius Web site, but he's not sure what people actually want to buy. So he's written the request below of BB readers. Please don't email me with your responses, but post them on the QuickTopic board instead! Kaden says:
My drawing board is overfull of stuff that's through R&D and waiting to be fabricated, but it's all stuff that either resonates really strongly with my personal tastes, or stuff that has grown around a specific scrapyard archaeology artifact that happened to catch my eye (I have about 3 tons of scrapyard brass scattered around Eccentric Manors…inspiration is kinda hard to avoid). Knowing my personal tastes is one thing; knowing what my marketplace likes is entirely another, and due to my *close* personal relationship with my raw material inventory, it's kinda hard to step back and view things with an unbiased eye.
So waddaya think I oughta build? Whatever it is, it has to actually function: I look on bricolage as a waste of perfectly good components. I build mechanisms…purposeful things. Anything less is an insult to the mojo of the componentry.
Link to discussion board,
Link to Eccentric Genius
Previously on BB:
• Dangerous Things on your desk Link
• Retro bong designed and built in 11 minutes Link
