I feel like before I begin to blog about music, new albums and other related items I feel like I should give you a background on who I am, what I do and how I got here.
My name is Tim Keating and I am currently a junior at the University of Dayton majoring in Electronic Media. My Hobbies include listening to music, building things and playing sports. As you will see throughout this entry I really enjoy building things such as tables, corn-hole boards, and small furniture. The picture at the top is a table that I built in the summer of 2007 for my dorm room in the shape of a Shamrock with an Irish Flag painted across the top. On the bottom self in a Celtic font it says "Ceitinn" which was the way my last name was spelled before my anchestors moved to America. Althought it may not be very technical sound (because it only has three legs) it does look good.
With most of these projects the ideas just come to me. From the point where I think of an idea, I am 100% pedal to the metal on getting the project finished, I really enjoying building and painting these items what I love even more is seeing them finished.
Another example is a pair of coffee tables that were much needed my Sophomore year.
I always was willing to make compromises with my roomates. I figured instead of just painting the logos of sports teams that I like I would split the table into two and do one team I like and one team that the roomate liked. These tables have been essential. They do show some signs of wear but that is because they are used all day everyday.
So when I am not in class, hanging out with friends, or doing homework (really?) I like to just think of cool things that would be convienent to have around the apartment.
Recently I have become interested in the process of Screening T-Shirts, I use to make my own shirts in highschool just by using spray paint and washing them a couple of times so the shirts aren't sticky, but since then I have been experimenting with actual Screen-Printing and it is definately a process (below you can see the first couple of items that I screened).
Going across in order here:
The first picture is of a set of Corn-hole boards I made for the next door neighbor as a Christmas Present. I painted the boards as if they were helmets and then painted the Block O logo over top of that.
The second and third pictures are of a OSU lock-box I made for school and I even painted the family crest on the inside of the door. Again I used the helmet theme and put the stripes down the middle and painted the buckeye stickers the players where on their helmets on the right side of the box, on the left side I painted a large Block O.
The forth picture is of the first two items I tried to screenprint. The hoodie on the left is a "Joe Walsh" picture and the t-shirt on the right is an idea I came up with at the beginning of this past years football season (it's unbelievable how much people not from Columbus HATE when Buckeye fans say O!H! or THE Ohio State University).
The fifth picture is a David Crosby t-shirt that I made that reads "Crosby sings, you listen" This one is self-explanatory and you should probably listen to the t-shirt because David Crosby has one of the best voices in music that I have ever heard.
So now you know a little bit about me and what I like to do. My love of music goes right along with all these projects because you better believe that while I was out in the garage at my house making these things I had some music going the entire time.
I am definately one of those people that deeply believes in music. Music can take you to different places, if you are in a bad mood in can pick you up and thats very important. Music always gives me a certain level of comfort.
All I want to do is get the people around me to listen to music, I love spreading my knowledge of music to anyone that will listen. Just ask all the people that I have made CD's for, the list is endless. It's funny when you listen to alot of music, because all of sudden you will here a song and be like "you know _____ will really dig this album" and then when they go out and get a copy of it and love it for some reason that gives me a sense of accomplishment.
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