Sunday, April 26, 2026

Inflating steel

Elizabeth Brim and friends doing a steel inflation demonstration at the Fire on the Mountain Blacksmithing Festival. 

The piece is two sheets of steel, carefully welded together around the edges, with a pipe going into a small space in between them. It was heated up in a gas forge, and Elizabeth is blowing it up with compressed air--which you can do because hot metal is a lot softer than cold metal.  
 

Sunday, April 19, 2026

Trombone Karaoke

This guy, accompanied by his little sound system, has been honking jazz standards on Main Street for years and years.