This was a quick fun project.  I wanted to move my iMac into our bedroom (from the basement) in preparation for starting to develop the basement.  I did not, however, have a desk appropriate for sitting in our room so I build this tiny little thing, perfectly sized to the iMac, to hold the computer and the external drives and nothing else.

It’s build from a single sheet of 1/2″ Baltic birch plywood.  The vertical supports and the shelf supporting arms are all three layers (1.5″) of plywood with the arms attached in a sort of laminated mortise and tenon.  The cross supports are attached by butt joins (lazy I know) reinforced with walnut through dowels (you can see the little dark dots along the side, I like that look).  I covered the shelf and desk surface with Arborite.  I left all the plywood edges exposed because I think they look really cool on Baltic birch although there are a lot more voids in this stuff than advertised

It’s absolutely perfect for what I want with one exception.  The optical mouse does not work well on the very textured red Arborite so I thing, for the first time in years, I might actually need a mouse pad!

Below is a picture of the shop while I was finishing this project.  Things get a little cluttered mid-project (understatement of the year perhaps).

I finally got after processing about 25 rolls of B+W film I shot over the past two years.  It took about 6 hours of work but I’m caught up now.  My plan for the future is to shoot more B+W film but every week or two (no longer) set aside 45 minutes to process it.

I also want to start doing more printing.  My plan is to actually go some printing too. 

There is just something about B+W I love.  I think it’s the old cameras.  I love the sound of the shutter and the quirkiness of my old cameras.   Whether it’s the brilliant design of my Olympus XA series point-and-shoots, or the history of my FED 2, or the sentimentality of the Minolta Maxxum 7000s (I have three) or the absolute coolness of the Canon T90, each of those cameras just has something that makes them fun to shoot.