Article from the Scrapfest

CityPulse, June 30 - July 6, 2010 » Page 12
Fabrication was no vacation

Fussy neighbors, scorched tables: Welcome to Scrapfest

Some random bit of wisdom says to “do something every day that scares you.” For two weeks, I did that consistently as a member of a team competing in Old Town Scrapfest 2010. The event, a fund-raiser for the Old Town Commercial Association, is in its second year. Such Video owner David Such, who launched the project, found an apt sponsor in Friedland Industries, a metal salvage company located in Old Town.

The competition begins with teams scrounging around Friedland scrap yard for one hour to gather up to 500 pounds of scrap. They then have just under two weeks to fabricate sculptures, which are displayed and auctioned off at Old Town’s Festival of the Moon/Festival of the Sun.

For some reason this sounded like a great challenge for me in April, when OTCA put out its call for entrants. Being primarily