Zometool - tour of Longmont manufacturing plant and helping build Zome Art sculpture for Denver Art Museum

Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting the Zometool factory in Longmont, Colorado. There, my favorite (hands down!) geometric toy, er, I mean modeling system, is manufactured. Paul and Carlos gave me a tour of the amazing technology where these wonderful plastic components are made by the gazillions. The secret of the hub, rumor has it, is the trained microscopic radiolaria that already understand the necessary geometry and amazingly eat away the parts of the hub that don't look Zome-ish. You're not buying that idea? Oh well… maybe there's more to it than that…The primary purpose of the day's festivities was to begin assembling circular 'rosettes' (note the white quasi-circular shapes with 6 yellow hubs in some of the photos) to be further assembled into a new art piece for the Denver Art Museum. (Stay tuned for updates on the blog page.) Here are a few photos from the fun, collaborative day with great music provided by Paul's daughter Lizzy, and excellent Zometool assembling fuel provided by Carlos and others. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished project ... (read more...)

Zometool - Platonic and Archimedean Solids and Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook

Zometool, with the addition of green struts, can build many of the designs — both 2 and 3 dimensional — that appear in the pages of Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook (SGDS) and other 2D and 3D models. Now, more than ever, this superlative modeling system (which is also the coolest toy in the geometric Universe, in my opinion) is a fabulous complement to Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook. The green struts allow for square root of 2 proportions relative to blue struts, which allow shapes like tetrahedra, octahedra, star tetrahedra, several more Archimedean Solids and MUCH more to be built. Amazing how adding another proportional system to the prior version seems to add many dimensions to the possibilities. (BTW, the feline model within the model is Cooper, our new kitten.)

Here are examples of some of Zometool models that appear in the pages of Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook. I'll be adding to these as I go on ... (read more...)

"Chrome Zome" jewelry now available!

Zometool Jewelry — featuring elegant chrome-plated Zome hubs — is now available ... and ONLY here. Another great holiday gift idea! Nancy (our resident jeweler) says she can make these earrings with the bottom (Swarovski 6mm) crystal in a variety of colors in addition to the pink (rose) and jet black varieties shown here, including clear, aqua, blue, light blue, midnight blue, teal, green, purple, amethyst purple, and other colors and variations. Each earring features the unique Zometool hub (12 pentagonal holes, 20 triangular holes and 30 golden rectangle holes) with a metallic chrome finish. Chains and earring hooks will vary with styles. ... (read more...)

Ka Gold Jewelry Holiday Specials

Ka Gold Jewelry, speaking of geometric jewelry, has a huge assortment of superb offerings in this area, and are offering a 15% holiday discount until Dec. 24, 2011.

Lulu Holiday Specials

If you have been meaning to get a copy of Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook (or a few more as gifts or to replace a loaned copy as a reader recently emailed me that she did), here's a great deal TODAY ("Cyber Monday") which I just learned about from Lulu that is offering 30% off any order before midnight, 28Nov2011, and also $50 off 50 books (if you really wanna stock up! :-) before midnight 30Nov2011. Just enter code "TURKEY305" for the latter (bulk) deal, and "CYBERMONDAY305" for today's super deal.

...Here are some other sacred geometry designs available as shirts, posters, note cards and more, such as Solar System Geometry Calendars.

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