[Applause]
there’s a lot of people out there that
call themselves artists so there’s no
bad art beauties in the eye of the
beholder
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
chainsaw carbon has a certain element of
theater to it it’s kind of a
performance-art
[Music]
you’re creating a sculpture on a
stroganoff a period of time it’s
entertaining
[Music]
so I move here when I was 16 from Lake
Quinault which is over on the Olympic
Peninsula which is logging country which
is wood and chainsaws and growing up
with that whole lager culture I bought
this place it was a functioning sawmill
and then it kind of came a hillbilly
research and development artistic Center
[Laughter]
[Music]
I’m a voracious reader sometimes I’ll
read a book of that I’ll go out and
carve the characters out of my head the
chainsaw has such a you know Texas
massacre tearing down the rainforest
destruction type of tool oh here you are
creating a thing of beauty with a tool
that’s known for you know making bone
and flesh into a fine red mist I’m a
second generation to my mom her brothers
who were some of the first people to do
it and you know grew up with it and
became a carver because it seemed normal
[Music]
and then I started doing the chainsaw
carving competitions
so I threw myself into them when I was
in my early twenties and got involved
with anything to do with this any show
that came up that’s what I would do and
go entrepreneurship is the last refuge
of the troublemaker what I like to do is
I find out how much money you have in
[Laughter]
the competitions of course are where
everyone gathers together a lot of us
are grifters our itinerary or people
like me that live on backroads the
handful of us we had a guild and a club
and we created a nucleus of a group of
chainsaw Carver dedicated to making the
art form more well-known and respecting
which is the hardest part it’s hard to
make a living at it and raise kids and
pay your bills
anyone’s an artist and the kids start
out as artists until someone tells them
they’re not and if someone has enough
guts to get alongside the road and set
up and do it takes a tremendous amount
of courage that makes them and then go
out and try to sell it there’s a lot of
different ways of making a living at it
[Music]
the best way to make a good living out
though is to have a wife with a good job
[Laughter]
[Music]
[Music]
it’s probably something that could pass
us through their digestive system and
that we can mock them I’m guessing
[Music]
there’s a lot of people out there that
call themselves artists so there’s no
bad art beauties in the eye of the
beholder
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
chainsaw carbon has a certain element of
theater to it it’s kind of a
performance-art
[Music]
you’re creating a sculpture on a
stroganoff a period of time it’s
entertaining
[Music]
so I move here when I was 16 from Lake
Quinault which is over on the Olympic
Peninsula which is logging country which
is wood and chainsaws and growing up
with that whole lager culture I bought
this place it was a functioning sawmill
and then it kind of came a hillbilly
research and development artistic Center
[Laughter]
[Music]
I’m a voracious reader sometimes I’ll
read a book of that I’ll go out and
carve the characters out of my head the
chainsaw has such a you know Texas
massacre tearing down the rainforest
destruction type of tool oh here you are
creating a thing of beauty with a tool
that’s known for you know making bone
and flesh into a fine red mist I’m a
second generation to my mom her brothers
who were some of the first people to do
it and you know grew up with it and
became a carver because it seemed normal
[Music]
and then I started doing the chainsaw
carving competitions
so I threw myself into them when I was
in my early twenties and got involved
with anything to do with this any show
that came up that’s what I would do and
go entrepreneurship is the last refuge
of the troublemaker what I like to do is
I find out how much money you have in
[Laughter]
the competitions of course are where
everyone gathers together a lot of us
are grifters our itinerary or people
like me that live on backroads the
handful of us we had a guild and a club
and we created a nucleus of a group of
chainsaw Carver dedicated to making the
art form more well-known and respecting
which is the hardest part it’s hard to
make a living at it and raise kids and
pay your bills
anyone’s an artist and the kids start
out as artists until someone tells them
they’re not and if someone has enough
guts to get alongside the road and set
up and do it takes a tremendous amount
of courage that makes them and then go
out and try to sell it there’s a lot of
different ways of making a living at it
[Music]
the best way to make a good living out
though is to have a wife with a good job
[Laughter]
[Music]
[Music]
it’s probably something that could pass
us through their digestive system and
that we can mock them I’m guessing
[Music]
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