{"id":1445,"date":"2010-09-23T08:05:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T22:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2010-09-22T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T09:00:11","slug":"i-heart-my-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"I *heart* my studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1447\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=1447\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1447\" title=\"my desk - precariously balanced\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/my-desk-precariously-balanced.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/09\/my-desk-precariously-balanced.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/09\/my-desk-precariously-balanced-440x561.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/09\/my-desk-precariously-balanced-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My studio is in St Kilda<br \/>\nIt is bounded on two sides by a meatworks<br \/>\nMy landlady runs a work-for-the-dole scheme out of a front room. The group is currently painting a mural on a Telstra-owned building at the end of the street.<br \/>\nMy desk is propped up to jewellist&#8217;s height by: the pallet that my sandblaster came on (on the rhs) <em>and<\/em> about 40 sheets of cardboard (on the lhs)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1449\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=1449\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1449\" title=\"The window that faces the meatworks - with a suspicious film of overspray\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Window-one-with-overspray-film.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Window-one-with-overspray-film.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Window-one-with-overspray-film-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Window-one-with-overspray-film-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The meatworks cleans down its large tubs daily outside one window of my studio, with a high pressure water cleaner.<br \/>\nThe noise this generates is too loud for my stereo with <a title=\"The Rake's Song via YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HPEfxZy6JNg\" target=\"_blank\">The Decemberists<\/a>, <a title=\"Adventures in Solititude via YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sj4b5rRDy00\" target=\"_blank\">The New Pornographers<\/a> or <a title=\"Home (on Letterman) via YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qb9jY8yAxgs\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeroes<\/a> to compete with. It is even too loud for <a title=\"Chin Music via YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q2aO6eGTK6M\" target=\"_blank\">Future of the Left<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1448\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=1448\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1448\" title=\"The other window that faces the meatworks - with sunlight (through which spews afternoon light, so I edited the shot so you could actually see the window frame...)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Window-2-with-sunlight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Window-2-with-sunlight.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Window-2-with-sunlight-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Window-2-with-sunlight-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not louder than my hearing protection and <a title=\"post about getting my compressor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=266\" target=\"_blank\">air compressor<\/a>\/<a title=\"my sandblast cabinet - straight outta Dr Who\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=306\" target=\"_blank\">sandblaster<\/a> combination. Not on my side of the wall, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa comes over all romantic towards her studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}