Klassen Concrete Blog - concept design factory…….and all things cool

Tony and the good folks over at Artista asked us to put our thinkin caps on and come up with some cool ideas.  Here, we are proud to show you some of the work the guys did in the haha factory on rain days.  We developed some cool steel finishes and built steel fireplace surrounds.  On is painted and in 4 sections with 1″ bolts we made.  The other surround is for a double sided fireplace and has a very unique antiqued ground and stained finish we developed as well.  We’re primarily a concrete company (lol) so we also created a flat concrete wall finish as a backsplash in the kitchen, around one fireplace, and in the ultra cool (and sexi) wine cellar we designed.  Word up dog…….

I recently was asked to help do some work at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco.  Yes, that Alcatraz.  They are in the process of restoring the concrete and need to stain it to match the surrounding areas- so Shellie Rigsby and Clarke Branum trundled off to help Tanya Komas the the cool people from Chico State university in the 4 year concrete program over there.  Here’s some pictures of the island, I’ll post some actual work pictures later!

At a motocross race in the states, I crashed pretty hard and landed on my head.  What I thought was nothing, turns out was a pretty big deal.  I broke my C1 vertebrae in about 4 spots and my skull.  Along with the fun, pinched off an artery to my brain and some other poopy issues.  Here, let me show you

Hi I’m Randy’s skull. I blocked out my eyes so I look real scary like… If you look deep into my mouth, you can see the C1….No?, ok, try this one….

here’s a shot of a normal xray.  Some of the docs looked at this and thought everything was ok.  Then I got an MRI and the picture was clearer.  Here, let’s get an MRI

We’re going to go deep into that there machine for about 20 minutes.  This machine takes perfect 3D images of the body bones, muscles, arteries and all that crap.  See, look at this picture…

This picture shows the fractured C1 and all the little pieces.   My buddy Dr Jonson is a real dude and liked me so much, he slapped me into a better brace for, oh, 6 months….haha- love you too partner.

seriously, I have only a few life savers out there, you know who you are.  I just want to say thanks.  It’s times like these you find out who your friends are- and, well…. thanks everyone.  A lot.

you should see the sick stickers I’m running on that thing!

haha, this guy’s funny….