Lisa Poritz - Funky Mulligan
The salient point of this podcast episode revolves around the intriguing journey of Lisa Poritz, a former surgeon turned artist, who creatively repurposes golf balls into unique art pieces. During our conversation, we delve into her artistic process, which involves cutting open golf balls to reveal their vibrant inner colors, subsequently transforming these materials into coasters, sculptures, and various decorative items. Lisa shares her experiences in balancing her medical career with her newfound passion for art, which has flourished following her retirement. We also explore the artistic inspirations behind her creations and the methods she employs in crafting her distinctive pieces. Through this episode, we not only highlight Lisa’s remarkable artistic endeavors but also celebrate the innovative spirit that drives her work.
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- Funky Mulligan
- Seamus Golf
- Golf News Network
- Westin
- Weston Kia
- Painted Hills Natural Beef
- Oregon Crab Commission
- Birdie Ball
- Snell
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Transcript
It's time for Grilling at the Green.
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Speaker A:I guess I need to ask you, how's your game this week?
Speaker A:Mine is status quo, but I'll be back out on the course soon.
Speaker A:I can tell you that we've got a very interesting guest today.
Speaker A:If you've ever heard of Funky Mulligan, which maybe you have, maybe you haven't, but it's a very interesting form of art.
Speaker A:And if you're looking at the video, you can see part of it behind my guest, Lisa Porridge today.
Speaker A:And Lisa, do you want me to Doctor.
Speaker A:You are a doctor?
Speaker B:Oh, no, please don't.
Speaker A:Okay, okay.
Speaker B:Call me Lisa.
Speaker A:My pal Steve Depala found Lisa at Christmas time over a little pop up that Seamus Golf had in Beaverton, Oregon.
Speaker A:And I actually, I actually got something out of it for once.
Speaker A:I got a coaster.
Speaker A:I don't know if you probably can't see that because of the lighting, but there you can see the front part.
Speaker A:You see the back part there.
Speaker A:And if you notice a lot of you may not have known this, there's different colors inside these golf balls.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And not like the old rubber band kinds or any of that.
Speaker A:And Lisa can actually tell you which balls with which numbers have what colors inside that and more.
Speaker A:So, Lisa, welcome.
Speaker A:That's a hell of an introduction, I gotta say.
Speaker B:But thank you very much for having me.
Speaker A:Not a problem.
Speaker A:So, well, we'll kind of COVID this very quickly.
Speaker A:How did you go from being a very successful surgeon to cutting golf balls in half?
Speaker B:So I have to start by telling you that kind of art and crafty art and stuff is definitely in my family.
Speaker B:My great aunt was a contemporary artist and had some paintings in New York City museums.
Speaker B:And then my mom did a lot of interesting crafty things initially out of wood cutting things and then painting them.
Speaker B:And then she moved on to fused glass.
Speaker B:And I always enjoyed all this stuff.
Speaker B:And I kind of tried it some, but it never looked as good as my mother's stuff.
Speaker B:And then I kind of came across the golf balls and you find cut open golf balls on the golf course, and you notice that the colors are different.
Speaker B:And then, of course, you go in your closet or your garage, and you've got all these golf balls, and, like, what am I going to do with them?
Speaker B:So I went online, and I found out how to cut them open.
Speaker B:And then I started making things.
Speaker B:And I started initially with some magnets, and then I learned that everybody has stainless steel appliances now, and nothing sticks to a magnet.
Speaker B:And then I kind of moved on to see what else I could do with them, incorporating the bright colors that are inside the balls to make the colorful part of the art.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:Well, I can.
Speaker A:I can tell from my coaster here, but in the stuff you have on the counter behind you, there's a lot of different colors.
Speaker A:And I.
Speaker A:And I should get this out of the way right up front.
Speaker A:I noticed on your Etsy page, you had some yellow and green ones for the Ducks.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:I'm a Oregon State guy, and so Steve, the guy who.
Speaker A:So can we get an orange and black or at least an orange and dark blue?
Speaker A:So it kind of substitutes as black for something.
Speaker B:So orange is not that hard.
Speaker B:But there are very few golf balls that have black in them.
Speaker B:So, yes, to a limited extent, because I don't paint any of the golf balls.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:But some of the nitros, those old balls are black inside, and there's some top flights that are black.
Speaker B:And the dark blue would be noticeably blue, I think.
Speaker B:But this year's Pro V1.
Speaker B: Well, the: Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker B:The yellow is available in limited numbers, but I did know you guys were from Oregon State, so I don't know if I have too much of the yellow and green stuff around here, but it sold well to the Duck fans this year.
Speaker A:Oh, I'm sure it did.
Speaker A:I'm sure it did.
Speaker A:But if you.
Speaker A:If you can, when the show's over, if you tell me what balls that you think have black in them, because orange is, like you said, pretty easy.
Speaker B:Orange is easier.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I will find the ones with the black, and I'll send them to you.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Okay, great.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:The Titleist Velocity has a light orange in it.
Speaker B:I'll have to look through the pile to see what has a better orange, but, yeah, both those colors are not super popular.
Speaker B:I think somewhere I even have a ball that is two tone that is black and orange.
Speaker B:But I think that's probably something that's old.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, I'm old, too.
Speaker A:So, you know, I, I could probably find them somewhere.
Speaker B:All right, I will definitely look for you.
Speaker A:Lot of, lot of garage sales and stuff around where I live.
Speaker A:So an estate sale.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:And you go to every one of them and there's always a few old beat up golf clubs and a bucket of balls which nobody buys, but.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:If I, If I thought it was in there, I would purchase it, I'll tell you that.
Speaker A:So the process, Lisa, the process.
Speaker A:Because when we talked and you brought me up to speed on the phone call, you can't cut these with like a laser cutter or power saw or anything.
Speaker A:You have to do it by hand because the friction will melt the urethane on the outside and maybe the inside too.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So, I mean, there are ways to cut them with power tools if you do it fast enough and, and cool it.
Speaker B:But yes, if you get it too hot, the.
Speaker B:Basically the rubber and the urethane melts.
Speaker B:So I cut it either with a pipe cutter, which the ball happens to fit in quite well, and I can use that to make some cuts.
Speaker B:But again, it's hard to cut around a totally round thing.
Speaker B:That pipe cutter is meant to cut something that's.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:For all intents.
Speaker B:Versus oval or cylindrical, but.
Speaker B:So it's easy to cut them in half with the pipe cutter to make those coasters, though those aren't actually half a ball.
Speaker B:That's about a quarter of the ball.
Speaker B:Because if I used a half, then the coaster would be several inches.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:So to cut that piece, I actually have to put the ball into the vise and then I can use the pipe cutter on it and it won't slip off because if you try to cut it off center with the pipe cutter, the ball just slips out.
Speaker A:Right, right.
Speaker B:I use just a pipe cutter.
Speaker A:You must have strong hands.
Speaker A:Well, you've got talented hands if you were a surgeon, that's for sure.
Speaker A:But you must have strong hands because a guy.
Speaker A:You know, I grew up using tools on a ranch and stuff, and my.
Speaker A:Even though I don't do that anymore, my hands are pretty strong.
Speaker A:I would think that that would make your hands pretty strong.
Speaker B:It probably has strengthened them some.
Speaker B:It's not that hard to get the pipe cutter through the ball for the most part.
Speaker B:Every once in a while I do cut one open and rubber bands spring out.
Speaker B:But other than that, it's not super hard to cut the pipe.
Speaker B:Get the pipe cutter to cut through it, and you can take the ones I have, you can take the blades out and Sharpen them and there you go.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:I used to cut golf balls, the rubber bands, once when I was a kid just to watch it kind of go, you know.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Explode like a bunch of little brown worms kind of coming out.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:I have a small box of those in the garage where I've cut ones that I didn't know were wound or I knew were wound.
Speaker B:And I don't, I'm just sort of hanging on to them because maybe they'll be useful someday for some art project.
Speaker A:No, you never know.
Speaker A:You never know what.
Speaker A:We got about a minute before we go to break here, Lisa, but what did people think when you started?
Speaker A:Were you still practicing medicine when you started this?
Speaker B:Yes, actually, I was.
Speaker B:I would bring a bunch of it.
Speaker B:So I started, like I said, with the magnets and I gave a lot of them to my staff.
Speaker B:And the thing I did after that is I started gluing the pieces of the golf balls onto wine bottles and making faces out of them that people liked, but they just, they're a little too fragile.
Speaker B:And, you know, there's only so many funny faces I could come up with.
Speaker B:And then when I started playing with the resin, it got more interesting.
Speaker B:And then I also made some resin bowls.
Speaker B:But yeah, no, a lot of this art was in my office, in my personal office.
Speaker B:But also I had given it to the staff and stuff.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:We're going to take a break.
Speaker A:We're going to be back with Lisa Poritz from Funky Mulligan.
Speaker A:We're going to talk about her golf and more about her golf ball art in just a minute.
Speaker A:Stay with us.
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Speaker A:We're talking with Lisa Porridge today from Funky Mulligan.
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Speaker A:Now, I know you've traveled playing golf.
Speaker A:You're gonna be traveling here very shortly back to Florida, which I already yelled at you about because I didn't want to hear it because the weather.
Speaker A:But if you had a travel tip to give our listeners, what would that be?
Speaker B:You mean for like travel and golf?
Speaker A:Yeah, but it doesn't always have to just be about, you know, storing your clubs properly or have ship sticks do it.
Speaker A:It's more like, you know, I'm a traveler myself with over 2 million miles.
Speaker A:So there's tricks I learned while traveling and maybe you've got one of those that you'd like to share.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:Well, I always take my clubs with me when I fly, mostly because if I send them by ship sticks, I might have to not have them to play as soon as I got somewhere or as soon as I got home from my trip.
Speaker B:But I use my golf bag to pack all my odd shaped stuff, like I throw all my shoes and all that kind of stuff or the toiletries and stuff that might break into the golf bag.
Speaker B:And then I can just pack everything normal shape than the suitcase.
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Speaker A:Okay, so you're a practicing physician, a surgeon, and you started making things with these golf balls.
Speaker A:And like you said, you gave some to the staff and they're very cool.
Speaker A:We'll talk about more how people can get them later in the show.
Speaker A:But when you decided to retire as a physician because you were only 40 at the time.
Speaker B:No, no, I'm older than that.
Speaker B:Thank you, though.
Speaker A:Did you, did you think I was.
Speaker A:You're going to do this?
Speaker A:This is what you're going to do is the golf ball stuff because you play golf a lot too, right?
Speaker B:So I retired a year and a half ago.
Speaker B:I play more golf than one should.
Speaker B:But the question always was, well, what else was I going to do?
Speaker B:Also?
Speaker B:And this definitely takes up a lot of my time and kind of keeps me busy and creative.
Speaker B:I'm not sure what I would have done to fill that time if I hadn't started doing this.
Speaker B:Obviously, it's become exponential since I've retired because I have a lot more time to do it.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:So, yeah, this is, this is what I do with a lot of my extra time.
Speaker A:So what do you, how do you get your ideas?
Speaker A:I mean, first of all, Let me tell you, coating this in resin, a lot of stuff gets coated in resin.
Speaker A:I grew up on a ranch.
Speaker A:Horses primarily.
Speaker A:We had some cattle.
Speaker A:We had a bar in the house.
Speaker A:And my dad had this collection of old bits.
Speaker A:We had a ton of them.
Speaker A:My God.
Speaker A:You know, we would have made more money selling it as scrap iron, but regardless.
Speaker A:And we had a bar, and he wanted to encase the whole bar in the resin and put the bits in it, but my mom never wanted him to do it, so it never got done.
Speaker A:When I got older, I did a kind of a version of what he wanted.
Speaker A:He was long gone, but I always knew he was kind of smiling down on me when I did that, just in spite of my mother.
Speaker A:But anyway.
Speaker A:But how did you come up with this?
Speaker A:I mean, were you sitting around the office one day saying, okay, I just signed off.
Speaker A:I'm retiring, so I need to go out and buy 50 gallons of resin and start this process.
Speaker A:And where do you get the molds?
Speaker A:Because, you know, coasters are round.
Speaker A:You've got other things that are square and round rectangles.
Speaker A:Do you have to create those, or do you just buy them?
Speaker B:So a few of the molds I've created myself.
Speaker B:The thing with.
Speaker B:So, you know, what does everybody do when they want to figure out how to do something?
Speaker B:They go to the Internet and they Google it.
Speaker B:So I spent a lot of time reading about resins and stuff and thought was trying to figure out something else I could do with the golf balls, because since they're round, they're really hard to glue together.
Speaker B:And even if I did glue them together, I'd have to glue one and then let it dry for 24 hours.
Speaker B:It was just.
Speaker B:I needed some sort of substrate to keep the balls together, and I came up with the coasters.
Speaker B:And you can buy molds for the coasters.
Speaker B:I have to buy special molds because most coaster molds aren't deep enough for the golf balls.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:So I have found one, and they come in.
Speaker B:It's like a six pack of mold.
Speaker B:You know, it's a.
Speaker B:It's a tray with six molds in it.
Speaker B:So I use those molds for the coasters for some of the other things I've made.
Speaker B:The coasters are what I make most use most of the molds for.
Speaker B:I've made some other molds.
Speaker B:Like, I took an old golf club.
Speaker B:It's a.
Speaker B:I think it's a seven wood or it's a.
Speaker B:An old wood, seven wood.
Speaker B:And I bought.
Speaker B:Actually, I'd go to the store and buy Lego, believe it or not.
Speaker B:And I built a box with the Lego and then I used a silicone mold making mix and made a mold of the seven wood.
Speaker B:And now I can pour the head of a seven wood.
Speaker B:And the interesting thing is these molds are pretty sensitive.
Speaker B:So like the mold I have there, there's a, there was a crack in this seven wood.
Speaker B:You can see the crack and you can see wear and tear on the face when I mold something in it.
Speaker B:So I can pour the resin in this and make more molds.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And then there's.
Speaker B:What else do I have back here?
Speaker B:Oh, I used some square molds to make planters and things like that.
Speaker B:And then I need another mold myself to make like a succulent planter.
Speaker B:And because I couldn't find exactly what I wanted.
Speaker B:Yeah, you can make the mold it.
Speaker B:It's hard.
Speaker B:It's easier to quite honestly find the pre made, but it can be made.
Speaker A:Oh, I understand.
Speaker A:We're talking with Lisa Porance today, former surgeon and now golf design mold maker extraordinaire.
Speaker A:Art.
Speaker A:Lots of art here, plus a golfer.
Speaker A:We're going to talk about Lisa's golf when we come back.
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Speaker A:Anyway, we're talking with Lisa Poris today.
Speaker A:Lisa is a retired physician surgeon and now creates art with golf balls.
Speaker A:I mean, there's no other way to say it.
Speaker A:Just golf balls.
Speaker A:And you can see in the.
Speaker A:If you're watching the video of this, you can see him behind her on the counter.
Speaker A:But I want to talk about your golf game now.
Speaker A:You've qualified and played in USGA amateur women's stuff.
Speaker A:You're the champion out at.
Speaker A:You won the Alice Award.
Speaker A:You're gonna tell me what that is, because I'm not familiar with that.
Speaker A:Out at the Portland Golf Club.
Speaker A:I assume you're a member there.
Speaker A:So how long have you been playing golf?
Speaker A:Did you start as a kid?
Speaker A:Did your dad teach you?
Speaker A:Your mom teach you?
Speaker A:You didn't have time in med school, I'm sure, to play a lot of.
Speaker B:Golf, so you'd be surprised.
Speaker B:Not a lot, because I went to medical school in Chicago.
Speaker B:But we did sneak a few rounds in the first couple years.
Speaker A:So, sure.
Speaker B:I really didn't pick up golf and start playing like a whole round or anything until I was in college.
Speaker B:I had swung a club before.
Speaker B:My mom's parents were golfers.
Speaker B:My grandfather was quite good, and my grandmother never was, but they played all the time.
Speaker B:And I had gone and visited and swung a club or two with them and gone out on the course, but never really played around.
Speaker B:When I decided to go to medical school, I had to take organic chemistry over the summer because I hadn't taken it.
Speaker B:And a friend of mine had to take physics.
Speaker B:And both our parents, both sets of our parents were members of the local golf club.
Speaker B:And this was in upstate New York.
Speaker B:And so we went to our respective classes and then played a lot of golf.
Speaker B:And that's really when I got hooked on it.
Speaker B:So that was the middle of college.
Speaker B:Then I went back to college and I said, oh, and what?
Speaker B:Find out about the golf team.
Speaker B:They looked at me, said, can you shoot in the 70s from the blue tees?
Speaker B:And I said, no, thank you.
Speaker B:And I went back to class.
Speaker B:There was no women's team.
Speaker B:It was just a guy's team.
Speaker A:And yeah, yeah, it's tough.
Speaker A:It's tough.
Speaker A:I mean, I.
Speaker A:I went to school in the late 70s and.
Speaker A:But the thought never crossed my mind to play on the golf team as much as I wanted to.
Speaker A:I played the.
Speaker A:A lot of Golf in high school and stuff, but I just enjoy it for fun now, as I think we all do.
Speaker A:But you're.
Speaker A:You've.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I mean, you're the champion at Portland Golf Club.
Speaker A:What is the Alice Award?
Speaker B:So the Alice is actually.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's a member.
Speaker B:Member event that my partner and I have won.
Speaker B:That's all it is.
Speaker B:It's a.
Speaker B:It's a better ball of partners.
Speaker B:Actually, it's a better ball partners shamble that is named after Alice, who I believe, and I don't want to screw this up, was one of the original women who set up the Oregon Women's Golf association and did a lot with the OGA to promote women's golf in Oregon.
Speaker B:And I should know all the details better, but I don't have them memorized.
Speaker B:But anyway, this tournament started maybe seven, eight years ago, and it was named after her.
Speaker B:It's a better role.
Speaker B:Partners.
Speaker B:My partner, Susie, Kristen and I win it together.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Just want to be clear on all that.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:So in the flights you play in, you must go up against, like, Laura Tennant once in a while or some of those ladies.
Speaker B:I've lost to Laura, as has everybody in Oregon.
Speaker B:So I haven't.
Speaker B:I haven't played against Laura all that many times.
Speaker B:Obviously, I do know Laura, but luckily I've been on the other side of the draw from her, mostly in the Oregon Senior AM for when Oregon Women's Senior am.
Speaker B:In fact, last year I was playing in and I lost to her sister on the 18th hole.
Speaker B:And unfortunately, I don't know if I got the better deal because the prize was then playing Laura in the afternoon, getting beaten badly.
Speaker B:So I might have gotten a better deal by losing.
Speaker B:But no, Laura's a wonderful golfer and a.
Speaker B:And a really nice person.
Speaker B:And luckily, I haven't taken too many beatings from her.
Speaker B:Who can beat up on me?
Speaker A:Laura has been on the show a few times over the years, and she's always been great.
Speaker A:And then I can't tell you the whole story, at least on the radio, but last fall I went to Waverly for an evening with Peter Jacobson and Roger Maltby.
Speaker A:And her dad sat next to me the whole night.
Speaker A:George.
Speaker A:And George and I got in trouble from.
Speaker A:From his wife.
Speaker A:That's not Laura's mom, but it's his wife.
Speaker A:And yeah, we got.
Speaker A:Because.
Speaker A:Anyway, that's all I'm gonna say about that right now, maybe.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:If we're off the air sometime, I'll tell you what he was doing.
Speaker A:He make Me laugh.
Speaker A:And of course, I'm.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I make my living with my voice, so it's kind of loud, and I'd start laughing and Mrs.
Speaker A:Mac look at me.
Speaker A:You know, that type of thing.
Speaker A:So, anyway, it was all fun.
Speaker A:Have you.
Speaker A:Have you played a lot of courses that.
Speaker A:That you've wanted to?
Speaker A:I mean, are you getting to do that now that you're a little.
Speaker A:You got a little more free time?
Speaker A:You're retired.
Speaker B:I do need to work on that more.
Speaker B:I haven't traveled a ton for golf.
Speaker B:I've been down Abandoned Dunes a couple times, and never without my down jacket.
Speaker B:Having that in the backyard is wonderful.
Speaker B:I've gotten to play some great courses in Pennsylvania, including Oakmont.
Speaker B:I played a tournament there.
Speaker A:Oh, good.
Speaker B:I lived in central Pennsylvania for a while, and the stadiums moved around the state, and, you know, they have wonderful courses there.
Speaker B:I've played some good courses in Florida, but I kind of need to improve my travel to go play golf.
Speaker A:Just a little.
Speaker A:But you.
Speaker A:You won't get better until you actually do it, though, you know?
Speaker B:Well, I need to improve going and.
Speaker B:Yeah, I've got to.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'm going.
Speaker B:I'm playing in a tournament in the beginning of March in.
Speaker B:In Northern Georgia, and the Reynolds Plantation, I think is the resort.
Speaker B:Yeah, they're hosting it.
Speaker B:They're holding a torn.
Speaker B:The PGA Club Champions are playing there.
Speaker A:Well, good for you.
Speaker A:That's excellent.
Speaker B:I'll go get to play there.
Speaker B:I've been to Sea island playing in the same event and, you know, some other places, but.
Speaker B:Yeah, I got to go to Whistling Straits a year and a half ago.
Speaker A:Not.
Speaker A:Not too shabby.
Speaker B:No, no.
Speaker A:Not too shabby there.
Speaker B:So I'm working on it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Lisa.
Speaker A:Well, I'm not going to feel sorry for you now if you're playing.
Speaker B:I'm not expecting you to.
Speaker A:I thought if, you know, you were only playing Oga and Langdon, which is where I play a lot, I'd feel.
Speaker A:I'd feel bad for you, but I'm not gonna feel bad for you.
Speaker B:No, you shouldn't feel badly for me.
Speaker A:So let's get.
Speaker A:Let's get back to your art.
Speaker A:What do you have on the horizon?
Speaker A:Can you give us.
Speaker A:I mean, I want to talk about your creative process.
Speaker A:You told us about the.
Speaker A:The seven wood.
Speaker A:The old seven wood.
Speaker A:Making a mold for that a few minutes ago.
Speaker A:But what.
Speaker A:How does it strike you?
Speaker A:As far as we've talked to.
Speaker A:I've talked to many artists over the years, and they'll say, well, it Just kind of comes to me in an inspiration or I see something that, you know, triggers a thought like that.
Speaker A:How does it work for Lisa?
Speaker B:So it sort of depends on what it is.
Speaker B:Like, I've made a lot of.
Speaker B:Besides, using those pieces that you showed in your coaster, I cut up the insides of some of the golf balls, especially the ones where the COVID is really damaged, and I just cut the little pieces up and use it as a mosaic.
Speaker A:Oh, okay.
Speaker B:Which is.
Speaker B:Let me.
Speaker A:Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker B:So this is actually.
Speaker B:I don't get up.
Speaker B:Centered.
Speaker A:Yeah, you're fine.
Speaker B:So this is actually just.
Speaker B:I just finished this, and I realized to myself I had never made a 19 pole sign.
Speaker B:But these are all just cut up little pieces of golf ball.
Speaker A:Pick it up a little higher there.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:So I just made something like this, and I realized that I should have a 19 pole sign.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:And then using those same pieces, this is a little more artistic.
Speaker B:This is a.
Speaker B:Am I.
Speaker B:Do I have it centered?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:This is my rendition of a golfer swinging a club.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:And those are all from various balls?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:I just cut them up and put them in a box and mix them.
Speaker B:But I can make these.
Speaker B:And people have requested stuff in certain colors.
Speaker A:I see.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:That's pretty cool.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So I do that, and then I make other abstract things.
Speaker B:And I've been making some trays and tables.
Speaker B:The table I showed you in the beginning and just looking for more ideas and more ways to use the golf balls.
Speaker A:Is that behind or would be your right shoulder?
Speaker A:It looks like a diagram or a 3D of a molecule right there.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:So this is a desk toy.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:It is kind of.
Speaker B:I call it a molecule, but you can take them out and then you can put them in in any order you want.
Speaker B:So, yeah, this is just a toy.
Speaker A:It's kind of like your little.
Speaker A:For a golfer.
Speaker A:It's feng shui, or whatever they call that, you know?
Speaker B:Yeah, it's a little.
Speaker B:Little desk toy, but, yeah, it does.
Speaker B:It looks.
Speaker B:It looks like a molecule.
Speaker B:And I used one of the soccer balls in the middle of it so that I could drill the holes without having to measure a lot.
Speaker A:Oh, there you go.
Speaker A:We're going to take a break.
Speaker A:We're going to come back with Lisa Porridge from Funky Mulligan and talk more about her art and what she does in her spare time now, which I don't think she has much anyway.
Speaker A:We'll be right back.
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Speaker A:What, what would be your, in your imagination, your greatest creation.
Speaker A:Could you, could you do a life size sculptor, if you will, with golf balls of a golfer like the one that you have behind you, you know, swinging that you did with the pieces inside.
Speaker B:So I, I, I worry that it would get too heavy.
Speaker B:So when I put a lot, the resin is heavy.
Speaker B:So if I were to take the half golf balls and make something that big, I think it would, I don't know how it would be supported because the resin is so heavy.
Speaker B:What I would like to do is make mobiles out of it or stables so that, you know, I've got, I use golf balls primarily and I can hook a lot of things up with the tees.
Speaker B:Like, I don't know if you can see this, but this is part of a clock, right?
Speaker A:And that's about half of it.
Speaker B:Yeah, I couldn't set the thing.
Speaker A:That's okay.
Speaker B:But I also have a bunch of old demo shafts, the graphite shafts.
Speaker B:And I want to kind of make some sort of giant outdoor sculpture using them and some of the colored balls and letting the wind spin it.
Speaker B:And that's where I'm going with some of this next.
Speaker A:I like it.
Speaker B:I like it because you can put, you can, the shafts can be outside, so they can be the base and you can embed them in the ground.
Speaker B:So I'm still sort of working some of that out because again, golf balls are around and it makes them really hard to work with.
Speaker A:Maybe what you could do is go.
Speaker A:Yeah, maybe what you could do is go to some of the clubs that have like it at the turn.
Speaker A:You know, they have a little shack or like at Langdon they have a little outdoor grill area, but you could make the bar top for them.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, I could Definitely do that.
Speaker B:So if you.
Speaker B:If you go back to the resin, there's.
Speaker B:I know you're talking about making a table, so I've got a table here that I made, and this is slice golf balls in it.
Speaker B:So you could do something like this.
Speaker B:There's two main types of resin.
Speaker B:There's the type of resin you can make the table and the coasters with and embed stuff in it.
Speaker B:And it's.
Speaker B:You can pour it up to, like, 2 to 4 inches, and it's a deep pour resin.
Speaker B:And then the resin that was used to make that golfer in the 19th hole sign is more of a.
Speaker B:Is a coating resin.
Speaker B:So you would just coat something with that, and it can only be, you know, a couple millimeters thick.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:So depending on what you did with your.
Speaker B:With your bar.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:You could lay everything out and build some sides up and coat it and fill it with resin and.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker B:You could do something like that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Or you can do how they do river tables.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And you could do other designs, I'm sure, you know, embedded designs and tabletops and stuff, or people's names or whatever.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Whatever you can do with a round golf ball, Lisa can do it on a table or in.
Speaker A:In a resin or in a coaster.
Speaker A:I love this coaster.
Speaker A:I really do.
Speaker A:It's just so unique.
Speaker A:Do you have to.
Speaker A:One last question about the process here, Lisa.
Speaker A:When you pop these out, do you have to buff off these edges or anything, or are they just.
Speaker A:Once the resin dries and is solid, is it done?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:So the backside of it forms a little bit of a meniscus.
Speaker B:So I have to sand.
Speaker B:Like, if you.
Speaker B:I have to sand it to get away, get the sharp edge away.
Speaker B:And then it depends on how it pops out.
Speaker B:Like, some of the moles, they pop out just fine.
Speaker B:Some of them, they get a little foggy, and then, yeah, I can.
Speaker B:I have something to buff them with, which takes care of that.
Speaker B:And sometimes there's a little defect in them, and I have to fill them and put a coat on them.
Speaker B:So there's.
Speaker B:There's a lot of process to some of it.
Speaker A:There you go with that doctor talk saying meniscus again.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:But basically, the resin kind of creeps up the sides of the mold.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And that's interesting.
Speaker A:Interesting.
Speaker A:I'm gonna ask Lisa to stick around for after hours.
Speaker A:She has no idea what she's getting into on that, but believe me, it'll be fun.
Speaker A:But before we go, very quickly, how can people find your art or to look up.
Speaker A:If you Google her name, you're gonna see a lot of golf stuff there, I can tell you that.
Speaker A:But Lisa, where can.
Speaker A:And doctor things.
Speaker A:But where can they find your art?
Speaker B:So I sell the art on Etsy.
Speaker B:So you can go to Etsy and look, it's funky mulliganzy.com I think is the funky.
Speaker B:I should look at it here.
Speaker A:I'll check.
Speaker A:I got your card right here.
Speaker B:It's definitely Funky Mulligan.
Speaker B:I think it's dotC dot com.
Speaker A:It's funkymulligan.etsy.com.
Speaker A:there you go.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Etsy.com youm can also go to Etsy and Google Funky Mulligan.
Speaker B:So that is where I sell the art in a non local manner.
Speaker B:I also have Instagram and it's Funky Mulligan.
Speaker B:And you can get Facebook that way.
Speaker B:And if you're local and you're interested in some of this, you can certainly direct message me and not go through Etsy to get a hold of some of this stuff.
Speaker B:And I showed you some of the stuff that I do, but I also do a lot of custom stuff.
Speaker B:Like I can make these things in different colors.
Speaker B:I can make a sign that says basically what you want it to say.
Speaker B:So I do a lot of that stuff.
Speaker B:And the other thing.
Speaker B:Well, I should show you this one because this is my Snell.
Speaker A:Oh, there you go.
Speaker A:Yeah, I've got a Snell hat on today.
Speaker B:So I've had people give me, you know, golf balls and have them make.
Speaker B:Have me make either a wine stopper or bottle opener.
Speaker B:A guy, I know, his wedding golf ball, I made it to a bottle opener so he would have something to use all the time.
Speaker B:So there you go.
Speaker B:I can do a lot of custom stuff.
Speaker A:Excellent.
Speaker B:Besides what's in my head.
Speaker A:Excellent.
Speaker A:Lisa Poridz from Funky Mulligan in Portland.
Speaker A:Good luck with the art and I know we will talk again.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker A:All right, we're gonna get out of here, but Lisa's sticking around.
Speaker A:We're gonna do after hours after this, which you can always hear in the middle of the week on our channels.
Speaker A:Till then, go out, play some golf, have some fun.
Speaker A:But most of all, be kind.
Speaker A:Take care, everybody.
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